If you happen to be in London this coming Wednesday, come and join us in this event organized by the Anglo-Argentine Society. All details below…

15^th May 2024, 18.00 – 20.15 at the Argentine Ambassador’s Residence, London (49 Belgrave Square London SW1X 8QZ)

Book your ticket here: https://angloargentinesociety.org.uk/event/the-hispanic-anglosphere-argentina/

Speakers: Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (University of Winchester) and Dr Juan I. Neves-Sarriegui (University of Oxford)

We are delighted to welcome Graciela Iglesias-Rogers and Juan I. Neves Sarriegui to the Anglo-Argentine Society for a talk highlighting recent findings of the Hispanic-Anglosphere network in relation to Argentina, expanding on those included in the book The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction, ed. Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (London: Routledge, 2021).

The Hispanic-Anglosphere is an international research network funded by the AHRC and the University of Winchester in partnership with the National Trust Tyntesfield and the Centre of American Studies at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile that studies individuals, networks and communities that made of the British Isles a crucial hub for the global Hispanic world and a bridge between Spanish Europe, Spanish Africa, Spanish Asia and the Americas at a period that, perhaps not unlike today, was marked by natural crises and disasters, the dislocation of global polities, nation-state building and the rise of nationalism.

Join us for an entertaining and insightful evening, accompanied with wine and empanadas.

All money raised from this event will go towards charities in Argentina: Enseña x Argentina y Asociación Cuerpo y Alma. More details here

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Graciela Iglesias-Rogers is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Principal Investigator in the international research network project ‘The Hispanic Anglosphere: Transnational networks and global communities (18th – 20th centuries)’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the University of Winchester where she is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and Global Hispanic History and currently leads the Modern History Research Centre (MHRC). She is also a former Reuters Fellow with a long career in journalism, mainly as Chief European Correspondent for the Argentine daily La Nación. An Oxford University graduate (St. Hilda’s) and postgraduate (LMH) both as a mature student, her first academic book, British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon: volunteering under the Spanish Flag in the Peninsular War (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014) has been followed by other works, including a book co-edited with Prof. David Hook, Translations in Times of Disruption: an interdisciplinary study in transnational contexts (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction, ed. Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (London: Routledge, 2021).

Juan I. Neves Sarriegui is a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘Latin America and the Global History of Democracy, 1810-1930’ (Oxford History Faculty and the Gerda Henkel Foundation). He completed his DPhil in History also at the University of Oxford. His thesis – ‘Revolution in the Rio de la Plata: Political Culture and Periodical Press, c. 1780-1830’ – explores the changes in political life and print culture brought about by the independence movement in present-day Argentina and Uruguay. He was ‘Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley’ scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford (2018-2022), a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) doctoral visiting student at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin (2022) and Project Administrator and Member of the Steering Committee of the AHRC Research Network ‘Reframing the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850’ (2023). He was also co-editor of a special virtual issue of the Past & Present journal and published in the collective volume The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction, ed. Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (London: Routledge, 2021).