The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Trinity 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.
This term will mark the return of the seminar to the Rector’s Drawing Room at Exeter College, Turl Street. A stellar line-up of Iberian historians and art historians will come in succession and talks will cover a remarkably rich set of topics, from mission to the material legacy of colonialism, engineering, and socio-religious discrimination. We will begin in Week 2 with a Joint Session with the Latin American History Seminar, which will see Kenneth Mills (University of Michigan) speaking on indigenous people and conversion in seventeenth-century Peru. In Week 4, art historian Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) will give a talk focusing on her current project on the heraldic columns (padrões) erected by the Portuguese along the African coast during the fifteenth century and their reuse and display in modern times. In the following meeting, which will take place in Week 6, Manuel Lucena Giraldo (CSIC, Madrid) will give the inaugural talk of the Joint Seminar in Spanish History with the Instituto Cervantes in London. The series will conclude in Week 8 with Rosa Vidal Doval (QMUL) speaking on the medieval genealogies of limpieza de sangre.
