On 2 February 1825, through the signing of a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation with the United Provinces of the River Plate (present-day Argentina), the United Kingdom officially recognized for the first time the independence of a Spanish American nation. The community of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh in Argentina soon became the largest expat community outside the British Empire. This five-day online conference aims to encourage a re-thinking of 200 years of Anglo-Argentine relations by foregrounding new research that acknowledges the existence of a wider Hispanic-Anglosphere to explore the history of common endeavours on natural sustainability, health, well-being, freedom of expression, social diversity, and inclusivity that may serve both to challenge and to bring new light on topics of conflict and sovereignty that have dominated discussions since the Falklands War. Indeed, this will be the first conference in living memory to look into Anglo-Argentine relations beyond the scope of the South Atlantic conflict. Guided by the pioneering work of Klaus Gallo and David Rock, it seeks to encourage interest in the role played by ordinary individuals, networks and communities in forging the bilateral relation, particularly in the UK where both scholarly and public attention has so far been comparatively low. Organized by the Modern History Research Centre at the University of Winchester and the Hispanic-Anglosphere project, the conference also aims to bring enquiries towards topics capable of informing policies on pressing present-days issues, for example, regarding equal access to resources in learning, housing, healthcare and biodiversity.
A programme has already been drawn up with the participation of scholars in both Europe and the Americas (see below). This Call for Papers opens the possibility for additional contributions. Particularly welcomed will be those covering issues and/or topics relevant to the panel themes identified in the provisional programme below in capital letters.
Submission guidelines: If you wish to submit a proposal, please email a 200-word abstract with a suggested title and a brief personal profile (150 words) before Friday 7th February 2025 to the email address hispanicanglosphere@gmail.com (notification of acceptance expected within three weeks).
Provisional Programme (online)
MONDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER starting 14:00 UK (10 am Argentina, 15:00 Spain)
14:00 – 14:15 Opening Remarks: Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (convener, University of Winchester)
14:15–15:45 pm THE HISPANIC-ANGLOSPHERE, EMPIRE AND THE GLOBAL DIMENSION
Paula Seiguer, Professor of Social History (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Tenured Researcher (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research –CONICET, Argentina).
“Spanish preachers in the Anglican Church and St Andrew’s Scots Church in Argentina (1883-1940)”
Benjamin Bryce, Associate Professor (University of British Columbia, Canada)
“Subverting Empire: Punjabi migrants in Buenos Aires and London before the First World War“
José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez, Associate Professor (Universidad de Salamanca & Universidad de Cantabria)
“Pedazos antes de nuestra patria“: Revisiting Spanish views of the Anglo-Argentine Treaty of 1825”
Q&A and general panel discussion
TUESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER starting 14:00 pm UK (10 am Argentina, 15:00 Spain)
14:00–15:45: NATURE, URBAN ENVIRONMENT & THE OUTDOORS
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Modern Global Hispanic History (University of Winchester, UK)
“Two centuries of Argentine imprint on nature and wildlife activism in Britain”
Florencia Rolla, DPhil candidate in Modern History (University of San Andrés, Argentina)
“The British community and the construction of the suburban environment in Buenos Aires during the first decades of the 19th Century”
Q&A and general panel discussion
WEDNESDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER starting 14:00 pm UK (10 am Argentina, 15:00 Spain)
14:00–15:45: LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA
Juan I. Neves Sarriegui, postdoctoral researcher (University of Oxford, UK).
“The British representative Government as seen in the Press of the Río de la Plata“
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Modern Global Hispanic History (University of Winchester, UK)
“Rogue nation, paradise, then neglect and back again: 200 years of Argentina in the British press”
Q&A and general panel discussion
THURSDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER starting 14:00 pm UK (10 am Argentina, 15:00 Spain)
14:00–15:45: EDUCATION
Alina Silveira, Professor of Argentine History (National University of Quilmes, Argentina), Tenured Researcher (National University of Quilmes, Argentina)
“San Martín: From Liberator of the Spanish Empire to Symbol of Resistance Against British Imperialism. An Analysis of the Intervention at St. George’s College, Quilmes, Argentina (1950)”
Flavia Fiorucci, Professor of Argentine History (National University of Quilmes, Argentina), Tenured Researcher (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research –CONICET, Argentina).
“British governesses in Argentina: migrant workers or cultural ambassadors?”
Q&A and general panel discussion
FRIDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER starting 14:00 pm UK (10 am Argentina, 15:00 Spain)
14:00–16:00: HEALTH, GENDER & SEXUALITY
Stefania Cardonetti, DPhil candidate in Modern History (University of San Andrés, Argentina)
“Gender and mental alienation within the British community in Buenos Aires”
Ailin Basilio Fabris, PhD Candidate in Social Sciences and Humanities (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
“Traveling the world, selling eroticism, defeating censorship: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli commercial relationship with Britain (1960-1970)”
Closing Forum: Discussions, Reflections, Next Steps (all conference participants)
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Participants:
Speakers (alphabetically by surname):
José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez is Associate Professor in History at the Universidad de Cantabria and the University of Salamanca (Spain) and was IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and was formerly a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Winchester (UK). His research centers on the interactions between Ireland, the Irish diaspora, and the Hispanic world. He has published several in the Radical History Review journal and inJosé C. Moya, ed., Atlantic Crossroads: Webs of Migration, Culture and Politics between Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1800–2020 (New York: Routledge, 2021) and Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, ed., The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021).
Benjamin Bryce is Associate Professor in Global and International History at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on migration, health, education, and religion. At UBC, he teaches courses on global history, migration, imperialism, and anticolonialism and is also chair of the Latin American Studies program (2022-2025). He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (2022-2025), curator of the virtual museum “Bridge to Argentina” and a fellow at the Lateinamerika-Institut at the Freie Universität in Berlin (2023-26). His first monograph, To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society (Stanford University Press, 2018) has been published in Spanish as Ser de Buenos Aires: Alemanes, argentinos y el surgimiento de una sociedad plural, 1880-1930 (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2019).
Stefania Cardonetti is a National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) scholar at the University of San Andrés where she is completing a DPhil. exploring the link between migration and emotions in Argentina, focusing on the gravitation of nostalgia. She is also an assistant lecturer in History at the University of Quilmes (Argentina).
Ailin Basilio Fabris is aPhD Candidate in Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, currently exploring issues relating to gender and censorship in 20th century Argentina from a transnational perspective.
Flavia Fiorucci is Professor of Argentine History at the National University of Quilmes, Argentina and Tenured Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, Argentina). She has published extensively including The Argentine Crisis at the turn of the millennium. Causes, Consequences and Explanations (Cedla Latin American Studies: Amsterdam 2004) co-authored with Marcus Klein, Intelectuales y Peronismo, 1945-1955 (Biblos: Buenos Aires, 2011) and more recently on topics relating to education such as Historia de la Educación Argentina: palabras claves (UNIPE: Buenos Aires, 2019) co-authored with Jose Bustamante Vismara.
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Principal Investigator in the international research network project ‘The Hispanic Anglosphere: Transnational networks and global communities (18th – 20th centuries)’ in partnership with The National Trust (Tyntesfield) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the University of Winchester where she is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and Global Hispanic History and currently leads the Modern History Research Centre (MHRC). She is also aResearch Associate at the Latin American Centre of the Oxford School of Global and Area studies and a former Reuters Fellow with a long career in journalism, including as Chief European correspondent for the Argentine daily La Nación. An Oxford graduate (St. Hilda’s) and postgraduate (LMH) both as a mature student, her first academic book, British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon: volunteering under the Spanish Flag in the Peninsular War (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014) has been followed by other works, including a book co-edited with Prof. David Hook, Translations in Times of Disruption: an interdisciplinary study in transnational contexts (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century – An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021) that she edited, containing two chapters and other short pieces of her authorship as well.
Juan Neves Sarriegui is a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘Latin America and the Global History of Democracy, 1810-1930’ (Oxford History Faculty and the Gerda Henkel Foundation). He completed his DPhil in History also at the University of Oxford. His thesis – ‘Revolution in the Rio de la Plata: Political Culture and Periodical Press, c. 1780-1830’ – explores the changes in political life and print culture brought about by the independence movement in present-day Argentina and Uruguay. He was ‘Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley’ scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford (2018-2022), a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) doctoral visiting student at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin (2022) and Project Administrator and Member of the Steering Committee of the AHRC Research Network ‘Reframing the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850’ (2023). He was also co-editor of a special virtual issue of the Past & Present journal and published in the collective volume The Hispanic-Anglosphere: an Introduction (2021) edited by Graciela Iglesias-Rogers.
Florencia Rolla is lecturer in Architecture and Urban History at the University of Buenos Aires where she obtained a Phd in that discipline. She holds a Master’s in History from the University of San Andrés where she is currently completing a DPhil delving into the social and cultural history of the city of Buenos Aires and its suburban environment, focusing particularly on the British urban and suburban community in the 19th century. She has published several articles and participated in conferences associated to them.
Paula Seiguer is Professor of Social History at the University of Buenos Aires where she obtained a DPhil in History. She is also Tenured Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research –CONICET and course leader in Comparative Religions at the University of San Andrés. She is co-director of GIEPRA (Interdisciplinary Group of Studies on Religious Pluralism in Argentina), author of “Jamás he estado en casa”. La Iglesia Anglicana y los ingleses en la Argentina (Biblos, 2017), editor of Experiencias plurales de lo sagrado. La diversidad religiosa argentina (Imago Mundi, 2014) and has penned several academic articles. Her research addresses the history of Protestantism in Argentina and Latin America.
Alina Silveira is Professor of Argentine History and Tenured Researcher at the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. She has a doctorate in History and a Master’s degree in Historical Research from the University of San Andrés and a Professorship of History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. She is a specialist in British migration to Argentina, currently researching English schools in Argentina. Her publications include the book Gran Bretaña en la Reina del Plata. Ingleses y escoceses en Buenos Aires (1800-1880) (Biblos, 2017) as well as several articles in national and international specialized magazines and book chapters.
For more information, please email the convener, Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (g.iglesiasrogers@winchester.ac.uk). Bear in mind that submissions must be emailed to hispanicanglosphere@gmail.com by the deadline mentioned above.
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