Fourth François-Xavier Guerra Seminar
Jointly organized with the Centre de reserche d’histoire de l’Amerique Latine at du monde ibérique (CRALMI), University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Please note that this seminar will take place in Paris at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, exact location to be confirmed.

Romy Sánchez a été membre de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Ibériques et Hispaniques (EHEHI) – Casa de Velazquez, à Madrid, de 2012 à 2014. Elle est actuellement ATER à l’Université de Caen-Normandie, co-coordinatrice du “Cycle Caraïbes” de Mondes Américains et membre du comité de rédaction de Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos.

Jesús Sanjurjo is a WRoCAH Doctoral Researcher and Teaching Assistant at the University of Leeds. Between 2013 and 2015, he was appointed a Councillor of the US Embassy Youth Council of Spain at the United States Embassy in Madrid. He currently works as PhD Tutor at The Brilliant Club, AND co-directs the LHRI Research Group Ideas and Identities in the Atlantic World, c.1500-c.1900. He served as Vice President of PILAS. He has been awarded an AHRC-WRoCAH Doctoral Studentship to support his PhD studies at the University of Leeds. His PhD research analyses the processes of reception, production, circulation and development of anti-slave trade ideas in Spain from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decade of the 1860s and proposes a multifactorial theory of the abolition and eradication of the slave trade in the Spanish Empire.
Date: 27 November 2017, 17:00
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speakers: Romy Sánchez (University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Jesús Sanjurjo, (University of Leeds)
Organising department: Latin American Centre
Part of: Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence