Seminarios

Seminario de Posgrado (doctorado) [11/7/07]
Universidad Católica Argentina
cehao_uca@yahoo.com.ar

Seminario de Posgrado ACREDITABLE PARA TODAS LAS CARRERAS DE DOCTORADO "Nacimiento de la escritura y desarrollo del alfabeto : una perspectiva interdisciplinar" (32 hs) Dr. Christophe RICO (Hebrew University of Jerusalem- École Biblique et Archéologique de Jérusalem) Días y horarios: 4,5,6,7,10,11,12,13 de Septiembre de 17.30 a 21.00hs. exceptuando la última clase 14/09 hasta las 21.30. Campus de Puerto Madero

Pedro Rueda Ramírez [23/2/07]
nopudieronser@hotmail.com

Coloquio “Las Españas que (no) pudieron ser. Herejías, exilios y otras conciencias (sgilos XVI-XX)”, coordinado por Manuel Peña Díaz, Córdoba, 10-12 de abril de 2007. Más información y programa de actividades en: http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/sigloro/index.htm

Gonzalo Pasamar [26/10/06]
gpasamar@unizar.es

Historians and Spanish Culture in the Ninetieth and Twentieth Centuries

Seminar /Lecture Series

(Rutgers University-Newark).

Fall 2006

Profesor Gonzalo Pasamar

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

PROGRAM

1. The birth of National Histories in Europe and the Spanish Academy of History in the Ninetieth century.

2. National Regeneration, University Reforms and the Promotion of Research (Spain, 1898-1936).

3. From Research to Synthesis: Spanish Professional Historians and the Image of Spanish History (1898- 1936).

4. Reconstructing Spanish Historiography after the Civil War.

5. Exile Restores the Image of Spanish History: Historical Essay vs. Propaganda.

6. Spanish Historiography in the Last Decades: The End of Backwardness.

1. The Birth of National Histories in Europe and the Spanish Academy of History in the ninetieth century.

Abstract.

In this lecture we focus our attention in two elements of Spanish historiography in the 19th Century: the figure of Modesto Lafuente and the Academy of History. Lafuente s History of Spain, written in the light of premises of liberal nationalism, became a model of composition for historians. The Academy of History is the other topic to take into account. This institution, regarded as the main guardian of Spanish historical symbols, must be considered the bridge for professional historians of the 20th century.

2. National Regeneration, University Reforms and the Promotion of Research (Spain, 1898-1936).

Abstract.

This lecture deals with one of the most relevant aspects concerning the birth of the modern scientific community in Spain before the Civil War (1936-39): the role played by philologists and historians such as Menéndez Pidal, Claudio Sánchez Albornoz and Rafael Altamira. We analyze the circumstances that surrounded two institutions that stood for the new interest in research: the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios and the Centro de Estudios Históricos. Both of them helped to put Spanish research in Philology and History on the international map.

3. From Research to Synthesis: Spanish Professional Historians and the Image of Spanish History (1898- 1936).

Abstract.

In this lecture we tackle the theoretical ideas on History and how they were applied to the construction of a History of Spain in the first decades of the 20th century. Particularly we stress the importance of Rafael Altamiras ideas on teaching history, his interest in Sociology, as well as his concept of history of Spanish civilization. We also deal with the reflection in Spain of a famous European debate about the scientific character of History happened in the turn of the century. The importance of the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and his interest in promoting the reflection of History are also highlighted.

4. Reconstructing Spanish Historiography after the Civil War.

Abstract.

This lecture addresses the conditions in which institutions of research were reconstructed in the forties and fifities around the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas by the Francoist regime and how this situation afected historians. Particularly we stress the challenge issued by the Catalan historian Jaume Vicens Vives. Vives tried to found a historical school independent from Francoist historians and became the most important defender of paradigm of social and economic history in the fifties.

5. Exile Restores the Image of Spanish History: Historical Essay vs. Propaganda.

Abstract.

In this lecture we examine the historical image of Spain built by exile, and especially Américo Castros History of Spain, whose reflections we situate in the tradition of the U.S. Hispanism. We propose to regard his History as the inheritor of the essay, a literary expression that arrived at its height before the Civil War and was manipulated by Francos intellectuals by mixing it with propaganda. However, we suggest that Castros reflections on Spanish identity were part of a trend from exile, in which the use of historical essay was far from been an isolated phenomenon.

6. Spanish Historiography in the Last Decades: The End of Backwardness.

Abstract.

In this lecture we analyze the main changes in Spanish historiography since democracy returned to Spain thirty years ago. We try to demonstrate that the historical discipline has become more current with respect to internationaltrends in the last ten of fifty years by loosing all traditional features that defined it as a backward field (lack of associations; scarce international projection and theoretical reflection; or the guided role from experts in Hispanic culture). In the last part of the lecture we explain the meaning of the movement Historia Debate, as outstanding example of recent changes occurred in our historiography.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~cmll/events.htm