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1ST CHARLES V AND AMERICA SYMPOSIUM: ETHICS IN THE HISPANIC OCCUPATION OF THE INDIES AND IN INDIGENOUS INTEGRATION DURING THE CAROLINIAN PERIOD

Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UEx (Assembly Hall) Cáceres, 24 and 25 November 2022.

With this 1st Charles V and America Symposium, the intention is to delve into the analysis and reflection on the action of the emperor in the Indian territories that were joining the Catholic Monarchy. Coinciding with the moments of maximum Hispanic expansion, Charles V contemplates the fall of the great Aztec and Inca empires. The great complexity resulting from the incorporation of multiple populations and enormous spaces, with their corresponding governance, explains the will of this Organisation to continue with periodic specific academic events around Emperor Charles and the New World.

The topic of this 1st Symposium, which is organised by Yuste Foundation and the Extremadura and America Research Group, revolves around the so-called Indiana polemic, concerning the legitimacy of the occupation and the lawfulness of the subjugation of the indigenous population during the Carolinian period. Contemporary domestic accusations and criticisms of the Spaniards’ actions deepened the moral, legal and political problems that had arisen since the second decade of the 16th. century, and they polarised with the conquest of Peru. A crisis of national consciousness that reaches the emperor himself will be caused, and will be present in the Indian questioning. A phenomenon of self-censorship, reflection and review of the occupation of the Indies is generated that will be a singular example never to be seen again in the remaining colonising processes.

The papers of the participants in this meeting pose the ethical values that Charles V tries to imbue in Indiana praxis, partly as a result of the pressure of clergymen, jurists or other intellectuals of Christian humanism (especially the School of Salamanca), who defended new channels and postulates in Hispanic action in the New World. These values are manifested in the clearly protective royal legislation regarding the Indians, in the methods of evangelisation, in the learning and respect of indigenous languages, in acculturation, in artistic manifestations, in miscegenation and integration into settlements and spatial planning.

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