Triennial Conference
SIGA/Seguir: Moving Forward in the Study of Iberian Global Art
On September 20–21, 2024. In Washington, D.C.
In partnership with Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Harvard University) and the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C., the Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA) celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies, SIGA’s predecessor, with a two-day conference interrogating scholarship and teaching on global Iberian art.
Organized around the themes of geography, translation, circulation and identities, and highlighting research spanning antiquity to the present day, the event features a roundtable debating current issues facing the field of global Iberian art (Friday, September 20) and four sessions (Saturday, September 21) with papers presenting new research and exploring future directions in the field.
Co-organizers
Sponsors
Generously sponsored by The Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC , The Observatory of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures in the United States and The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University .
Program
Roundtable
Chaired by Richard Kagan, Academy Professor and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus of History, Johns Hopkins University.
Olga Acosta, Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes
Ramón Mujica Pinilla, Member of the National Academy of History of Peru and a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Argentina
Luisa Elena Alcalá, Associate Professor, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid
Session 1: Geographies
Chaired by María Lumbreras, Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Olaya Sanfuentes, Tenured Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: “The Andean Textile Exhibition Contacts: La trama que nos une at the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, November 2024”
Juan Gabriel Ramírez Bolívar, PhD Candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts: “Pan-Hispanic Identities in the Mexican and Colombian Pavilions at the Ibero-American Exposition of Seville, 1929”
Anna Kathryn Kendrick, Clinical Associate Professor of Literature, NYU Shanghai: “Camera Archaeologica: Teresa Correa and the Photography of Deep Time”
Session 2: Translations
Chaired by Charlene Villaseñor Black, Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
Lexie Cook, Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Durham University: “Mandinga Relics & the Politics of the Manmade Sacred in Early Black Iberia”
Teresa Soley, Independent Scholar: “Balthazar’s Gift: African Gold in Sixteenth-Century Iberian Painting”
Delia Cosentino, Professor of Art History, DePaul University: “A Spanish Sculptor, a Criollo Jesuit, an Aztec Gladiator, and the Making of a Mexican Hero”
Session 3: Circulation
Chaired by Adam Jasienski, Associate Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University. Proposed panelists:
Jeongho Park, Associate Professor of Art History, Seoul National University: “Iberian Maritime Network and the Images of Christ as the Divine Pilot in Seventeenth-Century Asia and America”
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Professor of Art History, University of Florida: “The ‘Secular’ in the Spanish Americas: The Case of Flower Paintings from Seventeenth-Century Potosí”
Fernando Loffredo, Assistant Professor of Early Modern Mediterranean and Colonial Visual Culture, State University of New York at Stony Brook: “Empires, Environments, Objects: The Transatlantic Cult of Saint Jenaro and the Ecologies of Fear”
Session 4: Identity
Chaired by Pamela Patton, Director, The Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University.
Catherine Burdick, Associate Professor, Investigación en Artes y Humanidades, Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile: “Private Art Collection and Circulation in Viceregal Santiago, Chile: A View from the Archives”
Katherine Mills, PhD Candidate, Harvard University: “The Multiple Constructions of the Convent of Santa Clara in Cusco Peru (16th and 17th c.)”
Matilde Mateo, Associate Research Professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University: “Before Amador de los Rios: Mudejar and National Identity in España artística y monumental (1842-1850)”
