Join us for an upcoming symposium organized by Julia Hernández (Curator; Yale Library Special Collections, Beinecke) and Lisa Voigt (Yale Department of Spanish & Portuguese) on Archives and Libraries in the Iberian World.
Kindly sponsored by: the Yale Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Whitney Humanities Center, Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, COSMOS: Collaborations to Study Metriality and Objects, Center for European Studies, Early Modern Studies, The Edward J. & Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University
Archives and Libraries in the Iberian World: A Symposium
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
9:30-10:45 Indigenous Archives/Indigenous Lives in the Archives (Catalina Ospina, moderator) (HQ 134)
Welcome coffee starting at 9:00am
Andrea Armijos Echeverría (Wesleyan University),
“A falta de mi protector…”: Indigenous Women’s Legal Interventions in the Colonial Andes”
Zeb Tortorici (New York University),
“Archiving the Obscene: Flea Markets, Marginal Markings, and Memory Practices”
11:15-12:30 Archives and Libraries and/of the World (Ayesha Ramachandran, moderator) (HQ 134)
Valeria López Fadul (Wesleyan University),
“The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire”
Noemi Martín Santo (Central Connecticut State University),
“The Travels of an Account on Japanese Christianity between Nagasaki, Manila, Rome, and Madrid, 1615-2019”
2:00-3:00 Object session at the Beinecke (Please RSVP with registration link below)
Collections Spotlight: The Early Modern Iberian World at the Beinecke
RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/objectsession
3:30-5:15 Keynote session: Hernando Colón and the Total Library (Beinecke Mezzanine)
Reception to follow
Seth Kimmel (Columbia University),
“The Library between Metaphor and Materiality in Early Modern Spain”
Matilde Malaspina (La Sapienza, Rome),
“Hernando Colón as Reader, Epitomizer, Annotator: Textual Transformation and Retrieval in the Peregrino de la vida humana”
