This roundtable will be of interest to scholars working on the histories of imperial formations, subaltern lives, and intellectual histories from the margins of empires in the early modern period (broadly conceived). We will be joined by five authors of recent books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic to discuss how the themes of Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood have shaped their historical research, and the methods and approaches threaded throughout their studies. The roundtable will be followed by Q&A with the audience and a reception with further opportunities for informal discussion with the panellists.
- Roundtable: 5.30-7.30pm GMT (at UCL and online)
- Wine reception: 7.30-8.30pm GMT (at UCL, tba)
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Confirmed Speakers
Bethan Fisk, (University of Bristol)Black Catholic Worlds: Religious Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Colombia (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Chloe L. Ireton (University College London)Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Adolfo Polo y la Borda (University of Nottingham)Global Servants of the Spanish King; Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Julia McClure (University of Glasgow)Empire of Poverty; The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez (University of Texas at Austin) The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2025)
Respondent
Jorge Díaz Ceballos (CSIC, Instituto Historia)Poder compartido; Repúblicas urbanas, monarquía y conversación en Castilla del Oro, 1508-1573 (Marcial Pons, 2020)
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This event is sponsored by the Office for Cultural & Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain, and Centre for Early Modern Exchanges at UCL Institute for Advanced Studies.
