International Symposium: THE PENINSULAR WAR IN THE DUERO RIVER: THE SIEGES OF CIUDAD RODRIGO AND ALMEIDA

THE PENINSULAR WAR IN THE DUERO RIVER: THE SIEGES OF CIUDAD RODRIGO AND ALMEIDA

Date: 5-8 October 2010
Place: Palacio de los Águila. Ciudad Rodrgio. Spain (5th, 6th and 8th) and Salas de la Muralla. Almeida. Portugal (7th)

The Symposium is divided in three general Sessions (simultaneous translation is provided):

I Session: TERRITORY, STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP
II Session: GOVERNMENTS, ‘JUNTAS’ AND INTERNATIONAL ACTORS.
III Session: WAR HERITAGE, POPULAR CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE

The Symposium will count with the presence of Spanish, Portugese, British, French and American specialists in the Peninsular War, such as:

Emilio de Diego García, Charles Esdaile, Miguel Ángel Martín Mas, António Pedro Vicente, Tomás Pérez Delgado, Luis Oliveira Ramos, Ricardo García Cárcel, Donald Horward, David Gates, Agustín Guimerá Ravina, Francisco Ribeiro Da Silva, Enrique Martínez Ruiz, Antonio Moliner Prada, Gerard Dufour, Emilio La Parra López, Alexandre María de Castro de Sousa Pinto, Gabriela Gândara Terenas, Bertha María Gutiérrez Rodilla, Tereza Caillaux de Almeida, Ángel de Luis Calabuig, Françesc Pintado i Simó, José Ramón Cid Cebrián, Jean René Aymes, Sergio Pardo Iglesias and others.

The Symposium is sponsored by the Junta de Castilla y León (Autonomous Government), the City Councils of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida, and the Universities of Burgos and Salamanca.
The Organizing Committee is headed by Dra. Cristina Borreguero Beltrán of the University of Burgos