History and Culture

This bilingual round table explores the deep cultural and religious roots of Mexico’s Día de Muertos, tracing its evolution from the encounter between pre-Hispanic worldviews and Christian beliefs introduced during the colonial period. Drawing from...

Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of Picasso’s Guernica On May 1 st , 1937, with the ruins of the city of Guernica still smoldering after being bombed by German and Italian planes aiding the Francoist insurgency, Picasso begun the sketches for what it...

The RCC is honored to continue the lecture series focusing on the treasures of the José María Castañé collection: The Castañé Collection gathers together documents, photographs, and books that tell the story of the pivotal political and military events of...

A fascinating development in the transmission of ancient Greek poetry, especially of the poems attributed to Homer, was the interpretation of some embarrassing episodes as having been written in code and possessing a hidden sense very different to the...

Distinguished speaker: Prof. John Stauffer Introduction by Francisco Prado-Vilar (RCC) The Castañé Collection, recently bequeathed to the Houghton Library, gathers together unique documents, photographs, and books that tell the story of the pivotal...

Distinguished Inaugural Speaker: José María Castañé Introduction by Leslie A. Morris (Houghton Library) and Francisco Prado-Vilar (RCC) The RCC is honored to start a lecture series focusing on the treasures of the José María Castañé collection: “The...

RCC is pleased to announce this lecture by Francisco Saez de Adana , RCC Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Department of History of Science. Maritime radar technology began to be developed in Spain after the Second World War, when the Spanish...

RCC is pleased to announce this talk by José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Professor of History of the Economy, Seville University, and RCC Fellow. Trading from the British colonies and Plantations to the Spanish colonies in the Americas and to Old Spain (the...

RCC is pleased to announce this talk presented and organized by Montserrat Cachero Vinuesa, Visiting Fellow at the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard. Abstract: It has been more than a decade since Sanjay Subrahmanyam coined the term...