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AHGBI Annual Conference 2015: 1
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
AHGBI Sixtieth Anniversary Conference: 1955-2015
University of Exeter: Academic Programme, 13th -15th April, 2015
Monday 13th April
9.30Registration – XFI Building, Atrium.
10.15
Exhibition: ‘España e Inglaterra. Juan Luis Vives y Tomás Moro/Spain and England. Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More’ - Street Gallery, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. (The Gallery is just a 10-minute walk uphill from XFI/Building One). This event is generously supported by: Embassy of Spain , Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs; AC/E Acción Cultural Española; Consorcio de Museos de la Comunidad Valenciana;
Fundació Jaume II El Just, and the College of Humanities, University of Exeter. The exhibition will be open throughout the conference: 9am-5pm.
10.30Building One – Pearson
Building One – Kolade
Building One – Constantine
Building One – Marchant
XFI Building –
XFI Building –
12.30
Conference Room 1
Conference Room 2
Golden Age I:
The Spanish Civil War & the
Hispanic Comics, Cartoons
Cultural & Intertextual
Manuscript History,
Franco Dictatorship:
and Graphic Novels
Encounters:
Latin American Literature I:
The Configuration of the
Translation, Cultural Exchange
New Historical Perspectives
Chair: Chris Harris (Liverpool)
Reshaping Latin American
Of Texts and Intertexts
Spanish Public Sphere:
Chair: Aaron Kahn (Sussex)
Chair: Maria Thomas (Exeter)
Identities, 19th-20th Centuries
Chair: Melisa Moore (Exeter)
XVIII-XIX Centuries
Rhiannon McGlade (QMUL):
Chair: William Rowlandson
Chair: David Jiménez Torres
Jonathan Bradbury (Exeter):
Rúben Serem (Nottingham):
‘Dissenting Voices: Children’s
(Kent)
Cynthia Stephens
(Manchester)
‘The Dominican and the
“‘Our Beloved Month of
Comics as a Critical Outlet
(Independent):
mathematician: the curious
August’: Portugal and the
under Franco’
Andrea Cadelo-Buitrago (KCL):
‘Time's firing squad: Borges's
Leticia Villamediana González
history of the aprobaciones of
Massacre of Badajoz’
‘“El Brujo de Otraparte”:
“El milagro secreto” and R.S.
(Warwick):
the Zaragoza edition (c. 1670?)
Francis Lough (Birmingham): Revisiting Fernando González’s
Thomas's “Jaromir Hladik”’
‘La opinión sobre la opinión
of El Filósofo del aldea (1625)’
Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom (RHUL):
‘The Graphic Novels of the
Humanism’
pública en el siglo XVIII’
‘New Man, Old Art?: Josep
Spanish Civil War of Antonio
Lesley Wylie (Leicester):
Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga
Renau and the Aesthetics of the Hernández Palacios’
Jo Crow (Bristol):
‘The poetics of plants: Andrés
Daniel Muñoz Sempere (KCL):
(Cambridge):
Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939’
'Gabriela Mistral, Victor Raúl
Bello’s “Silva a la agricultura
"El intelectual y sus máscaras
‘Rewriting and sequels in the
Guillem Colom-Montero
Haya de la Torre, and Political
de la zona tórrida”’
de Goya a Larra"
heterodox branch of the Amadís Daniel Oviedo (Nottingham):
(Bangor):
Imaginaries of “Indoamerica”’
de Gaula cycle: the topoi of the
‘The Special Court for Porters:
“‘Independència,
Pedro Férez Mora (Murcia):
Alison Sinclair (Cambridge):
pretence of translation and the
Political violence, public order
Democràcia, Constitución”:
Michela Coletta (Warwick/ILAS): ‘Severo Sarduy, Franz Kline y
‘Public knowledge in the 19th
discovered manuscript’
and urban surveillance in the
Quim Monzó’s Political
‘The West and the Rest: Hegel,
Mark Rothko: deconstruyendo century: desire, belief and
aftermath of the occupation of
Cartoons during the
Ortega and americanismo in
el orden simbólico’
pragmatism’
Elizabeth Drayson (Cambridge):
Madrid’
Transition’
twentieth-century Argentina’
‘Reading between the lines: the
letters of the Morisco Miguel de Richard Ryan (RHUL):
Tilmann Altenberg (Cardiff):
David Conlon (Maynooth):
Luna’
‘“Jesus as a precursor to
‘The Adventures of Alonso
‘“Prolixity of the Real”: The
Lenin?”: Radical Catholic politics Quijano in Germany: Flix’s
Politics of Liquid Space in Juan
Şizen Yiacoup (Liverpool):
in the wartime Spanish Republic, Graphic Novel Don Quijote
José Saer's El río sin orillas’
‘Physicians, Heal Thyselves:
1936-9’
(2012) and its Spanish
Jewish Doctors and the Dis-ease
Translation (2014)’
of Convivencia in El Viaje de
Turquía’
The AHGBI offers warmest thanks to the Embassy of Spain, Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, for its sponsorship of this 60th Anniversary Conference
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2.002.15
2.153.45
3.454.00
4.005:30
Lunch – XFI Building, Sustain Café.
