The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Michaelmas Term 2024. 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 from Week 2. There is a fantastic lineup for this term with speakers from both the United Kingdom and the United States, whose work focuses on colonial Latin America, the Spanish Pacific, and the Iberian Atlantic. We will begin in Week 2 with a talk by Danielle Terrazas Williams (Leeds) who will discuss aspects of legal history related to enslaved people of African descent and Jesuit missionaries in colonial Mexico. In Week 4, Simon Ditchfield (York) and Andrew Laird (Brown) will engage in conversation on the latter’s new book Aztec Latin. The series will continue with a presentation of fresh research on the invention of the Sangley in the Spanish Philippines by Christina H. Lee (Princeton). We will then conclude with a roundtable on the latest book by Chloe Ireton (UCL), Slavery and Freedom in Black Though in Early Spanish Atlantic, in which the author will discuss with Oxford colleagues Erica Feild-Marchello, Giuseppe Marcocci, and Meleisa Ono-George.
In addition to our seminar series, there will be the International Workshop ‘The Multilingual Iberian Archive, 1500-1700’ (30 October 2024) to mark the publication, by the University of Pennsylvania Press, of Jorge Flores’s new book Empire of Contingency, and a book launch of Thomas Earle’s critical edition of Rui de Pina’s Crónica de D. Afonso V (4 November 2024).
