Canary-American History Colloquium: 46 years making history

Canary-American History Colloquium: 46 years making history

His main objective was for the history of the Canary Islands to take the place it deserved

When in 1976 Professor Morales Padrón presented to the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, through Alfonso Armas Ayala, director of the Insular Museums, the project of the Colloquia of Canarian-American History,
Its main objective was that the history of the Canary Islands, in the context of Atlantic history, would take the place it deserved. Not more, but not less either.

He perceived a great lack of knowledge of our history in world Americanism and deeply wanted the great historians of the moment, many of them his friends, to come to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, get to know the Casa de Colón, the Vegueta neighborhood
will investigate the Canary Islands and see with their own eyes that the Canary Islands really were a modest and small America.

Precisely in that decade the first generations of historians graduated from the Faculty of History of the University of La Laguna and it was another of their greatest efforts, that our
youths researchers and researchers knew, debated and
open their horizons with the great figuresbecause he knew, as a Gran Canarian who had made the leap from his beloved archipelago, the need to leave behind the insular navel to situate ourselves in an objective historiographical context.

It also sought to turn the Casa de Colón into a meeting place, for debate open to all historiographic currents, in which controversy and
contrast of opinions were the cornerstone that illuminate the new scientific contributions to better understand our past.

The Colloquium, therefore, had to be a showcase where research could be shared and advance
towards new discoveries and theoriesalways rigorously, avoiding easy applause and the use of historical knowledge at the service of foreign interests.

In this year 2022 we are going to celebrate the twenty-fifth edition of the Colloquium, which has been developing uninterruptedly since its inception, forty-six years ago, and of which we can affirm that it has become a fundamental tool, which is published in its
all with free access. For this, the support of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, the work of the Scientific Committee, on behalf of the two Canarian universities, and the work of the team of this Casa de Colón have been essential.

For this reason, on this important occasion, we make a stop to reflect on the State of the matter of the History of the Canary Islands and the Atlantic,
future paths and new challenges and horizons to achieve, in which we hope that the Canario-American History Colloquium continues to meet these objectives.