Conference of E. Boone (U. of Alberta, Canada): “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality”: Spain and America at the World’s Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876 to 1915, uses Spanish participation (and its refusal to participate) at a series of world’s fairs to explore the transnational histories of Spain, the United States, Europe, and America. More particularly, it uses the Spanish exhibitions mounted at universal expositions and centennial celebrations in the United States (1876, 1893 and 1915), in Barcelona and Paris (1888 and 1889), and in Latin America (Argentina, Mexico and Chile, 1910), to better understand how and why the Spanish parts of U.S. national identity have been marginalized, subverted, and largely forgotten. The visual arts and architectural spaces presented at these fairs provide the basis for my study, which brings together transnational relations and ethnic studies is a new and original manner.
The assistance to these conferences it will be considered to be formative own activities of the Program of Doctorate in History of the Art.
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