Lecture: Religion, Captivity, and Freedom

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The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures are pleased to present a lecture on "Religion, Captivity, and Freedom: A Post/Colonial Disavowal of Alonso De Sandoval's De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627) and Equatorial Guinean Literature in the 19th-Century Iberian Black Atlantic" featuring Jerome Branche, professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, and Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, professor of Spanish colonial studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University.

Branche's teaching and research focus on racialized modernity and the way creative writers across the Atlantic imagine and write about slavery, freedom, the nation, being, and gender. He has served on the executive board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, and as chair of the ethnicity, race, and Indigenous peoples section of the Latin American Studies Association.

Sampedro Vizcaya's research engages with Spanish colonial pasts and presents, archives, and legacies, both in North and sub-Saharan Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is invested in the study of colonial links within and beyond the frame of the multiple Spanish imperial Atlantic and global networks, and she has published extensively on the politics and processes of decolonization, colonial health and biopolitics, colonial domestic labor, colonial carceral systems, the colonial politics of meteorology, colonial archives, the intersections of gender, science and colonialism, border mobility and migration, and on the ruins of late colonial modernity.