Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

147. Traumatic Experience of the Baroque

8:45–10:00 p.m., Parlor C, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature

Presiding: Gordon Teskey, Harvard Univ.

1. “Allegory and Empire in Sigüenza y Góngora’s 1680 Triumphal Arch,” Anna H. More, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

2. “Baroque Aesthetics and Mexican Colonial Trauma: Las Casas and ‘las Iglesias,’” Sara L. Lehman, Fordham Univ., Bronx

3. “Traumatic Foundations: Postconquest Literature in Catalonia,” Aaron J. Ilika, Univ. of Pennsylvania

4. “Navigating Baroque Trauma,” Christopher Dean Johnson, Harvard Univ.

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