International Workshop: The Multilingual Iberian Archive, 1500-1700

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 14:15-18:00
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
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© Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon under Creative Commons licence

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
iberian@history.ox.ac.uk, by noon on Friday 25 October.

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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.