Joint Seminar: The Radical Spanish Empire

This is a joint event held by the Latin American History Seminar and the Iberian History Seminar 

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas-Austin, USA; Adrian Masters, Trier University, Germany; and Giuseppe Marcocci, Oxford

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/L7b6Ve2XQ3WUIoXX-haerg

(BNF, Mexicain 75, 37v, Une émeute parmi les Indigènes d'Ixtacmaxtitlan)

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra teaches at the University of Texas-Austin and is the author of How to Write the History of the New World, Puritan Conquistadors, and Nature, Empire and Nation.

Adrian Masters is a historian of the early modern Spanish Empire at Trier University, Germany, where he currently leads Project GloVib, on the entangled histories of race-making in the New World and the German Enlightenment. He is the author of We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World and The Radical Spanish Empire, (with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra), and has nearly finished a third book on religious toleration in Spanish Manila. He is the author of numerous articles, including for Renaissance Quarterly, Hispanic American Historical Review, and  Past and Present, among others. His scholarship explores mainly how the petitions of ordinary subjects contributed to the construction of the Spanish Empire “from the bottom up,” as well as the global ramifications of their efforts.