The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Michaelmas 2021. The programme reflects the seminar's aim to range widely across the premodern history of the Iberian peninsula and beyond, with world-leading scholars presenting and discussing cutting-edge research.
This term the seminar will especially cover American and global aspects of the Iberian past, through the perspectives of race, slavery, and Black Catholicism. We begin with a debate over the recent book by Stuart B. Schwartz (Yale University), Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America (2020), which will be discussed by Karoline P. Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Max S. Hering Torres (Universidad Nacional de Colombia). In week 4, Stuart M. McManus (Chinese University of Hong Kong), who is visiting fellow at Exeter College this term, will give a talk on the Iberian background to the origins of Anglo-American slavery. The series will conclude in week 8 with Bethan Fisk (University of Bristol) who will focus on mobility and knowledge in the eighteenth-century Spanish Caribbean
The seminar will still be held with Zoom. Please register in advance: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckc-2pqj8sHdyxaFmrHUJyjR80vbJwGbJ6. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meetings.
