The University of Navarra hosts a congress on the process of independence in Latin America.
The relationship between politics and religion will be the main topics of the discussion, with the participation of international experts.
The University of Navarra will host on October 28 and 29 the congress "Politics and Religion in the Independence of Hispanic America", a meeting organized on the occasion of the celebration of the bicentennial of the independence of Latin American countries and whose goal is to deepen the historical study of the processes that led to the emergence of national entities in Latin America.
International experts will participate in this event organized by the School of Philosophy and Letters. The program is structured in two parts: an overview of the subject matter proposal; and a regional analysis that will allow an assessment of the similarities and differences between the different areas.
Today, Thursday, discussion will be opened by Juan Bosco Amores Carredano, from the University of the Basque Country, with an intervention entitled "Old and new interpretations of the Ibero-American independences". Afterwards, Javier de Navascués, from the University of Navarra; Roberto Di Stefano, from the University of Buenos Aires; Mariano Delgado, from the University of Fribourg-Switzerland; Juan Carlos Pereira Castañares, from the Complutense University of Madrid; José Luis Soberanes, from the high school de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y Universidad Panamericana; and Robert H. Holden, from Old Dominion University, Norfolk (USA) will speak.
On Friday, José Benjamín Rodríguez Iturbe, from the Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia); Scarlett O'Phelan, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Alberto de la Hera, from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; and Lucrecia Enríquez, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
lecture of the vice-president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America
meeting lecture Octavio Ruiz Arenas, vice-president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, on the Church in the commemoration of the bicentennials. Francisco Pérez González, Archbishop of Pamplona and Bishop of Tudela, and Borja López-Jurado, Vice President of Office of Academic Affairs.