Be the first to comment!Malta Historical Society History Week 2013 – Maltese-Spanish Relations
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As part of the Malta Historical Society History Week 2013, there will be a Second Colloquium on Maltese-Spanish relations, in collaboration with the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Malta and the Spanish Embassy in Malta.
It will be held at the Palazzo de la Salle, Malta Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, Republic Str, Valletta, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 13th, 14th and 15th of November.
The programme for the three days is as follows;
Wednesday 13 November
18:00 Welcome and opening remarks by H.E. the Ambassador for Spain Don Felipe de la Morena, the President of the MHS Judge Giovanni Bonello and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Prof Dominic Fenech
18:15 – 19:30 Session 1
Family and Roots in Spain and Malta José Eduardo Abela Montoya: ‘The Abela Lineage of Malta: Heir to the original Abe-lla of Pallars Jusa – (XI-XV Centuries)’
Albert Ganado: ‘The Spanish Roots of the Ganado Family and its Presence in Malta’
Sandro Debono: ‘Mariano Girada A Maltese Sculptor in Eighteenth- Century Valencia’
19:30 Inaugural Wine Reception.
Thursday 14 November
18:00-19.05 Session 2.
Spaniards in Malta Stanley Fiorini: ‘Spanish in late- Medieval Malta’
Simon Mercueca: ‘Anatomies of Spanish Settlers in Malta 1580 and 1640’
Liam Gauci: ‘A Majorcan Captain’s Adventures with the Maltese Corso in the 1770s: Rum, Coffee and a Silver Watch’
19:05 Coffee Break
19:25-20.10 Session 3
Spanish-Malese Relations in Print and Published Media
William Zammit: ‘The Censoring of Ferdinando de Escano’s Propugnaculum Hierosolymitanum
Giorgio Peresso: ‘Dhakba f’ Madrid and all that.’
Friday 15 November
18:00 – 18:40 Session 4
Ecclesiastical Aspects Lycia Cilia: ‘The Monastery of Alguaire in the Eighteenth Century’
Conrad Thake: ‘The Influence of the Plateresque on Maltese Ecclesiastic Architecture’
18:40hrs Coffee Break
19:00 – 19:40 Session 5
Fortifications
David Mallia: ‘Spanish Presidios in North Africa and Malta’
Stephen Spiteri: ‘Spanish Influence in the Design of Wignacourt’s Coastal Towers’
19.40 End of Proceedings.
For further details please visit www.maltahistory.eu or find the Malta Historical Society on Facebook.
All sessions are open to the general public and free of charge. No prior booking is required.
