The López Piñero Institute for the History of Medicine and Science (joint centre of the University of Valencia and CSIC), located in the Palau de Cerveró, presents the seminar Medicine and colonialism in the Iberian Globalisation: cultural clashes and connected stories, which will take place next Wednesday 15 October, at 17:00, at the conferences room of the Institute. The seminar will be taught by José Pardo-Tomás, scientific researcher in the Institution Milà i Fontanals (CSIC, Barcelona). In recent years, new forms of approaching the history of European expansion are being developed, from the maritime exploration of Portugal and Castilla in the 15th and 16th centuries. This historiographical renewal is affecting very directly to the history of science, medicine and technology which are open to interdisciplinary dialogue and multicultural sensitivity. A series of concepts -news or old but redefined it- (globalisation, connected, “colonialism” and “post colonialism”, cultural clash, biological expansion, craft technologies, scientific revolution, medical pluralism, crossbreed, hybrid cultures...) have entered in the scenario of historiographical discussion and they claim to science historians a serious effort for changing rigorously and ambitiously the story of the first European expansion that is completely obsolete. The session will present some of the proposals for this issue and then move on to see how they have worked (or not) in practice with some case studies that have been carried out recently.