The Iberian and Latin American Studies Seminar meets 2-3 times per Semester. It provides a forum for research across the whole of Hispanic Studies. Papers are invited from current research students and members of academic staff, and from visiting speakers. All meetings are on Tuesdays, except where noted.
Programme 2018-2019
Term 1
Tuesday 16thOctober at 13:00 in Bancroft 3.27
Dr Jenni Lehtinen (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) will give a talk entitled ‘Simply la Doña: Reinterpreting Rómulo Gallegos’s Doña Bárbara for the twenty-first-century audiences’ on
Tuesday 30thOctober at 17:00 in Arts Two 2.17
Dr Francisco Fuster García (Universidad de Valencia) will give a talk entitled ‘La otra generación del 98’
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Thursday 15th November at 18:15 in Arts Two 2.17
Antonio Martínez Arboleda (University of Leeds) will give a talk entitled ‘Crátera y Ártemis: expediciones poéticas globales en la era digital’.
Term 2
Thursday 15th January 2019 at 17:00 in Bancroft 3.24
Enrique del Rey Cabero (Oxford University) will give a talk entitled '¿Un objeto cultural (todavía) no identificado? Panorama de la investigación sobre cómic y novela gráfica dentro de los Estudios Hispánicos'.
Tuesday 26th February 2019 at 17:00 in Laws 3.06
Claudia Montilla (Universidad de los Andes) will give a talk entitled 'Trends of the Contemporary Colombian novel'.
Programme 2017-2018
Term 1
Term 2
Tuesday 16 January 2018. "Lengua sagrada para definir el mundo: sistemas de significación de la cultura maya" by Dr. Michela Craveri (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy).
Tuesday, 23 of January 2018,. "The tyranny of the King versus the tyranny of the people: Monarchism and federalism in Juan Pablo Viscardo and Simón Bolívar" (Humberto Núñez Faraco, UCL).