Iberian History Seminar: Term Card Released for Michaelmas Term 2022!

oxford iberian history seminar mt2022

The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Michaelmas 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 and talented early career researchers presenting and discussing cutting-edge research.

 

The seminar will meet every fortnight. A great set of Iberian global historians will come in succession this term. The first three talks will deal with issues of slavery and race in different regions of the early modern Iberian world. We will begin in Week 2 with the Inaugural Talk of the Academic Year 2022-23, which will see Chloe Ireton (University College London) exploring the intellectual relationship of enslaved Black people in Seville with the Atlantic world. In Week 4, Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer (University of Bristol) will give a talk focusing on the status of indigenous people in the Spanish Philippines. The following meeting will be co-organised with the Early Modern Italian World Seminar and will take place in Week 7. The guest speaker, Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College) will speak about her new book The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding and Race in the Renaissance. The series will conclude in Week 8 with the literary scholar and acclaimed author Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge), who will reflect on how to turn Iberian history in a subject for the general readership.