Event Details
Tuesday, Nov 3, 2015
SAAA Lecture: Living + Dining in 18th Cen Spain + Spanish St Augustine
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Kenan 300, Flagler College
Description: Kathryn Ness presents her recent research on cultural exchange and identity formation in the early modern Spanish Atlantic. In this project, she combined documentary records with archaeological collections from three 18th-century households in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and St. Augustine, Florida to explore how individuals negotiated political and social changes in the 18th century and the increasingly global trade network of the time. Her findings indicate that similar and almost simultaneous changes in domestic ceramics and dining practices in Spain and Florida reflect a new Spanish-Atlantic sense of identity that amalgamated fashions, tastes, and traditions from throughout the Atlantic World.
Ness has a BA in Anthropology and Art History from the College of William and Mary and a PhD in archaeology from Boston University. Currently, she works in the collections department at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. She have been studying the Spanish Atlantic, with a special focus on southern Spain and St. Augustine, for nearly ten years and am excited to expand my research to explore interactions between the Spanish and British empires.
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