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Friday, 29 May

4:00-4:20

Welcome and opening remarks
Matthew Brown (University of Bristol) and Gabriel Paquette (Trinity College, Cambridge)

 

4:20-6:15

Panel I: Slavery, Revolution and Abolition in Transatlantic Perspective

Chair: Gabriel Paquette (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Commentator: Anthony McFarlane (University of Warwick)

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (Fordham University)
Bartolomé de las Casas and the Slave Trade to Cuba, circa 1820

Neil Safier (University of British Columbia)
An Abolitionist Moment? Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Luso-Brazilian Print Culture in the 1820s

Carrie Gibson (Peterhouse College, Cambridge)
‘There is no doubt that we are under threat from the Negros of Santo Domingo’: the spectre of Haiti in the Spanish Caribbean

 

 

Saturday, 30 May

9:00-11:00

Panel II: Political Transfer on an Intercontinental Scale

Chair: David Brading (University of Cambridge)
Commentator: Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick)

Brian Hamnett (University of Essex)
Monarchies, Republics, and Romanticism – thematic issues in a contradictory decade

Will Fowler (University of St Andrews)
Rafael del Riego and the Spanish Origins of the Nineteenth-century Mexican Pronunciamiento

Scott Eastman (Creighton University)
‘'A Violent and Repugnant Union of Kingdoms': The End of the First Spanish Empire, 1820-1823

 

 

11:15-1:00

Panel III: Liberals and Liberalism

Chair: Brian Hamnett (University of Essex)
Commentators: Christopher Schmidt Nowara (Fordham University) and Gabriel Paquette (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Monica Ricketts (Long Island University and Temple University)
Together or Separate in the Fight against Oppression? Liberals in Peru and Spain in the 1820s

Josep Fradera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Imperial adjustments: inclusion and exclusion in Spanish imperial liberalism

Maurizio Isabella (Queen Mary, University of London)
Entangled Patriotisms: the Italian Diaspora and Spanish America

 

2:00-4:15

Panel IV: Foreigners in the midst of new nations in Spanish America

Chair: David Rock (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Commentator: Matthew Brown (University of Bristol)

Iona Macintyre (University of Edinburgh)
Corinne in the Andes: European advice for women in 1820s Argentina and Chile

Rueben Zahler (University of Oregon)
Heretics, capitalists, and cadavers: European foreigners in Venezuela during the 1820s

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent at Canterbury)
For Honour and Glory: the men of the Battle of Ayacucho (9 December 1824)

Scarlett O’Phelan Godoy (Simón Bolívar Chair, University of Cambridge)
O'Higgins and the independence of Peru

 

4:30-6:30

Panel V: Anglo-American interventions in the Hispanic World

Chair: Matthew Brown (University of Bristol)
Commentator: Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State University)

David Rock (University of California at Santa Barbara)
A Liberal Revolution Deferred: The British in Buenos Aires under Rivadavia

Jay Sexton (University of Oxford)
An American System: The North American Union and Latin America in the 1820s

Alastair Wilson (University of Bristol)
A New Epoch: Latin American Independence, Anglo-American International Trade and the Roots of Philippine Development, 1821-34

 

 

6:30-6:45

Closing Remarks
Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette