The congress Universitas del Mediterráneo al Pacífico will be divided into five sessions during the 20th, 21st and 22nd of September 2017. It will being on Wednesday 20th with an afternoon session, and then it will continue with a morning and an afternoon sessions in the next Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd. Lastly, Saturday 23rd is reserved for the participants a visit Villa Medici, courtesy of Académie de France à Rome.

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During these sessions, we will deepen the art of the Hispanic world of the 15th and 16th centuries, under the following subject areas: "Networks and nodes in the Hispanic universitas" and "The Utopia of the Golden Age". They are a kind of geographic and a time coordinates, respectively, that shall help us to approach to the Hispanic past emphasizing its universality. 

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    Below are detailed a group of key ideas:

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 Networks and nodes in the Hispanic universitas

 Geographic coordinate

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·  Parallel hegemony in Art and Power: Assimilation, pretension, mimesis and emulation / Journey, settlement, dominance and diffusion.

· Present models and syncretism: Tradition and inertia, permeability, transformation and eclecticism.

·  Local and transoceanic interactions of production-creation and demand.

· Nodes for the arts: Viceroyalty, embassies, diplomatic engagement, religious missions and evangelization, expeditions of conquest, centres of learning and dissemination of study, banking, commerce and ports of culture.

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 The Utopia of the Golden Age

 Time Coordinate

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· Models from the old and recent past. The different ancient times: Mesopotamia, Egypt, sacred history, Roman Christian empire, moralized paganism and pre-Hispanic America.

· Manipulation and construction of memory (art in the service of the memory) / Culture fetish (the mechanisms of the memory the service of art).

· Past and identity: Dynasty lineage, honor and dignity.

· Power of the possession of the artistic object:

      - Inherited patrimony.

      - The Spolia.

          · Collecting: prestige, singularity and exoticism.