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Elvira L Vilches

Associate Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27713
218 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Reckoning for Silver: The Global, the Local, and the Making of Money in Colonial Latin America - Varieties of Capitalism in the Americas · June 2015 Lecture Department of History, University of Nottingham (U.K.),
Accounting for Silver: The Spaces of Capital in Imperial Spain - Trans-epochal Perspectives: Spaces, Actors, and Structures over Long Time Scales · November 2014 Invited Talk Department of History, University of Basel (Switzerland),
Paper Technologies in the Iberian Atlantic: Mercantile Culture, Economic Thought, and Narrative - Iberian Globalization of the Early Modern World: New Ideas and their Global Locations · May 2014 Invited Talk UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Centuries Studies,
Doing Things with Coins: Exploring the Entanglement of the Human, the Political, and the Material in 17th Century Spain - New Approaches to Hispanic Early Modern Studies · April 2014 Invited Talk Department of Romance Studies, Brown University,
Accounting, Character, and Narrative in Early Modern Hispanic Letters - Questioning Early Modern Spain · March 2014 Invited Talk Department of Romance Studies, Duke University,
The Indies Paradox: Notions of Value and Wealth in Early Modern Spain · February 2013 Lecture Department of Romance Studies, University of North Carolina,
Monetary Analysis and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century Castile - Modern Languages and Literatures · September 2010 Invited Talk University of Miami,
The Quantitative Theory of Value as an Atlantic Side Effect - Literature, Philosophy, and Commerce in Europe and the Americas · April 2005 Invited Talk Department of Literatures and Cultures, Stanford University
The Atlantic, Discourse, and Value · February 2004 Invited Talk Department of Romance Studies, University of Michigan,
Valor y género en la España de los Austrias - Hispanic Cultures Seminar Series · March 2003 Invited Talk Department of Romance Studies, Harvard University,
Representing the Wealth of the Indies · February 2003 Lecture John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress,

Service to the Profession


Participant - Faculty Success Program · 2021 Professional Development National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD),