Varieties of Resistance across the Iberian Empires. From Political Participation to Everyday Challenges to Authority (1450-1850)
SYMPOSIUM | Feb 9, 2023 (09h30-17h40) – Feb 10, 2023 (09h30-11h20) | Auditório Sedas Nunes, Instituto de Ciências Sociais | Free entry
Within the framework of the project RESISTANCE: Rebelião e Resistência nos Impérios Ibéricos, sécs. XVI-XIX (778076-H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017), the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa and CHAM – Centro de Humanidades da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e da Universidade dos Açores, will host the VI international symposium of the Resistance project, under the general theme: “Varieties of Resistance across the Iberian Empires. From Political Participation to Everyday Challenges Towards Authorities (1450-1850)”. The symposium will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on February 9 and 10, 2023, at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.
The VI Symposium of the Resistance project brings together scholars that study the “people from below” and focus on their role in social change. Its aim is to foster a dialogue between researchers studying individuals and groups that resisted through different modalities of political participation and everyday resistance. These forms of resistance frequently ended up eroding social and political structures. Sometimes, they were quotidian and concealed; others, they were carried out in the context of institutional practices, using arguments conveyed through peaceful means, usually involving few people. These forms of resistance are relevant to study the emergence of new forms of political and social imagination. They are also crucial to understand the tensions and social conflict expressed in daily situations. Finally, they help us to understand how this magma of discontentment contributed to violent forms of resistance, some of them leading to major changes in society.
Ângela Barreto Xavier (ICS-ULisboa) and Kevin Carreira Soares (ICS-ULisboa) are part of the Organizing committee.
More information on the RESISTANCE project here
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