The Charles V Lectures is an annual series inaugurated in 2023 by the Embassy of Spain to Malta and the University of Malta’s Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies.
These honorary lectures are named in honour of Charles V, King of Castile and Aragon, to mark the long-standing fraternity between Malta and Spain.
This series brings to Malta some of the foremost scholars of the humanities to deliver lecturers on interdisciplinary themes related to Spain. The Lectures are organised by the Embassy of Spain and the Dept of Spanish with the collaboration of other Departments in the Faculty of Arts.
Previous Lectures
2023: ‘Mary Tudor’s Union with Philip of Spain: A View from the Poets’ by Professor Greg Walker, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh.
2024: ‘Lyric Means…? Reflections on the Affective Power of Lyric Modality’ by Professor Isabel Torres FBA, Queen’s University Belfast.
2025: ‘A Spanish Knight of Malta: Lope de Vega, Phoenix of Spanish Literature’ by Professor Jonathan Thacker, King Alfonso XIII Chair, University of Oxford.