BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:344@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210414T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210414T133000 DTSTAMP:20210401T231440Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/claiming-nobility/ SUMMARY:Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: A Comparison of Mor isco and Indigenous Strategies DESCRIPTION:Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture\n\n–by Karoline Cook (R oyal Holloway University of London)\n\nOnline event via Zoom Webinar\n\nTh is event is free of charge\, but you must register in advance to attend. A ll audience members will receive instructions via email after registration . Click the following link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zo om.us/webinar/register/WN_cdtg3WaHSkGhC_NTWSb3UA\n\n\n\nBy the early seven teenth century\, petitioners at the royal court in Madrid who claimed desc ent from the Nasrid emirs of Granada\, the Mexica rulers\, or the Inca rul ers\, found ways to acquire noble status and secure rights to their ancest ral lands in the form of entailed estates. They invoked discourses that em phasized their direct descent from monarchs (reyes\, señores naturales) a nd they deployed the concepts of vassalage and blood purity to stake their claims.\n\nDr. Cook’s paper will examine the intersected histories of t he descendants of the Nasrid nobility in Granada who successfully maintain ed their status despite increasing anxieties about Morisco presence on the Peninsula\, and the descendants of the Inca and Mexica señores naturales who litigated for recognition of their family’s rights and status. Thes e various families articulated diverging ideas about sovereignty\, nobilit y\, limpieza de sangre\, and inheritance\, as each of these concepts relat ed to the broader idea of belonging to a composite monarchy that recognize d the rights of individual kingdoms through the language of vassalage. She will suggest how the confluence of diverse claims to status based on gene alogical arguments and discourses about nobility may have also contributed to the construction of early ideas about ‘race.’\n\nKaroline Cook cur rently holds the position of Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World at Royal Holloway\, University of London. Both her research and teaching interests explore the interconnections between Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds. Her research focuses on Moriscos and the Spanish Empire\, and the intersection between religious identity\, race\, and nation in the creatio n and negotiation of ethnic categories. Her book\, Forbidden Passages: Mus lims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America was published by the Univers ity of Pennsylvania Press in 2016. Related publications include “Navigat ing Identities: The Case of a Morisco Slave in Seventeenth-Century New Spa in” in The Americas 65:1\; “‘Moro de linaje y nación’: Religious Identity\, Race\, and Status in New Granada\,” in Race and Blood in the Iberian World\, eds. Max Hering Torres\, María Elena Martínez\, and Davi d Nirenberg (Berlin: LIT VERLAG\, 2012)\; and “Muslims and the Chichimec a in New Spain: the Debates over Just War and Slavery” in Anuario de Est udios Americanos\, 70:1.\n\n\n\nThis lecture is presented as part of Earl y Modern Cosmopolitanisms\, a lecture series hosted by Barbara Fuchs (Univ ersity of California\, Los Angeles) and Andrew Devereux (University of Cal ifornia\, San Diego) and sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- &\; 18t h-Century Studies.\n\nImage: Union of the Imperial Inca descendants with t he house of Loyola y Borja (Anonymous\, Cusco 18th century) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03 /cook-_web.jpg CATEGORIES:Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR