The Lady in Blue: Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda: A University of New Mexico Homage, is set for Friday, April 24 from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. All presentations are set in the Santa Ana Room of the Student Union Building and the reception and Puppet’s Revenge will take place in Ortega Hall and the Student Union Building on the UNM campus.
The event kicks off at 8:45 a.m. with a welcome by Anthony J. Cárdenas-Rotunno, professor; and A. Nogar; assistant professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UNM.
9 a.m. Joseph Sánchez, director, UNM Spanish Colonial Research Center,
presents, “The Mystery of the Lady in Blue: An Historical Overview.”
10 a.m. David Rex Galindo, Doctoral Candidate, Southern Methodist
University “‘Para servir a Dios’: Franciscan Missionaries and the
Propagation of the Faith in the Northern Frontiers of New Spain,
1530s-1820s.”
11 a.m. Anna Nogar Spanish and Portuguese, UNM; From Center to
Periphery: Sor María de Ágreda in Colonial New Spain.”
1:30 p.m. Marilyn Fedewa, Author María of Ágreda: Mystical Lady in Blue;
From Baroque Hyperbole to 21st-Century Plain-Speak: The
Challenge of Framing María de Agreda’s Mystical Odyssey for a
Broad Contemporary Audience.”
2:30 p.m. Clark Colahan, Anderson Professor of Humanities, Whitman
College; María de Ágreda in the Arts of Our Own Time."
3:30 p.m. Reception, 3rd Floor Lounge, Ortega Hall
4:30 p.m. “Lady Blue;” Presented by Puppet’s Revenge, Ron Dans and Laia
Obregón-Dans Ortega Hall 153
Sponsors of this event are: Spanish Colonial Research Center; Latin American and Iberian Institute; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Spanish Resource Center; Tey Diana Rebolledo, Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of Spanish; Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies; Institute for Medieval Studies; and the Feminist Research Institute.
For more information, call 277-5907 or 277-5526.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu