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WELCOME REMARKS & OPENING
Hour CST (Central Standard Time):
7:00-7:30AM
Hour CET (Central European Time):
14:00-14:30PM
His excellency Alejandro Solano (Ambassador of the Republic of Costa Rica in Austria)
Thomas J. Resch (City of Vienna)
Elisabeth Röhrlich & Juliane Schiel (FSP Global History, University of Vienna)
Roberta Maierhofer (Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz)
Jörg Türschmann (Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna)
Alexandra Ganser (Department for English and American Studies, University of Vienna)
Opening remarks by Noam Chomsky (MIT/University of Arizona)
PANEL 1: INDEPENDENT MOVEMENTS, RESTAURATION AND THE INDEPENDENCE OF 1821
Hour CST (Central Standard Time):
7:30-9:30AM
Hour CET (Central European Time):
14:30-16:30PM
CHAIR: PATRICIA ZUCKERHUT (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA)
Paul Lovejoy (York University, Canada) & Karl Offen (Oberlin College): Early US interests on the Mosquito Shore at the time of the American Revolution and the failed invasion of Nicaragua in 1780
Alejandra Boza (Universidad de Costa Rica): Soberanía de quién? Indígenas en el Caribe de la actual Costa Rica al momento de la Independencia
Werner Stangl (University of Graz): Bodies of the polity: Territorial conceptions and ideologies in Central America from colonial roots to the modern nation state
Sergio Guerra Vilaboy (Universidad de La Habana): La vía conservadora de la independencia centroamericana
Coffee Break
Hour CST (Central Standard Time):
9:30-10:00AM
Hour CET (Central European Time):
16:30-17:00PM
PANEL 2: BETWEEN SEPARATISM AND UNIFICATION. SOCIOPOLITICAL CONCEPTS AND UTOPIA IN THE AGE OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF CENTRAL AMERICA (1823-1841)
Hour CST (Central Standard Time):
10:00-12:00AM
Hour CET (Central European Time):
17:00-19:00PM
CHAIR: TOBIAS BOOS (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA)
Michael Zeuske (University of Bonn): El impacto del Congreso de Panamá para el desarrollo del federalismo centroamericano
Johnathan Ordoñez Gaitán (American University, Managua): Centroamérica y su geopolítica durante la República Federal (1823-1840)
Hernán Venegas Delgado (Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico): México, Colombia y Centroamérica en la independencia temprana de Cuba y Puerto Rico (1820-1827)
Justin Wolfe (Tulane University): “Lecciones de derecho”: La ciudadanía virtuosa, la esfera pública y los límites del republicanismo radical en Nicaragua tras la independencia
Catering
Hour CST (Central Standard Time):
12:00-1:00PM
Hour CET (Central European Time):
19:00-20:00PM
SPECIAL PANEL EVENT: THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE NATIONAL STATES IN THE TIMES OF IMPERIALISM (1841-1870)
Hour CST (Central Standard Time):
1:00-2:30PM
Hour CET (Central European Time):
20:00-21:30PM
CHAIR: WERNER MACKENBACH (UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA)
Stefan Rinke (FU Berlin): “Laws as Old as the Creation“: Manifest Destiny and Racism in U.S.: Imperialism towards Central America in the 19th Century
David Díaz Arías (Universidad de Costa Rica): Independencia, disputas conceptuales e identidades en el trópico. Centroamérica, 1800-1870