MAIUS WORKSHOP MEETING: COLLECTIONS, 28 JUNE 2022, 5PM (BST)

Join us on Zoom at 5:00 pm (UK) on 28 June for the Maius Workshop’s new event. To attend, please register here: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8Oq_nipwQGeLrsXVTip-Bg As in previous meetings, this workshop will feature short informal presentations followed by discussion. Our line-up includes: Stephanie Bernard, ‘Juan Sánchez Cotán’s ‘Adoration of the Magi’ and the Taste for Ancient Models’.Continue reading “MAIUS WORKSHOP MEETING: COLLECTIONS, 28 JUNE 2022, 5PM (BST)”

Maius Workshop Meeting: Identity (Part 2), 24 May 2022, Online, 5pm (BST)

Join us on Zoom at 5:00 pm (UK) on 24 May for the Maius Workshop’s new event. To attend, please register here: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4NafoeRSTPyyQMwVII-TKw As in previous meetings, this workshop will feature short informal presentations followed by discussion. Questions will be accepted in English and Spanish. Our line-up includes: Isabel Escalera, ‘Creating a Feminine Identity ThroughContinue reading “Maius Workshop Meeting: Identity (Part 2), 24 May 2022, Online, 5pm (BST)”

Call for Proposals – Maius Workshop Meeting: ‘Time’, new date TBA

The next meeting of The Maius Workshop will take place on Zoom. For this meeting, The Maius Workshop team are inviting proposals for 10-minute presentations relating to the theme of ‘time’. Topics could include significant historical dates, literary or visual reflections upon time, experiences of temporality, delays in people/objects travelling between Europe and the Americas, notionsContinue reading “Call for Proposals – Maius Workshop Meeting: ‘Time’, new date TBA”

Maius Workshop – Palaeography Online: Iberian Documents in Virtual Times, 4 May, 5pm (London)

In this session, we will discuss innovative ways of confronting medieval Iberian documents. We will hear from the PI of a born-digital, collaborative project which exemplifies the potential of the internet in reshaping the study of pre-modern sources. We will also learn from the ongoing research of an ECR who has adapted to the challengesContinue reading “Maius Workshop – Palaeography Online: Iberian Documents in Virtual Times, 4 May, 5pm (London)”

The Maius Workshop: Work in Progress Talk, 23rd March 2021, 5pm

This work-in-progress talk will present some new findings on the iconography and provenance of a series of cuttings from a richly illuminated choir book. I argue that the parent manuscript, a Gradual, was probably created in the late fifteenth century for the Observant Hieronymites of San Isidoro del Campo in Santiponce, near Seville. As usedContinue reading “The Maius Workshop: Work in Progress Talk, 23rd March 2021, 5pm”

MAIUS WORKSHOP: Programme: Histories, 19 January 2021, 5pm on Zoom

This session will feature two presentations, focused on the functions and constructions of history in the wake of the conquest of Granada. Please click here for more information. To register: https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register

The Maius Workshop Returns! 24th November 2020, 5pm, on Zoom

The Maius Workshop is back virtually for the 2020–21 academic year! Please join us for an informal welcome meeting, which will take place on Tuesday 24th November 2020, at 5:00 p.m. on Zoom. This event is open to anyone interested in Hispanic cultures, widely considered: literature and language, history, geography, art and visual culture, medicalContinue reading “The Maius Workshop Returns! 24th November 2020, 5pm, on Zoom”

The Maius Masterclass with Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, Online, 24 July 2020, 1.30pm *note change of time*

For their next online event, on Friday 24 July at 1.30pm, the Maius Masterclass will welcome Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock (University of Sheffield). Caroline is the only Aztec historian in the UK, and her research focuses on indigenous and Spanish American history and the Atlantic world, with a particular interest in issues of gender, violence,Continue reading “The Maius Masterclass with Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, Online, 24 July 2020, 1.30pm *note change of time*”

ONLINE TALK: The Maius Masterclass with Dr Lisa Blackmore, 17 July 2020, 4pm

The next Maius Masterclass is on Friday 17 July 2020, when they will welcome Dr Lisa Blackmore (University of Essex), an expert in the aesthetics and politics of modernity in Latin American and Caribbean art, architecture, and visual culture. Please click here to register for the Zoom Webinar. The series is kindly supported by anContinue reading “ONLINE TALK: The Maius Masterclass with Dr Lisa Blackmore, 17 July 2020, 4pm”

ONLINE TALK: The Maius Masterclass with Prof. Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras, 10 July 2020, 4pm on Zoom

The second Maius Masterclass will take place on 10 July 2020, 4–5pm on Zoom. We will welcome Professor Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), who will explore the theme of visual genres as one of the recurring threads of her academic career. Please click here to join (you will be asked to registerContinue reading “ONLINE TALK: The Maius Masterclass with Prof. Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras, 10 July 2020, 4pm on Zoom”