Event: Join us for a Public Lecture on Spanish History at UM
Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026
Time: 17:00 onwards
Venue: GWHE, UM Msida Campus
Programme
17:30 Welcome words by the Ambassador of Spain
Speakers: SP Navy Captain Jose Luis Nieto Fernández, Prof. Joan Abela and Prof. Emanuel Buttigieg
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Álvaro de Bazán, the strategist behind Spain's intervention of the Great Siege, the Embassy of Spain, together with the Department of History and the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies of the UM, offer a talk on his figure and on the Siege.