Impeded Circulations
Location: Colegio de España (Cité internationale universitaire), Paris
International meeting coordinated by Claire Bouvier, UMR Héritages.
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the Red Columnaria, we are organizing an international conference on Impeded Circulations. The Red Columnaria (https://www.um.es/redcolumnaria/red-columnaria) brings together a large group of researchers (Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Spain, United States, France, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Uruguay) around the analysis of the forms of organization and perception of the borders of the Iberian Monarchy from the 16th to the 18th century.
This conference, bringing together historians and art historians, aims to put into perspective the contributions of the historiographical renovation which took place in the 1990s concerning the question of circulation in the context of the Hispanic Monarchy and its expansion, propitious to a “first globalization” which would have favoured numerous exchanges and “mixings”, cultural or not. Without calling into question the certain contributions of this historiographical renewal, it is a question of reversing the favourable prejudice of contemporary historiography about these circulations in order to reflect on the obstacles of all kinds which could have slowed down, in question or block this fluidity in an Ancien Régime society.