Organizers :
Dr. Eloise Quiñones Keber, City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Dr. Penny Morrill, Independent Scholar
Europe’s unexpected ’discovery’ of the Americas beginning in the late 15th inaugurated a period of intellectual, political, social and artistic upheaval that was felt throughout space and time. In a newly lobalized world, peoples and regimes formerly unaware of one another not only came into bewildering and often dramatic confrontation but increasingly became (...)