Printed Afterlives Conference
This past weekend, the Romance Studies Department sponsored a conference titled “Printed Afterlives,” organized by RS Assistant Professors Anita Savo and David Colmenares.
Printed Afterlives brought together an international group of scholars of medieval Iberia and colonial Latin America to explore what Prof. David Colmenares calls our “love-hate relationship” with the nineteenth-century scholars and editors to whom we owe the survival of many of our primary sources. Participants explored how nineteenth-century editions of premodern texts not only contributed to narratives of nation-building, but also fulfilled other goals, such as establishing regional identities, asserting the validity of indigenous epistemologies, and generating objects with multilayered temporalities.
Abstracts of presentations can be found here: https://sites.bu.edu/printed-afterlives/abstracts/