Iberian Studies

Iberian Studies

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Interviews with scholars of Iberia about their new books

Helena F. S. Lopes, "Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

October 11, 2024

Neutrality and Collaboration in South China

Helena F. S. Lopes
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empir…

Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

October 7, 2024

The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838

Juan José Rivas Moreno

Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known…

Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)

September 26, 2024

A New Antiquity

Alessandra Russo
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A N…

Naomi Leite, "Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging" (U California Press, 2017)

September 6, 2024

Unorthodox Kin

Naomi Leite
Hosted by Adam Bobeck

Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" ident…

Duncan Simpson, "I am pleased to inform the director: letters from Portuguese people to PIDE (1958-1968)" (Silveira, BookBuilders, 2022)

September 5, 2024

I am pleased to inform the director

Duncan Simpson
Hosted by Joe Williams

Today I talked to Duncan Simpson about his book Tenho o prazer de informar o senhor director: cartas de portugueses à PIDE (1958-1968) ("I am please…

Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)

September 3, 2024

Rubens in Repeat

Aaron M. Hyman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish…

Christopher Beckman, "Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine" (Hurst, 2024)

August 23, 2024

Twist in the Tail

Christopher Beckman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine (Hurst, 2024) by Christopher Beckman takes readers on a tantalising voyage throu…

Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)

August 18, 2024

Slave Trade and Abolition

Vanessa S. Oliveira
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transat…

Javier Fernández-Galeano, "Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain" (Stanford UP, 2024)

August 16, 2024

Queer Obscenity

Javier Fernández-Galeano

Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain (Stanford University Press, 2024) takes us inside the archive to demonstrate how the incongruiti…

Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024)

August 8, 2024

Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves

Lio Mangubat
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A musical based extremely loosely on the life of the s…

Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)

August 1, 2024

Spice

Roger Crowley
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. T…

David A. Messenger, "Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain" (LSU Press, 2014)

July 30, 2024

Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain

David A. Messenger
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated G…

Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

July 28, 2024

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World

Kristie Flannery
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in th…

Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)

July 17, 2024

The Politics of Emotion

Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Nuria Silleras-Fernandez…

Helen Freear-Papio and Candyce Crew Leonard, "The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain" (Vernon Press, 2022)

July 16, 2024

The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain

Helen Freear-Papio and Candyce Crew Leonard
Hosted by Dessy Vassileva

The interview featured an in-depth dialogue about The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain (Vernon Press, 2022), a bilingual collection that examines…

Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

July 15, 2024

A Fistful of Shells

Toby Green
Hosted by Mark Klobas

All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Ris…

Elizabeth Aislinn O'Brien, "Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940" (UNC Press, 2023)

July 5, 2024

Surgery and Salvation

Elizabeth Aislinn O'Brien

In Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Elizabeth O’Brien foregro…

Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

June 28, 2024

Forms of Relation

Matthew Goldmark
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation: …

Paula S. De Vos, "Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)

June 23, 2024

Compound Remedies

Paula S. De Vos
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) by Dr. Paula S. De Vos examines…

Ramón Espejo, "The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues" (Legenda, 2024)

June 2, 2024

The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000

Ramón Espejo

Ramón Espejo's book The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues (Legenda, 2024) delves into the …