{"id":8134,"date":"2016-10-08T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T22:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2016-11-08T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T22:35:25","slug":"bartolome-de-las-casas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2016\/10\/08\/bartolome-de-las-casas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartolome de Las Casas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2016\/11\/2016-10-08-13.29.28-1-822x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2016-10-08 13.29.28-1\" width=\"290\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2016\/11\/2016-10-08-13.29.28-1-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2016\/11\/2016-10-08-13.29.28-1-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>On October 7-8, 2016, a conference on \u201cBartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas: History, Philosophy, &amp; Theology in the Age of European Expansion\u200b\u201d was held at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. The event was organized by Dr. David Orique of Providence College and BU Associate Professor Rady Rold\u00e1n-Figueroa to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Order of Preachers, the 100th anniversary of Providence College, and the 500th anniversary of the first conversion of Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas (2014). Papers reflected on themes of contact, conversion, conquest, and colonization and were presented in English or in Spanish. Dr. Rold\u00e1n presented a paper entitled \u201cThe Episcopal Office and the Defense of Humanity: Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas\u2019s Theory of the Power of the Bishops.\u201d\u200b Presenters came from the U.S. as well as Europe and Latin America and included several doctoral students.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 7-8, 2016, a conference on \u201cBartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas: History, Philosophy, &amp; Theology in the Age of European Expansion\u200b\u201d was held at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. The event was organized by Dr. David Orique of Providence College and BU Associate Professor Rady Rold\u00e1n-Figueroa to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2015],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}