End of the Old Regime in the Iberian World
University of California, Berkeley,
February 8-9, 2008
Friday February 8 223 Moses Hall
9:30 Spain’s War of Independence and the End of the Old Regime
Scott Eastman (Creighton University)
Forging Catholic National Identities in the Transatlantic Spanish Monarchy, 1808-1814
Carlos Marichal (Colegio de México)
Mexican Silver for the Cortes of Cadiz and the War
against Napoleon, 1808-1811
"Restoration" and Reality in Nineteenth-Century Spain
David Ringrose (U. of California, San Diego)
2:00 Napoleon’s Impact on the Portuguese World
Miriam Halpern Pereira (ISCTE, Lisbon)
Crown, Nation and Empire (1807-1834)
Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva (University of São Paulo)
The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro and Napoleon's
Black Legend
The Hispanic Revolution: Spain and America, 1808-1826
Jaime Rodríguez (U. of California, Irvine)
Berkeley Art Museum
7:30 Lecture
Janis Tomlinson (University of Delaware)
"After the Hero: Goya in Context 1814-1824"
Saturday February 9 Morrison Room, Doe Library
9:30 The Portuguese Empire in Transition
Kirsten Schultz (The Cooper Union, NY)
Slavery and the End of the Old Regime in the Luso-
Brazilian Empire
José Luiz Passos (U. of California, Los Angeles)
Bishop Azeredo Coutinho's Report on a Future
Transatlantic Empire
Staging the Revolution(s)
David Gies (University of Virginia)
2:00 The End of the Old Regime in Literature
Jesús Pérez-Magallón (McGill University, Montreal)
The Accursed War of 1808: Ideological Disquiet and Certainty in Moratín
Michael Iarocci (U. of California, Berkeley)
Benito Pérez Galdós and the Birth of Modern Spain
From the Old Regime to the Contemporary Iberian World
Lessons from the Conference
Tulio Halperin (U. of California, Berkeley}
Richard Herr (U. of California, Berkeley)
Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Spanish Studies Program and Portuguese Studies Program
Cosponsored by UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley
Art Museum, Dean of Social Sciences, Department of History, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the United States Universities, and the Consul-General of Spain in San Francisco |