SMLC - News and events
Fabienne Viala to speak at Islands in Between conference, Aruba, 6-10 November 2013
Fabienne Viala
will speak on bilingual Creole/French street theatre in Martinique in the paper “Performance and Collective Memory in Martinique: Teat’lari and the Caribbean anamnesis,” to be delivered at the Islands in Between: Language, Literature and Cultures of the Eastern Caribbean, Aruba, 6-10 November 2013.
Christabelle Peters to speak at The Traveller's Eye conference, Bucharest, 24-26 October 2013
Christabelle Peters will be giving a paper entitled "Présence Africaine and the Post-WWII Construction of Mobile Africanicities" at The Traveller’s Eye: Narrating Dis/Location in 20th Century Travel Literature conference, to take place at the University of Bucharest from October 24th-26th 2013.
Kirsty Hooper to speak at Iberian & Latin American Transatlantic Studies Symposium, Oregon, 1-2 November 2013
Kirsty Hooper will speak on 'Extraimperial Archives: Other Mobilities and Memories in the Hispanic Transatlantic World' at the Iberian & Latin American Transatlantic Studies Symposium to be held at the University of Oregon from 1-2 November 2013.
Christabelle Peters awarded Santander mobility grant for travel to Brazil
Congratulations to Dr Christabelle Peters, who has been awarded a Santander Mobility grant to fund research visits to Bahia, Minas Gerais and São Paulo in order to investigate the concepts of ‘Bahianess’(bahianidade) and ‘mixedness’ (mestiçagem). Dr Peters plans to travel to Brazil in May 2014.
Fabienne Viala to speak at Black Jacobins Revisited conference in Liverpool, 27-28 October 2013
Dr Fabienne Viala will deliver a paper, 'Sabotage, commemoration and performance: The Black Jacobins and Maryse Condé's An Tan Revolysion', at the conference The Black Jacobins Revisited, International Slavery Museum / The Bluecoat, Liverpool, 27-28 October 2013.
Welcome to all our incoming students!
Hispanic Studies are thrilled today to welcome their first-ever cohort of undergraduate students, as well as three new MA students!
Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies Annual Conference 2015
The newly established Department of Hispanic Studies is delighted to have been chosen to host the annual conference of Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies (WISPS) in 2015.
Date to be confirmed nearer the time