Laura Dierksmeier
Publications
Book Chapter Forthcoming
- 2017 “From Isolation to Inclusion: Confraternities in Urban Colonial Mexico” in Space, Place & Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Early Modern City, ed. Diana Presciutti (Boston: Brill).
Presentations
| July 2013 | Graduate Colloquium, Universität Tübingen (Germany) Charity to the Poor and Sick by Franciscan and Aztec Brotherhoods in Sixteenth-Century New Spain |
| June 2014 | Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) (Modena, Italy). Panel 62: Cofradías in the Iberian-Atlantic World Franciscan & Aztec Confraternities in Mexico, 1526 -1650: Innovative Social Assistance and Poor Relief based on Moral Theology |
| May 2015 | Latin American Studies Association (LASA) (San Juan, Puerto Rico) Panel 995: Cofradías in Colonial Latin America Confraternity-run Hospitals in Colonial Mexico. |
| July 2015 | History Department Retreat, Universität Tübingen (Sulz am Neckar, Germany) Monastery Kirchberg From Isolation to Inclusion: Confraternities in Urban Sixteenth-Century Mexico. |
| Sep. 2015 | St. John’s College, Cambridge University. (Cambridge, UK). Workshop on Religious Knowledge and Early Modern History. Competing Visions of Childhood: Assistance to Orphans by Sixteenth-Century Mexican Confraternities. |
| Nov. 2015 | Guest speaker in Seminar History of Spanish America. (Universität Tübingen) From the Aztec to the Spanish Empire. Social Institutions in Mexico after 1521. |
| July 2016 | Dissertation Defense: Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1526 – 1700 (Universität Tübingen.) |
| Oct. 2016 | Bartolomé de Las Casas: History, Philosophy, & Theology in the Age of European Expansion. Providence College (Rhode Island, USA). Confraternities: Social Assistance in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. |
| Oct. 2016 |
Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1526 – 1700 Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Public Lecture in connection with Archive Exhibit: Foreign Worlds: Discovery, Exploration, Conquest (Fremde Welten: Entdeckung – Erforschung – Eroberung) |
Archive Work (Selection)
| AHMNA | Archivo Histórico del Museo Nacional de Antropología, D.F. Mexico |
| AGI | Archivo General de Indias – Seville, Spain |
| AGN | Archivo General de la Nación, D.F., Mexico |
| Beinecke | Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, USA |
| BF | Biblioteca Franciscana, San Pedro, Cholula, Mexico |
| FF | Fondo Franciscano, AHMNA, D.F., Mexico |
| IAI | Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin, Germany |
| NAP | National Archives of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines |
| SJ | Parroquia Señor San José, Santa Cruz, Puebla, Mexico |