The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Trinity 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 superb set of scholars of the early modern Iberian world will come in succession this term. We will begin in Week 2 with the leading Latin American historian Karen Graubart (University of Notre Dame) who will discuss her recent book Republics of Difference in conversation with our very own Stephanie Cavanaugh and Imogen Choi. In Week 4 there will be two sessions of the seminar. The first one will feature Stefania Pastore (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) discussing the contribution of Iberian minorities to the Italian Renaissance, while in the second one will Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) will present new archival evidence specifically dealing with colonial Latin America that he will use in his new book, a global history of the 1619 slave ship voyage to Virginia. The first meeting will be a joint session with the Early Modern Italian Seminar and the second one with the Latin American History Seminar. The following meeting in Week 6 will give the opportunity to learn more about the innovative research currently carried out by four Oxford DPhil students, namely, Maayan Aner, Clare Burgess, Daniel O’Driscoll and Euan Huey. The series will conclude in Week 8 with the internationally renowned historian Jean-Frédéric Schaub (EHESS, Paris) who will offer a paper based on his groundbreaking work on race in the early modern world.
