The Rafael del Pino Foundation, Lopez-li Films and the United for History Foundation are organising the event “The United States and Spain, 250 years of shared history» on 13 April at 7 p.m., with the participation of the following speakers Gonzalo Quintero y Jane Landers.
The event will take place according to the following programme:
19.00 h. Words of welcome
19.05 h. Gonzalo Quintero
Lecture: “Spain in the American War of Independence”.”
19.30 h. Jane Landers
Lecture: “Why Africans defended Spanish America against British colonisation”.”
19.55 h. Dialogue
“Beyond slavery: Spanish legacies in the social and cultural history of the United States”.”
With Jane Landers, Gonzalo Quintero and Maite Rico (moderator)
Gonzalo M. Quintero SaraviaD. in History from the Complutense University of Madrid and in Public Law from the UNED, is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History and the Colombian Academy of History. He has been a fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His book Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution was awarded the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award for the best biography published in 2018 (published by Alianza Editorial with the title Bernardo de Gálvez: A Spanish Hero in the American War of Independence). Recent publications include: with Professor Gabriel Paquette Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2019 and Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2022); "The Participation of France and Spain", in Wim Klooster ed. The Age of Atlantic Revolutions. Vol. 1. The Enlightenment and the British Colonies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023: 269-295) and with Professor Kathleen DuVal, "Bernardo de Gálvez: Friend of the American Revolution, Friend of Empire", in Andrew N. O'Shaughnessy, John A. Ragosta and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol eds. European Friends of the American Revolution (Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press, 2023, 147-174).
Jane Landers is a professor of history at Vanderbilt University and director of the Slave Societies Digital Archive, one of the most relevant international projects dedicated to the preservation of historical documents on slavery in the Atlantic world. A specialist on colonial Latin America and the African diaspora, her work focuses on the history of Africans and their descendants in the slave societies of the Americas. She is the author of widely acclaimed and award-winning reference works such as Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions y Black Society in Spanish Florida. His research has been supported by institutions such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is also a member of UNESCO's International Scientific Committee for the Routes of Enslaved Peoples. Through his digital archive, Landers leads the preservation of unique records, some dating back to the 16th century, from countries such as Cuba, Brazil, Colombia and Cape Verde, making a decisive contribution to the study of slavery and historical memory in the Atlantic.
Maite Rico, Deputy Director of THE OBJECTIVE. Specialised in international news, Maite Rico has developed her career in the two main Spanish newspapers. She was a columnist and deputy editor of EL MUNDO between 2021 and 2024, where she founded the cultural magazine La Lectura, awarded the LIBER Prize by the Spanish Federation of Publishers' Guilds. She previously worked at EL PAÍS, where she was deputy editor between 2014 and 2018. She was in charge of the renovation of EL PAIS SEMANAL and launched the supplement Ideas. Previously, she was an editorialist, correspondent in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and special envoy for Latin America coverage. As a reporter she has also covered the wars in Bosnia, Somalia and Libya. She collaborates with Onda Cero, EsRadio and TeleMadrid. With a degree in Geography and History from the Complutense University of Madrid, and a master's degree in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Madrid / EL PAÍS, she is co-author, with Bertrand de la Grange, of the books Marcos, the brilliant imposture (Aguilar, 1998; and Plon, Paris, 1998), on the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), and Who killed the bishop? Autopsy of a political crime (Planeta, 2003), about the assassination of the Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi.