(Source: MPI for European Legal History)
We learned of a
conference in Buenos Aires next month on the Salamanca School.
Conference:
The School of Salamanca - A Case of Global Knowledge Production?
- Beginning: Oct 24, 2018 15:00
- End: Oct 26, 2018 20:00
- Location: Academia Nacional de la Historia de
la Republica Argentina, Buenos Aires
In 2018, the
University of Salamanca celebrates its 800th anniversary; an event not only of
Castilian or Spanish importance but with worldwide reverberations. From the
beginning of the 16th century until the 18th century, the so-called School of
Salamanca shaped the juridical-political discourse and language of the two
great Iberian empires, with its characteristic intertwining of science,
jurisprudence, religion, and politics. Theology, philosophy, jurisprudence,
natural sciences owe substantial innovations to this group of Spanish,
Portuguese and American thinkers whose impact was never limited by frontiers of
countries, continents, or religious denominations.
For a very long
time, the worldwide significance of the School of Salamanca was understood as a
phenomenon of the reception in which the American and Asian actors appeared
only as passive recipients of European knowledge and normativity. However,
processes of global interactions have been brought into focus by recent
researches in the fields of legal history, philosophy, and history of knowledge.
Thus “Salamanca“becomes a point of intersection in a world-encompassing network
of normative knowledge production.
The conference
will provide an opportunity to reflect on how this normative knowledge was
produced, with special attention paid to the American parts of the Iberian
monarchies of the 16-18th centuries. What was the institutional framework of
knowledge production, and how did it influence the results? How can we analyze
the process of knowledge production under the perspectives of cultural translation
and textuality? Such questions can only be answered on a broad fundament of
micro-historical studies of actors, practices, knowledge reservoirs, and
institutions. As a result, we anticipate a new, richly textured image of the
School of Salamanca’s global significance.
At the same
time, the conference will serve as a preparatory workshop for an edited volume
to be published in 2019.
In preparation
for the discussions and the conference, Thomas Duve has presented some ideas in
his working paper “La Escuela de
Salamanca: ¿un caso de producción global de conocimiento?“, SvSal WP No.
2018-02.
The program can
be found here.
(Source: MPI for European
Legal History)
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