Thursday, April 17 - Evans Library     (Map)*

8:00-3:00 pm - Mexican Inquisition Exhibit
Location: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Mayo Thomas Room     (Map)*

4:00 pm - Keynote Address
Evans Library Rm. 204E

• Welcome
  Dr. Charles L. Gilreath
  Executive Associate Dean, Texas A&M University Libraries
   

• "The Carvajal Family and Crypto-Jewish Studies"
  Dr. Stanley Hordes     (View Bio)
  University of New Mexico and  President of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies

Friday, April 18 - Evans Library     (Map)*

8:30-9:00 am - Registration and Coffee
Evans Library Rm. 204E, Entrance

9:00-10:30 am - Session I: European Background of the Carvajal Family
Chair: Dr. Nancy Joe Dyer
Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University

• Welcome
  Dr. Victor Arizpe
  Head, Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University
   

• “Luis de Carvajal, His Family, and His Recruits” 
  Dr. Samuel Temkin     (View Bio)
  Rutgers University
   

• “Luis de Carvajal de la Cueva el Conquistador del Nuevo Reino de León”
  Dr. Ricardo Elizondo     (View Bio)
  Technologico de Monterrey
  Dr. Monica Montemayor Treviño     (View Bio)
  Histroiradora Independiente, Monterrey Mexico

10:30-10:45 am - Break (Coffee and Pastries)

10:45-12:00 pm - Session II: Life and Times of Luis de Carvajal
Chair: Dr. José Pablo Villalobos
Director of Graduate Studies and as Associate Professor of Spanish, Texas A&

• “Las correspondencia, memorias, y su testamento de Luis de Carvajal,
   el mozo”
  Dr. Alicia Gojman de Backal     (View Bio)
  Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
   

• “Descendants of the Carvajal Expedition”
  Dr. Carlos M. Larralde     (View Bio)
  Independent Scholar, Calimesa, CA

12:00-1:30 pm - Lunch On your own
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1:30-3:00 pm - Session III: Expressions of Crypto-Jewish Faith
Chair: Emily Graves
Ph.D. student, Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University

• “Luis de Carvajal: More Than a Historical Figure”
  Dr. Peter E. Tarlow     (View Bio)
  Texas A& M University
   
• “Luis de Carvajal, El Mozo, and His Reading of Biblical Scripture”
  Dr. Gregory Lee Cuéllar     (View Bio)
  Cushing Library, Texas A&M University

3:00-3:15 pm - Break (Coffee and Pastries)

3:15-4:45 pm - Session IV: The Enduring Legacy of Luis de Carvajal
Chair: Victor E. Agosto Roldán
Ph.D. student, Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University

• “Carvajal as Another Moses”
  Mercedes Gail Gutiérrez     (View Bio)
  Independent Scholar, Resident of Israel
   

• “Reconnecting with Crypto-Jewish  roots in the U.S. Southwest”
  Dr. Dell Sánchez     (View Bio)
  Sephardic Anusim Center of the Americas

7:30 pm- 9:00 pm - Shabbat Service/Reception
Hillel Foundation, Texas A&M University - See Campus Map

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