Latin American History Seminar: How to get rid of one's capital? Ties and relationships between the provinces of the Rio de la Plata and Buenos Aires (1810-1826); From Federalism to Centralism: Political Projects in New Granada, 1809-1821

tt 2017 poster week

Convener: Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speakers: Genevieve Verdo, University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne; Anthony MacFarlane, University of Warwick

This is the third François-Xavier Guerra Seminar, jointly organized with the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne with the support of the Oxford Maison Française.

Genèvieve Verdo es doctora y profesora titular en historia de América Latina en la Universidad de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Especializada en el período de las independencias hispanoamericanas, trabaja sobre la construcción política del Río de la Plata en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Ha publicado L’indépendance argentine entre cités et nations (París, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006) y dirigido, juntos con otros autores, Entre Nápoles y América. Ilustración y cultura jurídica en el mundo hispánico (Siglos XVIII y XIX) (Lima/Medellín, éditions de l’IFEA/La Carreta, 2012) y Les indépendances hispano-américaines, un objet d’histoire (Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2013).

Tony McFarlane, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Warwick.  His research has focused chiefly on the histories of Colombia and Ecuador, seen within the context of the history of the Spanish world in the period c.1700-c.1850. It includes study of Colombia's economic history during and after the colonial period, the history of rebellions, slavery and crime in the late colonial period, and the movements for independence in the early nineteenth century. He has also been interested in the comparative history of late colonial Spanish America, and in British American colonial history.  He has published extensively on these subjects, including his latest book War and Independence in Spanish America (2013).