Technologies of Culture
The objective of this line of research of the SSHRCC-funded MCRI The Hispanic Baroque Project is to explain the syncretic nature of the Hispanic Baroque through the study of discursive practices as manifested in oral, chirographic, and print culture, but also in art, architecture, and music. It will also focus on economic and cultural institutions and practices that were important to the development and reproduction of an Atlantic culture. Our findings pertaining to the Hispanic world will be counter-pointed with a consideration of the Baroque in Portugal and Brazil. Key players in these transatlantic exchanges were the Jesuit and Franciscan orders, and careful consideration will be accorded to the role of these religious institutions, with special consideration to their multinational character, and their presence in territories where the presence of the government was not much felt by local communities. This part of the research plan will benefit from the expertise of our researchers in Music, History, Art History, Visual Culture, Literary Studies, and Musicology.
Members
Beatriz de Alba-Koch, University of Victoria (coordinator)
Clara Bargellini, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ricardo Castro, McGill University
Perla Chinchilla Pawling, Universidad Iberoamericana
Lucero Enríquez Rubio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Enrique Fernández, University of Manitoba
Evonne Levy, University of Toronto
Piotr Nawrot, Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura, Bolivia
Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto
Luís de Moura Sobral, Université de Montréal
Alena Robin, University of Western Ontario
Aurelio Tello, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México
