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将于2005年9月在西班牙瓦伦西亚举行的关于西班牙和科学革命的国际会议。会议将汇集来自五个不同国家的大约30名学者，介绍有关早期现代伊比利亚科学史的最新研究以及西班牙在科学革命中的作用。会议的主要目标之一是鼓励就一个直到最近还很少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。在学术价值方面，会议将提供关于科学革命的新观点。传统上，16和17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撰写的。 另一方面，伊比利亚世界几乎完全没有出现在主流叙事中，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。西班牙在主流叙事中的缺席是一种偏见的残余，这种偏见的根源可以追溯到黑人传说，自18世纪以来，黑人传说一直将伊比利亚描绘成现代性的对立面。拟议中的国际会议旨在促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，会议将测试和挑战目前对科学革命的解释，并提出一个问题，即忽略伊比利亚科学的“科学革命”和现代性起源的解释是否有任何意义。就更广泛的影响而言，会议将鼓励世界各地学者之间的国际对话。它还将为更年轻和更成熟的学者之间的交流提供机会。这些学者中的许多人虽然相距遥远，但将在这次会议上首次见面。会议论文以光盘和英文书籍的形式出版，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。国际合作预计也将出现在为期四天的会议上，从而就该学科的前沿主题进行持续对话。最后，会议旨在促进妇女，少数民族和年轻学者在学科的参与。受邀的7名美国学者中，3名为拉丁裔/a，3名为女性，5名为副教授以下级别。

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.