How do we continue to engage students with the early modern and pre-modern Hispanic world in innovative ways? How can we make these texts more accessible to today’s learners whilst also retaining the essential differences of another culture and another era? These are some of the questions that scholars, in collaboration with students, will explore in this interdisciplinary workshop that aims to rethink approaches and pedagogical methods to open up these texts and topics to higher education students. The workshop will include short presentations on all aspects of pedagogy and strategies for teaching, learning, and assessment that encourage learners to engage with key works using a variety of means, including visual and digital media. The purpose of the presentations is to initiate interdisciplinary conversations that might help participants to develop their own teaching practice. It will also feature keynote speaker Tara Munroe, Creative Director of Opal22 Arts and EdutainmentLink opens in a new window (Leicester), who will talk about her exhibition 'CASTA - The Origins of Caste' Link opens in a new windowat the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.

• One-day hybrid workshop at the University of Warwick on Friday, 13th October 2023.
• Registration is free. Please register here
• Some funding available for PGRs and ECAs in temporary/pro-rata contracts towards the costs of attending the conference in-person. Please contact Dr Leticia Villamediana González, l.villamediana-gonzalez@warwick.ac.uk

Programme [download the Programme with abstracts)Link opens in a new window 

9am: Coffee and Welcome in OC1.01, Oculus BuildingLink opens in a new window.

9.30am Panel 1: Teaching Early Modern Literature with Prof. Isabel Torres (QUB), Dr Anne Holloway (QUB), and Dr Idoya Puig (Manchester Metropolitan University) in OC1.01, Oculus BuildingLink opens in a new window

10.40am Panel 2: Teaching the History of Science and Medicine in Colonial Latin America with Dr Yarí Pérez Marín (Durham) and Dr Fiona Clark (QUB) in OC1.01, Oculus BuildingLink opens in a new window

11.30pm: Coffee break

12pm Plenary: ‘Casta Paintings through 21st-Century Eyes’, Tara Munroe, Creative Director of Opal22 Arts and Edutainment (Leicester) in OC1.09, Oculus BuildingLink opens in a new window

1pm: Lunch break in OC0.02, Oculus BuildingLink opens in a new window

2pm Panel 3: Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Hispanism across Warwick with Prof. Rebecca Earle (History), Dr Liz Chant (Liberal Arts), Dr Rich Rabone (SMLC), and Dr Leticia Villamediana González (SMLC) in OC0.02, Oculus BuildingLink opens in a new window

3.30pm: Round Table with UG and PG student participation in OC0.02, Oculus BuildingLink opens in a new window

Organisation team and sponsors

Co-organised by Dr Leticia Villamediana González (Warwick) and Dr Fiona Clark (Queen’s University, Belfast)

The workshop has been generously supported by the following sponsors:

• University of Warwick's Connecting Cultures fund
• University Council for Languages 
• Warwick Humanities Research CentreLink opens in a new window
• University of Warwick's School of Modern Languages and Cultures