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Iberian Studies
Scholarly Communication March 4, 2023

Decolonizing American Spanish

Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Hosted by Avi Staiman
Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisical approach US institutions take towards Spanish language content …

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Early Modern History March 3, 2023

Armada

The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance In 1588

Geoffrey Parker and Colin Martin

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel--and then a fierce naval battle--foiled the planned invasion …
Native American Studies February 26, 2023

On Savage Shores

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Caroline Dodds Pennock

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Knopf, 2023) by Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock presents a landmark work of narrative history that shatters our Eurocentric understanding of the Age …
Iberian Studies February 12, 2023

The Fabric of Fear

Building Franco's New Society in Spain, 1936-1950

Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo's book The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco's New Society in Spain, 1936-1950  (Liverpool UP, 2023) deals comprehensively with the process of Francoist state- and nation-building in …
Latin American Studies January 31, 2023

The Enlightened Patrolman

Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City

Nicole von Germeten

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban …
Jewish Studies January 30, 2023

Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews

Mark A. Schneegurt

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
A century after being expelled from Portugal, cryptoJews in Mexico, false converts to Christianity, could not speak of their beliefs for fear of becoming embroiled in the imprisonment, torture, and …
Medieval History January 21, 2023

Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517

Wolfgang P. Müller

Hosted by Jana Byars
Wolfgang Muller, Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval …
Almost Good Catholics January 15, 2023

Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila

Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Carlos Eire

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Carlos Eire, author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Biography (Princeton UP, 2019) and professor of medieval and early modern European history and religion at Yale University, discusses …
Mexican Studies January 14, 2023

Sovereign Joy

Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640

Miguel Valerio

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Sovereign Joy Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores the performance of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640. It illustrates how the …
Jewish Studies December 27, 2022

Jews, Food, and Spain

The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage

Hélène Jawhara Piñer

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage (Academic Studies Press, 2022), Hélène Jawhara Piñer presents readers with the dishes, ingredients, techniques, and …
Early Modern History December 21, 2022

Scripts of Blackness

Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

Noémie Ndiaye

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez Flores
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped …
General History December 16, 2022

Bountiful Deserts

Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain

Cynthia Radding

Hosted by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the …
Women's History December 16, 2022

Women's Work

How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain

Rebecca Ingram

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Sandie Holguín (Professor of History and Coeditor of the Journal of Women’s History, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Rebecca Ingram (Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Cultures …
Writ Large December 16, 2022

On Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

A Discussion with Timothy Hampton

Timothy Hampton

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Don Quixote was written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. He wrote it in two parts. Part one was published in 1605, and part two ten years later, in 1615 …
Iberian Studies December 7, 2022

War, Judgment, And Memory In The Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945

Sandra Ott

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
During the first half of the twentieth century, the French Basque province of Xiberoa was a place of refuge, conflict, and foreign occupation. With the liberation of France in 1944 …
Iberian Studies December 5, 2022

Jamón and Halal

Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía

Christina Civantos

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernández
In this episode, I interview Dr. Christina Civantos (University of Miami, FL, USA) about her open access book Jamón and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía (Amherst College Press, 2022) …
Iberian Studies December 3, 2022

Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain

Jennifer Smith

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain (Vanderbilt UP, 2021) argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was …
African Studies November 28, 2022

Many Black Women of this Fortress

Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire

Kwasi Konadu

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire (Hurst, 2022) presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women …
Iberian Studies November 28, 2022

Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalonia

Xabier Irujo and Queralt Solé

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Today I talked to Xabier Irujo about his book (co-authored with Queralt Solé) Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalonia (Center for Basque Studies, 2019). Hitler and Mussolini's decision to help General …
American West November 22, 2022

Country of the Cursed and the Driven

Slavery and the Texas Borderlands

Paul Barba

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Most of what people think they know about Texas history is wrong, argues Bucknell University history professor Paul Barba in Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery in the Texas …