The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Trinity Term 2026. The programme reflects the seminar's aim to range widely across the premodern history of the Iberian peninsula and beyond, with senior scholars and talented early career researchers presenting and discussing cutting-edge research.
The seminar will meet fortnightly from Week 2. The first talk of the term will be given by Edward Wilson-Lee (Cambridge) and Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford). It will offer the first public discussion of their collaborative project on an extraordinary Inquisition trial that allows to rethink the place of storytelling in religious encounters. That same week, we will also be hosting a workshop in honour of Mercedes García-Arenal. In Week 4, we will turn to early modern Mexico with Natasha Bailey (Oxford) who will speak on the political and social role of Nahua alcohol production and consumption. The following day, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (Austin-Texas) and Adrian Masters (Trier) will discuss their new book on the Spanish empire alongside with Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford) in a joint session with the Latin American History Seminar. In Week 6, Isabelle Kent (Oxford) will engage with Francisco Zurbarán’s paintings of Hercules created for the Salón de los Reinos in the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid. The series will conclude with a paper by Caterina Pizzigoni (Columbia) on popular devotions to saints in colonial Mexico, which will open the international conference Indigenous History Now: A Symposium on Indigenous Colonial Latin American History. The conference is organised by Michael Bax (Magdalen College, Oxford), Tania Bride (Balliol College, Oxford) and Joana Neves Teixeira (Lincoln College, Oxford) and will be held at the Latin American Centre at the end of Week 8.
