Identity, State and Society in Modern Spain Identity is not only a story, a narrative which we tell ourselves about ourselves, it is stories which change with historical circumstances. Stuart Hall‘Negotiating Caribbean Identities’, New Left Review, volume 209, Jan-Feb 1995 Following two successful years of online talks, the Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminar team (Henry Brown, the University of Kent; Adrian Pole, the University of Edinburgh) has organised a joint in-person and online conference in Canterbury with the aim of fostering exchanges between doctoral researchers and early career historians of Spain across the world. The event, which counts on the support of the Universities of Edinburgh, Kent, and the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE) will examine the interactions between identity, state and society in Spain since 1800. By considering the construction, contestation and interrelation of national, transnational, regional, political, racial and gendered identities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the conference aims to offer a comprehensive vision of modern Spanish history. It will be held in both English and Spanish. Get in touch: identity.conference2022@gmail.com Follow us: @SpainCon2022 Programme Day 1: 10 September 8:30 – 9:00: Coffee and registration 9:00 – 9:15: Opening remarks from organisers Adrian Pole (University of Edinburgh) and Henry Brown (University of Kent) 9:15 – 10:15: Keynote address from Professor Patricia A. Schechter (Portland State University) El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939 10:15-10:30: Break 10:30 – 12:30: Panel 1 – Gender and Sexuality Sophie Turbutt (Leeds) Anarchist Womanhood: A Relational Approach to the Intersection between Sexual/Gender Identity and Political Identity in 1920s-1930s Spain Dr Francisco Jiménez Aguilar (Universidad de Granada) Un nuevo estado de género. Masculinidades, nación y guerra civil española (1936-1939) Dr María del Castillo García Romero (Universidad de Sevilla) Mujeres en las artes para la construcción de una identidad femenina local (ss. XIX-XX) Charlotte Byrne (Queen Mary University London) Fact and Fiction: (Re)constructing Queer Identities in 1930s Spain 12:30 – 13:30: lunch 13:30 – 15:30: Panel 2 – State and Politics Marina Moya Moreno (Edinburgh), The Spanish transition(s) - representations of a Spanish democratic identity Carter Barnwell (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque), “‘An Almost Plebiscitary Demonstration’: Manuel Azaña, Madrid, and the Construction of Antifascist Identity, 1934-1936.” Patrick O’Malley (Aberystwyth) ‘“Stimulating the nation’s interest in African themes”: Spanish colonialism and Francoist press control in ABC newspaper, 1939-1945’ Day 2: 11 September 9:30 – 10:30: Keynote Talk from Dr María Reyes Baztán, Race and Basqueness: a new approach to race in early Basque nationalism (1892-1936) 10:30 – 12:30: Panel 3 – International Perspectives José Gabriel Jiménez López (Universidad Católica Argentina) ¿Y ahora qué? Veteranos y exiliados tras la pérdida de la América Española Matthew Ehrlich (University of California San Diego) Unconditional Spaniards: Integrismo as Spanish Nationalism, 1868-1878 Dr Stefanie Massink (University of Utrecht) Remnants of the Black Legend? Dutch perspectives on Spain and Spaniards during dictatorship and democracy, 1936 to present 12:30 – 13:30: lunch 13:30 – 15:30: Panel 4 – Nationalism and regionalism Dr Alejandro Pulido Azpíroz (Postdoctoral graduate of La Universidad del País Vasco), La Primera Guerra Mundial y procesos nacionalizadores de un país neutral: Regeneracionismo español y nacionalismo vasco Tobias Klee (Freie Universität Berlin) The Catalan Racialisation of Spain Marcos Narro Asensio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) De escudos, himnos y banderas: Nacionalismo e identidades en los festejos nupciales de Isabel II y Alfonso XII con María de las Mercedes 15:30 – 16:30: Discussion moderated by organisers and keynote speakers Sep 10 2022 09.30 - Sep 11 2022 16.30 Identity, State and Society in Modern Spain This international history conference will take place 10-11 September, 2022 both online and in-person in Canterbury. Online and in person at Keynes College, Canterbury Campus, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NP Find the venue Register
