Events

Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:00 - 2:00 pm

Nancy E. van Deusen joined the History Department at Queen's in 2007. Within the broader fields of colonial Latin American and Andean history, Nancy specializes in the histories of gender, Catholic spirituality, servitude, and slavery. Her writings include Between the Sacred and the Worldly: The Cultural and Institutional Practice of Recogimiento among Women in Colonial Lima (2001), The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús (2004) and "Recent Approaches to the Study of Gender Relations among Native Andeans under Colonial Rule," in New World: First Nations: Native Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under Colonial Rule, eds. David Cahill and Blanca Tovias de Plaisted (Sussex Academic Press, 2006), 144-166. She is currently pursuing two research projects: one that focuses on the vicissitudes of human bondage in the late-fifteenth and early sixteenth-century colonial world; and another that considers the individual or prosopographical biographies of visionaries and pious women in seventeenth-century Lima.

A light lunch will be provided to those who register online at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=4486 by 9AM on Monday, March 17, 2008.