Creative Writing Summer Programme
"The ideal programme for those seeking to develop their writing skills through practical work and informed discussion in a supportive academic context." Professor Jem Poster, Programme Director, Creative Writing Summer Programme.
British-Spanish Conference: Mapping the Literature and Culture of Spain's Transition
La vertiente internacional de la Transición política española ha sido históricamente conocida por los historiadores a la hora de valorar factores y agentes extranjeros que intervinieron en la construcción del Estado democrático.
Por su parte, la literatura española y los estudios culturales han puesto de manifiesto la cualidad transnacional y extraterritorial de la producción cultural de este período al señalar la actitud voraz y cosmopolita de los escritores, intelectuales y mediadores culturales españoles mientras que preparaban las bases de una democracia global y capitalista.
Esta conferencia pretende profundizar en el entendimiento del periodo de transición centrándose en los vínculos entre dos culturas cuyas relaciones históricas y dinámicas suponen un caso especialmente importante para el desarrollo del proceso democrático español.
Desde un punto de vista interdisciplinar que abarca desde los estudios literarios y culturales hasta los estudios comparativos y de área, pasando por la teoría del espacio y la emoción, la geocrítica, la historia y la política, esta conferencia bilingüe pretende abrir nuevos caminos en la evaluación de la Transición trazando los contornos de esta geografía hispano-británica. Se incluyen estudios sobre la recepción e intercambio de modelos literarios y culturales; el desarrollo de redes personales y mediaciones interculturales; la producción de traducciones, representaciones literarias y mitologías; y la creación de nuevos repertorios culturales con sus correspondientes marcos afectivos y epistemológicos.
Ponentes confirmados:
Rosi Song, Universidad de Durham
Elisenda Marcer, Universidad de Birmingham
Vicente Molina Foix, escritor
British-Spanish Geographies: Mapping the Literature and Culture of Spain's Transition, 1960s-1990s
10–11 June 2024
British-Spanish Geographies:
Mapping the Literature and Culture of Spain’s Transition, 1960s-1990s
School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick
CALL FOR PAPERS (in English or Spanish)
The aim of this conference is to undertake a critical evaluation of the cultural, literary, and emotional entanglements between Spain and the British Isles during the period of Spain’s Transition into a global and globalized democracy (this Transition broadly understood as beginning in the 1960s and continuing into the 1990s).
The international aspect of Spain’s political Transition has long been acknowledged by historians in assessing the foreign factors and agents involved in the construction of the democratic state. Meanwhile, Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies have pointed out the transnational and extraterritorial quality of the cultural production of this period, highlighting the voracious and cosmopolitan attitude of Spanish writers, intellectuals, and cultural mediators as they prepared the foundations of a global and capitalist democracy. This conference seeks to deepen our understanding of the transitional period by focusing on the engagements between two cultures whose historic and dynamic relations pose a particularly important case to the development of the Spanish democratic process.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach – from literary and cultural studies, to comparative and area studies, through to space and emotion theory, geocriticism, history, and politics – this bilingual conference seeks to break new ground in the assessment of the Transition by mapping the contours of this British-Spanish geography, including studies of: the reception and exchange of literary and cultural models; the development of personal networks and intercultural mediations; the production of translations, literary representations, and mythologies; and the creation of new cultural repertoires with their related affective and epistemological frameworks.
Confirmed speakers:
Rosi Song, University of Durham
Elisenda Marcer, University of Birmingham
Vicente Molina Foix, writer
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes: Please email a 200-word abstract in English or Spanish to Santiago Bertrán santiago.bertran@warwick.ac.uk by Friday 15th of March 2024. Note that the spaces for this conference are limited, although we will try to accommodate as many participants as possible.
Imagining Early Modern Iberia in Graphic Novels
One-day colloquium (hybrid: online and in-person)
Monday 22 January 2024
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Senate House, Malet Street
London, WC1E 7HU
Open to anyone interested
(Free online registration required)
Over the last 25 years, a growing number of long-form comics (graphic novels) in different languages have adapted texts from early modern Iberian literature, or engaged with other aspects of that historical period. Recent examples from Spain include Las meninas (2014), by Santiago García and Javier Olivares, La vida es sueño (2018), by Ricardo Vilbor, Alberto Sanz, and Mario Ceballos, Francisca Pedraza: Mujer y media (2018), by Almudena del Mazo Revuelta and Ignacio Ruiz Rodríguez, Tirante el Blanco (2019), by Maria Aurèlia Capmany and Jaume Marzal Canós, and Nebrija (2022), by Agustín Comotto.
