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III Congreso Internacional "Historias y Diplomacias. Nuevas agendas de investigación"

Lunes 16 y martes 17 de octubre de 2023
Modalidad online (zoom)

Este evento da continuidad a las I Jornadas "Historias y Diplomacias. Fuentes, trayectorias y tramas en el pasaje del siglo XIX al XX" (2020), las Primeras Jornadas Internacionales "Diplomacia(s) desde y hacia América Latina" (2021) y las II Jornadas Internacionales "Historias y Diplomacias. América Latina en perspectiva global".
En esta ocasión se propone una dinámica de congreso online. Los paneles del congreso tienen como objetivo profundizar los debates generados en los mencionados eventos académicos y propiciar otros que atiendan a las renovaciones de las agendas que han tenido lugar en la denominada "nueva historia diplomática" y la historia cultural de las relaciones internacionales en las dos últimas décadas.
A lo largo de dos días, tendrán lugar paneles organizados por los miembros del comité académico en los que participan investigadores de distintos países y generaciones como coordinadores, ponentes y comentaristas.
La asistencia en el congreso es de libre acceso y las sesiones se realizan por medio de la plataforma Zoom.

Modalidad online (zoom) - ID: 81007210312
Referencias en hora de Chile, Argentina y Brasil
México: -3 | España: +5

Proyecto y organización general: Nicolás Arenas, Paula Bruno e Isidora Puga

Comité académico y coordinación: Martín Albornoz, Nicolás Arenas, Raquel Bressan, Paula Bruno, Pilar Cagiao Vila, Héctor Domínguez Benito, Ana Laura Lanteri, Ascensión Martínez Riaza, Gabriel Passetti, Agustina Rayes, Agustín Sánchez Andrés, José Antonio Sanchéz Román, Erna Ulloa.

Programa:


International Workshop


Exhibition "Francisco Ayala and the Social Sciences"

The exhibition "Francisco Ayala and the Social Sciences" shows, through a dozen panels of images and text, the author's trajectory in the field of Political and Social Sciences.

The Faculty of Geography and History of the Complutense University of Madrid will host the traveling exhibition "Francisco Ayala and the Social Sciences", designed and produced by the Foundation Francisco Ayala, until April 21, 2023.

Focused on Ayala's facet as a sociologist and political scientist, his formative years in Madrid and Berlin, his work as a lawyer for the Cortes during the Republic, his diplomatic work in the Civil War, as well as his publications and translations on these matters, are some of the milestones of this exhibition. 


Workshop "Francisco Ayala and the Social Sciences"

Within the activities of the traveling exhibition "Francisco Ayala and the Social Sciences" (open to the public from February 16 to April 21), a closing session was organized in the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Geography and History on Friday, April 21, 2023. The session was organized by the research project "A Global Campus" and had the collaboration of the Francisco Ayala Foundation and the Semana de las Letras 2023 UCM.
 
Throughout the session, specialist researchers commented on the contributions of sociologist Francisco Ayala to this field of study. Dean of the Faculty, Miguel Luque Talaván, opened the act and expressed the pridefulness of the university community for having this exhibition in its halls and highlighted its interest in the figure of Francisco Ayala, a former university student of this alma mater.)
 
Carolina Castillo Ferrer, head of the library, archives, and documentation at the Francisco Ayala Foundation, emphasized the importance of this exhibition designed and produced by the Foundation (in collaboration with the University of Granada) to bring the figure of the intellectual closer to the student community and teacher through the display of panels with photographs, and publications that recollect the trajectory of the author. She stressed that the images allude to his formative stage in Madrid and Berlin, as well as his period as a lawyer for the Spanish Parliament during the Republic, and his diplomatic work in the Civil War, all this always concerning the figure of Ayala as a sociologist and political scientist.
 
Two lectures about the author were given, first by Sebastián Martín from the University of Seville and then by Giulia Quaggio, from the host university. Dr. Martín's speech identified Ayala in the legal context of the Republic. On the other hand, the talk of Dr. Quaggio insisted on his active role as a political intellectual during the transition to Spanish democracy.
 
The closing session was in charge of Carolina Rodríguez, head researcher of the host project, who explained how both the opening, study sessions, and the exhibition fit into the research project according to three roles that Ayala performed during exile: as a mediator, as a collaborator and as a transmitter of ideas, roles that consolidate him as a strategic intellectual of the Republic.
 
