New Evidence, 1400-1800 by Jaime Lara and José Pardo Tomás

The Columbia University Center for Ethnomusicology invites you to attend an event in the series "New Evidence, 1400-1800" (co-organized by Columbia's Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Bard Graduate Center).

Jaime Lara (Yale University): "Aztec Christians: Reluctant Collaborators or Enthusiastic Partners?"

José Pardo Tomás (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain):  "Medical Knowledge and Practices in a Creole Society: Texts, Objects and Images from New Spain 1576-1626"

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese; the Department of Religion; the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; the Institute for Latin American Studies; the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; and by the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

Jaime Lara is associate professor of Christian art and architecture and chair of the
Program in Religion and the Arts at Yale University Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

José Pardo Tomás is a member of the Department of History of Science at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Barcelona. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the transmission and dissemination of scientific and medical knowledge in early modern Spain and Latin America.