Welcome: Professor Sally Faulkner, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film Studies; Professor Nick Kaye, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Professor of Performance Studies – XFI Building, Henderson Lecture
Theatre.
60th Anniversary Plenary I – XFI Building, Henderson Lecture Theatre. Chair: Professor Trevor Dadson (QMUL and President of AHGBI).
On Contemporary Spain: William Chislett, ‘Spain's crisis: where we are now’; John Hooper, ‘Looking on the bright side: Spain and Italy compared’, and Giles Tremlett, ‘Reflections on Podemos’.
Break – XFI Building, Sustain Café
Building One – Pearson
Building One - Kolade
Building One - Constantine
Building One – Marchant
Golden Age II:
Santa Teresa escritora
Chair: Terence O’Reilly
(Cork)
Spain’s Autonomous
Communities: Contemporary
Economic, Linguistic
& Political Issues
Chair: Maria Thomas (Exeter)
The Configuration of the Spanish
Public Sphere:
XX-XXI Century
Chair: Leticia Villamediana
(Warwick)
Hispanic Film Studies I:
Screening the Spiritual
and the Supernatural
Chair: Sarah Wright (RHUL)
Arantza Mayo (RHUL):
‘“Una luz tan diferente”:
The poetics of illumination,
transparency and
reflection in Teresa de
Jesús’s writings’
Chris Pountain (QMUL):
‘Traditions of discourse
and Santa Teresa’
Anne Holloway (QUB):
‘Hacer hablar: orality and
performance in the
writings of Santa Teresa’
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Jill Dixon (Northumbria):
‘The Generalitat of Catalonia
and the Junta of Andalusia Same But Different? The
Response of Spain’s
Autonomous Communities to
Austerity’
Elizabeth Burgess (Liverpool):
‘Political and Linguistic Conflict
in the Valencian Community: the
case of the closure of Ràdio
Televisió Valenciana (RTVV)’
Alexis Grohmann (Edinburgh):
‘El hombre solo afrontando a la
multitud: la lección pasada de
moda de Javier Marías’
Silvia Caramella (Sunderland):
‘Tres películas, tres Cristos:
Elementos teológicos posconciliares del cine de Luis
García Berlanga’
Anna Kendrick (Cambridge):
‘“Enigmas de la infancia”:
Interrogating Child Studies in Early
Twentieth-Century Spain’
Mary Farrelly (Manchester):
‘Written on the Wall: A
Genealogy of Convent Space in
Spanish Cinema’
David Jiménez Torres
(Manchester):
‘Variations on Commitment: ETA
and the figure of the intellectual
(1958-1999)’
Ann Davies (Stirling):
‘Casa tomada: memory, genre
and the haunted house’
XFI Building –
Conference Room 1
XFI Building –
Conference Room 2
Rulfo and Buñuel:
New Approaches
Chair: Chris Harris
(Liverpool)
The Space for Language:
Interpreting, Translating,
Performing
Chair: Catherine Boyle (KCL)
Ivan Kenny (Galway):
‘Humour, Gender, and
“Mexicanidad” in Juan
Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and
Luis Buñuel’s Ensayo de un
crimen’
Marta Pérez Carbonell (RHUL):
‘The space of the interpreted
message: The role of language
interpreters in the novels and
short stories of Javier Marías
and Almudena Grandes’
Marc Ripley ( Leicester):
‘Housed nowhere and
everywhere shut in: uncanny
dwelling in Luis Buñuel’s El
ángel exterminador (1962)’
Charlotte Fereday (KCL):
‘“Trace material”: The space of
memory, selfhood and exile in
the plays of María Teresa León,
María de la O Lejárraga García &
Concha Méndez’
Angel Smith (Leeds):
‘The Impact of Orientalist
Discourse on Cuban, Catalan and
Basque Nationalism’
60th Anniversary Welcome Reception and Launch of ‘España e Inglaterra. Juan Luis Vives y Tomás Moro/Spain and England. Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More’ –
Street Gallery, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. The cava drinks reception is generously supported by Santander Universities.
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AHGBI Annual Conference 2015: 2
Sophie Louise Stevens (KCL):
‘The theatre laboratory: theatre
translation as cultural
interaction’
Professor Andrew Thorpe (Dean of the College of Humanities); Professor Emma Cayley (Head of Department, Modern Languages); and Professor Adam Watt (Director of Research, Modern
Languages) offer words of welcome to all visitors.
Professor Enrique García Hernán (Profesor de Investigación del Instituto de Historia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) introduces the exhibition ‘España e Inglaterra. Juan Luis
Vives y Tomás Moro/Spain and England. Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More’.
Professor Trevor Dadson (AHGBI President) welcomes Presidents from the Network of European Hispanists’ Associations (RAEH) and offers a toast to former AHGBI Presidents.
Annual Conference Dinner and Announcement of AHGBI Prizes – Reed Woodbridge Suite.
The AHGBI offers warmest thanks to the Embassy of Spain, Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, for its sponsorship of this 60th Anniversary Conference
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Tuesday 14th April
9:0011.00
Building One – Pearson
Building One – Kolade
Golden Age III: Literature:
Ideology and Aesthetics
Chair: Isabel Torres (QUB)
Galician Studies
Chair: Martín Veiga (Cork)
Luis Castellví Laukamp
(Cambridge):
‘Ekphrasis Meets Teichoscopy:
The Panoramic Landscape in
Góngora’s Soledad Primera’
Paul Joseph Lennon (Exeter):
‘Sources, Syncretism, and
Significance in Calderón’s El divino
Orfeo (c.1634)’
Imogen Choi (Cambridge):
‘The cosmopolitan and the local in
early colonial hagiography: Pedro
de Oña’s San Ignacio de Cantabria
(1639)’
Paloma López Serrapio
(Birmingham):
‘Tradución, publicidade e
identidade en Galicia’
Martín Veiga (Cork):
‘Landscape, Contemplation and
the Joys of Slow Travel:
Primaveira no Lor by Eduardo
Moreiras’
Bárbara Álvarez Fernández
(Vigo):
‘Viaxe por Galicia: unha iniciativa
individual para anovar o sistema
literario galego’
David Miranda-Barreiro
(Bangor):
‘Glocal Spaces, Translocated
Cultures: Bringing Galicia to New
York’
Building One – Constantine
Latin American Literature II:
Questions of Gender and
Intersectionality
Chair: Melisa Moore (Exeter)
Ailsa Peate (Liverpool):
‘The (In)Visible Woman in BEF’s
Hielo negro and Cuello Blanco:
Decent or Deviant?’
