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SUMMARY:Workshop: Reorienting Early Modern History: Current Research in Co
 nversation with Mercedes García-Arenal
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DESCRIPTION:Professor García-Arenal is arguably the most important living
  historian of early modern Spain. She is Research Professor Emerita at the
  Institute of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the
  CSIC in Madrid. In 2019\, Professor García-Arenal was awarded the Premio
  Nacional de Investigación 'Ramón Menéndez Pidal'\, Spain's most import
 ant scientific prize\, and she is member of the Scientific Council of the 
 ERC. Professor García-Arenal's books\, such as A Man of Three Worlds: Sam
 uel Pallache\, a Moroccan Jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe (2006
 ) and The Orient in Spain: Converted Muslims\, the Forged Lead Books of Gr
 anada and the Rise of Orientalism (2013)\, are now considered classics. \n
 This workshop is intended as an informal celebration of Professor Mercedes
  García-Arenal's scholarship and her special connection with the Iberian 
 History at Oxford research group\, on the occasion of her invitation to de
 liver the 2026 Lyell Lectures. The event will emphasise the importance of 
 Professor García-Arenal’s contributions to our understanding of the ear
 ly modern period. In particular\, we will acknowledge her work on the Mori
 scos and Islam and their centrality to European religious and intellectual
  history. Professor García-Arenal’s research has also transformed the w
 ay in which historians approach the history of minorities and the concept 
 of race\, shifting the focus of major historiographical debates towards So
 uthern Europe\, North Africa\, and the Mediterranean world more broadly.\n
 \nProgramme\n \n14:00 | Welcome and Introduction\nGiuseppe Marcocci (Exete
 r College\, Oxford)\, The Legacy of Islamic Spain to the Early Modern Worl
 d\n \n14:15 | New Research Directions – Chair: Teresa Witcombe (Koch Cen
 tre\, Oxford)\nMaayan Aner (St Peter’s College\, Oxford)\, The Inheritan
 ce of Queerness: Converso Families Coping with Sodomy Trials\nAna Struillo
 u (King’s College London)\, Thinking from the Strait: Iberian-Maghribi D
 ialogues at the Edge of Empires\nEuan Huey (Wolfson College\, Oxford)\, Kn
 owledge and Conflict in Southeast Asia: A Malay Repository in the Hands of
  a Spanish Governor\n \n15:45 | Coffee break\n \n16:15 | Roundtable (Chair
 : Giuseppe Marcocci\, Exeter College\, Oxford)\nKaroline Cook (Royal Hollo
 way\, University of London)\nJohn-Paul Ghobrial (Balliol College\, Oxford)
 \nRosa Vidal Doval (Magdalen College\, Oxford)\n \n17:00 | Closing Remarks
 : Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC\, Madrid)\n \n17:30 | Drinks
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LOCATION:Exeter College - Rector's Drawing Room\, Rector's Drawing Room Ex
 eter College Turl Street Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3DP United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Professor Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC\, Madrid)
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