The convenors of the Iberian History Seminar are pleased to announce the term card for Hilary 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 every fortnight from Week 2. There is a fantastic lineup for this term with speakers from the United Kingdom, Spain and Germany, whose work focuses on colonial Latin America, the Mediterranean, Spain, and the Philippines. We will begin in Week 2 with a talk by Andrés Bustamante (Oxford) who will present on looters of antiquities in Mexico City after the Independence. In Week 4, Ana Struillou (IHR, London) will discuss the material culture of travel across the early modern Mediterranean. We will then host a talk by distinguished scholar, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (CSIC, Madrid), on early modern Spanish Orientalism. The series will conclude with a session in which Adrian Masters (Trier) will speak of religious toleration in the early modern Philippine Islands.
