Featured Scholar

Kenneth Mills is Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto.  A specialist in the history of colonial Latin America and the early modern Spanish world, his work focuses on religious change and the proliferation of local Christianities in Spanish South America. His publications include An Evil Lost to View? (1994) and Idolatry and Its Enemies: Extirpation and Colonial Andean Religion, 1640-1750 (1997).  With Anthony Grafton he has co-edited the collections Conversion:Old Worlds and New and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing  (both 2003).  Professor Mills is currently writing a book around the transatlantic journey of a Castilian image-maker and alms-gatherer, Diego de Ocana (c. 1570-1608).

Professor Mills will speak on

"'Tantos Milagros': Miraculous Transmission in the Early Modern Spanish World"

December 2, 7:30, Pugh Ocora


Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies

Sponsors

Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere

Center for Jewish Studies

Christian Study Center of Gainesville

History Department

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Office of Research at the University of Florida

A Project Grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation