Archive
Meetings in 2010-2011
Wednesday 17 November 2010 (ILAS Research Seminar, 1.36 Arts Building) Dr Rosa Vidal Doval, ‘Belief, History, and Law in Anti-Converso Polemics: The Texts of the Toledo Rebellion, 1449’
Wednesday 8 December 2010 (ILAS Research Seminar, 1.36 Arts Building) James Hawkey, ‘De mica en mica s’omple la pica: Experimental Findings from Barcelona’
Monday 24 January 2011 (ILAS Research Seminar, 5.30pm, 1.36 Arts Building) Professor Bernardo Mançano Fernandes (UNESCO Chair, Professor at the UNESP, MST & FAPESP consultant), ‘Territórios em disputa: o campesinato e o agronegócio’
Wednesday 26 January 2011 (ILAS Research Seminar, 6pm, 1.36 Arts Building) Dr Elisa Costa Villaverde (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), ‘Identities and Migrations in Twenty First Century Spain: The Role of the Filmic Image in the New Social Map. The Case of the African Presence in the Canary Islands.’
Wednesday 2 February 2011 (ILAS Research Seminar, 6pm, 1.36 Arts Building) Dr Graciela Ravetti (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CNPq, Fapemig), ‘Representaciones de lo político, de lo social y del trabajo en la ficción argentina del siglo XXI’
Wednesday 16 February 2011 (ILAS Research Seminar, 6pm, 1.36 Arts Building) Professor Else Vieira (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘The Documentary Film at the Turn of the Millennium in Brazil and Argentina’
Tuesday 1 March 2011 (ILAS Research Seminar, 1pm, 1.25 Arts Building) Dominika Gasiorowski (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Representing Prostitutes in Mexico City: Marginality through the Photographs of Maya Goded’
Tuesday 15 March 2011 (ILAS Research Seminar, 1pm, 1.25 Arts Building) Dr Alberto Egea Fernández-Montesinos (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla), ‘Anglo-Saxon Women Explorers in Spain: Approaching the Postcolonial Periphery’
Wednesday 23 March 2011 (ILAS Research Seminar, 6pm, 1.36 Arts Building) Dr Alessandro Mistrorigo (Royal Holloway & Queen Mary), ‘Reading Voices: A Proposal for Spanish Contemporary Poetry’
Meetings in 2009-2010
Wednesday 14 October 6pm - Arts 1.16, Arts Building
Dr Gema Pérez-Sánchez, 'The Intersection of Queer and Migration Studies in Spain Today'
Wednesday, 9 December, 6pm - Arts 1.36, Arts Building
Ignacio Gregorio Sales (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Revisión del uso de las (nuevas) TIC e ideas sobre su aplicación en la
enseñanza-aprendizaje de lenguas’
Tuesday 16 February 1.05 pm in Room 1.36 Arts Building (All are welcome to this special meeting) Dr José Luis Caramés Lage (Universidad de Oviedo) will be talking (in Spanish) about his work as a novelist. Some details about José-Luis and his latest work can be found here.
Wednesday 3 March 6 pm in Room 1.36 Arts Building
Carlos Fernández López & Valentino Gianuzzi (Deptal Research Seminar & Centre for
Catalan Studies), ‘Ramón Vinyes, la
revista Voces y la vanguardia en América Latina’
Wednesday 10 March 6 pm in Room 1.36 Arts Building
Ángel Osle & Elina Vilar Beltrán, ‘The impact of the Year Abroad on students’ communicative competence’
Wednesday 24 March 6 pm Room 1.36, Arts Building
Ms Najat El Hachmi (Writer in Residence, Centre for Catalan Studies), Reading and
question & answer session.
Thursday 29 April 2010 6 pm - Room 2.07, Arts Building
Dr Alberto Egea Fernández-Montesinos,
Centro de Estudios Andaluces and Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 'Anglo-Saxon Women Explorers in Spain: Approaching the Postcolonial Periphery'
Meetings in 2008-2009
Wednesday, 29 October: Dr. Patricia D´Allemand (Queen Mary - Latin American Studies): 'Escribir en el aire de Antonio Cornejo Polar: hacia un arreglo de cuentas con su legado intelectualz'
Wednesday, 12 November: Noelia Diaz-Vicedo (Graduate Programme in Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary): 'Maria-Mercè Marçal: The Poetics of the Particular'
Friday, 14 November
José María Bellido Morillas, Universidad de Granada, ‘Antigüedades alfonsíes: Nembrod, Daluca, Alejandro’
Wednesday 14 January: Dr. Fiona Macaulay (Peace Studies, University of Bradford): 'Exclusionary and Inclusionary Gendered Regimes of Political Representation in Brazil and Chile'
Wednesday 21 January: Dr. Esther Usó Juan (Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain): 'L2 reading instruction: theory, research and practice'
Wednesday 4 March (5.00 pm - Arts Lecture Theatre): Professor Geoffrey Kantaris (Director, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge)‘Cultures of Fear, Cultures of Resistance: The Representation of Hard Rock, Punk and Rap in Latin American Urban Cinema’
Meetings in 2007-2008
Tuesday 23 October: Carlos Conde Solares (Queen Mary): 'Nuevos apuntes sobre Juan y Francisco de Villalpando'.
Wednesday 12 December : Miguel Alarcos (Universidad de Oviedo): 'El póstumo viaje (o Viraje) estético de Cervantes: del prólogo del Persiles al sentido último de la obra'
Wednesday 16 January: Parvati Nair (Queen Mary): 'Autography From the Margins: Photography, Collective Self-Representation and the Disturbance of History'
Wednesday 13 February: Maria Ester Maciel (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and CNPq): 'The Inventory: Borges, Greenway and Bispo'
Wednesday 12 March: Gabriel Quirós Alpera (Queen Mary): 'La puesta en escena de los clásicos áureos: Panorámica y Problemática general'
Wednesday 19 March: Miguel Carrera (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas): 'Teatro civil: los primeros scarceos de Juan Benet con la escena'
Meetings in 2006-2007Wednesday 11 October: Dr Barry Taylor (British Library): 'Strategies for identifying humour in El conde Lucanor'.
Wednesday 1 November: Dr Emilio Martínez Mata (University of Oviedo): 'El cambio de interpretación del Quijote: de libro de burlas a obra clásica'.
Wednesday 6 December: Ms Angela Dorado Otero (Queen Mary): on the Cuban novel [Title to be confirmed].
Wednesday 31 January (postponed from 6 December): Ms Angela Dorado Otero (Queen Mary):
'Palabras traspuestas: la intertextualidad en Máscaras de Leonardo Padura
Fuentes'
Wednesday 28 February (under the auspices of the Instituto Cervantes): Poetry recital and talk by Mr Félix Grande
Wednesday 21 March: Ms Julia Pozas (Queen Mary): 'Impersonalidad nominal: una perspectiva diacrónica'
Wednesday 28 March: Omar García (Queen Mary)

