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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:16:25 -0500
From: "Heather Munro Prescott, H-Women Editor" <PRESCOTT@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU>
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Subject: Conference: The Virgin and the Devil in the New World, Feb. 1997
>From: tey marianna nunn <tnunn@UNM.EDU>
Please join us at a conference dealing with the convergence of Native
American, European and African religious traditions in Latin America.
THE VIRGIN AND THE DEVIL IN THE NEW WORLD:
Religious Encounters in Latin America
February 28-March 1, 1997
This conference is dedicated to professor Richard Greenleaf. France V.
Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane
University. it will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Professor
Scholes' birth.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, February 28: Room 2018, Fine Arts Center
4:30-6:00 pm: Keynote address, Dr. Richard Greenleaf, Tulane
University: "The Inquisition in Colonail Mexico: Heresy, Dissent and
Social Control"
6:00-7:30 pm: Reception honoring Richard Greenleaf, University Art
Museum, Popejoy Hall
*Saturday, March 1: Room 2018, Fine Arts Center
9:00-10:30 am:
Linda B. Hall, Professor, Department of History, UNM: "The Virgin Mary
and the Growth of Spanish Nationalism in the Reconquest."
Stafford Poole, author. "Our Lady of Guadalupe: Tool of Evangelization
or Pious Symbol?"
11:00-12:30pm:
Fernando Cervantes, author, Director of the Centre for the Classical
Tradition, University of Bristol, and Fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton University: "Diabolism in New Spain, 1521-1767"
Robert D. Martinez, M.A. Candidate, History Department, UNM: "The Devil
in Spanish New Mexico: A Story of Witchcraft and Cultural Conflict in
18th Century Abiquiu"
2:00-3:30 pm:
Charlene Villasenor-Black, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art
History, UNM: "The Marianization of the Image of San Jose in Colonial
Spanish America"
Alfred Brichta-Lopez, Ph.D. Department of History, UNM: "The Virgin Mary
in the Spiritual Life of Santa Rosa de Lima"
4:00-5:30 pm:
Elizabeth Kiddy, Ph.D. Candidate, Latin American Studies, UNM:
"Congados: Devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary in Brazil"
Adrian Bantjes, Department of History, University of Wyoming: "Saints
and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico"
Sponsored by the Latin American Institute, The Latin American Studies
Program, the Student Organization for Latin American Studies, and the
Department of History of the University of New Mexico
The conference is free and open to the public. All those interested are
invited to attend. All on-campus parking is free.
tey marianna nunn
<tnunn@UNM.EDU>