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“Hispania, Al-Andalus and Spain: Identity and nationalism in the history of the Iberian Peninsula”
January 24, 20226:00 p.m.
IN MADRID AND ONLINE
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62) and on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
6:00 p.m.
Free entry until the auditorium’s capacity is reached. Masks must be worn at all times throughout Casa Árabe. Thank you for your cooperation.
In Spanish.
Writer Luis García Montero and the editors of the work, Maribel Fierro
and Alejandro García Sanjuán, will be debating the significance of
Al-Andalus in the history of Spain, at Casa Árabe. The event is taking
place along with the presentation of the book, published by Marcial
Pons, and will be held in Madrid on Monday, January 24 (as well as being
shown live on YouTube).
The significance of al-Andalus and its use in creating the national identity is a controversial topic, subject to conflicting viewpoints that have remained isolated from one another. The book “Hispania, Al-Andalus and Spain: Identity and nationalism in the history of the Iberian Peninsula” (Marcial Pons, 2020) fills a void which had existed up to now in Spanish academia, bringing together writings by researchers from different schools of thought and fields, in both Medieval History and Arab Studies, to discuss a series of issues that have traditionally been controversial in our country.
The issues and approaches on which the book proposes reflection will be discussed within the framework of a debate at Casa Árabe with Luis García Montero, Director of the Cervantes Institute, and the book’s editors, Maribel Fierro, a researching professor at the CSIC’s Center for Human and Social Sciences (ILC-CSIC), and Alejandro García Sanjuán, department chair of Medieval History at the University of Huelva, with the participation of Carlos Pascual, president of the publishing firm Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia. The event will be introduced by Irene Lozano, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
The work came about as a result of a seminar organized by Casa Árabe in Madrid, under the direction of the editors of that seminar in November 2016, with the title “Hispania, Al-Andalus and Spain/Portugal: Identity and nationalism in the history of the Iberian Peninsula.” With its inclusive perspective, the seminar brought together researchers from diverse fields and opposing schools of thought for the first time ever at the same table, in an open exercise for analysis and reflection.
Unfortunately, though, not all of those who participated in the seminar were able to write for the volume in the end, so texts by other authors who did not attend the seminar have also contributed to the enrichment of this debate. As a whole, the work is made up of a total of twenty-two contributions, all belonging to different historiographical traditions and responding to sometimes radically opposed approaches, not only regarding the peninsular medieval period itself, but also basic matters such as the very concept of history, and the way in which study of the past should be examined from our perspective in the present. Thinking about the different ways in which our view of the past can be oriented, the book has been divided into four sections: Reflections on How We Look (with contributions by Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando Bravo López, Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Jesús Torrecilla, Xavier Andreu-Miralles and Iñaki Martín Viso), Views From Both Shores (Luis F. Bernabé Pons, María Ángeles Gallego, José Antonio González Alcantud, Emilio González Ferrín, Xavier Ballestín Navarro and Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez), The Persistent Glance (Vicente Ángel Álvarez Palenzuela, Armando Besga Marroquín, Santiago Cantera Montenegro, Felipe Maíllo Salgado and Rafael Sánchez Saus) and Looks Close-up (Luis A. García Moreno, Bernabé López García, Gonzalo Pasamar and María Isabel Pérez de Tudela Velasco).
Further information at:
Casa Árabe | New publication: “Hispania, Al-Andalus and Spain: Identity and nationalism in the history of the Iberian Peninsula”
Hispania, Al-Andalus and Spain at the CSIC Center for Human and Social Sciences. Al-Andalus and history
Read here the first pages of the book (in Spanish).
The issues and approaches on which the book proposes reflection will be discussed within the framework of a debate at Casa Árabe with Luis García Montero, Director of the Cervantes Institute, and the book’s editors, Maribel Fierro, a researching professor at the CSIC’s Center for Human and Social Sciences (ILC-CSIC), and Alejandro García Sanjuán, department chair of Medieval History at the University of Huelva, with the participation of Carlos Pascual, president of the publishing firm Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia. The event will be introduced by Irene Lozano, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
The work came about as a result of a seminar organized by Casa Árabe in Madrid, under the direction of the editors of that seminar in November 2016, with the title “Hispania, Al-Andalus and Spain/Portugal: Identity and nationalism in the history of the Iberian Peninsula.” With its inclusive perspective, the seminar brought together researchers from diverse fields and opposing schools of thought for the first time ever at the same table, in an open exercise for analysis and reflection.
Unfortunately, though, not all of those who participated in the seminar were able to write for the volume in the end, so texts by other authors who did not attend the seminar have also contributed to the enrichment of this debate. As a whole, the work is made up of a total of twenty-two contributions, all belonging to different historiographical traditions and responding to sometimes radically opposed approaches, not only regarding the peninsular medieval period itself, but also basic matters such as the very concept of history, and the way in which study of the past should be examined from our perspective in the present. Thinking about the different ways in which our view of the past can be oriented, the book has been divided into four sections: Reflections on How We Look (with contributions by Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando Bravo López, Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Carlos de Ayala Martínez, Jesús Torrecilla, Xavier Andreu-Miralles and Iñaki Martín Viso), Views From Both Shores (Luis F. Bernabé Pons, María Ángeles Gallego, José Antonio González Alcantud, Emilio González Ferrín, Xavier Ballestín Navarro and Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez), The Persistent Glance (Vicente Ángel Álvarez Palenzuela, Armando Besga Marroquín, Santiago Cantera Montenegro, Felipe Maíllo Salgado and Rafael Sánchez Saus) and Looks Close-up (Luis A. García Moreno, Bernabé López García, Gonzalo Pasamar and María Isabel Pérez de Tudela Velasco).
Further information at:
Casa Árabe | New publication: “Hispania, Al-Andalus and Spain: Identity and nationalism in the history of the Iberian Peninsula”
Hispania, Al-Andalus and Spain at the CSIC Center for Human and Social Sciences. Al-Andalus and history
Read here the first pages of the book (in Spanish).