Conference Programme
Friday 7 November
8.10 CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS COLLECTED FROM ANGEL HOTEL
9.00-9.15 Coffee and Registration
9.15-9.30 Welcome
Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick)
Chair: Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick)
9.30-10.30 Magali Carrera (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), ‘From the History of the
Conquest to the Conquest of History: Re-contextualizing Mexico's History’
10.30-10.45 Coffee
Chair: Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick)
10.45-11.45 Jorge Myers (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes), ‘Historical Discourse in the River Plate’
11.45-12.45 Joanna Crow (University of Bristol), ‘Civilising the Barbarians: Historical Writing and
the Araucanians’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
Chair: Guy Thomson (University of Warwick)
2.00-3.00 Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham), ‘Rafael María de Labra, La pérdida de
las Américas (1869): A View from Spain’
3.00-4.00 Nicola Miller (University College London), ‘Herder and the Writing of History in
Spanish America’
4.00-4.30 Tea
Chair: Valerie Fraser (University of Essex)
4.30-5.30 Beatriz González-Stephan (Rice University), ‘The Panoramic Gaze: Disciplinamiento
de las Masas e Historia Patria’
RETURN TO LEAMINGTON SPA
7.45 GATHER IN LOBBY OF ANGEL HOTEL TO WALK TO RESTAURANT
8.00 Dinner, Oscar’s Restaurant, Chandos Street, Leamington Spa
Saturday 8 November
8.40 CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS COLLECTED FROM ANGEL HOTEL
Chair: Mauricio Nieto (Universidad de los Andes)
9.30-10.30 Matthew Brown (University of Bristol), ‘Daniel O’Leary and the Writing of Exile’
10.30-11.30 Clément Thibaud (Université de Nantes), ‘Los Usos Revolucionarios de la Historia
Sagrada’
11.30-11.45 Coffee
Chair: Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick)
11.45-12.45 Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi (University of California at Santa Barbara), ‘The
Proscribed Hero: The Silencing of Túpac Amaru in the Creole Historiography of Peru’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
Chair: Helen Cowie (University of Warwick)
2.00-3.00 Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent), ‘Soldier and Scribe: Manuel de
Mendiburu and the Writing of Biography in 19th-century Peru’
3.00-4.00 Ori Preuss (Tel Aviv University), ‘A Place in History, A History in Place: Spanish
American Pasts and Brazilian Self-interpretations’
4.00-4.15 Tea
Chair: Anthony McFarlane (University of Warwick)
4.15-5.15 Sergio Mejia (Universidad de los Andes), ‘Latin American Historicism and the History of History’
5.15-5.30 Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick), Closing Remarks
