Commemoration, Memory, and Dialogue with the Past
Ireland – Latin America
Desires and aspirations for independence from Imperial rulers and the fight against colonial systems are ideas and dreams that were common to Ireland and Latin America. Revolutionary movements arose against Spanish, British, and Portuguese colonialism. 2021 is a significant year for Peru, Mexico, Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) as they commemorate their national independence bicentennials. Likewise, the decade 2012-2022 is the Decade of Centenaries marking historical events in the formation of modern Ireland. This conference seeks to create a space for discussion and an exchange of ideas about the meaning of the making of a nation with regards to Ireland and these countries. The challenges involved in both nation-building and the documenting of that process will receive attention, and the conference is interested in analyses of cultural responses to nation-building in the form of press and media coverage, writing, art or any form or popular culture including song.
The conference will also explore the many transnational dialogues between Ireland and Latin America over the process of nation-building and independence and the reception of these ideas. Finally, the conference is open to scholarly investigations of the multiple commemoration processes of independence and revolution in both Ireland and Latin America as a way of opening fruitful comparative pathways.The conference would like to bring together scholars from across disciplines who are interested in connections between Ireland, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. We invite individual proposals for twenty-minute presentations (papers/posters) or for panels of three people exploring a similar theme.
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