The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Trinity Term 2025. 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 include a special series on ‘Early Modern Art & Material Culture’, coordinated by Dr Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Oxford) and generously sponsored by Christ Church. The new series will bring some of the leading specialists in the field to Oxford. Two additional joint sessions will complete our very rich programme. We will begin in Week 2 with a talk by Elsje van Kessel (St Andrews) who will present on Portuguese material culture across the oceans. In Week 3, Felipe Valencia (Utah State) will speak on Góngora’s Panegírico al duque de Lerma. We will then host a talk by Tom Nickson (Courtauld) on Islamic Spain and the English Romanesque architecture. The series will continue with internationally renowned art historian, Cécile Fromont (Harvard), who will explore the links between Angolan and Brazilian art in Week 6. The following week the doyen of early modern Spanish history, Richard L. Kagan (Johns Hopkins) will discuss his latest book on Henry Charles Lea. The series will conclude on Monday of Week 8 with a session in which Maria Berbara (Rio de Janeiro State) will speak on cartography and myths associated with early modern Brazil. The talk will be followed by a wine reception to mark the end of another successful academic year for the Iberian History at Oxford group.
