The Spanish Contribution to the Independence of the United States:between reform and Revolution (1763-1848)". nationa Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
The symposium "The Spanish Contribution to the Independence of the United States: between Reform and Revolution (1763-1848), was an initiative of the Fundación Consejo España-Estados Unidos with the assistance of the Embassy of Spain and co-organized by Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX ), the Smithsonian Latino Center and the National Portrait Gallery. It was celebrated as a complement to the exhibition "Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848".
This symposium is the second international conference on Spain's contribution to the Independence of the United States. The symposium, coordinated by Eduardo Garrigues, board member of the Fundación Consejo España-Estados Unidos, brought together historians and academics from Spain, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States to present their ideas and discuss the relationship between Spain and America in the 18th and 19th centuries, and analyzed in depth the legacy of those historical interactions. The three day seminar touched various aspects of the period: the Spanish aid to the American Revolutionary War; the changing U.S. borders and their effect on Latin American republics; and the mutual perceptions and interactions as Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon cultural worlds encountered each other.
This symposium was made possible thanks to sponsorships from BBVA, Grupo Barceló, Iberdrola,and Iberia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, the Ministry of Culture of Spain and the Embassy of Spain in the United States also contributed to the realization of this project.
- Symposium Program
- Participants' biographies
- J.I. Goirigolzarri, Chairman of the Foundation, Symposium inaugural speech (in Spanish)