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Ireland and Latin America: Irlanda Y América Latina INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IRELAND AND LATIN AMERICA: Globalizing Irish Studies The idea of a Nation and Narratives of Independence IRLANDA Y AMÉRICA LATINA: Hacia la globalización de los estudios irlandeses La idea de una nación y las narrativas de la independencia CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL Bicentenary of the 1818 Declaration of Chilean Independence under Bernardo O´Higgins International conference to explore Irish historical, cultural and contemporary links with Chile and Latin America, and themes related to colonialism, independence, nationhood and democracy. 9TH - 12TH DECEMBER | PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE Av. Libertador Bernardo O´Higgins 340, Santiago www. ialc-2018.org [email protected] Ireland and Latin America – Globalising Irish Studies International Conference: Santiago, Chile, 9 – 12 December 2018 The bicentenary of the Declaration of Chilean El bicentenario de la declaración de la independencia de independence, promulgated by Bernardo O´Higgins in Chile, promulgada por Bernardo O’Higgins en 1818, brinda 1818, provides an extraordinary opportunity to explore Irish una oportunidad extraordinaria para explorar los vínculos links with Latin America and themes related to colonialism, de Irlanda con América Latina y las temáticas relacionadas independence, nationhood, and democracy in Chile and in con el colonialismo, la independencia, la democracia, y el the region as a whole. In a conference entitled “Globalizing concepto de nación, no solo en Chile sino en la región en Irish Studies: The Idea of a Nation and Narratives of su conjunto. A través del congreso “Hacia la globalización Independence,” organizers propose to seize the opportunity de los estudios irlandeses: La idea de una nación y las that this historical moment offers and gather together narrativas de la independencia”, los organizadores se scholars and cultural critics to both explore the “worlding” proponen tomar la oportunidad ofrecida por este momento of Irish studies in national and international contexts and histórico y reunir a académicos y críticos culturales to interrogate historical and contemporary relationships para explorar la expansión e integración de los estudios between Chile, Latin America, and Ireland—from a irlandeses en contextos nacionales e internacionales, y para multitude of perspectives and disciplines, and at different debatir sobre las relaciones históricas y contemporáneas points of time. entre Chile, América Latina, e Irlanda –desde una multiplicidad de perspectivas y disciplinas, y en distintas The history of the Irish in Latin America is a rich one— épocas. beginning in colonial times when Irish adventurers, missionaries, soldiers, and settlers traveled there; La historia de los irlandeses en América Latina es rica: continuing on into the 19th century when private settlement comenzó en la época colonial con el advenimiento de schemes brought tens of thousands of Irish immigrants to aventureros, misioneros, soldados y colonos irlandeses; Argentina; and then forward to contemporary times. Most prosiguió en el siglo XIX, cuando millares de inmigrantes recent estimates of the number of Latin Americans who irlandeses llegaron a la Argentina a través de diversos claim Irish ancestry are in the region of several hundred programas privados que promovían su asentamiento thousand. Important for the theme of our conference, en esas tierras; y continúa vigente hasta el día de hoy. several of Latin America’s most famous revolutionaries Las estimaciones más recientes acerca del número de claimed Irish ancestry—Bernardo O’Higgins (1778-1843), latinoamericanos con ascendencia irlandesa en la región who is celebrated as the father of the Republic of Chile, se encuentran en el orden de los varios cientos de miles. and Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), whose paternal Resulta de especial relevancia para este congreso la grandmother was Ana Isabel Lynch, a descendant of ascendencia irlandesa de algunos de los más famosos Galway-born Patrick Lynch, who emigrated to Argentina in revolucionarios de América Latina: Bernardo O’Higgins the 18th century and among whose descendants was the (1778-1843), considerado el padre de la República de Chile, Chilean naval hero, Patricio Lynch. y Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967), cuya abuela paterna fuera Ana Isabel Lynch, descendiente de Patrick Lynch, Given this history, as well as growing recognition of the nacido en Galway, y quien emigrara a la Argentina en el inter-connected nature of global challenges and a resolve siglo XVIII, contándose entre sus descendientes el héroe to see Irish studies in new ways, scholars are increasingly naval chileno Patricio Lynch. interested in the influence of the