Latin American History Seminar: Entangled History: The Hispanic-Anglosphere (late 18th - early 20th centuries)
Thursday 9 November, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Convener: Eduardo Posada-Carbo
Speaker: Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, University of Winchester
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers is currently principal investigator of the AHRC-funded project ‘The Hispanic-Anglosphere: transnational networks, global communities (late 18th-20th centuries)’ in partnership with the National Trust (Tyntesfield). She is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and Global Hispanic History at the University of Winchester, Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford and a former Reuters Fellow with a long career in journalism, including as Chief European correspondent for the Argentine broadsheet La Nación. An Oxford graduate (St. Hilda’s) and postgraduate (LMH) as a mature student, her first academic book, British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon: volunteering under the Spanish Flag in the Peninsular War (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014) has been followed by other publications, including the recently published book co-edited with Prof. David Hook, Translations in Times of Disruption: an interdisciplinary study in transnational contexts (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).