Forschungsschwerpunkte und Fachvorträge
Durch Vorträge und Publikationen ausgewiesenes Forschungsprofil:
English
- Early modern Iberian and Central European regimes of human difference and racial categorization
- History of state formation from the bottom-up
- History of women and gender
- History of the Spanish Empire
- History of indigenous and Chinese subjects under European domination
Deutsch
- Frühneuzeitliche iberische und mitteleuropäische Regime der menschlichen Differenz und rassischen Kategorisierungen
- Geschichte der frühneuzeitlichen Staatsbildung 'von unten nach oben'
- Geschichte von Frauen und Geschlecht
- Geschichte des spanischen Imperiums
- Geschichte der indigenen und chinesischen Untertanen unter europäischer (insbesondere iberischer) Herrschaft
Fachvorträge und Konferenzorganisation:
- 2022,“We come, in reality, to be governed by them:” Chinese Networks & the Administration of 1600s ‘Spanish’ Manila,” Heidelberg, 2022
- 2022,(9th Cambridge-Tübingen Workshop “Religious and confessional ambivalence”),“Petitioning Heaven in the Pacific World: Spaniards, Chinese, & Celestial
Bureaucracies in Habsburg Manila,” Tübingen, - 2022, (Repräsentation und soziale Realität von Afrikanern in deutschen Residenzen, Forschungszentrum Gotha), “Afro-Cosmopolitan Madrid, 1561-1600: Slavery,
Sovereignty, & Subjecthood in the Habsburg Court,” Gotha, - 2022, (EHESS, Campus Condorcet, Hacer y usar archivos: documentos, prácticas y actores en la monarquía española (siglos XVI-XVIII) , “Replanteando el poder del
archivo: El Consejo de Indias, 1561-1600,” Paris, - University of Haifa and Swansea University, Illuminating Mediterranean Antiquity through Comparative History: Theorising “Soft' Approaches. Online Chair, 2022
- University of Amsterdam Ocean Encounters, Oceans as Archives. Amsterdam Chair, 2022
- LASA/Asia 2022, Recovering Anti-Chinese Violence in the Spanish Pacific World. Archival Challenges and Apology Politics, online. Chair, 2022
- 2021, “Mechanics of Writing Essays at the Institute for Historical Studies,” (Institute for Historical Studies, UT Austin), discussant. Austin.
- 2021,(Atelier d'études transnationales, Entre los 'lagos' españoles:’ Esclavitud y circulaciones), “Esclavitud china, el Pacífico español, y el sistema-mundo
atlántico: don Manuel Chunquian, gobernador de chinos, 1628-1644,” Paris, - 2021, (Forschungszentrum Gotha), “Were the 1500s Spanish Indies 'Radical'?: Reflections on the Writing and Reading of Global History Today’” Gotha,
- 2021, (IIº Seminario de Historia Política y Cultural de la Globalización, Univerdidad Andrés Bello) “¿La tercera república? El común de los chinos sangleyes en
Manila de Austrias,” Santiago de Chile. - 2021, (Colloquium - Neues aus der Frühen Neuzeit, Universität Trier), “Indiano Madrid: Creating a Cosmopolitan City, 1561-1598,” Trier.
- 2021, (Kolloquium zur Lateinamerikanischen Geschichte, Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, Universität zu Köln),
“Sin Dios como testigo: La justicia española y la ‘nación de chinos infieles,’” Köln. - 2021, (Virtuelles Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte Lateinamerikas, Freie Universität Berlin), overview of book under review, Berlin.
- 2021, (Jornadas historiográficas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) “Las repúblicas de indios y españoles: ¿realidad indiana o mito historiográfico?”
University of Tübingen: International Workshop: Chinese & Spanish Interactions, Manila 1571-1765, Tübingen Organizer, 2021 - University of Tübingen: Coloniality & Global Encounters in Romance Cultural History. Tübingen.Co-organizer, 2021
- German Research Foundation, SFB 923, V, Arbeitskreis V, „Conspiracies and conspiratorial thinking within threatened orders.” Ellwangen.Co-organizer, 2021
- German Research Foundation, SFB 923, IV: Arbeitskreis “Recht und Mobilisierung,” Ellwangen. Co-organizer, 2020
- 2020, (Asien-Orient-Institut, Univ. Tübingen)“Chunquian of Xipu: Slave, Merchant, and 'Prime Minister' of Manila, 1635-1644,” Tübingen.
