A roundtable discussion commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano expedition

Wednesday, May 18th | 6:00-7:30 pm | Pérez Art Museum Miami

The Magellan-Elcano expedition led to the world’s first circumnavigation completed by Juan Sebastián de Elcano, and this voyage had a lasting impact on globalization that shaped today’s world. This roundtable will look deeper into this voyage, its broader implications for the promotion of “planetary consciousness“ and start of a truly global economy. It will also examine in detail Spanish migrations to the Americas, together with Spain’s presence, both commercial and cultural, in the broader Atlantic world.

Speakers:

• Richard Kagan, Ph.D, Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University
  • Prof. Kagan specializes in the history of Spain and its empire, along with the cultures and societies of the broader Mediterranean world. His latest book The Spanish Craze tells the story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain.

• Ida Altman, Ph.D, University of Florida, Gainesville, Professor Emerita
  • Ida Altman is a historian of the early modern Spanish empire, with particular focus on Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world in the sixteenth century.

• Carla Phillips, Ph.D, University of Minnesota, Union Pacific Professor Emerita
  • Prof. Phillips’s area of expertise is the economic, social, and maritime history of Spain in the early modern period.

• Kris Lane, Ph.D, Tulane University
  • Prof. Lane is a historian specializing in the history of the Andes region of South America; most of his scholarship has focused on extractive industries and their local, regional, and global effects. He also works on piracy.