Angela Dorado-Otero (RHUL):
‘La locura como metáfora en
Desde los blancos manicomios de
Margarita Mateo Palmer’
Maritza Carrasco-Marchessi
(Aston):
‘Masculinidades y nación: para
una lectura de la memoria del
compañero en el exilio y la
represión en la narrativa de
Antonio Skármeta’
Building One – Marchant
Intermediality in
Spanish Cinema
Chair: María Delgado (QMUL)
Jochen Mecke (Regensburg,
Germany):
‘Under the sign of literature: The
intermedial dimension of the
“Nuevo Cine Español”’
Tom Whittaker (Liverpool):
'Woody Allen's Double: Spanish
Dubbing as Ventriloquism'
Laura Kemp, (Cambridge):
‘The intermediality of affect and
cultural trauma’
Sally Faulkner (Exeter):
‘Impure Cinema, Middlebrow
Cinema: Intermediality in Film
Studies
XFI Building –
Conference Room i
XFI Building –
Conference Room 2
New Readings, New Trends:
Re-thinking the Canon
In Lusophone Studies
Chair: Juliet Perkins (KCL)
Translation Studies
Chair: Paul O’Neill (Sheffield)
Hazel Robins (Cambridge):
‘Canonical margins in Júlio
Dinis’
Luis Gomes (Glasgow):
‘What they really knew: the
canon and the perceived
canon’
Phillip Rothwell (Oxford):
’40 Years of Writing the
Nation: Pepetela and the
Angolan Canon’
11.0011:20
Break: XFI Building, Sustain Café.
11.3012:30
60th Anniversary Plenary II - XFI Building, Henderson Lecture Theatre. Chair: Professor Sally Faulkner (Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film Studies, Exeter).
Professor María Delgado (QMUL): ‘Interviewing, documenting and interpreting: methodologies for analysing creative practice’.
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Lunch – XFI Building, Sustain Café.
Elisabetta Perra (Kent):
‘(Re)Inventing Language in
Rayuela’
Sara Naylor (Leicester):
‘The representation of
“Spain is different” in the
translation into English of
Féderico García Lorca’s
Bodas de sangre’
Diana Cullell (Liverpool):
‘Translating Cultures and
Crossing Borders: Catalan
Poetry and Identity in
Translation’
The AHGBI offers warmest thanks to the Embassy of Spain, Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, for its sponsorship of this 60th Anniversary Conference
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2.oo4.oo
1.453.45
AHGBI Annual Conference 2015: 4
Private Meeting – Red Europea de Asociaciones de Hispanistas/REAH (Professor Trevor Dadson, as the Association’s President, represents the AHGBI)
XFI Building, Seminar Room B
Building One – Pearson
Building One – Kolade
Building One – Constantine
Building One – Marchant
Golden Age IV:
Cervantes and the Stage:
Commemorating the Comedias
and Entremeses
Chair: Jonathan Thacker
The Spanish Civil War:
History and Literature
Chair: Frank Lough
(Birmingham)
Iberian and Latin American
Visual Cultures:
Intersections with Politics,
Literature and Aesthetics
Chair: Andrea Cadelo Buitrago
(KCL)
Hispanic Film Studies II:
Of Nationhood and Stardom
Chair: Julia Banwell (Sheffield):
Melanie Henry (Durham):
‘Revelation and Representation:
Staging the “pensamientos
escondidos del alma”’
Aaron Kahn (Sussex):
‘Cervantes’s Literary Dialogue’
Carolyn Lukens-Olson (Saint
Michael’s College, USA):
‘Hermeneutical Anxiety in
Cervantes’ Entremeses’
Imogen Bloomfield (Hull):
‘‘‘¡Estoy muy bien Madre!”: The
Photographic Construction of
Familial Narratives of the
Spanish Civil War’
Judith Meddick (RHUL):
‘Memory as “bare life” in El hijo
del acordeonista by Bernardo
Atxaga’
Elisangela Abadia Franco (QUB):
‘Deshaciéndose de la “coraza
soberbia” en la figura de María:
encontrando una voz femenina
autorizada durante la posguerra
franquista en la poesía de
Ángela Figuera Aymerich’
Anna Vives (Leicester):
‘Salvador Dalí and Fascism’
Lucy Bell (Surrey):
‘Between Literature and
Photography: Re-Viewing Juan
Rulfo’s Short Fiction’
Jennifer Wood (Galway):
‘Emiliano Paolini and Marianela
Perelli's “Barbie: The Plastic
Religion”: Interpreting
Controversy’
Liz Harvey (UCL):
‘“Un país sin cine es un país
invisible, y las pantallas son
espejos de la sociedad”: How
does new national cinema
reflect contemporary Costa
Rica?’
