Thursday, 29 November 2018
9.00-9.30 Introduction
Section 1: Legal and Institutional Foundations of Empire
9.30-11.00
Alexandra Anokhina (Oxford) – Francisco Suarez and Roman Legal Studies in Early Modern Spain
Adrian Masters (Austin) – From Ignorance to Archives. The Council of the Indies' Creation of the Spanish Imperial Archive, 1492-1598
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.00
Juan Carlos de Orellana Sánchez (Austin) – The Quest for Experience. The Transfer of Ministers in Royal Courts of Justice and the Development of the Indies as Juridical Space (1567-1687)
Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez (Yale/Bogotá) – Personal Visits. The Production of Knowledge and Ignorance in the Making of the New Kingdom of Granada
13.00-14.30 Lunch
Section 2: Threats to the Empire
14.30-16.00
Jessica Fowler (Segovia/Madrid) – From Knowing Heresy to Identifying Heretics
Eberhard Crailsheim (Madrid) – Knowing the Enemy. The Representation of the 'Moros' in the Early Modern Spanish Philippines
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00
Martin Biersack (Munich) – Migration Politics in Colonial Spanish America. Knowledge Production and Administration Practices
Judith Mansilla (Miami) – Unfitting Preparations. The Politics of Defense of Lima and the ‘Unknowing’ Threat of Natural Disasters in the Seventeenth Century
19.00 Conference Dinner
Friday, 30 November 2018
Section 3: Practices and Places of Information Gathering
9.00-10.30
Saul Guerrero (Independent Scholar, Caracas) & David Pretel (Mexico City) – Governing of Useful Knowledge in Silver Refining in Colonial Spanish America
Lisa Kattenberg (Amsterdam) – Knowledge, Experience and Ending war in the Netherlands
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.45
Marie Schreier (Tübingen) – Precarious Knowledge in the Spanish Campaign Against the Darien Colony (Late 17th Century Panama)
11.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00
Philip Baltuskonis (Mississippi) – For the Public Good. Cooperation in Education in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1770-1808
Matthew Crawford (Kent, OH) – The Epistemic Culture of Empire. Focused and Panoptic Knowledge Production in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire
15.00-16.00 Final Discussion