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March 30 The Early Modern World According to Its Archives: Research Case Studies in European Collections

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The Graduate Center, CUNY, Room 9206, 10 AM – 5 PM, March 30, 2016

 

Schedule

Click names and paper titles to read abstracts.

 

10:00 AM: Introduction

Clare Carroll (Professor of Comparative Literature, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

 

10:15-11:15 AM: Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid, Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla, and Archivo General de Simancas

Igor Pérez Tostado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain): “The Slow Heartbeat of Spain: the Early Modern World According to its Archives”

 

11:15-11:45 AM: Coffee Break

 

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Franciscan Archives, University College Dublin, and Manuscripts Room, Trinity College, Dublin

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (University College, Dublin): “Researching the mid-seventeenth-century crisis in Dublin: the Franciscan Archives in University College Dublin and the Aphorismical Discovery of Treasonable Faction in Trinity College”

 

LUNCH: 1-2 PM, The Commons, CUNY

 

2:00-3:00: Archives of the Sacred Congregation “de Propaganda Fide”

Jesuit Archives in Rome I

Simon Ditchfield (Professor of History, University of York): “ ‘The Paper Religious Order’: Archivium Romanum Societas Iesu (ARSI)”

 

3:00-4:00 PM  

The Jesuit Archives in Rome II

Paolo Broggio, Roma Tre University “Roman Archives and Catholic Missions: Evangelization, Globalization, Centralization”

 

4:00-4:30 PM: Coffee Break

 

4:30-5:30 PM

Archives of the Sacred Congregation “de Propaganda Fide”
Matteo Binasco (Postdoctoral Fellow, Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame): “Organization, Holdings and Possibilities for Research on Ireland and the Caribbean”

 

 

5:30-7:00 PM: CLOSING RECEPTION

 

 

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