Highlights

Spanish Habsburg Women: Objects, Ritual, and Religion in the Early Modern World
This symposium focuses on the spaces and objects that structured religious life for Spanish Habsburg women—among them queens, regents, widows, infantas and nuns—and reinforced their positions as central figures in a global empire.

From Lima to Canton and Beyond: The Ethnographic Art of Pancho Fierro and His Contemporaries
This symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition The Colorful World of Pancho Fierro, Afro-Peruvian Painter organized by the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.
SIGA briefs
We were deeply moved by the devastating news that Enrique Valdivieso and his wife, Carmen Martínez, died recently in a tragic accident in Seville. Professor Valdivieso will be remembered by the SIGA community not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his warmth, humor, charisma, and generosity to generations of students and young scholars. The Board extends its heartfelt condolences to their family and friends.
M. Elizabeth (Betsy) Boone has co-edited the volume Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America (Routledge 2025), which includes a number of essays on Iberian Global Art. Written by historians of art and visual culture working in the field of animal studies, these essays seek to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected world.
Susan Deans-Smith recently published a review of Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America co-edited by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt.
David Pullins will present the hybrid lecture “Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez” sponsored by the Center for Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 20, 2025.
Cloe Cavero de Carondelet and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan published “Infamy within Sight: Making and Unmaking Sambenitos in the Early Modern Iberian World” in Renaissance Quarterly 77:2.
Carmen Ripollés will present “Josefa de Óbidos: A Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia” at the Meadows Museum on January 30, 2025.
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Spanish Habsburg Women: Objects, Ritual, and Religion in the Early Modern World
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This symposium focuses on the spaces and objects that structured religious life for Spanish Habsburg women—among them queens, regents, widows, infantas and nuns—and reinforced their positions as central figures in a global empire.

Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen from the Museo Nacional del Prado
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Diego Velázquez’s enigmatic painting of Queen Mariana of Austria (1652–1653) is the centerpiece of this exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum.

Picasso and Paper
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Discover Picasso’s experimental use of paper, from collages to sculpture, in this comprehensive exhibition of his artworks.
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61st Edition of the Boletín del Museo del Prado
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The Boletín del Museo del Prado, a double-blind peer-reviewed and open-access scientific journal that is published annually, invites authors to submit papers for its 61st edition (2025).
Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship at LACMA (2025-2027)
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announces a search for candidates for the Wallis Annenberg Curatorial Fellowship.
Tenure-track position at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County
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The Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County seeks to recruit a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in modern and contemporary art.
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Adviser: Joyce SzaboAubrey Hobart
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About SIGA
The Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA) was founded to promote the study of the arts, architecture, and visual cultures of the Iberian world (encompassing Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific) in the United States. The Society encourages and disseminates research in these fields as well as in the legacy of Hispanic and Portuguese studies in North America.


Awards
To fulfill the society’s mission to promote and disseminate scholarship on global Iberian art in the United States, SIGA offers three prizes that celebrate excellence in the field: The Eleanor Tufts Award, The Jonathan Brown Award and The Gridley McKim-Smith Award.
Projects
SIGA leads the Visual Arts issue in the Hispanic Research Journal and organizes a Triennial Conference and SIGA@CAA.