Eamon McCarthy (Glasgow):
‘Ricardo Darín: An Argentine
star for the 21st century’
Abigail Loxham (Queensland,
Aus):
‘“Sí valgo, yo valgo seguro”:
Spanish celebrity and Postfeminism: The case of Verónica
Echegui’
XFI Building –
Conference Room 1
XFI Building –
Conference Room 2
Spain, Bécquer and
the fin de siglo
Chair: Rhian Davies (Sheffield)
Linguistics
Chair: Paul O’Neill
(Sheffield):
Derek Flitter (Exeter):
‘Platonic Motifs of Memory
and Immortality in Bécquer’s
Tres fechas’
Samuel Llano (Durham):
‘Flamenquismo, criminality
and Madrid at the fin de siglo’
Katharine Murphy (Exeter):
‘Gender and degeneration in
fin-de-siglo Madrid: Baroja’s La
busca (1904)’
Break – XFI Building, Sustain Café
4.156.15
Building One – Pearson
Building One – Kolade
Building One – Constantine
Building One – Marchant
James Hawkey (Bristol):
‘Catalan language policy in
different polities: Diverse
approaches to medium-ofinstruction choice’
Paul O’Neill (Sheffield):
‘Spanish Linguistics and
Teaching Spanish
Pronunciation’
Jaine Beswick (Southampton)
‘Are you in or are you out?
Allegiance, ideology and
language use in Tuy, Galicia’
Hannah Rose (Dundee):
'Comics at War: Propaganda in
Spanish Civil War Comics for
Children'
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Dave McDougall (QMUL) :
‘Scribal Involvement in La
fazienda de Ultramar’
XFI Building –
Conference Room 1
XFI Building –
Conference Room 2
The AHGBI offers warmest thanks to the Embassy of Spain, Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, for its sponsorship of this 60th Anniversary Conference
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Medieval I –
Medieval Women Writers
Chair: Lesley Twomey
(Northumbria)
Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida
(Complutense , Madrid):
‘Juana de la Cruz y María de Santo
Domingo, o la reescritura de la
santidad al fin del Medioevo’
María Morrás (Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona):
‘Visiones y revelaciones santas en
la Cataluña medieval: ¿La
constitución de un género?’
Rachel Scott (QMUL):
‘Corrupting Women, Corrupting
Words in Celestina’
Rosanna Cantavella (Valencia):
‘Reconstructing Isabel de Villena's
Biography (1430-1490)’
Print Journalism, Documentary
Film and Spanish Politics
Chair: Ann Davies (Stirling)
Guillermo Laín Corona (UCL):
‘Francisco Umbral: Journalism
and Democracy’
Gloria Mound (Glasgow/Casa
Shalom):
‘Anti-Franco Fighters in German
Concentration Camps: New
Research’
Clara Guillén (Bath):
‘Female Migration and
Multiculturalism in Extranjeras’
Oscar Salgado Suárez
(Birkbeck):
‘Una parábola de la (No)
Transición: Los Encargados
(2012) de Sierra y Galindo’
AHGBI Annual Conference 2015: 5
Power, Politics and Culture
in Latin America:
Chair: Lucy Bell (Surrey)
William Rowlandson (Kent):
‘The crisis of conscience. The
response of Susan Sontag,
Allen Ginsberg and Leroi Jones
to the Cuban Revolution’
Lauren Rea (Sheffield):
‘Conservative Popular Culture
in Argentina’s Revista Billiken’
Katie Brown (KCL):
‘“El poder relata la historia. La
historia no relata al poder”:
power, truth and fiction in
Bajo las hojas’
Hispanic Film Studies III:
21st Century Trends
Chair: Tom Whittaker (Liverpool)
Julia Banwell (Sheffield):
‘Ink and Identities: The politics
of bodies and borders in Sin
nombre’
Sarah Wright and Lidia Merás
