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This page contains links of interest to members of the Association. All suggestions for links welcome.

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New additions May 2012:

Conferences, lectures and seminar series

 

Velázquez, Picasso and Las Meninas (May 2012)
Rubén Szuchmacher (May 2012)
Second International Symposium of Nineteenth-Century Hispanists (May 2012)
IGRS Impact Workshop (May 2012)
The Malvinas and the literary imagination (Jun 2012)
The Poetry of Evaristo Ribera Chevremont (Jun 2012)
The World of Jorge Amado (Jun 2012)
Postgraduate Conference on Translation Studies (Jun 2012)
Nuevas perspectivas sobre la transnacionalidad del cine hispánico (Oct 2012)
Golden Age Research Symposium (Nov 2012)
Visiones de lo fantástico en la cultura española contemporánea (Nov 2012)

Other events and opportunities

 

Catalan, Basque and Galician Cinema Season (May 2012)
Hispanic Studies Concert at Sheffield (May 2012)
New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women & Native Americans
Rehearsed reading of House of Desires
(May 2012)

Academic jobs

 

Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast
Teaching Fellow at St Andrews
Senior positions at Durham
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at UCL

Research studentships, bursaries and fellowships

 

Masters and PhD studentships at Leeds
Masters studentships at Cork
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nottingham

Other associations/organizations

 

 

Spanish national agencies

 

 

Lusophone national agencies

 

 

UK Research and teaching bodies

 

 

Intute catalogues of online resources

 

 

 

Conferences, seminars and lectures of interest to AHGBI members

See also the international Agenda maintained by the Instituto Cervantes Portal del Hispanismo

 

18-19 May 2012 Second International Symposium of the Nineteenth-Century Hispanists Network
Universidad de Cádiz
Programme
22 May 2012 Rubén Szuchmacher in conversation with Catherine Silverstone
Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation
Queen Mary, University of London
Info and booking
23-26 May 2012 Film-Poetry/Poetry-Films in Latin America
Proposed panel for LASA International Congress
San Francisco
Call for papers
25 May 2012 Second Impact Workshop
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Details
26-29 May 2012 Del silencio a la palabra: figuras de la madre en la cultura española y/o hispanoamericana contemporánea
XLVIII Conferencia de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas
Convocatoria
28 May-1 June 2012 XIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Española
Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Porto) & Universidad de La Coruña
Convocatoria
31 May 2012 Translations: translating language // translating media // translating experience
Postgraduate conference
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London
Call for papers
5 June 2012

Carlos Gamerro: “To fight for a plot which is not tomb enough and continent to hide the slain”: the Malvinas and the literary imagination
University of Oxford
Info

6 June 2012 Peacemaker: The Foraker Act (1900) and the Poetry of Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
Lecture by Professor Benigno Trigo (Vanderbilt University)
University College London
Details
7 June 2012 Revisiting New Latin American Cinema from its Periphery:
A Dialogue between Academics and Mario Handler

University of St Andrews
Details
8 June 2012 The World of Jorge Amado
British Library
Programme
8-9 June 2012 Belonging: Cultural Topographies of Identity
University College Dublin
Call for papers
8-9 June 2012 Postgraduate Hispanic Studies Conference of Ireland & the UK
University College Cork
Call for papers
11 June 2012 El mal como redención en La Hora Azul
Lecture by Peruvian novelist Alonso Cueto
University College London
6.30 pm Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Invitation
14 June 2012 Lit&Tour: Conferência Internacional sobre Literatura e Turismo
Universidade de Lisboa
Call for papers
20 June 2012 1st Nottingham Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Conference on Translation Studies
University of Nottingham
Call for papers
20-22 June 2012 National Identities at the Intersection: Literature and Visual Media
University of Oxford
Call for papers
21-22 June 2012 AutoRepresentacioneS
II Congreso Internacional de la Red de Investigación sobre Metaficción en el Ámbito Hispánico
Université de Bourgogne
Convocatoria
25-27 June 2012 Teatro e Internet en la primera década del siglo XXI
Centro de Investigación de Semiótica Literaria, Teatral y Nuevas Tecnologías (SELITEN@T)
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid
Convocatoria
28-29 June 2012 23rd Colloquium of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar
Queen Mary, University of London
Call for papers
28-29 June 2012 Rethinking Humanism Conference
University of St Andrews
Programme and registration details
29 June 2012 ACLAIIR (Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources) Seminar and AGM
Taylor Institution Library, Oxford
Programme
5-6 July 2012 Language Futures: Languages in Higher Education Conference 2012
LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies conference
University of Edinburgh
Call for papers
16-18 July 2012 Adaptation, Authorship and Ownership
European Cinema Research Forum
Edge Hill University
Call for papers
1 September 2012 Performing Monstrosity in the City
Queen Mary, University of London
Call for papers
3-6 September 2012 VII Congreso Brasileño de Hispanistas
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Ondina
Convocatoria
4-6 September 2012 ACIS (Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies) Annual Conference
King's College London
Call for papers
7-9 September 2012 War and Memory: Artistic and cultural representations of individual, collective and national memories in twentieth-century Europe at war
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Call for papers
10-14 September 2012 IX Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española
Universidad de Cádiz
Convocatoria
12-14 September 2012

