The International Colloquium “Spaces of resistance, conflict and reconstruction of order in the urban world” has as its central axis space, which is established as an analytical category for the study of political action, communication and culture in urban societies of the Ancien Régime.
In the urban world of the Ancien Régime, space and the various acts of appropriation – effective or symbolic, temporary or permanent – of it, carried out by a plurality of actors, participated in the processes of construction of urban identities and played a significant role in political communication between the various bodies and subjects of the civitas and the local powers and higher political entities in which the cities were inserted. Through formal and informal acts, sometimes ritualized, of occupation, use and control of space carried out by both elites and ordinary people, positions of social prestige, spheres of jurisdictional action, areas of political power, but also social and cultural identities were manifested. The uses of space and its different meanings also made visible struggles, resistance and conflicts, aspirations, negotiations and consensus by actors within and outside the city. The colloquium aims to analyse the uses, meanings and perceptions of these social actions in which spaces were protagonists and formed part of urban identities and political communication in the city, from very varied geographical/territorial frameworks and chronologies. The presentation, discussion and reflection on these issues will allow us to advance in historical knowledge about the social actions and practices that shaped political spheres and forms of governance that, ultimately, inform the political cultures of the Ancien Régime and its changes through complex dynamics that had the urban space itself as an active subject.

International Scientific Committee
Manuel-Reyes Garcia Hurtado (University of Coruna)
Mauro Hernandez Benitez (UNED)
Girl Blacksmiths Cleret of Langavant (University of Cantabria)
Yves Junot (Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France)
Ofelia Rey Castelao (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Mafalda Soares da Cunha (University of Evora)
Rafael Sagredo Baeza (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Marina Torres Trimállez (University of Cantabria)

Academic Secretariat
Valentina Emiliani (Sapienza University of Rome)