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<h4 style="text-align:center;">Mértola | 9-11 April 2015</h4>
<p style="text-align:center;">Organisers:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Dr Elizabeth Evenden | Brunel University &amp; Harvard University<br />
Valentina Caldari | University of Kent &amp; Universidade do Porto</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Conference Venues: Theatre [T]; Conference Room 1 [CR1]; Conference Room 2 [CR2]</span></p>
<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Thursday 9 April</span></strong></h3>
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<td style="text-align:left;" width="180"><strong>1:00-2:00 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Registration [T]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>2:00-2:30 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Ceremony following Mértola School Competition (sponsored by Porto Editora and LEGO® Education) [T]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>2:45-4:15 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Parallel Sessions A [CR1] &amp; B [CR2]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>4:15-4:45 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits)</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>4:45-6:15 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Parallel Sessions C [CR1] &amp; D [CR2]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>6:30-7:00 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Information session on new network ‘Anglo-Iberian Relations, from the Medieval to the Modern’ (Dr Elizabeth Evenden) [T]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>7:00-8:00 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Plenary Lecture: Prof. Werner Thomas (University of Leuven), ‘The Inquisition and the establishment of diplomatic relations between England and Spain, 1550-1650’ (Chaired by Valentina Caldari) [T]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>8:30 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Buffet dinner at Casa Amarela</td>
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<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Friday 10 April</span></strong></h3>
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<td style="text-align:left;" width="180"><strong>9:00-9:30 am</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Registration [CR2]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>9:30-11:00 am</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Roundtable E [CR1]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>11:00-11:30 am</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits)</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>11:30 am-1:00 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Parallel sessions G [CR1] &amp; H [CR2]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>1:00-2:30 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Lunch Break</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>2:30-4:15 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Parallel Sessions I [CR1] &amp; J [CR2]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>4:15-4:45 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits)</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>6:00-7:00 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Plenary Lecture: Prof. José Miguel Martínez Torrejón (Queens College, CUNY), ‘Open for business. Early translations of Las Casas&#8217;s <em>Brevisima </em>into English’ (Chaired by Prof. Darlene Abreu Ferreira) [T]</td>
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<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Saturday 11 April</span></strong></h3>
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<td style="text-align:left;" width="180"><strong>9:30-11:00 am</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Parallel sessions K [CR1] &amp; L [CR2]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>11:00-11:30 am</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits)</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>11:30 am-1:00 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Parallel Sessions M [CR1] &amp; N [CR2]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>1:00-2:30 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Lunch Break</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>2:30-4:15 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Parallel Sessions O [CR1] &amp; P [CR2]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>4:15-4:30 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Coffee Break (including water and juice, local breads, jams, pastries and biscuits)</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>4:30-5:30 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Plenary session: Drs Joaquim Jorge and Florbela Estevão, ‘The Historical Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras &#8211; increasing the value of an historic and architectural heritage associated with the French Invasions’ (Chaired by Dr David Kenyon) [T]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>5:30-5:45 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Concluding Remarks [T]</td>
