The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Hilary Term 2022. The programme reflects the seminar's aim to range widely across the premodern history of the Iberian peninsula and beyond, with world-leading scholars presenting and discussing cutting-edge research.
This term the seminar will go visual and will devote special attention to art history, cartography, and environment. We will also have a final meeting devoted to medieval history. We will begin with Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA) who will speak on the research project she is carrying out while being the Terra Visiting Professor of American Art, 2021-22 at the University of Oxford. In Week 4, Emily Floyd (UCL) will give a talk focusing on her work about religious print culture in colonial South America. In the following meeting, which will take place in Week 6, Joseph da Costa (University of Oxford), who has recently joined the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, will reflect on the implications of cartography for a better understanding of the intersection of race and the Portuguese empire. The series will conclude in Week 8 with Lucy Pick (University of Chicago) speaking on race, relations between religious groups, and gender/power through the case of Blanche of Castile.
The seminar will start with an online meeting and will hopefully continue in a hybrid format. It will always be possible to participate in the meetings via Zoom. Please register in advance: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckc-2pqj8sHdyxaFmrHUJyjR80vbJwGbJ6. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meetings.
