Conversations on Iberian Studies: Challenges and Opportunities (#CISCO)
The conference seeks to contribute to the current debate on Iberian Studies, an epistemological, academic, and institutional field that takes the Iberian Peninsula as interconnected, multilingual cultural and literary systems (e.g. Resina 2009; Isasi & Fernandes 2013; Gimeno Ugalde 2017; Solà & Pinheiro 2020).
The global development of Iberian Studies as a field of inquiry challenges national and monolingual traditions and offers a pathway to the future of research and teaching in modern languages. The contributions to this two-day conference present the work of International and Nordic scholars and encourage us to think innovatively about the challenges and opportunities that Iberian Studies presents for the humanities in Denmark.
Conference Programme
| 09:00 |
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Opening Session: Welcome |
| 09:30 | Keynote speaker: Esther Gimeno Ugalde (University of Vienna) Chair: Ana Vera |
Mapping Iberian Studies: origins, potential and challenges |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 | Panel 1: Iberian and Transatlantic studies | |
| Robert Patrick Newcomb (UCDavis – on Zoom) | Elective Affinities: Iberian, Luso-Hispanic, and Transatlantic Studies as Modes of Comparison | |
| Yarí Pérez Marín (University of Durham) | Literary studies and the history of science in current appraisals of early modern Iberian contexts | |
| Santiago Perez Isasi (University of Lisbon) | Some recent disciplinary crossings in current (literary) Iberian Studies: Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, translation studies | |
| Mario Santana (University of Chicago) | Is there a place for Iberian Studies? | |
| Chair: Tina Lupton | ||
| 12:45 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 | Panel 2: Media, Film and Iberian studies | |
| Sally Faulkner (University of Exeter) | Spain’s first Feminist Films: Feminism and Francoism, Margarita y el lobo (Bartolomé, 1969) | |
| Santiago Fouz-Hernández (Durham University) | Asking for the moon? Re-thinking Iberia through Bigas Luna’s La teta y la luna thirty years later | |
| Iván Villarmea (University of Coimbra) | Prefiguring life beyond all crises: participatory strategies of self-representation in contemporary Iberian documentary fiction | |
| Chair: Ana Vera | ||
| 15:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 | Panel 3: Politics, International Relations and Iberian Studies | |
| José Magone (Berlin School of Economics and Law – on Zoom) | Portugal and Spain in a changing European Union. The pitfalls of Southern European capitalism in a turbulent world | |
| Lea Heyne (ICS – University of Lisbon – on Zoom) | A new Iberian exceptionalism? Comparing the populist radical right electorate in Portugal and Spain | |
| Lasse Thomassen (Queen Mary University of London) | What comes after Populism? From Podemos through Unidas Podemos to the Broad Front | |
| Moderator: Morten Heiberg | ||
| 16:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 | Panel 4: Research Projects, Digital Humanities and Initiatives in Iberian Studies | |
| Sally Faulkner | Invisibles e Insumisas: Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Cinema and Television 1970-1980 (AHRC) | |
| Diana Pelaz Flores | MUNARQAS: Mujeres en las Monarquías Ibéricas (Spain/EU) | |
| Diana González Martin (on Zoom) | TransMigrArts (Horizon Europe 2020) | |
| 18:30 | Presentation of Pleibéricos and other initiatives within Iberian Studies | |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner |
| 09:00 | Panel 5: Medieval Iberian cultures | |
| Rosa Rodriguez Porto (University of Santiago de Compostela) | The contested territory of Iberian medieval art (on Zoom) | |
| Kim Bergqvist (University of Stockholm) | Locating Iberia within Medieval Europe and in the World: the relationship of Iberian Studies to the disciplines of medieval history and literature | |
| Diana Pelaz Flores (University of Santiago de Compostela) | Medieval Iberian Queenship from a Comparative Perspective: the MUNARQAS project | |
| Chair: Sacramento Roselló-Martínez | ||
| 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 | Panel 6: Mutilingual Iberian Literatures | |
| Angela Fernandes (University of Lisbon) | Bringing together the “Siglo de Oro” and contemporary authors: Spanish literature in Portuguese translation since 1975 | |
| Katiuscia Darici (University of Turin) | Displacements. Hybrid identities in the Iberian Literatures | |
| Christian Claesson (University of Lund) | Comparative Spain | |
| Chair: Katrine Helene Anderson | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 | Panel 7: Las materias de español y portugués en los sistemas educativos noruego, sueco y danés | |
| Berit Grønn (Høgskolen i Østfold, Norway) | La situación del español y el portugués como lengua extranjera en la formación reglada noruega | |
| Rakel Österberg (Stockholms Universitet, Sverige) | La situación actual del español como lengua extranjera en Suecia: posibilidades y desafíos | |
| Natalia Morollón Martí (Københavns Universitet, Danmark) | El español como lengua extranjera en Dinamarca | |
| Chair: Nieves Hernández-Flores (tbc) | ||
| 14:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:30 | Panel 8: Cultural history, memory and Iberian Studies | |
| Joana Duyster Borreda (University of Copenhagen) | The Nation-State, Catalonia and international commemorations 1880-1925 | |
| Teresa Pinheiro (University of Chemnitz) | Iberian Transitional Memories – Decentralizing the Nation-State | |
| Juan Carlos Cruz Suárez (University of Stockholm) | Memory and Iberian Studies. Contradictions between Politics and Culture | |
| Chair: Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom | ||
| 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:15 | Keynote speaker: Antonio Sáez Delgado (University of Évora) | Españolizar el mundo”: apropiaciones literarias y tensiones ideológicas entre España y Portugal a principios del siglo XX |
| Chair: Sacramento Roselló-Martínez | ||
| 17:30 | Concluding remarks and Farewell | |
| 18:45 | Cultural Activity | Screening of Jamón, Jamón, Bigas Luna at the Danish Film Institut with presentation by Santiago Fouz-Hernández. Read more |
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