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<td style="text-align:left;"><strong>8:00 pm</strong></td>
<td style="text-align:left;">Conference picnic at the Castle</td>
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<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Thursday 9 April</span></strong></h3>
<h4><strong>PANEL A <em>Anglo-Portuguese Relations before 1555: A Reappraisal<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Prof. Luís Miguel Duarte</strong></h4>
<p><strong>A.1</strong> Dr Tiago Viúla de Faria, ‘On the Origins of Anglo-Portuguese Relations: Politics and Diplomacy’</p>
<p><strong>A.2</strong> Dr Flávio Miranda, ‘On the Origins of Anglo-Portuguese Relations: Commercial Exchange’</p>
<p><strong>A.3</strong> Hélder Carvalhal, ‘Anglo-Portuguese Dynastic Politics in the Sixteenth Century: the Marriage Project between Infante Luís (1506-1555) and Mary Tudor (1516-1558)’</p>
<h4><strong>PANEL B <em>Influence and Ideas in the Art of Warfare<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Dr Rubén González Cuerva</strong></h4>
<p><strong>B.1</strong> Bastien Carpentier, ‘Influencias locales en la definición de una estrategia global. La atlantización de la guerra mediterránea desde los observatorios vascos y genoveses (1579-1598)’</p>
<p><strong>B.2</strong> Brice Cossart, ‘More gunners for the Armadas! Transformations in naval warfare and skill management during late-sixteenth- century Anglo-Spanish war’</p>
<p><strong>B.3 </strong>Thomas Nora, ‘The Methuen Treaties: An Exemplar of Interstate Fiscal-Military Cooperation’</p>
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<h4><strong>PANEL C <em>(Un)natural Disasters: Outside Observation and Intervention<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Dr Leonor Zozaya</strong></h4>
<p><strong>C.1</strong> Dr Natalie Mears, ‘From the Spanish Armada to the Lisbon earthquake: British state prayers for foreign powers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries’</p>
<p><strong>C.2</strong> Prof. Mark Molesky, ‘Aiding Lisbon: The British Relief Effort of 1755-56’</p>
<h4><strong>PANEL D <em>Anglo-Iberian Relations on Stage and Page<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Dr Kate De Rycker</strong></h4>
<p><strong>D.1</strong> Annemie Leemans, ‘What can a recipe book teach us about Anglo-Iberian relations?’</p>
<p><strong>D.2</strong> David J Amelang, ‘The Spanish Globe and the English Corral’</p>
<p><strong>D.3</strong> Tiago Sousa Garcia, ‘The foreign epic of soon-to-be-ours trade. The 1655 translation of <em>Os</em> <em>Lusiadas</em> in the context of Anglo-Portuguese colonial trade competition’</p>
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<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Friday 10 April</span></strong></h3>
<h4><strong>PANEL E</strong> <strong><em>Roundtable on the New Digital Platform ‘The Connected Histories of the Two Iberian Empires’</em></strong></h4>
<p><strong>E.1 </strong>Dr Graça Almeida Borges, Contextualisation of the project</p>
<p><strong>E.2</strong> Prof. Mafalda Soares da Cunha, Scientific relevance and impact of the project</p>
<p><strong>E.3</strong> Prof. Fernanda Olival, Project and Digital Humanities</p>
<p><strong>E.4</strong> Valentina Caldari, Project as a space for debate and potential for early career researchers</p>
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<h4><strong>PANEL G <em>Anglo-Spanish Relations in the Reigns of Mary I (1553-8) and Philip (1554-8)<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Dr Natalie Mears</strong></h4>
<p><strong>G.1</strong> Dr John Edwards, ‘Friar Bartolomé Carranza and the Catholic Reform of the English Church’</p>
<p><strong>G.2</strong> Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer, ‘Novus rex, nova lex: Philip I of England, the Select Council and English Politics, 1555-1558’</p>
<p><strong>G.3</strong> Dr Alexander Samson, ‘Courtly Culture under Philip and Mary’</p>
<h4><strong>PANEL H <em>British Narratives of Iberia I<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Prof. Mark Molesky</strong></h4>
<p><strong>H.1</strong> Mariana Gonçalves, ‘Travelling through Portugal at the End of the Seventeenth Century: William Bromley&#8217;s Impressions of the Portuguese Kingdom’</p>
<p><strong>H.2 </strong>Prof. Isabel Oliveira Martins, ‘‘Africa begins at the Pyrenees’: or the Iberian Peninsula as seen by a British traveller during the Peninsular War’</p>
<p><strong>H.3</strong> Cláudia Faria, ‘Madeira Island- an (un)expected home?’</p>
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<h4><strong>PANEL I <em>Sources and Resources<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Dr Elizabeth Evenden</strong></h4>
<p><strong>I.1</strong> Prof. Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, ‘The Culture of Portuguese notaries and the English mercantile community’</p>
<p><strong>I.2</strong> Dr Leonor Zozaya, ‘Political and Administrative Implications of Script Usage in the Town Council of Coimbra (Portugal) in the Early Modern Period’</p>
<p><strong>I.3</strong> Dr Cheryl Butler, ‘Individual Interactions: The Town of Southampton, Spain &amp; Portugal in the 16<sup>th</sup> Century’</p>