Irish in Latin America. In a parallel fashion, scholars are also exploring Latin American En virtud de esta historia, así como del creciente influences in Ireland—for Latin American independence reconocimiento hacia la interconectividad de desafíos movements influenced Irish nationalism and, in the 21st globales y el propósito de brindar nuevas perspectivas a los century, Latin Americans have emigrated to Ireland. estudios irlandeses, es cada vez mayor el interés académico The conference is organized through a partnership that por la influencia de los irlandeses en América Latina. De includes several Latin American, American, and Irish igual modo, las investigaciones académicas se centran universities as well as various Irish Studies associations también en el impacto de América Latina sobre Irlanda, ya and will explore three broad areas: Themes related to que los movimientos independentistas americanos influyeron the history of Irish influence in Latin America and vice en el nacionalismo irlandés y, en el siglo XXI, Irlanda recibió versa, particularly regarding the theme of independence; a un gran número de inmigrantes provenientes de América Narratives (whether literary, cultural, cinematic, musical, or Latina. taking other forms) related to the history of revolutions and independence; and Contemporary issues. Para la organización del congreso, se han asociado diversas universidades latinoamericanas, estadounidenses e irlandesas, así como varias asociaciones de estudios irlandeses. Se explorarán tres grandes ejes temáticos: Cuestiones relacionadas con la historia de la influencia irlandesa en América Latina y viceversa, en particular en lo que respecta a los movimientos independentistas; Narrativas (ya sean literarias, culturales, cinematográficas, musicales, o bajo cualquier otra forma), relacionadas con la historia de las revoluciones y la independencia; y Relaciones contemporáneas entre Irlanda y América Latina. 3 Ireland and Latin America – Globalising Irish Studies International Conference: Santiago, Chile, 9 – 12 December 2018 Ireland and Latin America – Globalising Irish Studies International Conference: Santiago, Chile, 9 – 12 December 2018 The history of the Irish in Latin America is the subject of an emerging area of scholarship both in academia in Ireland and across Europe and the Americas. I was deeply moved by the tribute I received in September 2015 from Minister Muñoz, on behalf of the President and Government of Chile which recorded my services as Observer to the Plebiscito which took place in 1988 and of which I have the deepest of respectful memories. I have had the honour of visiting the region three times as president of Ireland, from Chile, through Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru, all countries which feature in the exhibition on “The Irish in Latin America” of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. I am very pleased that this exhibition will be presented during the Conference in Santiago by MESSAGE FROM MICHAEL D. HIGGINS, PRESIDENT OF IRELAND its Curator, Dr Margaret Brehony of the National University of Galway. New resident Irish Embassies will open in Santiago and in Bogota in early 2019, as part of the I warmly welcome the important initiative of the convening of this Conference in Santiago on commitment to double the scope and impact of Ireland’s global footprint. This new Strategy, which the theme of globalising Irish Studies, both what it represents and what it promises for future represents the most ambitious renewal and expansion of Ireland’s international presence ever scholarship and deeper relations in the wider context of advancing Ireland’s engagement with the undertaken, includes Ireland’s campaign for election to the UN Security Council for the period countries of Latin America. May I congratulate the organizing institutions and bodies, and express 2021-2022. If successful, this will place Ireland at the heart of UN decision-making on matters of vital appreciation to the Pontifical University of Chile for hosting the event. importance, including international peace, security and development. The campaign will also serve to greatly strengthen the awareness of Ireland among the international community. I particularly value that the Conference is taking place in Chile. The links between our two In Latin America, Irish Studies can serve as an important instrument in deepening our engagement countries stretch back centuries, and the Conference has been timed to take place in the context with the region. This conference is therefore well timed and will provide a valuable platform for the of the bicentenary of the promulgation of the Declaration of Independence in 1818 by Chile’s great expansion of Irish Studies, and for the activities of the new Embassy in Santiago in the years ahead. Liberator, Bernardo O’Higgins, with
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