15th International Meeting of ADHILAC in Gibraltar

THE VENUE

The Association of Latin American and Caribbean Historians (ADHILAC) celebrates its 15th International Meeting for the first time in the beautiful British city of Gibraltar. Founded in 1160 by the Almohad caliph Abd al-Mumin, at the confluence of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, just about 15 km from the North African coast and south of Spain.

Although it was first conquered in 1309 by Alonso de Guzmán for Castile-León, Muslim commanders managed to reconquer it until it finally fell into Castilian Christian hands in 1462. In 1474, Isabella of Castile elevated the so-called Campo de Gibraltar to the rank of marquisate under the dominion of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia. It remained under Medina Sidonia control until Queen Isabella abolished the marquisate title in 1501, reincorporating the territory into the royal domains of the Crown of Castile.

Gonzalo Piña Ludueña, whose history is closely linked to that of Venezuela in the second half of the 16th century, was originally from Gibraltar.
During the War of Spanish Succession, Gibraltar fell into the hands of the House of Austria.

In the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, tens of thousands of European emigrants sailed from Gibraltar to Latin America.
After Spain ended its blockade policy against Gibraltar in 1985, the city by the Rock regained its status as an international meeting place.

GENERAL THEMATIC AREAS

GENERAL TOPICS

• The Atlantic world from ancient to medieval times.
• Indigenous mobility before and after the European conquest of America.
• Evolution of shipbuilding and its raw materials, nautical instruments, weaponry, port facilities, meteorology, and cartography.
• The first European migratory wave to the Indies between 1492 and 1600.
• The slave trade and the rise of forced Atlantic mobility.
• Territorial mobility in the Indies during the colonial era.
• The Pacific dimension of mobility toward Asia and the Americas.
• Ideological concepts and external theories of thought and their impact on Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Exchange of animals, foods, viruses, and bacteria between the Atlantic and Pacific.
• Commodities of the Americas: exports and imports, both legal and illegal.
• Routes to and from the Americas: maritime, river, and land.
• The European migratory wave to America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Means of transport and their infrastructures since the 19th century.
• Forms and means of interoceanic and inter-American communication.

SPECIFIC TOPICS

• Women in the “circulation and mobility” across the Atlantic and Pacific.
• Female businesswomen, workers, and intellectuals: individual and collective trajectories.
• Jews between Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean (16th–18th centuries).
• Transoceanic migrations and exiles during wars and dictatorships in the 20th century.
• Mobility of patriots and royalists during the wars of independence between 1808 and 1826.
• International congresses and meetings in the Americas and their impact on Atlantic and Pacific mobility.
• Mercenaries and volunteers in the service of national liberations (19th and 20th centuries).
• The interrelation of ideas and political movements and their mutual influence from the French Revolution to the present (socialism, fascism, etc.).
• Cuban internationalist mobility during the Cold War and thereafter.
• Underwater or submerged heritage as testimony to mobility.
• From pilgrimage to mass tourism.
• Missions and religious orders: mobilities and impacts toward the Americas.

SPECIAL TOPICS: LOCAL HISTORY OF GIBRALTAR IN ITS ATLANTIC CONNECTIONS

• Entrepreneurs and commercial networks of the Campo de Gibraltar.
• British Gibraltar as a migration platform to and from the Atlantic.
• Memories and histories of the evacuation during World War II.

PROPOSAL FOR THEMATIC PANELS

We welcome proposals for closed panels composed of 3 or 4 speakers. These should be submitted indicating the panel title, the coordinator, the speakers, as well as the title of each presentation and its corresponding abstract of between 200 and 250 words.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Email for proposal submission:
secejecutivo@adhilac.org

Deadline

Single cut-off date for submission of presentation and closed panel proposals: May 15, 2026

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