Forging Global Minds: Libraries and Natural Knowledge in Colonial Latin America

Dr Sauter’s talk, “Forging Global Minds: Libraries in Colonial Latin America,” will present the earliest results of his research on the printed word and the production of natural knowledge in the Spanish-speaking colonial world.

The lecture starts at 6.00 pm, with registration from 5.30 pm.

Dr Sauter’s talk, “Forging Global Minds: Libraries in Colonial Latin America,” will present the earliest results of his research on the printed word and the production of natural knowledge in the Spanish-speaking colonial world.

Although the talk touches upon broad themes in knowledge transfer through bibliothecal collections, three libraries receive special attention: the academic library of the Colegio Mayor in Córdoba, Argentina, the monastic library of the Convento San Francisco in Lima, Peru, and the massive collection of texts in the Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla, México - the first expressly public library in the New World.

This project is being funded by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.

https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/major-research-fellowships

Dr Michael Sauter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Suffolk. He is an historian of early modern Europe, with specialisations in intellectual history and the history of science. He completed his BA at Drew University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), his MA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles.