The next online seminar from the program Tübingen Science Bridge – Latin America (Humanities) will take place on November 19th at 16:00 (MEZ) – (10:00 Bogotá, 12:00 Buenos Aires and Brazil) and this year will focus on the topic “Democracy in Dialogue: Latin American Experiences”.

The lecture has the participation of Prof. Dr. Francisco Ortega, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He will put on the agenda the theme: “The concept of democracy during the period of Independence in Spanish America”.

The program, an initiative of the Baden-Württemberg Center for Brazil and Latin America at the Universität Tübingen, aims to contribute to the internationalization of science and research. Scientists from several partner institutions will present their latest research data, promoting an integrated and constructive environment for scientific interaction and contributing global knowledge. The lectures of the Tübingen Science Bridge are aimed at professors and scientific researchers, graduate students, as well as a more the general audience.

The online seminar is free of charge and will be held in English on the ZOOM platform in order to allow discussion and interaction.

Register link: https://tsb-191124.eventbrite.de

More information about the Tübingen Science Bridge 2024 (agenda, lectures etc.): https://bit.ly/tsb-agenda-2024

Abstract:
This lecture presents a conceptual analysis of democracy in Latin America during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, from the last decades of the eighteenth century, when Spanish America became the laboratory of Enlightenment reforms, to the 1820s, when independence was consolidated in almost the entire continent after fifteen years of revolution and war.

About the Speaker – Short Bio:
Full Professor in the History Department of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Director of the Pluralist Peace Thought Centre and the Social Studies Centre (2005-2009). He works on issues related to the intellectual and political history of the independence period and the 19th century. He has also worked on issues of political culture, commemoration, memory, art, culture and mourning. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2000) and has been a Visiting Professor at the E.H.E.S.S. in Paris and a Resident Scholar at Stanford, Harvard and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Law.