Past Talks

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Caterina Pizzigoni - 'Santitos': Saints and People in the Indigenous Household in Colonial Mexico and Beyond

18 June
Iberian History Seminar
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Isabelle Kent - Labours of Empire: Hercules and the Making of the Hall of Realms

03 June
Iberian History Seminar
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The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World: A Conversation

21 May
Iberian History Seminar
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Natasha Bailey - 'The Resistance of This Province': Protest, Negotiation and Octli/Pulque in Seventeenth-Century Mexico

20 May
Iberian History Seminar
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Edward Wilson-Lee and Giuseppe Marcocci - Laughter in the Archive: Half-Serious Storytelling and Religious Encounters in Portuguese India

06 May
Iberian History Seminar
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Charlotte de Castelnau-L'Estoile - The Land of Cannibals: War and Prophecy in Northern Brazil in the 16th Century

11 March
Iberian History Seminar
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Rodrigo García-Velasco - Old Customs and the Contest for Jurisdiction over Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Iberia

25 February
Iberian History Seminar
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Davide Domenici - Dominican Gifts of Mesoamerican Things in Early Modern Italy: Circulation and Reception

11 February
Iberian History Seminar
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Michael Bax and Tania Bride - Tomexicanantzin in Nican Tepeyacac: Initial Reflections on a Forgotten Nahuatl Manuscript from the Bodleian Library

28 January
Iberian History Seminar
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Charlene Villaseñor Black - Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World

03 December 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Francisco Bethencourt - New Christian Materiality: Reflections on a Project

19 November 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Adolfo Polo y La Borda - Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire

05 November 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Tamar Herzog - Rights and Obligations in the Early Modern Hispanic World

22 October 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Maria Berbara - Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps

16 June 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Richard L. Kagan - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States

12 June 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Cécile Fromont - There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century

04 June 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Tom Nickson - Islamic Spain and the English Romanesque Architecture: The Fortunes of a Theory and the Construction of 'the West'

21 May 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Felipe Valencia - 'Eager the Orient Spoils Itself': Sublimity and the Indies in Luis de Góngora's Panegírico al duque de Lerma (1617)

14 May 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Elsje van Kessel - Objects and Empire on the Portuguese India Run: Surviving Shipwreck

07 May 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Adrian Masters - Who Built the 'Spanish' Empire? Legislation, Toleration, and the Co-Creation of a Global Superpower

12 March 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Fernando Rodríguez Mediano - Father Tomás de León: A Spanish Orientalist in Seventeenth Century Granada

26 February 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Ana Struillou - A Sea of Lists: Materialising Travel Across the Mediterranean

12 February 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Andrés Bustamante - Looters in the Capital: Antiquities and Colonial Law after Mexican Independence

29 January 2025
Iberian History Seminar
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Chloe Ireton - Reimagining the Black Iberian Atlantic

04 December 2024
Iberian History Seminar