Conference Schedule Palacio de Santoña, Madrid
The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association invites you to attend Spain and the Global Struggle for U.S. Independence, an academic conference examining the history of this important international relationship with a focus on the American Revolutionary and Founding eras. Wednesday, September 21 Opening gala dinner at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando including including a private viewing of works by Francisco Goya, and Giuseppe Perovani's portrait of George Washington Thursday, September 22 Welcome and Overview: CHAIRS, Kevin Butterfield and Gonzalo Quintero Saravia, brief framing comments Gabriel Paquette, University of Oregon, “Spain and the War that Created the United States” Session I: The Eighteenth-Century Wars for Empire CHAIR, Gabriel Paquette, University of Oregon Gonzalo Quintero Saravia, “The Long Struggle for Empire: Spanish-British Fight for Supremacy in the Americas” Manuel Lucena Giraldo “Spain and North America in the Eighteenth Century” Session II Setting the Stage in North America CHAIR, Kevin Butterfield, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina, “Spain, Native Americans, and the Complex World of the American Revolution” Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University, “Slavery and the British and Spanish Empires in the Eighteenth Century” Lunch at Palacio de Santoña Session III The Balance of Power in the Struggle for US Independence CHAIR, Agustín Guimerá Ravina Larrie Ferreiro, George Mason University, “Comparing the Military Strength of Great Britain, Spain, France, and the United States” Jose Manuel Guerrero Acosta, “How Spanish Support Transformed the US War for Independence” Evening event to be announced Friday, September 23 Session IV Diplomacy and the US-Spain Relationship in the Founding Era CHAIR, Gonzalo Quintero Saravia Sylvia Hilton, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Spanish Policy toward the New United States, 1780s-1820s” Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire, “The United States, Spain, and the European Scramble for America” Session V The Revolutionary Spirit in the Western Hemisphere CHAIR, Kevin Butterfield, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Juan Luis Simal Duran, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, “Spanish Liberal, American Republican: The Atlantic Life of Félix Mejía, Author of Lafayette in Mount Vernon (Philadelphia, 1825)” Joshua Simon, Johns Hopkins University, “Constitutions and Republicanism in the Americas, 1776-1830” Lunch at Lhardy, a classic Madrid restaurant since 1839 Session VI After the Age of Revolutions: The Long History of the Spain-US Relationship CHAIR, Gabriel Paquette, University of Oregon Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University, “La Famosa Filadelfia: The Quaker City and the Independence of Spanish America” Charles Powell, Real Institut Elcano for International and Strategic Studies, “Spanish-United States Relations, from Dictatorship to Democracy” Session VII Spain and the United States in the Twenty-First Century CHAIR, Douglas Bradburn, George Washington’s Mount Vernon SPEAKERS, to be announced. Gala Dinner at the Real Casino to celebrate the conclusion of the conference
This trip is organized by George Washington's Mount Vernon and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association Photos, registration and further information at www.mountvernon.org/spain
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Portions of the academic conference have been generously supported by our sponsors.