2019–20 Seminar
Conveners: Albert Garcia-Balañà, Eloy Romero-Blanco y Teresa Segura-Garcia
When Montezuma met Cortés: Re-writing imperial encounters in the early-modern world
Matthew Restall (Penn State University)
Wednesday 16 October 2019
Collecting the world: Scholars, exhibitions, and global instruments in South Kensington, London, 1869–1910
Harry Liebersohn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Wednesday 6 November 2019
La Sociedad de Naciones y la reinvención del imperialismo liberal
José Antonio Sánchez Román (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Wednesday 11 December 2019
Between Brazil and West Africa: Freed Africans in the Atlantic mercantile community, 1835–1845
Lluís Nicolau Parés (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Wednesday 15 January 2020
De ciudadanos a criminales y miserables: El impacto del orden liberal entre la élite nativa de los Llanos de Mojos (Amazonia boliviana)
Anna Guiteras Mombiola (Universitat Pompeu Fabra-GRIMSE)
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Dead men telling tales: Napoleonic veterans’ war memoirs, 1814–1914
Matilda Greig (University College Dublin)
Wednesday 15 April 2020 (Session cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis)
Oceans as contested space: The new oceanic historiography
Rainer F. Buschmann (California State University Channel Islands)
Wednesday 20 May 2020 (Session cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis)
Broadcasting and empire: The BBC and India
Chandrika Kaul (University of St Andrews)
Wednesday 10 June 2020 (Session cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis)