The Sixth International Conference of the Sociedad Espanola de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, Spain’s ISECS’s National Affiliate in Spain
Madrid, 24–26 October 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Sociedad Espanola de Estudios del Siglo XVIII (SEES XVIII) and the conference organising committee are pleased to announce the Society’s sixth international conference, to be held at the Faculty of Geography and History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of October, 2016.
SEESXVIII has decided to make analysis of “the question of the Americas” the central focus of the upcoming edition of the Society’s general conference, which is held once every four years.
The conference will focus us on all aspects of the relationship between the Americas and peninsular Spain, whether economic or cultural, religious or ethnographic, military or administrative, social or technical, linguistic or political, judicial or artistic. The conference will also take in the construction of imaginaries and of identities, as well as the processes leading to political independence. We are particularly keen to chart the idea of the Americas that circulated in eighteenth-century Spain, as well as the idea of Spain that obtained in the Americas in the period; and to understand the many ways in which the “metropolis” was perceived.
We also invite papers on those social, ideological, cultural, and structural processes which led to the independence of most of Spain’s New World colonies.
Abstracts should be sent by email to cong.seesxviii@gmail.com and are due by 15 March 2016.