On Friday, September 26, a course on Hispanicity was closed, developed at the Institute of Spain, we explained in some detail last week1. While today we are going to synthesize the 14 pronounced conferences, each with its title, starting with the two that I dictated, “the origins of Hispanicity: the Spanish-Hispanic Oceanic treaties (Tordesillas, 1494).” And the entitled “Training and criticism of the black legend”.
Fernando Díaz Villanueva explained “the emancipation of Spanish America”, in what was a 14 -year civil war, continuing Christian Careaga, deputy director of the course, with the “Hispanic anfictionic project, past and present.”
Santiago Muñoz-Machado, director of the RAE, dedicated his presentation to Andrés Bello, grammar, among other things, long-range. And Prof. José Sánchez-Arcilla followed, with the theme “The laws of the Indies”, excellent legal body of Spanish America. Manuel Lucena Giraldo told us about the “Pacific Ocean, the Spanish Lake.”
José Luis López-Linares referred to his more than important trilogy of films about Latin America; And for his part, Prof. Alberto G. Ibáñez spoke about “Hispanicity and cognitive vassalage”, followed by Alberto Abascal with a vision of “Hispanicism as a current geopolitical reality.”
Luis Gorrocategui, from the University of La Coruña, took care of “The expedition of García Jofré de Loaisa”, the second major circumnavigation. Prof. Bernat Hernández, from the University of Barcelona, informed us about “the development of the commercial activity of New Spain with the Philippines”.
We will continue, ending, next Friday.