Scholars from Germany and Spain will join with those from across the United States to cover issues related to topics such as archeology, geography, history, linguistics, and religion. This year’s conference theme is “Landscapes and Language: Exploring the Cultural Contours of La Florida and Beyond.”
The conference is free and open to the public, but the space is limited. The events will be held March 24-26.
Conference Schedule
Friday, March 24
Tibesar Keynote Lecture
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Virginia Room
Moderator: Tim Johnson
Franciscan Affects and Landscapes of Loss in Sixteenth-Century Mexico”
Jennifer Scheper Hughes | University of California-Riverside
Post-Keynote Reception
Time: 8 p.m. (Following Keynote Lecture)
Location: Solarium
Exclusive to registered conference participants
Saturday, March 25
Session One Presentations
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Location: Virginia Room
Moderator: Nicholas Miller
The Spiritual Landscape of 16th Century Mexico City: Franciscan & Indigenous Collaboration in the Uppsala Map (c. 1540)
Jennifer R. Saracino | University of Arizona
Mission and Kivas – a Cultural Landscape as Symbol of Coexisting of Old and New Religious Cultures?
Helmut Flachenecker | University of Wuerzburg (Germany)
Session Two Presentations
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Virginia Room
Moderator: John Young
Mother Luisa de la Ascensión and the Missionaries
Jane D. Tar | University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul)
Sor Maria’s Intellectual Reach: A Circumoceanic View
Anna Nogar | University of New Mexico
Eros, Ministry, and Motherhood: The Gendered Landscape of Franciscan Evangelization
Timothy J. Johnson | Flagler College
Tibesar Keynote Lecture
Time: 11:45 a.m.
Location: Virginia Room
The Tears in My Eyes do not Allow Me to Speak: A Maya Performance of the Pass
Mark Christensen | Brigham Young University
Session Three Presentations
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Virginia Room
Moderator: Mimi Ensley
Unearthing Mocama Landscapes, Writing Mocama History
Keith Ashley & Denise I. Bossy | University of North Florida
Who (or what) is Utina? Understanding Timucua Names and Titles
George Aaron Broadwell | University of Florida & Alejandra Dubcovsky | University of California-Riverside
The Corrections: Pareja’s 1614 Arte
Doug Henning | University of North Florida & Seth Katenkamp | University of Florida
Session Four Presentations
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Virginia Room
Moderator: Craig Woelfel
“Learned” Friars who Rejected Study? Learning and Education among the First Generations of Franciscans in the Americas
Francisco Javier Rojo-Alique | Instituto Teológico de Murcia OFM
The Timucua as Implied Audience in Fr. Gregorio de Movilla’s
Explicacion de la Doctrina, 1635
Viviana Díaz Balsera | University of Miami
Locating the Epic: Translating Genre in Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo's La Florida
Thomas Hallock | University of South Florida
Sunday, March 26
Session One Presentations
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Mission Nombre de Dios
Moderator: Jessica Jenkins
The First Franciscan Convent in the Americas
Carlos Clemente | Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
Fish, Fowl, and Fruit: Foodways and Subsistence Interactions Associated with the Franciscan Mission System in North Florida.
Lee Newsom | Flagler College/ Pennsylvania State – University Park
Race, Grace, and Place: Contested Landscapes at Fort Mose
Lori Lee | Flagler College
