Project presenters Portraits > David Marcilhacy
David Marcilhacy A graduate of Spanish and doctor in Hispanic Studies, David Marcilhacy is a university professor in the history of Spain and contemporary Iberian worlds at the Faculty of Letters of Sorbonne University. He is currently deputy director of the CRIMIC research unit and co-responsible for its IBERHIS axis. David Marcilhacy devotes his research, from a global history perspective, to the (trans)national imaginations at work in Spain, Panama and in contemporary Spanish-speaking societies, as well as to the cultural dimension of international relations (symbolic policies, memory policies, cultural diplomacy, geopolitics). Former member of the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), he was a guest researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la UNAM and at the Facultad de Humanidades of the University of Panama. Among his publications, he is notably the author of Raza hispana. Hispanoamericanismo e imaginario nacional en la España de la Restauración (Madrid, CEPC, 2010) and El istmo de Panamá, un puente entre Europa y las Américas 1879-1936 (Paris, Atlande, 2023). *** He will speak on the first day of the conference to tell us about his latest works during an interview "The Isthmus of Panama at the heart of inter-American and Euro-American relations: cultural transfers and geopolitical reconfigurations at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries" . *** |
