RICARDO PADRÓN | “The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West”

2020 SEP 25
Friday, Sep 25, 2020, 08:00am - Friday, Sep 25, 2020, 09:30am
Location
Zoom (link to register below)

 

Please join us

on

Friday, September 25 | 12-1:30pm

 

for a presentation by

 

Ricardo Padrón

Associate Professor

Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese

 

Ricardo will be speaking about his new book, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Chicago 2020), which challenges prevailing narratives about the so-called “invention of America” by exploring the transpacific commitments of the Spanish Indies as a geopolitical concept.

 

 

Friday, September 25 | 12-1:30pm

Free and open to the public. Please register for the Zoom meeting below:

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Padron, Indies of the Setting Sun