Symposium - Globalising Modern Spain: Debates and Perspectives
Programme:

10:30-11:00 Introduction: Matthew Kerry and Pol Dalmau – Welcome
Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford) – ‘Early Modern Spanish History after the Global Turn: the “Iberian World” and its Critics’
11:00-12:30 The Hispanic World in the Age of Revolutions
Javier Fernández Sebastián (UPV-EHU) – ‘Some Remarks on the History of Spain from a Global Point of View’
Maurizio Isabella (QMUL) – ‘Spain’s Different Spaces of Interaction in the Age of Revolutions: Current and Future Research Perspectives’
Mark Lawrence (Kent) – ‘Spain’s First Carlist War, 1833-40: A European Civil War in Miniature’
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 The Persistence of Empire
Anna Ross (Sheffield) – ‘“Peripheral People” at the Centre of Global History: Juan Beigbeder and the Many Ends of Empire, 1888-1957
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard (Bristol) – ‘Globalising Spanish Fascism and its Imperial Myths’
14.45-15.45 Global Imaginaries
David Brydan (KCL) – ‘Humanitarianism and Global Imaginaries in 20th Century Spain’ Matthew Kerry (Oxford) – ‘Imagining a Global Spain in the Aerial Age’
16:00-17:00 Keynote and Final Discussion
Jorge Luengo (UPF) and Pol Dalmau (UPF) – ‘What Can Modern Spain Bring to Global History?’
Date: 13 June 2025, 10:30
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Faculty of History
Organiser contact email address: matthew.kerry@history.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Centre for European History
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: matthew.kerry@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark