Wednesday, October 23, 2024 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (ET)
Humanities, Room 1008100 Nicolls RoadStony Brook NY 11794
Adrienne Unger631-632-9983adrienne.unger@stonybrook.edu
Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral/American Art and Aesthetic Studies Institute, University of Buenos Aires, on "Conquests, Exiles and Transformations: Iberian Ceramics in North Africa and Latin America", on the unexpected transatlantic travels of Islamic Iberian art and architecture from the Iberian Peninsula to North Africa and Latin America following the expulsion of the Moriscos (Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity after 1492) from Spain and Spain’s conquest of American territories. October 23, 2024 from 5:00-6:30pm in 1008 Humanities. Part of the "Pressing Matters" lecture series.
Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral has a degree in Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in History from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina). He is a professor of architectural history and director of the American Art and Aesthetic Studies Institute at the School of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires. His work focuses on Islamic architecture and its connections with the Ibero-American world. Recently published works in English are: “Islamic presence in Latin American Architecture. Three periods - three ways” in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture (2023), “Introduction to the Dialogues on Rethinking Interpretations of the Mudéjar and Its Revivals in Modern Latin America” in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2022) 4 (3) – (with Caroline Olivia Woolf), “Moorish roots in Latin American Architecture” in Decolonizing the Spatial History of the Americas, Center #24 University of Texas (2021). He is a member of several international associations, including the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, and the European Architectural History Network. He is also co-founder with Ana María León (Harvard University) of the initiative “Our North is the South” a network of researchers working on Latin American Architectural History.