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- AHRC Studentship
- BFI South American film season
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- Golden Age and Renaissance Seminar
- Award for Dr. Maria del Pilar Blanco
- Alcalá Galiano Lecture Series
- Final year student Roberta Radu shortlisted for Guardian journalism competition
- Roberta Radu Prize-Winning Article
- Dr Claire Lindsay awarded a Dorot Foundation Research Fellowship
- Peacemaker: The Foraker Act (1900) and the Poetry of Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
- Alcalá Galiano Lecture Series
- El último verano de la boyita
- Gained in Translation: UCL Challenges
- Translating 'Live' Poetry: Contemporary European Poets
- London World Film Festival 2013 // Rimbaud and Verlaine // Gained in Translation // 6.30 - 8.00 pm Thursday 21 March 2013 // The Bloomsbury Theatre UCL
- International Conference - The Future of Hispanism
Contact Details
Ms Clare Szembek
(Departmental Co-ordinator)
tel 020 7679 3109;
internal extension X33109;
email c.szembek@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco
(Head of Department)
tel: 020 7679 4332;
internal extension X34332;
email: h.faraco@ucl.ac.uk
News & Forthcoming Events
- International Conference - The Future of Hispanism
- London World Film Festival 2013
- Translating 'Live' Poetry
- Gained in Translation
- Dr Deborah Martin will introduce El último verano de la boyita at ISA's 'Staging the Future: Argentine Films in Dialogue' Series
- Graduate student, Kathleen Sparks awarded grant
- Alcalá Galiano Lecture
- LECTURE: Benigno Trigo (Vanderbilt University), 6 June 2012 at 11am
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Claire Lindsay awarded a Dorot Foundation Research Fellowship
- Professor Stephen Hart's Documentary Summer School in Cuba
- Dr Jo Evans will introduce Mexican film, Miss Bala, at the Cineschool festival 2012
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Jo Evans will discuss Pan's Labyrinth at the European Institute Film Day
- César Vallejo conference. 16-17 March 2012
- Final year student, Roberta Radu's prize-winning article
- Dept of Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL nominated for award
- Final year student Roberta Radu shortlisted in Guardian competition
- Award for Dr. Maria del Pilar Blanco
- Alcala Galiano Memorial Lecture
- Alumni Events
Golden Age and Renaissance Seminar
17 February 2011
Early Colonial History Symposium
Wednesday, 20th April 2011
Foster
Court, Room 101.
PROGRAMME:
9.30 – 10am Registration.
10 – 11.30am Session 1.
Iris Montero Sobrevilla (Cambridge), New-World nature in Old-World coating: the hummingbird in the emblematic tradition
Andrew Redden (Qeen’s University Belfast), ‘Animo hijos míos. Ved aquí los ángeles q' vienen a serviros': Angelic Sickness in Early Modern Hispanic America
Estefania Yunes Vincke (UCL), Pedro de Gante and the Catecismo en pictogramas
11.30 – 12am Coffee Break.
12 – 1.30pm Session 2.
Victoria Rios Castaño (Ulster), Juan López de Velasco's Relaciones topográficas and geográficas
Robert Goodwin (KCL/UCL), The perpetuation of sixteenth-century misrepresentations in modern historiographical readings of a relación
Alexander Samson (UCL), Informaciones de servicio as Administrative Instrument
1.30 – 2.30pm Lunch.
2.30 – 5pm Session 3.
Elizabeth Baquedano (UCL, Institute of Archaeology), Aztec Gold
Caroline Dodds Pennock (Sheffield), Was there an Indigenous Atlantic?
Barry Ife (King’s College London and Guidlhall School of Music and Drama), Where was Bernal Díaz when Cortés needed him?
Zoltan Biedermann (Birkbeck), How to Map an Alien Empire: Safavid Persia in some Iberian texts and maps
This event is free of charge and open to all. Please contact the organizer for more details a.samson@ucl.ac.uk. Location maps as to how to get to UCL and the venue are available here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/.