Galicia Beyond the Atlantic Arc:
A Multidisciplinary Vision of Galician Studies

International Association for Galician Studies Conference
Cardiff
Second call for papers

13-14 September 2012 From Adele to Zeca Afonso: The Singer-Songwriter in Europe
University of Leeds
Call for papers
19-21 September 2012 XIX Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada
Universidad de Salamanca
Convocatoria
28-30 September 2012 Crafts of World Literature
University of Oxford
Call for papers
4-6 October 2012 Ventura Pons: The Unconventional Gaze of Catalan Cinema
University of Colorado Denver
Call for papers
17-19 October 2012 Nuevas perspectivas sobre la transnacionalidad del cine hispánico
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Convocatoria
17-19 October 2012 Terrorismo en la literatura, el cine y los medios de comunicación
III Congreso Internacional de Ficción Criminal
Universidad de León
Convocatoria
7-9 November 2012 Hispanic Cinemas: En Transición
Cambios históricos, políticos y culturales en el cine y la televisión

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Presentación de comunicaciones
9-11 November 2012 LVIII Anglo-Catalan Society Conference
University of Sheffield
Call for papers
15-17 November 2012 Image et Genre (Masculin/Féminin)/Imagen y Género (Masculino/Femenino)
8º Congreso Internacional del Grimh
Université de Lyon
Convocatoria
15-18 November 2012 Magazines as maps of modernity
Panel at the American Studies Association (ASA) conference
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Call for proposals
19-21 November 2012 Visiones de lo fantástico en la cultura española contemporánea
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Convocatoria
22-23 November 2012 Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas
Royal Holloway, University of London
Call for papers
22-24 November 2012 III Simposi Internacional d'Arts Escèniques
Universitat d'Alacant
Convocatòria/Call for papers
23-25 November 2012 Golden Age Research Symposium
University College Cork
Call for papers
12-17 December 2012 (S)Movies. Spanish Cinema Now
Lincoln Center, New York
Call for papers

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Other events and opportunities

Vida Hispánica, the Spanish and Portuguese Journal published by the Association for Language Learning, invites teachers and researchers of Spanish and/or Portuguese to submit contributions on methodology, teaching materials, projects and case studies, new approaches to teaching, literature, linguistics or culture. Contact Nuria López.

Contributions are invited to a new journal: Interdisciplinary Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies (IJPDS).

II Catalan, Basque and Galician Cinema Season organised by the University of Birmingham at the Midlands Arts Centre (Birmingham), 2-16 May 2012.

Performing Heritage, Questioning Identities: showing of films by Sandra Kogut and discussion with the filmmaker. Part of Birkbeck Arts Week. Birkbeck University of London, 16 May 2012.

Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal. Annual prize for an art-historical essay on a Hispanic theme, awarded by ARTES (Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group). Closing date 1 November.

Hispanic Studies Concert at University of Sheffield. 18 May, Firth Hall, 7.30 pm.

452ºF: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada. Convocatoria para número monográfico sobre 'Los sujetos poéticos contemporáneos'.

Pasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Convocatoria para número monográfico sobre 'El monstruo posmoderno: nuevas estrategias de la ficción fantástica'.

