EMIT SOCIETY CFP FOR RSA 2016, BOSTON, 30 MARCH - 2 APRIL

www.emitsociety.com EMIT SOCIETY CFP FOR RSA 2016, BOSTON, 30 MARCH ‐ 2 APRIL Deadline for submissions for papers: 1 June, 2015 (abstract 150 words, a one‐page CV, and 5 descriptors) 1) Panel title: Portraying the Conquest of La Florida by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés 450 Years Later: The Self‐Fashioned Images of the French, Spanish, and Native Americans. The arrival of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28th, 1565 at the shores of the Floridian Peninsula meant the beginning of the continuing presence of Spanish settlers in today’s US territory. Indeed, the Asturian admiral is remembered for having founded the oldest European settlement in the United States, namely Saint Augustine of Florida, built over the ruins of the French community of Fort Caroline. Nevertheless, in academic circles the figure of the adelantado has not received the recognition his exploration of the continent deserves. In fact, the preference for an Anglicized version of the history of the young independent British colonies in North America has prompted educators to ignore the enterprise of the avilesino and to consider the building of Jamestown in Virginia forty years later as the foundational story of the nation. The EMIT (Early Modern Image and Text) Society plans to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Menéndez de Avilés’s expedition with the organization of a panel that will analyze visually, metonymically and symbolically the relevance of his travels to the Southern state. We will especially concentrate on the alliances and enmities fostered by the soldier with the native population (the Calusa, the Appalachians, etc.) and the Protestant Huguenots during his campaign. The organizers are calling for papers that study the textual portrayal of the image of the conquistador as a Messiah in his own letters of navigation, the biased and prejudiced account and depiction of the process of “civilization” by his relatives and foreign enemies such as René Laudonnière, and the geographical expansion of the Spanish dominion over the landscape of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas in maps, among other topics. Please submit your proposal (a 150‐word abstract) in English or Spanish together with a brief résumé to Jorge Abril Sánchez at [email protected] by the deadline of June 1st, 2015. All accepted participants must be EMIT and RSA members for 2016, and register for the conference in the same year. 2) Panel title: Imagining and Painting the Asian Subaltern: The Exploration of the East Indies by the Spaniards in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century. The Spanish‐American War and the Treaty of Paris of 1898 did not only mean the occupation of the Philippines and Guam by the United States, but also the end of the Iberian dominion over the East Indies, including the Mariana Islands, Palau, Micronesia, Sabah, Taiwan and the Moluccas, after 333 years of colonization. Castilian monarchs had already expressed their desire to travel to the East and sign political and trade alliances with the great lords of the Orient during the Middle Ages. Furthermore, the accounts of Marco Polo’s expeditions to Central Asia and China from 1269 to 1293 and the embassy to Samarkand by Ruy González de Clavijo from 1403 to 1405 inspired future conquistadores to embark on new voyages of exploration. Christopher Columbus himself departed from Spain in 1492 trying to reach the East Indies in order to enter the spice trade with Asian nations by sailing westward. Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer sailing for the Holy Roman Emperor King Charles I of Spain, established contact with the Filipinos and the Chamorros from Guam in the 1520s. This intrusion turned out to be tragic for the European, who was killed by the subjects of Lapu‐ Lapu. Nevertheless, this incident did not deter future generations of sailors from following suit. In the next decades, Miguel López de Legazpi claimed Guam and the Philippines for Spain in 1565; Miguel de Luarca and Father Martín of Rada led a missionary mission to the Chinese region of Oquiam in 1575; etc. The EMIT (Early Modern Image and Text) Society plans to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the foundation of Cebú, the first European settlement established by the Spanish Cortes in the Philippines, with the organization of a panel that will examine these cultural encounters from the point of view of both the colonizer and the colonized. The organizers are calling for papers that study the stereotypical representation of the human body of aboriginal tribes of the area, the pictorial depiction of their animals (especially the elephant) as monstrous species in the eyes of the foreign beholder, the geographical description of the mythical space of the East Indies in maps, the judicial representation of the threat of piracy in the Pacific Ocean, and the ekphrastic system of resistance by the Imperial Other of Asia who refused to be subdued, among other topics. Please submit your proposal (a 150‐word abstract) in English or Spanish together with a brief résumé to Jorge Abril Sánchez at [email protected] by the deadline of June 1st, 2015. All accepted participants must be EMIT and RSA members for 2016, and register for the conference in the same year. 3) Panel: The EMIT Society is calling for papers and panel proposals related to the concept of globality, the early modern Hispanic world, and Iberian institutions and cultures. Global Studies are an important curricular component of an increasing number of universities in the United States and elsewhere. One concept of “globality” behind this academic category is the study of political, economic, and cultural relations between all parts of the world. Since the so‐called Columbian Exchange, the continuous process of inter‐continental, ‐racial, ‐cultural, and ‐religious encounters has grown ever more omnipresent and complex, producing today’s discussion of concepts such as “global citizenship.” Here, we call for proposals that embrace early modern culture, arts, politics, and economy as a complex global reality. 2 In past years, the EMIT SOCIETY has had the pleasure of hosting presentations related to the Safavid, Ottoman, and Iberian empires, as well as the Philippines and Goa. These presentations demonstrated the benefits of establishing a forum addressing globality and early modern Iberian networks. Since the Iberian world produced cultural, artistic, and geopolitical expressions on every continent, a wide array of topics could be studied as expressions of these global exchanges, for instance: books, art, artifacts, people, military forces and strategies, treaties, technology, lexical change and transformation, and archeology. Areas of global contact might be related (but not limited) to: ‐ The Americas ‐ Asia and continuities between Japan, Korea, South East Asian powers, Chinese, Mogul, Safavid, Ottoman, Ethiopian, Portuguese, and Spanish Empires) ‐ Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean ‐ Terra Australis, the Spanish Ocean (Pacific Ocean) ‐ The interaction between ideologies of millenarianism, religious universalism, military and capitalist colonialism ‐ Italian political powers ‐ North African piracy/European corsairs ‐ Trading outposts and enterprises ‐ Pilgrimage to holy sites such as Rome, Jerusalem, Mecca, etc. ‐ Portuguese and Spanish Jesuit padroados ‐ Global history and global literature Please send your proposals to Juan Pablo Gil‐Oslé by no later than June 1st, 2015, at: [email protected] Please note: All accepted participants in the panel must be both EMIT (www.emitsociety.com) and RSA members for 2015, and register for the RSA conference in 2015. If submitting a panel proposal, please note that panel chairs cannot be presenters on the same panel(s), which they chair. Concerning submissions and deadlines, Abstracts may be submitted in English or Spanish. Submissions should include: a 150‐word abstract and title of presentation, 5 keywords or descriptors, plus a 1‐page CV.