During the 2012-2013 academic year we welcomed six speakers to our new departmental research seminar:

• November 2012: Professor Thomas Glave of SUNY Binghampton, spoke on 'Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood' (cosponsored with Centre for Caribbean Studies).
• February 2013: Dr Stuart Davs of Girton College, Cambridge spoke on 'Past Glories Present: Locating Museum Practices in Hispanic Literary History'.
• March 2013: Professor Catherine Boyle, King's College, London presented her research on 'Translating Jose Triana: Getting there in one piece'.
• May 2013: Three speakers. Professor Angel Quintero Rivera of the Uni de Puerto Rico on 'Afro Latin American Cultural Studies and Music'; Dr Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool on 'Locating Latin America Online: How Latin Americans Create Place on the Internet; and Professor Jose Colmeiro of the University of Auckland on his research project 'Made in Galicia; Cinema and Political Devolution'.