Iberian History Seminar

The seminar will take place in the Rector’s Drawing Room at Exeter College, Turl Street, unless otherwise specified.

Series organisers: Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford), Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Christ Church, Oxford), Tania Bride (St Edmund Hall/Exeter College, Oxford), Erica Feild-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Glyn Redworth (Exeter College, Oxford), Cecilia Tarruell (New College, Oxford)

For more information, please check iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-talks or email mailto:iberian@history.ox.ac.uk
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford), Erica Feild-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Glyn Redworth (Exeter College, Oxford), Cecilia Tarruell (New College, Oxford), Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Christ Church, Oxford), Tania Bride (St Edmund Hall/Exeter College, Oxford)
Timing: Wednesdays 16:30-18:00, unless otherwise specified
Web Address: https://iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/iberian-history-seminar
Organising department: Faculty of History

Talks:

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Objects and Empire on the Portuguese India Run: Surviving Shipwreck
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Elsje van Kessel (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

"Eager the Orient Spoils Itself": Sublimity and the Indies in Luis de Góngora’s Panegírico al duque de Lerma (1617)
Date: 14 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Felipe Valencia (Utah State University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Islamic Spain and English Romanesque Architecture: The Fortunes of a Theory and the Construction of "the West"
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century
Date: 4 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Cécile Fromont (Harvard University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark