Religion Program, Division of Languages and Literature, LAIS Program, Middle Eastern Studies Program Presents
Iberian Conversion and the Liberal Arts
Monday, February 27, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102
5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Seth Kimmel
Assistant Professor of Latin and Iberian Cultures
Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Latin and Iberian Cultures
Columbia University
Diverse groups of lawyers, linguists, historians, and economists, among other communities of intellectuals, offered their opinions on the legitimacy and legacy of the early modern history of forced conversion to Christianity in the Iberian world. As I have argued in my recent book, Parables of Coercion (Chicago 2015), to participate in these debates about religious coercion and New Christian discipline was also to re-imagine the relationship among the scholarly disciplines themselves. Linking my book project to new research, my talk examines the late sixteenth-century taxonomies of knowledge that emerged from this particularly Iberian intellectual history and, more generally, the rhetoric of universality that characterizes the liberal arts in the early as well as the late modern periods.
For more information, call 845-758-7207, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102