Nancy E. van Deusen - Indigenous slavery, the disappearance of the past, and the archive

Nancy E. van Deusen is Professor of History at Queen’s University. A historian of the colonial Andean, Latin American, and early modern Atlantic worlds, her research focuses on the histories of slavery in the Iberian world, and gender relations and female Catholic spirituality in colonial Peru. Her current project is about the histories of slavery in the Iberian world, and gender relations and female Catholic spirituality in colonial Peru and why it has disappeared from our narratives of the past. Her books include Global Indios: The indigenous struggle for justice in sixteenth-century Spain (2015) and Embodying the sacred: Women mystics in seventeenth-century (2017).

Participants are highly recommended to read Nancy E. van Deusen’s article ‘Indigenous slavery’s archive in seventeenth-century Chile’, Hispanic American Historical Review 101, 1 (2021): 1-33 in advance of the seminar.

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