On October 13, this panel ended a four-day workshop titled Conservative Sensibilities, which gathered 12 experts on ninetenth-century literature and culture in Latin America and Spain for discussions on how the overlooked conservative vein in the cultural production can be studied.

The workshop Conservative Sensibilities that took place between October 9 and 12, 2017, gathered eminent international researchers specialising in Literary and Cultural Studies to discuss how the ideologies of Conservatism became embedded in the cultural production of the 19th century in the Iberian and Latin American countries, for example in their literature, periodicals, photographs and museums. The goal was to engage in an archaeology of Conservatism in order to unfold its complex and multifaceted ideology from the standpoint of the humanities, to look closer at its philosophical origin as a reaction to the French Revolution, and to inform its relation to liberal thought in the Hispanic and Luzo-Brazilian world through history, focusing mainly on the period of nation formation, i.e. the nineteenth century, but not forgetting the impact of the conservative vein in the 20th and 21st centuries.