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International Congress: 1820. The Illusion of Freedom

International Congress: 1820. The Illusion of Freedom

The international congress "The Illusion of Freedom. Revolutionary liberalism in Spain and America in the twenties" aims to analyze the current of liberalism that resurfaced from January 1, 1820 when the constitutional teaching was raised from Las Cabezas de San Juan . A momentous moment that was an explosion of freedoms, rights and decrees that were won from the barricade and the gallery. This wave of freedoms reached near and far regions, among which are the Americans that would lead to independence.

In 2020 the Bicentennial of the revolution or pre-revolutionary cycle of 1820 is commemorated.The Revolutions of 1820 were a revolutionary wave in Europe. It included revolutions in Russia, Spain, Portugal and Italy for constitutional monarchies, and for independence from Ottoman rule in Greece. Unlike the revolutionary wave in the 1830s, these tended to take place in the peripheries of Europe.

Thematic Tables:
1. The liberal revolution of 1820 in Spain, Portugal, Europe and Latin America.
2. Latin American independence in the twenties.
3. The revolutionaries.
4. The image and the Revolution.
5. Press, literature and Revolution and Counterrevolution.
6. Armed forces: army, militias, military technology, war, recruitment and politicization.
7. The absolutist and conservative counterrevolution.
8. The revolutionary forces: peasants, artisans, petty bourgeoisie.
9. From the national question to the social question.
10. The colors of the revolution: Indians, blacks, mulattos, mestizos.

Congress Directors:
Juan Marchena Fernández (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville)
Manuel Chust (Jaume I University of Castellón)

Scientific Committee:
Enrique Ayala Mora (Andean University Simón Bolívar, Quito)
Pedro Cardim (Nova University of Lisbon)
José Carlos Chiaramonte (University of Buenos Aires)
Manuel Chust (Jaume I University of Castellón)
Justo Cuño (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville) v Raúl Fradkin (University of Buenos Aires)
Manuel González de Molina (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville)
Brian Hamnett (University of Essex)
Ana Carolina Ibarra (UNAM)
Bernard Lavalle (University of La Sorbonne, Paris)
Juan Marchena (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville)
Medina Medina (National University of Colombia)
Nuno Monteiro (University of Lisbon)
Juan Ortiz (Veracruzana University, Mexico)
Claudia Rosas (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)
Pedro Rújula (University of Zaragoza)
Juan Manuel Santana (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
José Antonio Serrano (The College of Michoacán, Mexico)
Francisco Manuel Silva Ardanuy (University of Seville)
Arturo Taracena (UNAM, Mérida, Mexico)
 

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