Early Modern Iberian Empires: New Approaches
A Workshop in Honor of John H. Elliott
Friday, November 6, 2026
Rubenstein Commons, Room 5

Workshop schedule:

10:00 a.m. 
Opening Remarks
Richard L. Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)  
Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study)

10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés (Lehigh University), In Defense of Biography
Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (Princeton University), Sacrilege and Legitimacy in Imperial Spain

Lunch Break
Remarks on Sir John H. Elliott
Orest Ranum (Johns Hopkins University) and Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study)

1:45 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Seth Kimmel (Columbia University), Miracles Sacred and Secular Across the Strait of Gibraltar
Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh), Reconsidering the Early Modern Mesta from the Perspective of Environmental History

Coffee break

4:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Oxford), The Lisbon Massacre of 1506: Anti-Jewish Violence in the Making of Empire

The event is co-sponsored by the J. H. Elliott History Forum and the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Register below to attend.