After the conferences, the audience dialogued with the specialists through questions about their experience with Francisco Ayala from the Spanish Parliament and about the methodological challenges of studying his work. The Vice Dean of Students and University Extension, Marta Poza Yagüe, gave the farewell words that closed this exhibition.
 

 

 

                                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening panel. From left to right: Carolina Rodríguez, Sebastián Martín,
Miguel Luque, Carolina Castillo, and Giulia Quaggio.

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Giuilia Quaggio gave the conference "Freedom for what?
Ayala, the sciences and the Spanish Transition".


International Workshop


Research Seminar "Global Intellectual Networks"

Within the framework of the research groups Modernización, desarrollo y democratización. El papel de las potencias europeas occidentales y de las organizaciones internacionales en el cambio político y social de España and A Global Campus: universities, cultural transfers, and experiencies in the 20th century, the Faculty of Geography and History of the Complutense University hosted this Seminar.
Since internationalization has become a requirement for all universities and research centers in the globalized world, many States and institutions finance exchange programs so that students, researchers, or artists can broaden their training in other countries and create networks of international collaboration.

Although the trip for educational and cultural purposes could go back to the popularization of the European Grand Tour in the 17th century, the systematization of these scientific, educational, and cultural exchanges is quite recent. It was not until the 19th century that the rise of the liberal state and the creation of national education systems generated a contradiction between the belief in the universality of knowledge and the local limits of its production. In addition to technological advances, improved communications, the strength of the idea of ​​progress, and many other historical factors, it seems that this dichotomy between national culture and foreign influence highlighted the importance of the circulation of ideas between countries at the end of the 19th century. The exchange of knowledge could contribute to the modernization of a country and increase its influence abroad.

Therefore, at the beginning of the 20th century, the States organized programs to favor the internationalization of their scientific and educational systems. Far from the neutrality that is usually attributed to science, the circulation of knowledge was mediated by preceding power structures, cultural perceptions, and ideological ends.

Hence, these exchange programs can be analyzed for their contribution to the development of the science, culture, or education of the countries, but also for the role that played in foreign and even domestic policy of nations.

To analyze the origin, development, and characteristics of these exchange programs and circuits throughout the 20th century, this seminar brings together a group of researchers who have studied this phenomenon in Spain and other countries. Through the comparison of the Spanish case with what happened in other latitudes, we intend to study the convergences and divergences of these programs and networks to determine their impact on political, social, and economic at the local and global levels.

Program:

  • September 19: Spain and its interchanges during the 20th century

Marició Janué i Miret (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "The JAE (Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios) as a precursor to the institutionalization of Spanish cultural and scientific diplomacy. The case of pensioners in Germany".
Irene Mendoza Martín (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): "Pensioners and labor market. Analysis of the first salary opportunities for JAE scholarship holders".
Paula Bruno (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "Visits and cultural embassies. Proposals and methodological possibilities for the study of mobilities and circulations between Spain and Latin America, 1910-1930".
Carolina Rodríguez López (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "There is no country in the world like Spain. Del Almo Foundation in the United States: philosophy, stages and scholarships".
Óscar J. Martín García (INGENIO, CSIC-UPV): "The Fulbright Exchange Program and United States Science Diplomacy in Spain, 1958-1975".
Mariano González Delgado (Universidad de La Laguna): "Building bridges with international science and culture: The UNESCO scholarship program abroad and educative modernization in Spain, 1953-1975".
Lorenzo Delgado-Gómez-Escalonilla (CSIC): "Cartography of a process of cultural and scientific transfers throughout the 20th century. The Spanish case".

  • September 20: Student & scientific exchange programs. A comparative perspective

Luis G. Martínez del Campo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "In Return for Your Language. Exchange Programs for University Lectors of Spanish, 1910-1936".
Alice Byrne (Aix-Marseille Université): "The Foreign University Interchange Scheme and British exchange diplomacy, 1945-1960".
Sarah Lemmen (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "A Catholic Safe Haven: Students from Eastern Europe in Spain during Francoism".
Constantin Katsakioris (Charles University in Prague): "The Socialist Countries, North Africa and the Middle East History and Legacies of Educational Cooperation in the Cold War".

First panel:  (from left to right): Dr. Luis G. Martínez, MA. Irene Mendoza, 
and Dr. Marició Janué

Second panel: (from left to right): Dr. Paula Bruno, Dr. Luis G. Martínez
and Dr. Carolina Rodríguez