Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, Early Modern Science, Iberian World and the Atlantic, (University of Texas, Austin) will speak Saturday March 10 at 7 p.m. in Peeler Auditorium. His talk is titled The Global Scientific Revolution: Potosi and the Philippines circa 1600. This event is free and open to the public.
History Hub podcast featuring Cañizares-Esguerra: In episode seven of History Hub’s podcast series (‘Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898‘) Professor Cañizares-Esguerra is in conversation with series host Dr Edward Collins. In the episode they discuss Old Testament culture of the Spanish Monarchy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the impact of a distinct Converso – or Jewish convert – culture that suffused all aspects of the Spanish Empire.
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