Friday, September 27, Schedule

9:30am

First Conversation – What is the Early Modern Spanish Pacific?

Ricardo Padrón – Historical Introduction

Participants – What are the geographical and temporal contours of the EMSP?  Why not “the colonial Philippines”?  How does East Asia fit in?  How does colonial America fit in?  Is this primarily an economic space?  A political one?  A cultural one?

10:45am

Coffee Break

11:00am

Second Conversation – How do we study the EMSP?

Vincent Rafael – Opportunities, Challenges, To-Do List

What are the relevant archives, journals, methods?  What opportunities are there for cross-disciplinary work?  Obstacles to the same?

12:15pm

Lunch with all attendees

1:30pm

Third Conversation – Regional Foci

What are the unique challenges and opportunities presented by studying particular geographical foci (or studying the EMSP from the perspective of these foci?)

• The Philippines
• Spanish America
• East & Southeast Asia

2:45pm

Break

3:00pm

The EMSP and the Pacific Today

What is the relationship between the EMSP and the Pacific Rim today?  Between the study of the EMSP and Pacific or Pacific Rim Studies?  How is this particular past relevant to our understanding of the so-called “Pacific Century”?