(RHUL):
‘Dancing in the sun. The musical
as touristic hook in Luna de miel
(Michael Powell, 1959)’
Ryan Prout (Cardiff):
‘Cognitive Disability, Codices,
and Ethnobotany: Rethinking
Maria Novaro’s Las buenas
hierbas’
Benito Pérez Galdós:
New Readings
Chair: Daniel Muñoz Sempere
(KCL)
Kristina Pla (Manchester):
‘Enrique Vila-Matas’s
Metacriticism: an outline of
some of the dynamics of
Cultura de la Transición’
Rhian Davies (Sheffield):
‘“¿Mujeres a bordo de un
naufragio”? The Role and
Representation of Women in
Galdós’s Torquemada Novels’
Maite Usoz de la Fuente (KCL):
‘Space and subjectivity in Juan
José Millás’ El Mundo (2007)’
Michael Wenley Stannard
(Exeter):
‘Galdós and the State of
Spanish Medicine’
Eduardo Tasis (UCLAN):
‘El microrelato actual en
España’
Nicholas Round (Sheffield):
‘Beyond Source and
Influence: Unlikely
Connections and the
Interpretation of Galdós’
Gareth Wood (UCL):
‘What’s the Point of it All?
Galdós’s La desheredada’
6:157.45
AHGBI AGM – XFI Building, Henderson Lecture Theatre.
6.307.50
PGR/ECR Masterclass – XFI Conference Room 1. Chair: Dr Tom Whittaker (Liverpool/AHGBI Postgraduate Officer).
'From Thesis to Book: Writing and Publishing', Dr Graham Nelson (Oxford/Managing Editor of Legenda).
‘The Early Career Researcher and the Academic Profession’, Professor Catherine Boyle (KCL).
Dinner – Holland Hall Dining Room.
8.0010.00
8.45
20th and 21st Century
Spanish Narrative I
Chair: Alexis Grohmann
(Edinburgh)
Screening of Tabu (Gomes, 2012), with an introductory talk by Professor Sally Faulkner, Exeter Picture House, 51 Bartholomew Street, Exeter, EX4 3AJ.
This event is part of the College of Humanities, University of Exeter Screen Talks programme, supported by the University Arts and Culture initiative.
Blog: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/screentalks/
Twitter: @ExeScreen_Talks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/screentalks/
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Wednesday 15 April
9.00-
Building One – Pearson
Building One – Kolade
Building One – Constantine
Building One - Marchant
XFI Building –
XFI Building –Conference
The AHGBI offers warmest thanks to the Embassy of Spain, Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, for its sponsorship of this 60th Anniversary Conference
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11.00
Medieval Studies II –
Chair: Barry Taylor (British
Library)
Jane Whetnall (QMUL):
‘Songs in the Cancionero de
Herberay (LB2)’
Barry Taylor (British Library):
‘Mena’s Prologue to Luna’s
Libro de las claras e virtuosas
mujeres: A Prologue Ahead
of its Time’
Alexandra Nowosiad (KCL):
‘The Making of a SixteenthCentury Classic: Jorge
Manrique’s Coplas, Glossed
and in Print’
Juliet Perkins (KCL):
‘Dialogue in Fernão Lopes’
11.o011.20
11.3012.30
12.301.30
1-302.30
The “National Question” in
Spain and the Rise of Catalan
Independentism
Chair: Angel Smith (Leeds)
Andrew Dowling (Cardiff):
‘Why Independence?’
Kathryn Crameri (Glasgow):
'Do Catalans Have "the Right to
Decide"?: Secession, Legitimacy
and Democracy in Spain'
Dominic Keown (Cambridge):
‘“Venceréis pero no
convenceréis”?: Catalan
independence as reported in the
Anglophone press’
Gorka Mercero (Liverpool):
‘Has the Catalonian process
effectively influenced Basque
independentist strategies?’
20th and 21st Century
Spanish Narrative II
Chair: Maite Usoz de la Fuente
(KCL)
Jordi Larios (St Andrews):
‘Viviana y Merlín, de Benjamín
Jarnés, y la “topografía” del yo en
el pensamiento de Ortega’
Sarah Leggott (Victoria University
of Wellington, NZ):
‘Re-visiting the Postwar Spanish
Novel: Elena Quiroga’s Plácida la
joven (1956)’
Samuel O’Donoghue (UCL):
‘Two Abortive Beginnings and the
Search for a Literary Father in
Juan Goytisolo’s Señas de
identidad’
Stanley Black (Ulster):
‘Poetry, Fiction and Lateness in
the work of Juan Goytisolo’
Site and Sound
in the Theatres of Spain
Chair: Catherine Boyle (KCL)
David George (Swansea/Leeds):
‘Sight and Sound in Adrià Gual’s
La família d’Arlequí’
Montserrat Roser i Puig (Kent):
‘Music on Stage: Joan Brossa
and Mauricio Kagel: A
Comparative Analysis’
Duncan Wheeler (Leeds):
‘The Sights and Sounds of
Nostalgia: The Twenty-First
Century Spanish Musical’
Stuart Green (Leeds):
‘Marketing a Theatre in Crisis:
Publicity Posters in Madrid 20142015’
Conference Room 1
Room 2
Latin American Literature III:
History, Politics, Aesthetics
Chair: Chris Harris (Liverpool)
Poetry & Politics in Spain:
1930s-present
Chair: Anna Vives (Leicester)
Nicola Astudillo Jones
(Manchester):
‘Beyond the page: The cultural
legacy of Latin American
magical realism in Britain in the
twentieth and twenty-first
centuries’
Francesca Zunino (KCL):
‘Tracing Macondo’s and Mc
Ondo’s roots: Columbus’
marvellous myths on the Indies’
nature and culture’
Jennifer Wood (NUI Galway):
‘Rafael Alberti’s Auto de fe
(1930): (En)acting the fool’
Andrew Giles (Bristol):
‘Spanish antipsychiatry’
Javier Letrán (St Andrews):
‘Democracia y postdemocracia en la poesía de
Luis García Montero’
Mel Boland (Galway):
‘“Rompiendo el tintero” –
Gesture, Kinesis and
Kinaesthesia in Isabel Allende’s
Cuentos de Eva Luna’
Break – XFI Building, Sustain Café.
At 11am , for members who wish to join him, Emeritus Professor Richard Hitchcock (Exeter) will lead a walking tour of Richard Ford’s Exeter. This is expected to last about one and half hours.
60th Anniversary Closing Plenary: Professor Catherine Davies (Nottingham/Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London): ‘Why Spanish? Why us? Why then? Why now?: Hispanist
testimonios on choice, chance and change’ - XFI Building, Henderson Lecture Theatre. Chair: Professor Philip Swanson (Sheffield).
Lunch – XFI Building, Sustain Café.
Formal Exhibition Opening and Drinks – ‘España e Inglaterra. Juan Luis Vives y Tomás Moro/Spain and England. Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More’. Street Gallery, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
This event is generously supported by the College of Humanities, University of Exeter, and by the AHGBI.
Warmest thanks from Professor Chris Harris (AHGBI Conference Secretary) to all of the Exeter Conference Organisers:
Hispanic Studies, Modern Languages - Co-Organisers: Dr Jonathan Bradbury, Professor Sally Faulkner and Dr Katharine Murphy (Programme Director in Hispanic Studies).Poster design: Dr Maria Thomas.
College of Humanities Research Office: Mrs Jenny Hickman; Events Exeter: Mr Nick Davies.
Hispanic Studies student helpers: Ms Lani Huens, Ms Delphi May, Ms Lara Salzer-Levi and Ms Connie van Zanten.
The AHGBI offers warmest thanks to the Embassy of Spain, Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, for its sponsorship of this 60th Anniversary Conference