1619 Peyote Prohibition in Colonial New Spain: A Special Collections Manuscript Viewing
Please join us as we visit the Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library to view a 1619 manuscript documenting the prohibition of peyote in colonial New Spain. We will be joined by special guest Dr. Alberto Vargas, Associate Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) at UW-Madison, and Laura Martin, Ibero-American Studies and Romance Languages Librarian, and Jorge Hernandez Lasa, a dissertator in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and an expert in medieval Spanish.