The tribute to Gil Novales is included in the commemorative events of the bicentenary of the Triennium promoted by the Government of Spain, of which the International Congress is part that will be held in the Senate between May 31 and June 2. The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez López, will open the day that is celebrated this Friday, May 6. The professors Antonio Elorza, Pedro V. Rújula López, Emilio La Parra López, Mª Cruz Romeo Mateo and Manuel Chust Calero will remember the transcendental work of the historian who died in 2016
The events organized by the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory to commemorate the second centenary of the Liberal Triennium include a tribute to the historian Alberto Gil Novales to be held on Friday, May 6, at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies. This tribute is the prologue to the International Congress “The Liberal Triennium two hundred years later”, which will be held between May 31 and June 2 in the Senate.
Monographs such as Liberal Triennium, From the Old to the New Regime in Spain, The Patriotic Societies of the Constitutional Triennium or the Biographical Dictionary of Spain (1808-1833) make its author, Alberto Gil Novales, an authority of historiography around the first third of the 19th century in Spain.
The tribute to Gil Novales (Barcelona, 1930-Madrid, 2016) will be inaugurated by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez López, and the Deputy Director General of Publications and Documentation of the CEPC, Emilio Pajares Montolio (10:00 am), who will give way to the presentation of the Professor emeritus of Political Science of the Complutense University Antonio Elorza Domínguez entitled “Alberto Gil Novales: History as a recovery of freedom” (10.30 am). The tribute will be completed by a round table in which the professors of Contemporary History Pedro V. Rújula López (University of Zaragoza), Emilio La Parra López (Universitat d'Alacant) and Mª Cruz Romeo Mateo (Universitat de València) will analyze "The contribution of Gil Novales in the framework of the commemoration of the Bicentenary of the Liberal Triennium" (11.00 hours). The Professor of Contemporary History of the Universitat Jaume I and co-director of the International Congress on the Triennium, Manuel Chust Calero, will act as moderator of the round table around a figure that qualifies as “preeminent and referential” in his field of study.
“His best-known writings are from the eighties, but they are still a must read for anyone who wants to approach this transcendental period in the history of Spain”, emphasizes Chust Calero, who also highlights that “Gil Novales was able to include in his explanations the American territories and with it he was a pioneer in a Spanish historiography that had “forgotten” America to explain the liberal revolution in Spain”.
Professors Rújula, La Parra and Romeo have researched the period of the Liberal Triennium and their publications. Along with those of other authors, in the opinion of Manuel Chust, they constitute the exception in what he considers “the great historiographical gap from the eighties until almost this bicentenary commemoration of the Liberal Triennium”. “It is necessary that this act that serves as a commemorative beginning of the next Congress on the Liberal Triennium serves as a stimulus to continue these investigations,” says Chust, co-director of the meeting of specialists with the Professor of Constitutional Law of the University of Oviedo, Ignacio Fernández Sarasola.
International Congress «The Liberal Triennium two hundred years later»
After the tribute to the former professor in the faculties of Philosophy and Letters of the Autonomous of Barcelona and of Information Sciences of the Complutense of Madrid, in addition to the founder of the specialized magazine Triennium. Enlightenment and Liberalism, the commemorative events of the bicentenary of the Liberal Triennium will continue with the International Congress. Half a hundred specialists from different universities in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, professionals from different fields, such as journalism and administration, and representatives of various institutions will participate in the meeting organized in the Senate between May 31 and June 2, with which the Government of Spain will remember a fundamental historical period for the construction of democratic culture in Spain.
Those interested in attending both the tribute to Alberto Gil Novales and the International Congress, in its dual facet face-to-face and online, can make the free registration through the electronic forms enabled on the website of the Ministry of the Presidency, where you can also access the program of both events: