1st Congress of History, Anthropology and Cultural-Historical Tourism: At 500 years of the Foundation of Panama City

1st Congress of History, Anthropology and Cultural-Historical Tourism:

To the 500th Anniversary of the Foundation of Panama City

University of Panama

Vice-Rector of Extension

Faculty of Humanities

Department of History

Schools of History, Anthropology and Cultural-Historical Tourism

2nd-6th September 2019

Address:

Panama City, Panama

Simón Bolívar Avenue (Transithmian Highway) and Manuel Espinoza Batista and

Jose De Fábrega Avenues.

 WEBSITE:

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Presentation:

On 15 August 2019, Panama City would celebrate the 500^th anniversary of its foundation. This event offers an opportunity to examine the processes that affected the internal aspects of its history, population, politics, culture, economics and geography. This commemoration also invites to reflect about the changes in the relations between Panama City and other cities and towns as well as with marginalized areas within the Republic of Panama. In addition, this occasion raises up the challenge of analysing the ways in which Panama City and its surroundings interacted with the rest of the world, whether collaborating or resisting multiple transnational and global forces.

The Host: University of Panama:

The University was founded in 1935, becoming the first official higher education institution of the Republic of Panama. It supervises the university level education in the whole country. Moreover, it is the most active in the international dialogue with other academic institutions from other countries. It has the largest number of students, faculty, and graduates in Panama, many of whom have occupied or currently occupy positions of political, social and intellectual leadership. For these reasons, the University of Panama’s impact on the Panamanian community prevails.

This also applies to its Faculty of Humanities and its Department of History, which coordinate the highest quantity of accredited undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within its fields. Their professors work in research centres and groups, edit indexed and peer-reviewed academic books and journals, and coordinate academic extension activities. Their graduates work as teachers in public and private schools, other governmental institutions, and at the University of Panama itself. They are in charge of disseminating the knowledge of the humanities from the University to the rest of society.

Call for Proposals:

Because of this, the Schools of History, Anthropology and Cultural-Historical Tourism of the Department of History of the University of Panama undertakes its duty of organising a congress to celebrate an event of such importance for the Republic of Panama and for other regions of the world.

Therefore, these schools are pleased to call all researchers to send their proposals for presentations, symposiums, roundtables, posters, and any other activity of interest, in order to contribute to the understanding of the issues described above. In addition, it calls for any research that contributes to the study of the comparative, transnational and global History of Cities and of Latin American. In this way, it is expected to obtain a wider comprehension of the phenomena that have defined the past and present of Panama City and its local, regional and international entourage.

The Department of History also welcomes all studies that examine the evolution of Panama City within the Congress’ themes from a comparative, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective. The proposals should, ideally, be based on recent, innovative, academic research, with an emphasis in any of the different branches of History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Heritage Studies, and Tourism Studies. However, this does not exclude works from other disciplines, including Architecture, Art, Geography, Economics, Law, Medicine and Science, and Engineering. 

Themes:

There is no restriction to the topics of the proposals, yet the main themes are::

The City as an Epicentre of Identity

The World and Cosmovision of Amerindian People

Science, Technology and Medicine: Discourses and Contributions

Imperialist Encounters: Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

Social and Political Movements: Preservation and Change of Order

The Memorisation and Forgetting of Experience

The Cities in front to the Country and Marginality

The Violence of Culture and the Culture of Violence

The Changing Concept of Race: The base of Tolerance and Discrimination

Travels, Expeditions and Adventures: From Antiquity to the Present

Diasporas, Frontiers and Exchanges

Archives, Museums and Archeological Sites

Religiousness and Irreligiousness: Beliefs, Practices, Sincretisms and Conflicts. 

Intellectuals and Ideologues: Production and Reproduction of Ideas

Labour and Commerce since Pre-History to Postmodernity

The Transcendence of Theories, Concepts and Methodologies

Transnational Identities: Latin-Americanism and Pan-Americanism

Daily Life and Material Culture from Pre-History to Current Times

“The Spectacular Past”: Art and Literature

Urban Environments: Architecture and Public Spaces

Asia and Latin America: Encounters, Networks and Routes

Gender in History and Anthropology

Submission and Format

The proposals could be submitted via the website (in Spanish) by filling the form under the section of Reg. Ponencia (Paper Registration), or they could be sent to the following e-mail address:

icongresohathc.ponencias@gmail.com

They must have the format described below:

• Microsoft Word or PDF
• Languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese
• Font: SingleSpaced Times New Roman 12
• Name(s) of the Author(s)
• Highest Academic Degree(s)
• Institutional Affiliation(s) – (Independent Researchers are welcomed)
• Email Address
• Presentation, Symposium, Roundtable, Poster or Activity Title
• Abstract (250 words for presentations and posters – 500 words for Symposium and Roundtable)
• Keywords

Individual presentations must be planned so that they last between 15-20 minutes. Roundtables, workshops and symposiums could have from 3 to 4 members, and they must not be longer than 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Approved candidates will have the option of submit full articles, so that they could be published in the Proceedings of the Congress. These articles will be peer-reviewed by an Internal Editorial Committee. Once feedback has been provided to the author and the corrections have been re-submitted, the proceedings will be transformed into an academic book with chapters by different authors. This book will be sent for a second evaluation and by a prestigious Latin American press.

The Internal Editorial Committee will be formed by:

Dr. Rolando de la Guardia Wald (Editor) – Congress Academic Coordinator

Denis Chávez (M.A.) – Vice-Rector of Extension

Dr. Lesbia Arrocha – Director of Extension

Dr. Fermina Santana – Director of the Department of History

Fernando Aparicio (M.A.) – General Coordinator of the Congress

Dr. Yolanda Marco – Congress Coordinator for the School of History

Aníbal Pastor (M.A.) – Congress Coordinator for the School Anthropology

Ángela Sofía Gutiérrez (M.A.) – Congress Coordinator for the School of Cultural-Historical Tourism

Dr. Alfredo Castillero Calvo – Editorial Advisor

Important Dates

The Call opens on 20 February 2019.

The deadline for the proposal of symposiums, roundtables, workshops and other activities is 30 April 2019. The results will be announced by 31 May 2019.

The deadline for the submission papers, posters, and other activities is 31 May 2019. The results will be announced on 1 July 2019.

Approved candidates must confirm their participation by 1 August 2019.

Prices:

Presenters

Note: Balboas (B/.) have a 1 to 1 exchange rate to United State Dollars (U.S. Dollars).

Experienced Scholars (Academic and Independent Researchers): B./ 20.00

Postgraduate students (PhD and M.A. or M.Sc.): B./ 20.00

Undergraduate students (B.A. and B.Sc. Students): B./ 10.00

Attendees

Scholars and Independent Researchers: B./ 40.00

Postgraduate (PhD and M.A. or M.Sc) and Undergraduate students: B/. 15.00

General Public: B./ 40.00

Bank Account and Payment:

Presenters and attendants will be able to pay as soon as the call is opened until the end of the Congress. However, they will be able to cancel their payment only until a week before the beginning of the Congress (28 August 2019)

The Congress will have a bank account at the National Bank of Panama. This information will be soon provided.

Other useful information

La information about accommodation, transportation, addresses and other expenses will be provided soon.

Contacts

If you have any query, please, send us a message using the Congress’ webpage and clicking on the Contacto link and filling up the form. Also, you could write to the following e-mail address:

ICongdeHistoriaAntropologiaTHC@gmail.com

In addition, you could write in English, Spanish or French to:

Professor Fernando Aparicio (Main Coordinator) to fer.aparicio5824@gmail.com

Dr. Rolando de la Guardia Wald (Academic Coordinator) to r.wald@alumni.ucl.ac.uk

The telephones you could call to are:

Department of History of the University of Panama: (507) 523-6649/6650

Professor Fernando Aparicio (Congress’ official phone number and whatsapp contact): (507) 6969-2151