• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford) , Natasha Bailey (Exeter College, Oxford) , Erica Feild-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford) , Glyn Redworth (Exeter College, Oxford) , Cecilia Tarruell (New 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

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Iberian empires and early modern globalisation
  Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (Pablo Olavide, Seville)

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Launch of the volume The Iberian World, 1450-1820, edited by Fernando Bouza, Pedro Cardim, and Antonio Feros (Routledge, 2019)
  Joint Seminar with the Universidad Complutense, Madrid
  Sir John Elliott (Oriel College, Oxford), Maria José Rodríguez Salgado (London School of Economics), Laura de Mello e Souza (Sorbonne, Paris )

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Legitimacy and visual propaganda in the revolts of Catalonia, Portugal, and Naples (1640-1647)
  Joana Fraga (ICS-Lisbon)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Forced conversion and theologies of baptism: The Moriscos and their children
  Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - Piezas de Indias and asientos: Imperial regulation, commercial practices, and the pan-European genesis of the trade in enslaved Africans to Spanish America
  Regina Grafe (European University Institute, Florence)

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - The Trastamara crises: Political pacts and conflict in Castile (1368-1518)
  José Manuel Nieto Soria (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - Claiming nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: Local families and the search for status during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  Karoline P. Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - Philip II, the Habsburg dynasty and the Dutch revolt
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Violet Soen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Women’s agency from medieval Catalonia to the Antilles in the Age of Revolution
  Alexandra Guerson (University of Toronto), Dana Wessel Lightfoot (University of Northern British Columbia)

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - The trial of a Morisco from early seventeenth-century Castile: A conversation with Mercedes García-Arenal
  Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Ideas that have changed my research: Thinking Iberian history with Sir John Elliott
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Old and new in the Iberian world (and elsewhere)
  Tamar Herzog (Harvard University)

Wednesday 10 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Hot on the trail: Pilgrimage and crime in northern Spain
  Amanda L Scott (Penn State University)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Margins of liberation on the Tejo: Positioning mariners of color in sixteenth-century Lisbon
  Gariel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University)

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Cervantine blackness
  Nichaolas R Jones (Bucknell University)

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Happy families and well-behaved aristocrats? Elite society in seventeenth-century Madrid
  Alistair Malcolm (University of Limerick)

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Indigenous slavery, the disappearance of the past, and the archive
  Nancy E van Deusen (Queen's University)

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Sacramental politics and place in eighteenth-century New Granada
  Bethan Fisk (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 17 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - African body markings and racialisation in eighteenth-century Brazil
  Joint Seminar with the Latin American History Seminar - please register in advance at the link below
  Aldair Carlos Rodrigues (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - On the Perception of Difference in Colonial Latin America: A Conversation with Stuart Schwartz
  Stuart B Schwartz (Yale University), Karoline J Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London), Max S Hering Torres (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - 1619: The Iberian and Global Origins of Anglo-American Slavery
  Stuart McManus (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Trans-imperial mobilities and Black Catholic Knowledge in the Early Eighteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean
  Bethan Fisk (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Verdant Worlds: Art and Sustainability across the Cosmos
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA and Oxford)

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Imagining Rome from Quito: The Global Vision of an Eighteenth-Century Jesuit in South America
  Emily Floyd (UCL)

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Leonhard Thurneysser von Thurn’s Natural History of Portugal: a Sixteenth Century Construction of Race
  Joseph da Costa (Oxford)

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Blanche of Castile: An Iberian Queen in France
  Lucy Pick (Oxford)

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - "The Things to Come": Making the Most of Irremediable Humanity (Lima, 1605) [Joint Seminar with the Latin American History Seminar]
  Kenneth Mills (University of Michigan)

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Anachronic Empire: The Fifteenth-Century Heraldic Columns of Diogo Cão and their Colonial Legacies
  Jessica Barker (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - No Time for Niceties: Engineers in the Spanish Empire [Joint Seminar in Spanish History with the Instituto Cervantes]
  
  Manuel Lucena Giraldo (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Tracing the Medieval Genealogies of Limpieza de Sangre
  Rosa Vidal Doval (Queen Mary, University of London)

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Imagining Freedom: Enslaved Black People in Sevilla and Their Personal Cartographies of the Atlantic World
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Morris Room, Exeter College
  Chloe Ireton (University College London)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Noble, Bureaucrat and Encomendero Indios: Rethinking Race and Difference in the Spanish Philippines
  Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer (University of Bristol)

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance - Joint session with the Early Modern Italian Seminar
  Please note this seminar will be held on Tuesday 22 November (Week 7) at St Edmund Hall
  Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Crossing Over: Early Modern Iberia and Public History
  Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Archive as Historical Subject: A Conversation with Nancy van Deusen
  Nancy E van Deusen (Queens University, Canada)

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Crossing Over: Early Modern Iberia and Public History
  Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Mandinga Experience: Illusion and Proof in the Inquisition Case of Patrício de Andrade, Lisbon 1690
  Alexandra Cook (University of Durham)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Reading Histories of the Indies in the Sixteenth Century and Today: The Problem of Perspective
  Please note this seminar is now at 15:00, not 16:30
  Joan Pau Rubiés (ICREA & Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Republics of Difference: Religious Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World
  Karen Graubart (University of Notre Dame)

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Italian Renaissance and Iberian Diaspora (1492-1630)
  Joint session with the Early Modern Italian Seminar
  Stefania Pastore (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - New Archival Evidence about the Latin American Background to the 1619 Slave Voyage to Virginia
  Joint session with the Latin American History Seminar - please note change of day, time, and venue
  Stuart M McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Current Graduate Research in Iberian History at Oxford
  Please note the change of day and venue: Tuesday 30 May at Exeter College
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - The White Ethiopian Girl: Genealogy of the Western Aversion to Miscegenation
  Jean-Frédéric Schaub (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - The "Private" Side of Empire: Letters from the Portuguese Estado da Índia
  Postponed to Week 5, Wednesday 8 November
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Business Interests, Global Networks, and the Trade in Enslaved Africans to Peru, 1580-1640: The Case of Manuel Bautista Pérez
  Linda Newson (School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The "Private" Side of Empire: Letters from the Portuguese Estado da Índia
  Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - 1614, the World on the Thames: A Tentative Exercise in Global History and the History of Early Modern Empires
  Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS-LARHRA, Lyon)

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Accountability: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Negotiation of Power in Early Colonial Peru
  Laura León Llerena (University of Durham)

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Transforming the Atlantic World from the Mediterranean: Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700 (Joint Session with the Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Alejandro García Montón (Universidad de Granada)

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Disasters That Made the World Shudder: How Extreme Events Redefined Communication and Politics in the Spanish Monarchy (Joint session with the Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Please note the different day and venue
  Domenico Cecere (Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’)

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Translation as Object and Method for Historical Inquiry: A Case Study on Sixteenth-Century Letters in Maya Yucatec Language
  Caroline Cunill (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Dying Forms: Martyrdom Narratives on the Margins of Iberian Empire
  Nicole T Hughes (Stanford)

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Slavery and Theology in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Conversation with Daniel Schwartz
  Daniel Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)