The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Michaelams Term 2023. 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. A fantastic set of scholars of the early modern Iberian world will come in succession this term. We will begin in Week 2 with the Inaugural Talk of this academic year, which will be given by one of the greatest historians of our time, Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) who will present the results of his new research on private correspondence in Portuguese Asia (NOW POSTPONED TO WEEK 5). We will then continue in Week 4 with Linda Newson (King’s College London), who will discuss her continuing exploration of the account books of Manuel Bautista Pérez to discuss the other business interests of the Portuguese involved in the trade in enslaved Africans to Peru, namely, textiles, wax, and pearls. The Anglo-Iberian scientific exchange in the early seventeenth century will be the subject of the talk by Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS-LARHRA, Lyon) in Week 6. The series will conclude in Week 8 with Laura León Llerena (Durham University) who will offer a paper on multimedia coexistence in early modern Peru.