- 2020, 7th Workshop in Early Modern Religious History: “Encountering Religious & Ethnic Diversity” (Cambridge–Tübingen), “The Court of the Infidel: Fukienese
Merchant, the Governor, & Manila’s ‘Chinese Moment,’ 1635-1644,” Tübingen. - 2020, Fernuniversität in Hagen workshop, “Defining Missionary Knowledges,” online.
- 2019, University College Dublin Symposium of Golden Age Studies (Chair, presenter), “Beyond the Myth of the Two Republics,” Dublin.
- 2019, Harvard University Workshop: Rethinking Petitioning in the Habsburg and Colonial World (Chair, co-organizer, & presenter), “The Responsive Regime,” Boston.
- 2019, Seminario Permanente (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), “Rethinking State Formation from Below with a Focus on 1500s Mexico,” Frankfurt.
- 2018, LAGLOBAL Writing Workshop (University College), “The Spanish and Jesuits in Ming China: Clocks, Maps, and New World Knowledge,” London.
- 2018, Arguing for the Rule of Law (Illinois Law) workshop, “Inca Absolutists, Bureaucratic Israelites: Ideas of Ancient Justice in the 1500s New World,” Chicago.
- 2018, Institute for Historical Studies (IHS) workshop, “The Devil’s Rodeo: The Logistics of Spanish Imperial Petitioning,” Austin.
- 2018, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), “Yo he sido informado: Petición y respuesta en el imperio español, siglo XVI,” Quito.
- 2018, Invited presentation (LAGLOBAL, FLACSO), “La hermenéutica de la sospecha en el Consejo de Indias, siglo XVI,” Quito.
- 2017, History Department Gender Symposium (UT Austin), “Petitioners, Spanish-Indian Offspring, and the Origins of the Terms ‘Mestiza’ and ‘Mestizo,’” Austin.
- 2016, Southwest Seminar (Texas Christian U.), “The Hidden Architects of Spanish Imperial Law: Petitioners and Royal Decrees in 16th Century Indies,” Fort Worth.
- 2016, Ideas of Latin America talk & round table (Universidad Iberoamericana), “Ideas del mestizo: Viejos mitos y nuevos rumbos en la historiografía mexicana,” Mexico City.
- 2015, Historisches Seminar - Frühe Neuzeit (Ludwig-Maximilians U.), "Creating Imperial Decrees From Below: Colonial Petitioners and Mestizo Laws," Munich.
Presentations on Panels:
- 2022, 68th Annual Meeting, (Renaissance Association) “ ‘I Have Been Informed by the Indios…:’ Indigenous Co-Creations of the Mestizo Category, 1542-1598,”
Dublin, - 2022, LASA/Asia 2022 (Latin American Studies Association), “Spanish-Chinese Violence in Manila, 1593-1690: The Search for Chinese Perspectives,” online.
- 2021, European Social Science History Conference (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam), “Petitioning in the Spanish Atlantic,”
Leiden,online. - 2019, As Petições e o Atlântico Revolucionário (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa), “Towards a Theory of Responsive Regimes,” Lisbon.
- 2018, Knowledge and Governance in the Early Modern Spanish Empire (Eberhard Karls Universität), “From Ignorance to Archives. The Council of the Indies' Creation of
the Spanish Imperial Archive, 1492 -1598,” Tübingen. - 2018, American Society for Legal Historians, “Inca Absolutists, Bureaucratic Israelites: Spanish Ideas of Ancient Justice in the 1500s New World,” Houston.
- 2017, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), “The Lettered Marketplace: Petitioning the Crown for Decrees on Mestizos in the 1500s Spanish Empire,” Lima.
- 2016, 25th COMEXUS Fulbright-García Conference (Fulbright), “How to Create Laws - and Invent the ‘Mestizo’ - in the 1500s Spanish Empire,” Querétaro.
- 2015, 61st Renaissance Society of America (RSA), “In Search of an Ancient Christian Past: Cuzco's Mestizo Brotherhood in the Late Sixteenth Century,” Berlin.
- 2014, 61st Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, “The Pope, the Patronato, and Indian and Mestizo Advocacy Groups in the 1500s Spanish Atlantic," New Orleans.
