Exploring Iberian History: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop
Attendance and lunch are free but advance registration is required (please, send an email to giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk by Saturday 9 June).

PROGRAMME

10.00 Welcome and introduction

SESSION 1: Uncertain identities – Chair: Cecilia Tarruell, Wolfson
10.30 Helen Flatley, St Cross – Ways of belonging: The Mozarabs of Toledo and interreligious interactions in medieval Iberia
10.40 Aleksandra Rutkowska, Somerville – Substitute saint: The funerary chapel of cardinal Gil de Albornoz at the cathedral of Toledo
10.50 Chase Caldwell Smith, Wolfson – Mitigating mestiçagem: Constructing the indigenous mother and its inverses in the works of Manuel Godinho de Erédia, c. 1558-1623
11.00 Discussion
11.30 Refreshments

SESSION 2: Body, nature, and theology – Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci, Exeter

12.00 Alexandra Anokhina, St Cross – Suicide and suicidal behaviour in early modern Castile 12.10 Madalena Brito, U. Lisbon
Slavery and dominion: crossroads between moral theology and law in sixteenth-century Portugal
12.20 George Klaeren, Mansfield – Reassessing natural theology in eighteenth-century Spain
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch

SESSION 3: Circulation, communication, and cultural networks – Chair: Imogen Choi, Exeter
14.15 Anna Espinola Lynn, Wadham – The material legacy of a Castilian converso: Bishop Alonso de Cartagena and Burgos Cathedral
14.25 Juan Ignacio Neves-Sarriegui, Oxford – The emergence of print in the South American Atlantic, 1780-1830
14.35 Discussion
15.00 Refreshments

SESSION 4: Authority, negotiation, and political disorder – Chair: Glyn Redworth, Oriel
15.30 Laurence McKellar, Exeter – The political culture of grant-making in Castile, c. 1311-1379
15.40 Katharine Fellows, St Peter’s – The papal uncle and nephew: A brief overview of the pontificates of Calixtus III and Alexander VI, the two Spanish popes
15.50 André Jockyman Roithmann, Wolfson – Civil war and revolution in Brazil
16.00 Discussion
16.30 End of workshop
Date: 15 June 2018, 10:00 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, Cohen Quad
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence