Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

Recently held conferences

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October 1-2, 2004: CITY LIMITS? THE EUROPEAN CITY, 1400-1900, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Deadline for paper proposals: January 16, 2004
For more information: http://www.umanitoba.ca/citylimits/
September 24-26, 2004: SPAIN'S LEGACY IN THE PACIFIC DURING THE AGE OF SAIL, San Diego, California
The Maritime Museum of San Diego and Mains'l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History are sponsoring a conference to explore the impact of Spain on the maritime history of the Pacific world during the Age of Sail.
September 21-24, 2004: VII CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACION DE HISTORIA CONTEMPORANEA, Santiago de Compostela/Ourense
For more information: http://www3.usal.es/~ahistcon/congreso_2004.htm
September 17-18, 2004: CREATING IDENTITY AND EMPIRE IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1492-1888, AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
For more information: http://atlanticworld.uncg.edu/
September 11-13, 2004:  "THE MISTRESS-COURT OF MIGHTY EUROPE"  CONFIGURING EUROPE AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD.  LITERATURE, HISTORY, REPRESENTATION, Department of English, University of Wales, Bangor
For more information: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/english/mightyeurope.htm
September 10-11, 2004: NATIONALISM, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, England
For more information: http://www.ottoman-links.co.uk/2004_nationalism_conference.asp
July 9-10, 2004: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO THE SPANISH REPUBLICAN EXILE OF 1939, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London
For more information, Innovative Approaches...
June 23-July 3, 2004: VII CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE CAMINERÍA HISPÁNICA, Paris and Madrid
For more information: http://www.ai-camineria.com/congresos/congres7a.htm
June 16-19, 2004:  3RD ANNUAL HAWAII CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCE, Honolulu, Hawaii
For more information: http://www.hicsocial.org/
June 12-15, 2004: V COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE LA LITERATURA Y LA CULTURA DEL EXILIO REPUBLICANO ESPAÑOL DE 1939, La Habana, Cuba
For more information: http://www.emigratio.com/CongresosyReunionesCientificas/v_coloquio_internacional_la_lite.htm
June 2-4, 2004: VIIIª REUNIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE LA FEHM (FUNDACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE HISTORIA MODERNA), Madrid
The conference is sponsored by the Departamento de Historia Moderna of the Universidad Complutense and by the Departamento de Historia Moderna at the CSIC.  Sessions are titled: La reina Isabel I y las reinas de España:
realidad, modelos e imagen historiográfica
; and El equilibrio de los imperios: De Utrecht a Trafalgar .
For more information: http://www.moderna1.ih.csic.es/fehm/reunion.htm
May 26-29, 2004: 7TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, "CATALONIA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN", Universitat de Barcelona
For more information: http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ms/barcelonaprogram.htm
May 21-22, 2004: THE CONVERSOS AND SPANISH HISTORY, 1248 to 1700, St. Louis University, Madrid
For more information: http://spain.slu.edu/conversos/
May 19-22, 2004: GEOGRAPHIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE QUESTION OF THE GLOBAL, 3rd Annual Bloomington 18th-Century Studies Workshop, Indiana University
For more information: http://www.indiana.edu/%7Evoltaire/workshop04.html
May 6-9, 2004: WAR AND THE ENVIRONMENT: CONTEXTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF MILITARY DESTRUCTION IN THE MODERN AGE, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
For more information: http://www.ghi-dc.org/conferences/war%2Benviron_prog.html
May 6-8, 2004: I CONGRESO SOBRE LA HISTORIA DEL PCE (1920-1977), Facultad de Geografía y Historia, Universidad de Oviedo
The conference is sponsored by the Fundación de Investigaciones Marxistas and the Área de Historia Contemporánea de la Universidad de Oviedo .