In light of the rise in popularity of graphic novels and their increasing use in teaching of language, history, literature, and culture, the colloquium aims to foster discussion about how graphic novels ‘translate’ Iberian literary texts as well as historical figures, contexts, and events of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Iberia and its American colonies for a twenty-first-century readership.
The interdisciplinary event hopes to attract researchers (including PhD students) working on (or interested in) graphic novels and early modern Iberia, regardless of their disciplinary background, to facilitate dialogue between different approaches and perspectives.
We are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers relating to any aspect of early modern Iberia in graphic novels. Potential topics include:
- Graphic novels and/as adaptation
- Literary and graphic narration and style
- Word-image relationship
- Graphic novels and the literary canon
- Representation of specific historical figures, events, or contexts
- Fact, faction, and fiction
- Representation of geographical and architectural space
- Representation of gender
- Representation of crisis and violence
- Graphic novel reception
- Graphic novels in teaching early modern Iberia
Please send your 250-word proposal (in English or Spanish) and a short biographical note of up to 100 words to: ImaginingEarlyModernIberia@outlook.com
Submission deadline: 5 November 2023
The organisers will confirm acceptance of proposed papers no later than 13 November. Online registration will open shortly after.
Conference organisers:
Dr Tilmann Altenberg (Cardiff University)
Prof Conxita Domènech (University of Wyoming)
Written in the Margins: Interpreting Early Modern Artistic Literature
La literatura artística de la Edad Moderna es fuente fundamental para estudiar el arte de los siglos XV-XVIII. Tratadistas como Vasari, Pacheco, Baldinucci o Palomino fueron esenciales para la construcción y futura interpretación del arte y sus textos, la mayoría de ellos de carácter hagiográfico, permiten conocer la teoría y la práctica artística de la primera modernidad al mismo tiempo que ofrecen una visión de la vida y la obra de los artistas.
Esta sesión se centra, en cambio, en los lectores y propietarios de estos textos, muchos de los cuales han dejado anotaciones, dibujos y poemas en el libro. Los comentarios manuscritos en estos ejemplares nos ofrecen una información de gran valor como reacciones al texto. Por ejemplo, los ejemplares de la Vite de Vasari que fueron anotados por El Greco, Scamozzi o Carracci. Así, a través de un enfoque interdisciplinario, la sesión pretende profundizar en el estudio de los tratados de arte (ya sea en su lengua original o traducidos) como factores clave de la transferencia de conocimientos, y se invita a presentar propuestas que examinen los manuscritos o los libros impresos como objeto, sus lectores en el período moderno temprano (hasta 1850), o sus anotaciones.
El plazo de envío de propuestas finaliza el 4 de noviembre de 2022 y deben enviarse a Mario Zamora Pérez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) y Patricia Manzano Rodríguez (Durham University).
Más información en la página web.
ITI Conference 2022: Embracing change, emerging stronger
El plazo de inscripción finaliza el 13 de mayo de 2022. El programa, los ponentes principales y el precio están disponibles en la página web.
Conference Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) 2022
Se presentarán, entre otras, las siguientes ponencias:
-Diversifying your work with languages: working as a teacher, translator, and agency manager, Karine Chevalier-Watts
-Importance of Mother Tongue and Language Acquisition, Anita Bamberger
-Public Service Interpreting, Nahed Arafat
-Video mediated interpreting in legal settings, Diana Singureanu, Prof Sabine Braun and Dr Graham Hieke
-Translating Marketing Text, Katherine Hornsby
-Skills Auditing: focusing your CPD where you need it most, Holly-Anne Whyte
-Language Community Schools, Valerie Harkness
Programa completo: https://www.ciol.org.uk/sites/default/files/CIOL%20conference%20prog-2022%20v2.pdf
Annual Conference Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland (AHGBI) 2022
El plazo de envío de resúmenes finaliza el 5 de diciembre de 2021.
Más información en la página web.
Seminario «Memorias de las cruzadas en la cristiandad latina: de Oriente a Occidente»
Regístrese aquí para recibir el enlace Zoom: https://theofed-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dtfeV2-CQ0GpoanRHyMpww