GSU World History Lecture 22 March

THE GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY WORLD HISTORY LECTURE FOR 2007

Sponsored by Georgia State University's Department of History, its Program in World History and Cultures, and the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies




PREFIGURATION AND FULFILLMENT: BIBLICAL READINGS OF COLONIZATION IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD

by

JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA
Professor of History, University of Texas-Austin


Thursday, March 22, 2007
Starting at 4:30pm
Place t.b.a. (Georgia State University's central campus, downtown
Atlanta)



Professor Canizares-Esguerra is the author of the prize-winning How to Write the History of the New World: History, Epistemology, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford, 2001). He has also authored Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic 1550-1700 (Stanford, 2006); Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford, 2006); and (co-edited with Erik Seeman) The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000 (Prentice Hall, 2006).

This lecture is free and open to students, staff, and the public. SEWHA members are invited to attend. For additional information, please contact Dr. Steve Rapp, srapp@gsu.edu, 404-463-9207.