Symposium "Postimperial possibilities in the Iberian Pacific and Atlantic Worlds (1808-1898)"

The Symposium "Postimperial possibilities in the Iberian Pacific and Atlantic Worlds (1808-1898)" departs from the hypothesis that nineteenth-century Hispanic world history has much to contribute to these discussions, especially if we conceptualise the Iberian Monarchies, the Ibero-American republics and the Luso/Spanish states of Asia and Africa as 'ambivalent empires' and 'post-imperial laboratories'. Most of these polities were subject to the informal imperialism of Britain, France and the United States as they sought to bring their state-building projects to success. These were not exclusively national: at times, they projected horizons of supranational organisation, while at others, they resorted to imperial practices such as territorial conquest, gunboat diplomacy, or settler colonialism. The symposium will accept papers that help us understand the ambivalent relationship that nineteenth-century Iberian Pacific and Atlantic Worlds had with imperialism and the experiments of postimperial political organisation that took place in them.

The event is organised in the framework of the Marie Curie Action 101148590 - POST-EMPIRE, Horizon Europe (HORIZON), which the European Commission funds through Grant HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-0.

It is also carried out within the framework of the Fondecyt Project Nº 1240232, “The political culture of post-imperial intervention. Spain and the South American Pacific Republics”, funded by the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile.

Organisers: Grupo de Estudios Asia Pacífico-Dpto. de Historia Internacional y Global (IH-CSIC); Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies; Laboratorio Geopolítica e Ideología en el Mundo Hispano Global; Centro de Estudios Americanos de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.