Event Overview
- Date and time: June 5 (Friday), 2026
- Venue: Waseda University, Building 3, 10th Floor, Conference Room No. 1(1014)
- Audience: Open to the Public
- Format: In-person only
- Language: English
Abstract
The conference aims to explore the circulation of texts across the transpacific space that connected Spain, New Spain, the Philippines, and Japan from the 16th century to the early 19th century. It will focus on how texts traveled through commercial, religious, and diplomatic networks and contributed to shaping the intellectual and social horizons of these regions. Texts in transit were disseminated in various forms, both manuscript and printed, subject to diverse modes of production and transmission, and their circulation was influenced by the interests of different networks of agents, such as explorers, merchants, diplomats, and missionaries, as well as by regulatory mechanisms of censorship and control imposed by political and religious authorities. Translation played a crucial role in adapting these texts to different cultural, religious, and social contexts where multiple languages coexisted. The primary focus of the conference lies in the creation, dissemination, and adaptation of texts, as well as their material dimension and their relationship with various Hispanic, Filipino, and Japanese textual and cultural traditions.
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