Undercover: New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women & Native Americans. Call for participants: proposals by 31 May 2012.

Rehearsed reading of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's House of Desires (translated by Professor Catherine Boyle). Launch event for the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival. 23 May 2012. Bolivar Hall, London.

 

Academic jobs

Lecturer in Luso-Brazilian Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. Ref. 12/102038. Closing date 21 May 2012.

Teaching Fellow in Spanish (fixed term 9 months) at University of St Andrews. Ref. ML1032. Closing date 29 May 2012.

Senior positions at Durham University in various fields, including Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Engaged Humanities, Visual Arts and Culture. Closing date 8 June 2012.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Spanish or Latin American Studies at University College London. Closing date 31 May 2012.

 

Research studentships, bursaries & fellowships

Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Women and Independence in Latin America project at University of Nottingham.

School of Modern Languages & Cultures Postgraduate Bursaries (MA and PhD) at University of Leeds. Deadline: 8 June 2012.

Taught Masters Scholarships at University College Cork. Deadline: 6 July 2012.

 

See also the list of Empleo, becas y ayudas maintained by the Instituto Cervantes Portal del Hispanismo

 

Other related associations/organizations

Artes (Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group): A group based in the UK and Ireland dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of Iberian and Latin American art

Aleph (Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Literatura Hispánica)

Anglo-Spanish Society: A charity working to promote friendship and understanding between the peoples of Britain and Spain through knowledge of each other’s customs, institutions, history and way of life (provides a small number of student grants)

Anglo-Catalan Society: Exists to promote awareness and appreciation of Catalan culture in the British Isles and to encourage cultural relations between the two communities

Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas/Canadian Association of Hispanists

Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
Actas de los Congresos I-XII de la AIH (Centro Virtual Cervantes)

Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies (ACIS)
& International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS)

Association for Language Learning & Vida Hispánica

Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia

Basque Children of ’37 Association

BETA (Asociación de Jóvenes Doctores en Hispanismo)

CiLT, the National Centre for Languages

Deutschen Hispanistenverbands

Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos
(Inside Spain: authoritative monthly newsletters by William Chislett on economic and political developments in Spain)

Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)

University Council of Modern Languages (UCML)

Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS)

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Spanish national agencies

Agencia Española del ISBN

Biblioteca Nacional

Consejería de Educación - Reino Unido (Londres)

Instituto Cervantes/Centro Virtual Cervantes
Portal del Hispanismo: noticias; novedades bibliográficas; bases de datos de hispanistas, de asociaciones y de departamentos; recursos lingüísticos y culturales; empleo y becas; enlaces
Centros del Instituto Cervantes en Londres - Mánchester/Leeds - Dublín

Embajada de España (Londres)
Oficina para Asuntos Culturales y Científicos

Embajada de España (Dublín)
Asesoría de Educación

Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID): Becas y subvenciones para estudios y actividades culturales

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Ministerio de Cultura
Portal Hispana: proporciona acceso a la información digital producida por todo tipo de instituciones españolas que se constituye en la red mediante la interconexión de sus bases de datos. Se puede consultar las colecciones digitales de archivos, bibliotecas y museos españoles.

Ministerio de Educación

 

Lusophone national agencies

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

Instituto Camões

Consulado Geral de Portugal (Londres)

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UK & Irish research and teaching bodies

Arts & Humanities Research Council

British Academy

British Library

Department for Education

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Higher Education)
2005 UCML report on National Languages Strategy in Higher Education: >> Full report >> Brief report

Department for Employment and Learning for Northern Ireland – Further and Higher Education

HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England & Wales)
Review of Modern Foreign Languages provision in higher education in England (October 2009)

IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences)

Leverhulme Trust

QAA (Quality Assurance Agency): Subject benchmark statements for Languages & Related Studies

RAE 2008: Research Assessment Exercise

REF 2014: Research Excellence Framework

Royal Irish Academy

SFC (Scottish Funding Council)

Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics & Area Studies (LLAS)

 

Intute catalogues of online resources for Arts & Humanities

Lists of online resources for Arts & Humanities subjects, selected and evaluated (replaced the Humbul Humanities Hub)

Hispanic Studies
Portuguese Studies
Latin American Studies
Linguistics

 

Updated 16/5/2012

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