Eighth Annual
Graduate Student Symposium on Transatlantic History – 2007
Upcoming Symposium Past Symposia
Spiritual Encounters in the New World
“Abort, Retry,
Fail? Evaluating the Success of Mission
in the Jesuit New World”
Cathryn Torgerson, Sacred Heart
Major Seminary
“Imperial Tensions, Colonial Contours: António Vieira, Indian Conversion, and African Slavery in
Seventeenth-Century Brazil”
Hugh Cagle, Rutgers University
“Franciscan Martyrs, Españolados, and Borderland
Politics: The 1597 Guale Uprising and the Spiritual
Conquest of Florida”
Katy Kole, University of
North Florida
“Creating Cannibals: Encounters, Conflicts, and
Incorporations in the Wilderness of America”
Jared Glenn Staller,
University of Virginia
“The Cross as a
Symbol of Prophecy, Alliance, and Repression: The Spanish-Maní
Coalition during the Great Maya Revolt of 1546-47”
Zachary Wingerd, University
of Texas at Arlington
“Prince Max Meets the Mandan: A Study in Spiritualism,
Cosmology, and Perceptions of Reality”
Shirley Frey, University of Texas at Arlington
“Beliefs Born in Chains: How Zombies, Poisons and
‘Evil’ Spirits Became a Part of Haitian Voodoo”
Danielle Boaz, Florida International University
Keynote
Speaker
“Conversion and Empire: Christianizing the Americas”
Dr. Allan Greer, University of Toronto
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photographs of the symposium
Back row (from left to right): Dr. Allan Greer, Katy Kole, Jared Glenn Staller, Hugh Cagle, Zachary Wingerd; Front row (from left to right): Dr. Stanley Palmer, Danielle Boaz, Gene Rhea Tucker, Mylynka Kilgore, Greg Kosc, Cathryn Torgerson, Dr. Steven Reinhardt; Not pictured: Shirley Frey (Photograph by Trey Lee)
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