“Revolution and Reaction in Spain From the Age of Goya to the End of Empire”Thursday, Feb. 26, 7pm, Lean Lecture RoomSchmidt-Nowara will survey the politics and culture of 19th-century Spain, examining the conflict with France that inspired Goya’s Disasters of War, the fierce struggles over the form of government, modernization and its limits, and the fate of Spain’s extensive overseas empire that culminated in the Spanish American War of 1898. This promises to be an exciting excursion through Spanish culture and history and an interesting reflection on a decisive period in the making of the modern world.