• 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

Thursday 24 October 2019

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

Friday 8 November 2019

• 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

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

Thursday 5 December 2019

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

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 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

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

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 27 January 2021

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

Wednesday 10 February 2021

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

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 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

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

Wednesday 19 May 2021

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

Wednesday 2 June 2021

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

Wednesday 16 June 2021

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

Thursday 17 June 2021

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 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

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

Wednesday 9 February 2022

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

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 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

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

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 25 January 2023

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

Wednesday 8 February 2023

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

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Wednesday 6 March 2024

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

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 16:30 - "The escaped slaves stated that they could not return": Maroons, Jesuits, and the Risk of Free Will
  Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 14:15 - International Workshop: The Multilingual Iberian Archive, 1500-1700
  Note this event is from 14:15-18:00 - registration closes at 12-noon on Friday 25 October
  Various Speakers

Monday 4 November 2024

• 14:00 - Book launch of Thomas Earle’s critical edition of Rui de Pina’s Crónica de D. Afonso V (Coimbra University Press, 2024)
  Please note this will be on MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER at 14:00-15:30
  Thomas Earle (St Peter's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 17:15 - Aztec Latin: Simon Ditchfield in Conversation with Andrew Laird
  Please note this will be at 17:15-18:45
  Simon Ditchfield (University of York), Andrew Laird (Brown University)

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 16:30 - The Invention of the Sangley in the Early Modern Spanish Philippines
  Christina H Lee (Princeton University)

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 16:30 - Reimagining the Black Iberian Atlantic: A Roundtable Discussion of Chloe Ireton’s Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (CUP, 2024)
  Chloe Ireton (UCL), Erica Field-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford), Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 16:30 - Looters in the Capital: Antiquities and Colonial Law after Mexican Independence
  Andrés Bustamante (Merton College, Oxford)

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 16:30 - A Sea of Lists: Materialising Travel Across the Mediterranean
  Ana Struillou (IHR, London)

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 16:30 - Father Tomás de León: A Spanish Orientalist in Seventeenth Century Granada
  Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (CHSS-CSIC, Madrid)

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 16:30 - Who Built the ‘Spanish’ Empire? Legislation, Toleration, and the Co-Creation of a Global Superpower
  Adrian Masters (University of Trier)