Seminars and conferences
The Postgraduate Research Seminar meets regularly and offers a valuable forum for debate and discussion; our postgraduates also take part in the CELC postgraduate round table, and are encouraged to present papers at specialist conferences in the UK and abroad.
Many begin to build up their professional profile by publishing articles in academic journals and volumes of essays. Present and former postgraduates lecture in the Universities of Birmingham; Cambridge, Durham; Edinburgh, Leicester; Royal Holloway; King's College, London; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Girona; Bennington College, USA; City University of Hong Kong; Instituto Português do Oriente, Macau; University of the West Indies.
Hispanic Studies regularly hosts and organises high-profile international conferences.
Recent events have included
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Conference on 'The Intersection of Poetry and Architecture in Catalonia', 5 June 2009
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El Reino Unido en la vida y la obra de Camilo José Cela Universidad de Birmingham, 27 - 31 de octubre de 2008. Colloquium and Exhibition in conjunction with theFundación Camilo José Cela
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International conference on Spanish Republican Exile Geographies (10-12 September 2008)
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The anthology: new approaches to the history of literature and theatre performance in Portugal (2006)
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Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies (2006)
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Beyond the Nation: Reading Spanish Caribbean Culture in the 21st Century (2005)
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Crear mitoloxías: a superestructura da Galicia imaxinada (2004)
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Reading Iberia (2003)
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Simposio Internacional sobre Poesía Española: Luis Cernuda en su Centenario. Simposio Internacional organizado por la Universidad de Birmingham en colaboración con los Institutos Cervantes de Leeds y Manchester (2002)
Recent visitors
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Spanish poets Luis Alberto Cuenca, Luis García Montero and Julio Martínez Mesanza
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Galician writers Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, Xosé Ramón Pena and Manuel Rivas
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from Catalonia the author-scholar-translator Salvador Oliva, the poet Narcís Comadira and the pianist Manuel Camp
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Valencian novelist Ferran Torrent; from Portugal, Richard Zenith, poet and translator of Fernando Pessoa
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Inês Pedrosa, author, journalist and political activist
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Professor Fernando Rosas, Portuguese academic and politician
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from Uruguay the playwright Mauricio Rosencof and the poet Rafael Courtoisie, as well as many distinguished academics from the Caribbean, Latin America, the USA and Europe, including Professor Juanamaría Cordones-Cook (University of Missouri)
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Professor Nestor Rodriguez (University of Toronto)
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Professor Ian Bethel Bennett (University of Puerto Rico)
Postgraduate research seminars
We hold regular research seminars in which Hispanic Studies staff and postgraduates and staff and students from other sections of the University participate. These seminars, usually held on Wednesdays at 5pm, are open to all, and contribute to the vibrant research environment we enjoy.