For more information: http://www.pce.es/foroporlamemoria/noticias/congreso_historia_pce.htm
April 16-17, 2004: CITY, INDUSTRY, AND ENVIRONMENT IN TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For more information: http://www.ialhi.org/news/i0310_21.html or http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=135769
March 31-April 1, 2004: FIFTH WISPS (WOMEN IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE STUDIES) CONFERENCE, Cambridge, England
For more information: http://www.wisps.org.uk/5conferenceprogram.html
February 19-21, 2004: EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL DEBARTOLO CONFERENCE ON EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: TRANS-ATLANTIC CROSSINGS, Tampa, Florida
The DeBartolo Conference is an annual meeting devoted to the interdisciplinary treatment of a theme in eighteenth-century studies.  "Trans-Atlantic Crossings" addresses the many literal and figurative passages between Europe, Africa and the Americas that characterize the long eighteenth century.
For more information: http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/english/debartolo/program2004.html
December 17-19, 2003: CERVANTES Y EL TEATRO: V CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL, Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy)
Plenary speakers include Jean Canavaggio, Anthony Close, Aurora Egido and Aurelio González.  The papers will be published in Theatralia, vol. V, in April, 2004.
For more information: http://cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/Cervantes/cervantesyteatro.shtml
December 12 - 13, 2003: INSIDE OUT AND OUTSIDE IN: A NEW LOOK AT THE 17TH CENTURY REPUBLIC OF LETTERS, University of Aberdeen (Scotland)
The conference is sponsored by the Williamite Universe, in collaboration with the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) and the Centre for Early modern Studies (CEMS).  The central theme will be the ideas, characteristics and mechanics of cultural and intellectual life in 17th century Protestant Europe, but one day will be devoted to outsiders’ perception of this ‘Protestant’ learned world and the impact and reception of its ideas outside its geographic sphere.  Topics for papers may include: strangers and foreigners in the Republic of Letters; and the reception of Protestant ideas in Catholic Europe and the colonies.
For more information: http://www.let.uu.nl/ogc/William/conference2.htm
December 1-4, 2003: CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL FRANCISCO MARIANO NIFO. EL NACIMIENTO DE LA PRENSA Y DE LA CRÍTICA LITERARIA PERIODÍSTICA EN LA ESPAÑA DEL SIGLO XVIII , Alcañiz
The Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos of Alcañiz is holding this international conference to mark the second centenary of the death of Francisco Mariano Nifo, founder of the first daily newspaper ( Diario noticioso, curioso-erudito y comercial, público y económico ) in Spain.
For more information: http://www.filologiaclasicacadiz.com/imagenes/triptico.jpg
November 13-15, 2003: V ENCUENTRO DE INVESTIGADORES DEL FRANQUISMO, Albacete (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
For more information: http://www.uclm.es/ceclm/historiadoresfranquismo/
October 31 - November 1, 2003: MODERNITY AND MODERNISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD, University of Toronto
For more information: http://www.utoronto.ca/italian/meditmod.htm
October 15 - 18, 2003: CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL: "ORIGENES DE LAS LENGUAS ROMANCES EN EL REINO DE LEON.  SIGLOS IX-XII", León
The conference is sponsored by the Fundación Monteleón , Obra Social de la Caja España
To solicit additional information: fmontele@picos.com
September 22-26, 2003: JORNADAS CIENTÍFICAS.  250 AÑOS DE ASTRONOMÍA EN ESPAÑA, San Fernando, Cadiz
The conference marks the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada .  It will coincide with the meeting of the Sociedad Española de Astronomía .
For more information: http://www.roa.es/250_aniversario/
September 15-19, 2003: XI CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACION INTERNACIONAL DE TEATRO ESPAÑOL Y NOVOHISPANO DE LOS SIGLOS DE ORO (AITENSO), Buenos Aires
For more information and the call for papers: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/AAH.html
September 15-17, 2003: CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL "EL SIGLO DE ORO EN EL NUEVO MILENIO: HISTORIA, CRITICA Y TEORIA LITERARIA", Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona)
For more information and the call for papers: http://griso.cti.unav.es/docs/coloquios/actuales/actual1/principal.html
September 11-14, 2003: CULTURAL CONQUESTS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM IN PRAGUE
The Colloquium is a collaboration between the Seminar of Comparative and General History at Charles University and the European Urban History Group at the Universities of Newcastle and Northumbria. It will be hosted by the Institute of World History at Charles University in Prague.
For more information: http://usd.ff.cuni.cz/kompar/invite/culturalconquest.html
September 2-6, 2003: LA MASONERIA EN MADRID Y EN ESPAÑA DEL SIGLO XVIII AL XXI: X SYMPOSIUM INTERNACIONAL DE HISTORIA DE LA MASONERIA ESPAÑOLA, Leganés (Madrid)
For more information: http://www3.usal.es/ahistcon/Masoneria.htm
July 24-25, 2003:  FEMALE MONASTICISM IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK
This conference is an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of latest research on female monastic life in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An international group of scholars consisting of historians, literary historians, art historians and musicologists will present their research on nuns in early modern England, Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.
For more information: http://pages.britishlibrary.net/habsburg.netherlands/
July 7-11, 2003: VII CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE HISTORIA DE LA CULTURA ESCRITA, Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares)
For more information: http://www2.uah.es/historia1/Congreso2003/default.htm
May 8-11, 2003: 38TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
For more information: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/38congress/toc.htm
For SSPHS sponsored sessions: Communities and Identities in Medieval Iberia...
May 7-9, 2003: ANTONIO DE TORQUEMADA Y LA LITERATURA DEL SIGLO DE ORO, Universidad de León, Astorga and León
For more information: http://www3.unileon.es/dp/dfh/antonio-torquemada/
April 10-11, 2003: Hofstra University Symposium: BEYOND THE PATRIA: EXILE, BORDER-CROSSING AND TRANSNATIONALISM IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD
For more information: http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/HCLAS/LACS/LACS_symposium_april03.cfm
April 7-11, 2003: Congreso Internacional "LA CATEDRAL DE LEÓN EN LA EDAD MEDIA"
For more information: http://congresocatedraldeleon.iespana.es
April 3-5, 2003:  MENCIA DE MENDOZA, Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia
The ambitious intellectual and artistic pursuits of Mencía de Mendoza (1508-1554), one of the most important Renaissance collectors in Europe, were unrivalled amongst Spanish nobles during the first half of the sixteenth century.  Speakers whose fields of expertise include history, art history, and literature will address topics ranging from female models of collecting to the Mendozas as patrons and Bosch’s work in Mencía de Mendoza’s collection to the patron's humanist university project for the city of Valencia.
For more information: http://www.codart.nl/?page_id=119&event_id=550
April 2-4, 2003: NICOLAS SALMERON Y ALONSO.  A PROPOSITO DEL CENTENARIO DE LA UNION REPUBLICANA DE 1903, Universidad de Almería
For more information: http://www.ual.es/Universidad/VExtension/salmeron/Salmeron.htm
October 1 - 4, 2002: Congreso Internacional "ORIGENES DEL LIBERALISMO.  UNIVERSIDAD, POLÍTICA, ECONOMÍA", Universidad de Salamanca
For more information: www3.usal.es/liberalismo
September 30 - October 2, 2002: Congreso Internacional "España y las 17 Provincias de los Países Bajos: una revisión historiográfica (siglos XVI-XVIII)", Madrid
For more information: Congreso Internacional...
September 12, 2002: COURT, SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF FERDINAND III OF CASTILE AND LEÓN (1217-1252), King's College, London
-The research colloquium marks the 750th anniversary of the death of king Fernando III of Castile and León.
-Speakers will include: Simon Barton, Alan Deyermond, Kirstin Kennedy, Anthony Lappin and Peter Linehan.
-For more information, contact:
            Dr Simon Barton (S.F.Barton@exeter.ac.uk)
            Department of Spanish
            University of Exeter
            Exeter EX4 4QH.


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