8th International Conference on the Historical Links between Spain and the Americas
Climate Change and Trans-Atlantic Transformations
Climate change poses the gravest threat to humanity and millions of other species that inhabit planet Earth. Record temperatures and extreme weather events—from hurricanes and flooding to droughts and raging wildfires—and their attendant ecological destruction, loss of life and livelihoods, forced migration within and across borders, and rise of authoritarian populist movements on both sides of the Atlantic urgently require the attention of scholars across all academic disciplines.
The Eighth International Conference on the Historical Links between Spain and the Americas will grapple with the causes, dynamics, and consequences, including for trans-Atlantic relations, of what has now become widely known as an emergency. From colonialism and imperialism to neoliberalism and globalization, asymmetrical relationships and unsustainable consumption patterns are foundational to understanding one of the twenty-first century’s most pressing collective action dilemmas.
The City College of New York - Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Instituto Cervantes of New York, and the Instituto Franklin of the Universidad de Alcalá join for the eighth year in organizing this conference. The call for papers embraces different disciplines and areas of study, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to the connections between Spain and the Americas. As always, the primary aim of the conference is to provide a meeting place for acad
Related Activities
Organizers
- City College of New York (CUNY): Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at CWE
-
-