The Americas in the European Imaginaton

April 12, 2003

Morning Session

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

Beatriz Pastor, Dartmouth College
“Narrative, Knowledge, and Power: Spanish Accounts of Discovery and Conquest”

Neil Safier, Johns Hopkins University
“Ruined Pyramids, Forgotten Maps, and Trunkloads of Silent Plants: The Perils of Imagining South America as an Open Book for European Science”

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, State University of New York at Buffalo
“Knights and Demons: The Chivalric and the Crusading in Early ModernEuropean Symbolic Landscapes of the New World”

Afternoon Session

Peter Mancall, University of Southern California
“Ethnographic Reports: America’s Native Peoples in Sixteenth-Century Global Context”

David Buisseret, University of Texas at Arlington
“What Do Maps Tell Us about the European Presence in the New World?”

Paul Mapp, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
“European Geographic Ignorance and North American Imperial Rivalry: The Role of the Uncharted American West in International Affairs, 1713-1763”