International Workshop: The Multilingual Iberian Archive, 1500-1700
Note this event is from 14:15-18:00 - registration closes at 12-noon on Friday 25 October
This exploratory workshop aims to capture and reflect upon an ongoing transformation in early modern global Iberian studies and its meanings. Once upon a time the history of the Iberian world was written through Spanish and Portuguese sources and records in non-European languages were substantially considered as a way to recover the ‘vision of the vanquished’. Things have profoundly changed in the past years and now a growing number of scholars systematically explore multilingualism as an integral part of the Iberian world and its archive, which is therefore understood in much richer and more complex terms.

This workshop is intended to mark the publication, by the University of Pennsylvania Press, of Jorge Flores’s Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World.

Attendance is free, but please register by emailing mailto:iberian@history.ox.ac.uk by noon of Friday 25 October.
For more info: iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/multilingual-iberian-archive-1500-1700

Programme:

14:15 Welcome
14:30 Introduction
Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford) Languages and Archives: New Trends in Early Modern Iberian and Global History
14:45 Panel 1: Letters and Interpreters
Chair: Tania Bride (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Joseph Jackson-Eade (University of Bologna) Locating the Línguas: A Malabar Correspondence’s Multilingual Background in the Late 1520s
Michael Bax (Magdalen College, Oxford) Nahuatl Interpreters of the Real Audiencia in Sixteenth Century Mexico
Euan Huey (Wolfson College, Oxford) A Sultan’s Letters from Early Seventeenth Century Manila
Discussant: Erica Feild-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford)
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Panel 2: From the Archive to the Book
Chair: John-Paul Ghobrial (Balliol College, Oxford)
Jorge Flores (CIUHCT-University of Lisbon) From Indo-Persian to Indo-Portuguese in the Seventeenth Century: Letters and News Flows
Final Discussion
18:00 Drinks

The workshop is organised as part of the programme of activities associated with the Iberian History Seminar. It is also generously supported by Exeter College, Oxford.
Date: 30 October 2024, 14:15 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Faculty of History
Organisers: Tania Bride (St Edmund Hall/Exeter College, Oxford), Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Christ Church, Oxford), Cecilia Tarruell (New College, Oxford), Glyn Redworth (Exeter College, Oxford), Erica Feild-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford)
Part of: Iberian History Seminar
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: iberian@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark