17th CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES (ISECS) Zaragoza, Spain, 12-16 July 2027

Dear members of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,

It is with great pleasure, that would like to announce that the website and call for papers for the next International Society for the 18th Century Studies (ISECS) 2027 Congress.

During the week of 12–16 July 2027, the University of Zaragoza will host the 17th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS; SIEDS in French). This is the largest scholarly gathering devoted to the study of the “long” eighteenth century in all its academic dimensions. Since 1963, sixteen congresses have been held, the most recent taking place in Graz (2011), Rotterdam (2015), Edinburgh (2019), and Rome (2023).
This will be the first time that the quadrennial ISECS/SIEDS Congress—an event of outstanding international prestige within the Humanities and Social Sciences—has been organized in Spain. Each edition typically attracts around one thousand participants from across the world.
Although the customary working languages of ISECS/SIEDS are English and French, Spanish has been accepted as an official congress language for all scientific, cultural, and social activities taking place during the event.

The general theme of the Zaragoza 2027 Congress is “Enlightenment and (In)equality.” In accordance with established practice, however, the Congress also welcomes research on any aspect of the “long” eighteenth century (1670–1830) across all academic disciplines. These naturally include all posible areas, such as history, politics, law, philosophy, literature, economics, art, linguistics, musicology, and related fields. Scholars are therefore invited to submit proposals in English, French, or Spanish for thematic sessions, round tables, individual papers, and, in the case of early-career scholars, poster presentations. All of these forms of participation may incorporate approaches drawn from the Digital Humanities.

The call for proposals for thematic sessions and round tables is currently open and will remain so until 30 September 2026. Proposals for individual contributions may be submitted between 30 October 2026 and 31 January 2027.

Prior to the general Congress, an International Research Seminar for Early-Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars will be held in Teruel from 7 to 10 July 2027. This multidisciplinary seminar will focus on the theme “Books, Letters, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment.”

Further information regarding both the Zaragoza Congress and the Teruel Seminar can be found on the official website, which is now available: http://www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net

The organizing committee has also set up these social media channels, which we invite you to follow:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590040244210
Instagram (available soon): https://www.instagram.com/isecszaragoza2027/

We warmly encourage you to disseminate information about this important academic event and to participate actively in its activities.
Jesús Astigarraga

President, 17th ISECS/SIEDS Congress 2027

Sponsored Panels at 2025 AHA Conference

The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies is pleased to sponsor two panels at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. The panels will be back-to-back on Friday, January 3 in the same meeting room. If you will be at the AHA this year, please stop by to hear these great papers. Special thanks to the panel organizers, Suzanne Dunai and Peter Haskin! 

 

Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 1 

Friday, January 3, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM 

Sugar Hill (Sheraton New York, Lower Level) 

Chair: 

Montserrat Miller, Marshall University 

Papers: 

Teaching Western Civilization with Spanish History
Darcy Kern, Southern Connecticut State University 

Injecting 20th-Century Spain into Architecture Appreciation Courses
Brett Tippey, Kent State University 

The Spanish-American War or the War of 1898? Puerto Rico between Independence and Empires
Mark Dries, Southeastern Louisiana University 

“Post Your Politics!” Visualizing Politics and Engaging Students in the Post-Pandemic Classroom
Suzanne Dunai, Southwestern Oklahoma State University 

“We Do Not Forget” Spain: Historical Memory, Foreign Relations, and Human Rights in the American Classroom
Tyler Goldberger, College of William and Mary 

Comment: 

Montserrat Miller, Marshall University 

  

Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2 

Friday, January 3, 2025: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM 

Sugar Hill (Sheraton New York, Lower Level) 

Chair: 

Valeria Escauriaza López Fadul, Wesleyan University 

Papers: 

Local Knowledge in the 18th-Century Relaciones Geográficas from New Spain and Peru
Peter Haskin, Yale University 

What’s in a Plant? Botanical Knowledge, Information, and Plant Transfer between Spain and New Spain
Marlis Hinckley, Johns Hopkins University 

After Expulsion: Information about the Moriscos between Spain and North Africa
Kate Randazzo, University of Chicago 

Cartas de Indias, Reconsidered: Oral Communication and Information from the Spanish Indies
Sergio Leos, Harvard University 

UNIVERSities. Networks and Identities

The organizing committee of the International Research Seminar UNIVERSities. Networks and Identities, of the Center for History of Society and Culture (University of Coimbra), is pleased to announce the third session of the 2022 edition, to be held on November 11, 2022, starting at 14h30 (GMT).

Our guests and speakers for this session will be:

Moderator: Luís Trindade (U. Coimbra, CEIS20)

Speaker: Tom HOLERT (Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin)

Architectures of Human Capital. On the Theory, Planning, Design, Usage and Contestation of the Built Environments of University Reform in the 1960s and 1970s

Scientific Commentary: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (U. Coimbra, CES)

The session will take place exclusively remotely and is accessible via the following link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/86148437134

With best regards,
Carlos Alves
Isabel Ferreira da Mota
José Luís Barbosa
Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos

Universidade de Coimbra, Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura

Contact Info:
chscuc.si@gmail.com

IX Annual Conference on Latin American and Iberian Studies 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
The Department of Language and Literature at Lee University cordially invites submissions for the IX Annual Conference on Latin American and Iberian Studies on Saturday March 26th, 2022. This conference will bring together undergraduate and graduate students and professors from a wide variety of disciplines.

The conference focuses primarily on the languages, literatures, and cultures of Latin America and Spain; however, interdisciplinary submissions will also be accepted from related areas including Service Learning, Cross-Cultural Experiences, foreign language methodology, and others.

We will host a Culture, and Literature Showcase. Please note that this showcase is a smaller, walk-through poster session that will take place during the conference.

We would like to invite students from local high schools to attend the conference along with our Lee students, teachers, and language professors.

If you wish to present, please send a one-page abstract of approximately 250 words as an MS-Word document that clearly identifies the aim(s) of the paper, the rationale of the study, and finding (if applicable). Send the proposal/abstract via email to asteffanell@leeuniversity.edu by February 22nd, 2022. Include your name, institutional affiliation, and email address as well as a brief biography and any kind of technology needed. All presentations will have a 10-12 minute limit.

Abstracts and papers may be submitted in English, Portuguese, Spanish or French. Since one of our goals is to bring undergraduate students and faculty together, papers co-authored by students and faculty advisors will be considered. A $40 registration fee is required for attendance. $25 registration fee for students. This cost will include registration fee, light breakfast, and lunch.

Department of Language and Literature
1120 N Ocoee Street, Cleveland, Tennessee, 37311 Phone: 423-614-8216 Fax: 423-614-8209

Alexander Steffanell, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
Latin American Studies, Director
Department of Language and Literature
P.O. Box 3450
Cleveland, TN 37320-3450

Curso livre “História de Lisboa: espaços e sociabilidades”

Curso livre “História de Lisboa: espaços e sociabilidades”

9 outubro de 2021 a 29 de janeiro de 2022
Curso em regime misto, presencial e/ou remoto

Apresentação:
O impacte historiográfico gerado pelo colóquio internacional “Lisboa Iluminista e o seu Tempo”, realizado em 1994, inspirou a criação, sob coordenação do Professor Doutor José-Augusto França e iniciativa da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL), do primeiro curso de Estudos Olisiponenses, “Lisboa: Urbanismo e História”, cujo êxito sucessivas edições viriam a consagrar. Se o colóquio de 1994 se assumiu como motivação imediata de uma nova aposta formativa, já a sua razão profunda se escora na tradição historiográfica que, nascida com Júlio de Castilho nos finais de Oitocentos, haveria de tomar o nome de Olisipografia, mas cujos antecedentes se vislumbram já nos meados do séc. XVI, com Damião de Góis. Marco essencial na consolidação dos Estudos Olisiponenses seria protagonizado pelo Instituto de História da Arte da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHA/FCSH-UNL), através da criação de cursos livres de Estudos de Lisboa e, mais recentemente, de um grupo de investigação especificamente vocacionado para este corpus temático. Assumindo heranças e precedências, mas não indiferente ao devir histórico e historiográfico, entende a iniciativa que ora se apresenta, rendendo justa homenagem ao Professor José-Augusto França, reativar os cursos de Estudos Olisiponenses dos anos 90, imprimindo-lhes, contudo, um espírito novo, insuflado pelo contributo conjugado de investigadores de gerações e formações diversificadas, cujos trabalhos permitem oferecer uma estrutura concetual apelativa e atualizada. Numa parceria entre a UAL e o IHA, favorecedora da convergência e cruzamento de experiências e tradições académicas, a presente edição é reflexo da evolução das perspetivas metodológicas, dos domínios temáticos e da produção teórica relativos à Olisipografia, bem assim da evolução da própria história da cidade de Lisboa e dos interesses e expetativas do público. Sob o título geral “História de Lisboa: espaços e sociabilidades”, integra catorze sessões, cujas matrizes de análise se estendem desde a arquitetura e o urbanismo à iconografia, sociologia, política e antropologia. O curso inicia com um primeiro núcleo de palestras, “Lisboa, cidade global”, que proporciona uma perspetiva diacrónica essencial a uma visão panorâmica da história da urbe. Um segundo núcleo, “Novos estudos sobre Lisboa”, versará aspetos inovadores, seja pelo tema, seja pelo referencial teórico adotado, do pensar e estudar a cidade. A formação será complementada por uma sessão cinematográfica sobre Lisboa e por uma visita temática orientada por um dos docentes.

Destinatários:
Interessados na História de Lisboa; profissionais de museus e do património cultural; comunidade académica, público em geral

Objetivos:
Oferecer um conhecimento atualizado e cientificamente sustentado da história da cidade de Lisboa.
Favorecer uma visão poliédrica da cidade, apresentando temas inovadores e abordagens recentes e pluridisciplinares.
Proporcionar a análise crítica das dinâmicas urbanas olisiponenses ao longo da História.

Funcionamento do curso:
O curso compõe-se de catorze sessões, ministradas em língua portuguesa, perfazendo um total de vinte e oito horas, complementadas por uma visita temática e por uma sessão cinematográfica.
As sessões têm a duração de duas horas, período que compreende uma componente expositiva, ministrada pelo docente/palestrante, e uma outra, de cerca de meia hora, de debate relativo ao tema da sessão, baseado nas questões apresentadas pelos participantes e moderado pelo docente/palestrante.
A assistência ao curso poderá assumir a modalidade presencial ou, alternativamente, remota, de acordo com as condições de saúde pública e com a preferência dos destinatários.
As aulas serão ministradas na sede da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Palácio dos Condes de Redondo, Rua de Santa Marta n.º 56, 1169-023 Lisboa, no Auditório II, e contarão com a participação de todos os inscritos que optem pela modalidade de assistência presencial. Os participantes que escolham o regime remoto assistirão às sessões através da plataforma ZOOM, mediante credenciais de acesso a fornecer oportunamente.
A visita temática e a sessão cinematográfica decorrerão em data a definir e estarão abertas a todos os inscritos.
Os participantes que tiverem assistido a um mínimo de 75% das sessões terão direito à obtenção de uma Certificado de Frequência.

Preços e inscrições:

Workshop: La imagen de las reinas portuguesas y españolas

Los retratos de las reinas portuguesas o de las reinas españolas representaban las sutilezas de su estado a través de su vestimenta, joyas, etc… así como de motios más amplios relacionados con la representación de circunstancias específicas como son las del ceremonial de cada corte. Consecuentemente, las reinas de las diferentes dinastías se representaban de modo correlativamente diferente. Un estudio comparativo diacrónico permite observar la evolución de invariantes y variaciones de la representación, lo que aporta materiales significativos para la comprensión sistemática del sentido y el valor histórico cultural de la retratística real ibérica en el marco más general del estudio de las formas de la reprsentción occidental. Dentro del Programa MOSTRA ESPANHA 2019 y en colaboración con el Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, se presenta, bajo el comité científico formado por Annemarie Jordan y Mercedes LLorente, un simposio hispanoluso de historia del arte que a partir de diferentes estudios sobre los retratos de las reinas españoles y portuguesas discute y analiza la construcción y evolución de
la representación real del siglo XVI a la primera mitad del siglo XVII mediante la participación de expertos en la materia.

https://lisboa.cervantes.es/es/cultura_espanol/proximas_actividades_cultura.htm

 

CFP: National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies

National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, 28th Annual National Conference, February 17-22, 2020, Dallas, TX

Abstracts, not to exceed two (2) pages, should be submitted that relate to any aspect of the Hispanic and Latino experience. Subjects may include, but are not limited to: immigration, migrant workers, interracial marriage, education challenges for the non-documented, community crime, health care, discrimination, impact of Affordable Care Act, reducing racial/ethnic gaps, children and families, Dream Act, and other topics. Please indicate the time required for presentation of your paper (25 minutes OR 45 minutes).

ABSTRACTS WITH TITLE OF PAPER, PRESENTER’S NAME, HOME AND INSTITUTION/ORGANIZATION ADDRESS AND E-MAIL SHOULD BE POSTMARKED BY: Saturday, November 9, 2019.

SEND ABSTRACTS TO:
PO Box 545
Westbrook, ME 04098-0545
Telephone: 207/856-2500 Fax: 207/856-2800
Email: naaasconference@naaas.org
www.NAAAS.org

see poster:  nahls-cfp-new

CFP Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 12–14 March 2020 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are also welcome. The deadline for all abstracts is 15 September 2019.

For more information, submission guidelines, or to submit an abstract, please go to http://www.newcollegeconference.org/cfp.

41st Annual ACIS Conference

The Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies will hold its 41st Conference, organized by the CEC-Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, in collaboration with the CHAM-Centro de Humanidades, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, from 4-6 September 2019.

III Jornadas Arte, Poder y Género. El patronazgo artístico de las últimas Trastámara

Programa
Jueves 2 de mayo.

Primera sesión:
9.00-10.30 – Entrega de documentación.
10.30-11.30 – Presentación de las jornadas NOELIA GARCÍA PÉREZ (Universidad de Murcia).
11.30-12.30 – MIA RODRÍGUEZ-SALGADO (LSE). Las Novias de Europa: Isabel, Juana, María y Catalina de Aragón-Castilla.
12.30-13.30 – PILAR SILVA MAROTO (Museo del Prado). Isabel la Católica y sus pintores. Del servicio a la corte a la promoción artística.
Segunda sesión:
16.00-17.00– JUAN LUIS GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA (UniversidadAutónoma). A hechura de la Reina Católica. Isabel I de Castilla y la instrucción devocional de sus hijas.
17.00-18.00 – JOSÉ LUIS GONZALO SÁNCHEZ- MOLERO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). La Reina Católica y los libros: lecturas personales, imagen dinástica, bibliotecas y política editorial.
18.00-18.30 – Mesa redonda – ANNE CRUZ (Universidad de Miami).

Viernes 3 de mayo

Primera Sesión:
9:30-10:30- BEGOÑA ALONSO (Universidad de Cantabria). Isabel de Castilla en la sombra.
10:30-11.30 – MIGUEL ÁNGEL ZALAMA (Universidad de Valladolid). Juana I y Catalina de Austria en Tordesillas. La formación del tesoro de la reina de Portugal.
11.30-12.00 – Pausa café.
12.00-13.00- CONCHA HERRERO CARRETERO (Patrimonio Nacional). Paños ricos
de oro y sedas de colores. Vestigios de la colección de doña Juana, reina de Castilla (1504-1555).
13:00-13:30- Mesa redonda – Presidida por PALMA MARTÍNEZ-BURGOS (Universidad de Castilla la Mancha).
Segunda sesión:
Mesa predoctoral:
16.00-17.00 – MELANIA SOLER MORATÓN (Universidad de Murcia) Una reina olvidada. María de Aragón, segunda esposa de Manuel I .
17.00-18.00- EMMA LUISA CAHILL MARRON (Capstone Publishers). El proyecto dinástico de Catalina de Aragón.
18.00-18.30 – Mesa redonda – Presidida por VANESSA DE CRUZ (Universidad Pompeu- Fabra).

20.30-21.00 – Clausura.

Para más información:

https://www.um.es/web/jornadas-artepoderygenero/