Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution, Valencia: September 21-24, 2005.

该提案寻求资助美国学者参加2005年9月在西班牙巴伦西亚举行的关于西班牙与科学革命的国际会议。这次会议将汇集来自五个不同国家的大约30名学者，介绍关于伊比利亚早期现代科学史和西班牙在科学革命中的作用的最新研究。这次会议的主要目的之一是鼓励就一个直到最近才受到伊比利亚世界以外历史学家关注的问题进行国际对话。在知识价值方面，这次会议将为科学革命提供新的视角。传统上，十六世纪和十七世纪的科学革命被认为是西方历史上的一个重要里程碑。然而，由于各种原因，它的历史是从北大西洋世界的角度来写的。另一方面，伊比利亚世界几乎完全没有出现在占主导地位的叙述中，尽管在过去的30年里，人们对伊比利亚科学进行了大量的研究。西班牙缺席了占主导地位的叙事，这是一种偏见的残余，这种偏见的根源可以追溯到黑人传奇，这是一场自18世纪以来一直将伊比利亚描述为现代性的对立面的争论。拟议的国际会议旨在增进我们对科学革命的了解，并鼓励对伊比利亚的作用进行更平衡的评估。此外，会议还将测试和挑战当前对科学革命的解释，并提出一个问题，即对省略伊比利亚科学的“科学革命”和现代性起源的描述是否有任何意义。就更广泛的影响而言，会议将鼓励世界不同地区的学者进行国际对话。它还将为更年轻和更成熟的学者之间的交流提供机会。相距遥远，这些学者中的许多人将在这次会议上首次见面。通过光盘和英文书本出版会议论文，将确保会议成果的广泛传播，并将对科学史教学产生重要影响。在为期四天的会议期间，预计还将出现国际合作，从而就这一学科的前沿议题继续进行对话。最后，会议旨在促进女性、少数民族和年轻学者参与该学科。在被邀请的7名美国学者中，3名是拉丁裔/a，3名是女性，5名在副教授以下。

This proposal seeks funding for the participation of American scholars in an international conference on Spain and the Scientific Revolution to be held in Valencia, Spain in September 2005. The conference will bring together approximately thirty scholars from five different countries to present recent research on the history of early modern Iberian science and Spain's role in the Scientific Revolution. One of the conference's main objectives is to encourage an international dialogue on a subject that has until recently received little attention from historians outside of the Iberian world. In terms of intellectual merits, the conference will offer new perspectives on the Scientific Revolution. Traditionally, the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has been regarded as a major landmark of Western history. For a variety of reasons, however, its history has been written from the perspective of the North Atlantic world. The Iberian world, on the other hand, has been almost completely absent from the dominant narrative, despite the fact that for the past thirty years an immense amount of research has been done on Iberian science. Spain's absence from the dominant narrative is a vestige of a prejudice whose origins go back to the Black Legend, a polemic that since the eighteenth century has depicted Iberia as the antithesis of modernity. The proposed international conference aims to advance our knowledge of the Scientific Revolution and encourage a more balanced assessment of Iberia's role. In addition the conference will test and challenge current interpretations of the Scientific Revolution, and pose the question of whether or not an account of the 'Scientific Revolution' and the origins of modernity that omits Iberian science can have any meaning at all. In terms of broader impacts the conference will encourage an international dialogue among scholars in different parts of the world. It will also provide the opportunity for exchanges among younger and more established scholars. Separated by great distances, many of these scholars will meet for the first time at this conference. The publication of the conference papers through a CD-ROM and a book version in English will insure broad dissemination of the results of the conference, and will have an important impact on the teaching of the history of science. International collaborations are also expected to emerge from the four days of the conference, resulting in a continued dialogue on a subject that is at the cutting edge of the discipline. Finally, the conference aims to advance the participation of women, minority, and younger scholars in the discipline. Of the seven American scholars invited, 3 are Latino/a, 3 are women, and 5 are below the rank of associate professor.