The Escuela Diplomática presents next Tuesday 14th March at 5 p.m. the lecture: Reputation and international prestige: the Spanish case, by the professor, writer and essayist Elvira Roca Barea, author of the books Imperiofobia y leyenda negra (Imperiophobia and black legend). The lecture will be given only in classroom format in the Aula Magna of the School (Paseo Juan XXIII, 5).
With more than 150,000 readers, this best-selling phenomenon dismantles preconceived ideas and proposes a revision of history, that of Spain and the world. In this volume, Elvira Roca rigorously tackles the question of delimiting the ideas of empire, black legend and imperiophobia. In this way, the reader can understand what empires and the black legends that are inevitably linked to them have in common, how they are created by intellectuals linked to local powers and how the empires themselves assume them. Pride, lahybris, envy, are not alien to the imperial dynamic. The author deals with imperiophobia in the cases of Rome, the United States and Russia in order to analyse the Spanish Empire in greater depth and with a better perspective. The reader will discover how the current account of the history of Spain and Europe is based on ideas based more on sentiments born of propaganda than on real facts. To register for the conference, please fill in this form.
