Identity and Independence: how national consciousness crystallized during the wars of Independence from Spain
Workshop 15th and 16th of March 2013
Location: Canterbury Cathedral Lodge
http.//canterburycathedrallodge.org/
Funded by the British Academy and the Kent Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities
Participants
Dr Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
Dr Alejandro Rabinovich, Universidad de la Pampa
Professor Brian Hamnett, University of Essex
Professor Catherine Davies, University of Nottingham
Professor David Brading, University of Cambridge
Dr Celia Wu, University of Cambridge
Dr Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics
Dr Rossana Barragán, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Dr Alejandro E. Gómez, Université Paris III
Dr Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila (tbc), Universidad del Externado and EHESS
Dr Rosie Doyle, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London
Mr Andrés Baeza, University of Bristol
Organised by Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent
Programme
Friday 15 March
1pm , Buffet lunch at the Cathedral Lodge
2.30-3.30: Introduction to the project and workshop objectives Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
3.30-4.00: Coffee Break
Session 1. The outbreak of the wars of independence
Chair. Alejandro Rabinovich
4.00-4.20: Alejandra Irigoin ‘The Economic roots of Latin American Independence. Taxes, money and war before and after 1808’
4.20-4.40: Rossana Barragán ‘The experience of Charcas’
4.40-5.00: Alejandro E. Gómez ‘The experience of Tierra Firme’
5.00-5.20: Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila ‘The experience of New Granada’
5.20-6.20: Discussion
7.30pm Dinner at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge
Saturday 16th March 2013
Session 2. The experience of war
Chair. Juan Luis Ossa
9.30-9.50: Brian Hamnett ‘Violence Unleashed. Spanish America under the Impact of Conflict.’
9.50-10.10: Catherine Davies ‘Gendering the Wars of Independence’
10.10-10. 30: David Brading and Celia Wu ‘Tactics and Strategy of the Liberation of Peru’
10.30-11.20: Discussion
11.20-11.30: Coffee Break
11.30-12.30: Round table discussion Natalia Sobrevilla Perea