The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Michaelmas 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 meet fortnightly from Week 2. The inaugural talk of the 2025-26 academic year will be given by Tamar Herzog (Harvard) who will discuss the relationship between the notions of right and obligation in the early modern Spanish empire. In Week 4, Adolfo Polo y la Borda (Nottingham) will discuss some aspects of his recent work on the mobility of the agents of the Spanish empire around the early modern world. Francisco Bethencourt (KCL) will then present the main lines of investigation of his new ERC project on New Christian materiality. The series will conclude with Charlene Villaseñor Black, who has just joined Oxford as the new Professor in the Art of the Americas, discussing art and sustainability in the early modern Iberian world.