Identity, State and Society in Modern Spain Identity is not only a story, a narrative which we tell ourselves about ourselves, it is stories which change with historical circumstances. Stuart Hall‘Negotiating Caribbean Identities’, New Left Review, volume 209, Jan-Feb 1995 Following two successful years of online talks, the Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminar team (Henry Brown, the University of Kent; Adrian Pole, the University of Edinburgh) has organised a joint in-person and online conference in Canterbury with the aim of fostering exchanges between doctoral researchers and early career historians of Spain across the world. The event, which counts on the support of the Universities of Edinburgh, Kent, and the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE) will examine the interactions between identity, state and society in Spain since 1800. By considering the construction, contestation and interrelation of national, transnational, regional, political, racial and gendered identities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the conference aims to offer a comprehensive vision of modern Spanish history. It will be held in both English and Spanish. Get in touch: identity.conference2022@gmail.com Follow us: @SpainCon2022 Programme Day 1: 10 September 8:30 – 9:00: Coffee and registration 9:00 – 9:15: Opening remarks from organisers Adrian Pole (University of Edinburgh) and Henry Brown (University of Kent) 9:15 – 10:15: Keynote address from Professor Patricia A. Schechter (Portland State University) El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939 10:15-10:30: Break 10:30 – 12:30: Panel 1 – Gender and Sexuality Sophie Turbutt (Leeds) Anarchist Womanhood: A Relational Approach to the Intersection between Sexual/Gender Identity and Political Identity in 1920s-1930s Spain Dr Francisco Jiménez Aguilar (Universidad de Granada) Un nuevo estado de género. Masculinidades, nación y guerra civil española (1936-1939) Dr María del Castillo García Romero (Universidad de Sevilla) Mujeres en las artes para la construcción de una identidad femenina local (ss. XIX-XX) Charlotte Byrne (Queen Mary University London) Fact and Fiction: (Re)constructing Queer Identities in 1930s Spain 12:30 – 13:30: lunch 13:30 – 15:30: Panel 2 – State and Politics Marina Moya Moreno (Edinburgh), The Spanish transition(s) - representations of a Spanish democratic identity Carter Barnwell (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque), “‘An Almost Plebiscitary Demonstration’: Manuel Azaña, Madrid, and the Construction of Antifascist Identity, 1934-1936.” Patrick O’Malley (Aberystwyth) ‘“Stimulating the nation’s interest in African themes”: Spanish colonialism and Francoist press control in ABC newspaper, 1939-1945’ Day 2: 11 September 9:30 – 10:30: Keynote Talk from Dr María Reyes Baztán, Race and Basqueness: a new approach to race in early Basque nationalism (1892-1936) 10:30 – 12:30: Panel 3 – International Perspectives José Gabriel Jiménez López (Universidad Católica Argentina) ¿Y ahora qué? Veteranos y exiliados tras la pérdida de la América Española Matthew Ehrlich (University of California San Diego) Unconditional Spaniards: Integrismo as Spanish Nationalism, 1868-1878 Dr Stefanie Massink (University of Utrecht) Remnants of the Black Legend? Dutch perspectives on Spain and Spaniards during dictatorship and democracy, 1936 to present 12:30 – 13:30: lunch 13:30 – 15:30: Panel 4 – Nationalism and regionalism Dr Alejandro Pulido Azpíroz (Postdoctoral graduate of La Universidad del País Vasco), La Primera Guerra Mundial y procesos nacionalizadores de un país neutral: Regeneracionismo español y nacionalismo vasco Tobias Klee (Freie Universität Berlin) The Catalan Racialisation of Spain Marcos Narro Asensio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) De escudos, himnos y banderas: Nacionalismo e identidades en los festejos nupciales de Isabel II y Alfonso XII con María de las Mercedes 15:30 – 16:30: Discussion moderated by organisers and keynote speakers Sep 10 2022 09.30 - Sep 11 2022 16.30 Identity, State and Society in Modern Spain This international history conference will take place 10-11 September, 2022 both online and in-person in Canterbury. Online and in person at Keynes College, Canterbury Campus, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NP Find the venue Register
Sep 10 2022 09.30 - Sep 11 2022 16.30 Identity, State and Society in Modern Spain This international history conference will take place 10-11 September, 2022 both online and in-person in Canterbury.