<h4><strong>PANEL J. <em>Favourites and Revolutions in the 17<sup>th</sup> Century<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Matthew Kocsan</strong></h4>
<p><strong>J.1 </strong>Dr Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski, ‘Historical antecedents and political models in the debate on the <em>valimiento</em> in Spain (1539-1625)’</p>
<p><strong>J.2</strong> Dr Rubén González Cuerva, ‘The Perfect Favourite: Baltasar de Zúñiga and the Limits of Ministry’</p>
<p><strong>J.3</strong> Antonio Raganato, ‘‘As falling leaves winter’: The Favourite’s memory revealed in the pamphleteering animosity towards the Evil Counselors (1640–1648)’</p>
<p><strong>J.4</strong> Dr Daniele Di Bartolomeo, ‘The revolutions after the Revolution: Seventeenth-century Portuguese and English revolutions in the post-Jacobin France’</p>
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<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Saturday 11 April</span></strong></h3>
<h4><strong>PANEL K <em>Religion and Diplomacy I<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Dr Alexander Samson</strong></h4>
<p><strong>K.1</strong> Dr Rafael María Girón-Pascual, ‘Francisca De Cáceres: A Lady-Spy In Catherine Of Aragon´s Court’</p>
<p><strong>K.2 </strong>Dr Rocío García Bourrellier, ‘A Spanish view on the embassy of Lord Charles Howard, I Earl of Nottingham, in the court of Valladolid (1605)’</p>
<p><strong>K.3</strong> Dr Cristina Bravo Lozano,<strong> ‘</strong>Domésticos De Una Reina Bragança, Misioneros Del Rey Católico: Capellanes ‘Ibéricos’ en La Corte De Londres, 1662-1692’</p>
<h4><strong>PANEL L <em>Religion and Politics between the 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup> Centuries<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Dr John Edwards</strong></h4>
<p><strong>L.1</strong> Catherine Chou, ‘The ‘Popish Parliament Plot’ and the English Response to the 1580 Portuguese Succession Crisis’</p>
<p><strong>L.2</strong> Matthew Kocsan, ‘Sacral Politics: Inheritance, Ideology, and Monarchy in the Spain of Philip II and Philip III’</p>
<p><strong>L.3</strong> Prof. Luís Filipe Silvério Lima, ‘Menasseh Ben Israel and the connections among Portuguese and English Millenarians (1646-1656)’</p>
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<h4><strong>PANEL M <em>Religion and Diplomacy II<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Dr Elizabeth Evenden</strong></h4>
<p><strong>M.1</strong> Dr Lucy Underwood, ‘‘Do not abandon the Catholics of England&#8217;: The English Catholics and diplomacy between Rome, Madrid and London 1604-1606</p>
<p><strong>M.2</strong> Dr Janet Dickinson, ‘The Earl of Essex’s 1596 misadventures in Portugal’</p>
<p><strong>M.3</strong> Dr Simon Healy, ‘The destruction of the Spanish Party at the English Court, 1624-6’</p>
<h4><strong>PANEL N <em>British Narratives of Iberia II<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Phoebe Oliver</strong></h4>
<p><strong>N.1</strong> Alexandre Dias Pinto, ‘British Hegemony and Civilising Influence in Robert Southey’s History of Portugal’</p>
<p><strong>N.2</strong> Prof. Maria Zulmira Castanheira, ‘Interpreting the Portuguese Other: Robert Southey’s <em>Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal</em> (1797) and His Reviews of Travel Books on Portugal for the British Periodical Press’</p>
<p><strong>N.3 </strong>Prof. António Lopes, ‘Anecdotal sketches of Lisbon in the private correspondence of an Englishman 1815-1817’</p>
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<h4><strong>PANEL O <em>Trade<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Valentina Caldari</strong></h4>
<p><strong>O.1</strong> Dr Richard Stone, ‘Trading with the Enemy Revisited: Bristol’s trade with Spain during the Anglo-Spanish Wars (1585-1604 and 1625-1630)’</p>
<p><strong>O.2</strong> Dr Leslie Theibert, ‘‘A Mongrel Pack of Thieves and Rogues’: Privateers and Guarda Costas in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean’</p>
<p><strong>O.3</strong> Caitlin Gale, ‘The Friend of my Friend: Britain&#8217;s relationship with Iberia and Barbary’</p>
<p><strong>O.4</strong> Dr David Stiles, ‘Claiming the Southern Oceanic Gateway: Anglo-Spanish Competition for the Southern Cone of the Americas, 1765-1800’</p>
<h4><strong>PANEL P <em>Iberia between the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> Centuries<br />
</em></strong><strong>Chair/Discussant: Prof. Maria Zulmira Castanheira</strong></h4>
<p><strong>P.1</strong> Prof. João Paulo Ascenso Pereira da Silva,<strong> ‘</strong>A Jacobite’s Potrait of Lisbon before the 1755 Earthquake (John Stevens, <em>The Ancient and Present State of Portugal</em>)’</p>
<p><strong>P.2</strong> Anna Brinkman, ‘British Prize Law and the Loss of Spanish Neutrality 1756-1763’</p>
<p><strong>P.3 </strong>Prof. John Clarke and José Baptista de Sousa, ‘The Hollands’ influence on the origins of Iberian Liberalism 1808-1820’</p>
<p><strong>P.4</strong> Fábio Alexandre Faria, ‘The Political and Cultural Significance of Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães’ Exile in London, 1828-1832’</p>
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