In the early-modern period the areas under the influence of the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies were vast collective spaces in which people, goods and ideas circulated rapidly. Within such each space there was an intense debate about communitarian order, and, parallel to that, different kinds of communities developed across political borders and natural barriers through a variety of bonds not necessarily linked to discrete territorial units.
Covering a wide range of perspectives and gathering together some of the foremost specialists in early-modern Iberian history, this two-day symposium will survey the languages of community-formation across the transcontinental Spanish and Portuguese monarchies. Additionally, the symposium will also concentrate on communities that spread across frontiers and territories at a time of porous and entangled identities.
Speakers:
- Pablo Fernández Albadalejo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid);
- Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro (Universidade de Lisboa);
- Fernando Bouza (Universidad Complutense de Madrid);
- Antonio Feros (University of Pennsylvania);
- Jean-Frédéric Schaub (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – Paris);
- Mafalda Soares da Cunha (Universidade de Évora);
- Nuno Senos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa);
- Jon Arrieta Alberdi (Universidad del País Vasco);
- Stuart Schwartz (Yale University);
- Tamar Herzog (Harvard University);
- Alejandro Cañeque (University of Maryland);
- Gabriel Paquette (The Johns Hopkins University);
- Gabriel Rocha (NYU).
Co-sponsored by:
- Research Project Prácticas y saberes en la cultura aristocrática del Siglo de Oro Ibérico: comunicación política y formas de vida, coordinated by Fernando Bouza Álvarez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, funded by MINECO (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) – Spain (HAR2011-27177);
- Centro de História d'Aquém e Além-Mar, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa;
- The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Organised by
CHAM / NOVA FCSH | UAc
KJCC / NYU
Support
FCG
UCM
RC
