How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life: A Book Talk and Multimedia Presentation by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita

"How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life" is a book and multimedia presentation by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita (both scholars of early modern Spain and Latin America with PhDs in Hispanic Studies) on their forthcoming book, Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life (Simon & Schuster, 2025), which is a modern-day guide to navigating everything from patriarchal bureaucracy to an all-consuming friend crush with help from history’s most fascinating nuns. Struggling with money? Saint Teresa and her fellow Carmelites have recession-proof advice. Scrolling social media and drowning in FOMO? Mary of Jesus of Ágreda’s miraculous ability to engage in bilocation might help you cope. Confounded by a lesbian situationship? The yearnings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz contain unexpected insights.