The Ghost in the Constitution in the Constitution. Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society

The Ghost in the Constitution in the Constitution. Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society

by | Oct 18, 2017 | News

Written by Joan Ramon Resina.

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Embracing a philosophical and ethical dimension, The Ghost in the Constitution. Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society provides a deep, thoughtful reflection on the concept of ‘historical memory’ and its political use in Spain. The book analyzes specific ‘traumatic’ historical episodes such as the bombing of Guernica, the post-war exodus to France and internment in concentration camps or exile. It also explores the origins of symbolic violence and “negationism” in the post-Franco era.

Joan Resina is the Director of the Iberian Studies Program at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Relations and Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, United States. Recent books by Resina include Barcelona’s Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image (2008), Del Hispanismo a los Estudios Ibéricos. Una propuesta federativa para el ámbito cultural (2009), and Josep Pla: Seeing the World in the Form of Articles (2017).

Joan Ramon Resina’s profile in the IStReS “Who is who”

IStReS at the conference of Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas

IStReS at the conference of Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas

by | Oct 18, 2017 | News

After launching at the ACIS Conference (Norwich, University of East Anglia, 4-6 September 2017), the IStReS project will also be presented at the conference of the Society for Hispanic Digital Humanities (Sociedad Internacional Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas), which will take place in Málaga from October 18th to October 20th 2017.

The HDH Association gathers scholars from many different scientific areas (Philology, Art, History, Geography, etc.) who use digital tools as a means of research and dissemination of knowledge. This conference will include more than two hundred participants from several European and Latin-American countries, as well as plenary sessions by Laura Borrás, Ángela Pérez Mejías and Juan Luis Suárez.

The IStReS project presentation will be included in a panel on Iberian Studies and Digital Humanities, along with the presentation of the project “Digital Map of Iberian Literary Relations (1870-1930)”.

Brad Epps

by | Sep 10, 2017 | Who's who

Areas of interest: Catalan Studies – Hispanic Studies – Comparative Literature – Gender Studies – Film Studies.

Brad Epps is a Professor of Spanish, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow at King’s College in Cambridge, UK. Previously, he was a Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures as well as a Professor and former Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University for over two decades. (more…)

Ângela Fernandes

by | Sep 8, 2017 | Who's who

Areas of interest: Iberian Studies – Portuguese Studies – Comparative Literature – Literary Theory.

Ângela Fernandes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Literatures at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.In 2009, she received her PhD in Literary Theory from the Universidade de Lisboa. In addition to lecturing at the university, she coordinates the research project “DIIA – Iberian and Iberian Dialogues”, which analyzes the relations between Iberian and Iberian American cultures and literatures. (more…)

Esther Gimeno Ugalde

by | Aug 31, 2017 | Team

Esther Gimeno Ugalde currently works as an Interim Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) of Iberian Studies at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany, and is a member of the research group DIIA (Diálogos Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos) at the University of Lisbon (Centro de Estudos Comparatistas). Between 2013 and 2018, Gimeno Ugalde was an Assistant Professor of Practice at Boston College, and held a previous appointment as the Max Kade post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.

Her research in the field of Iberian Studies focuses on language choice and multilingualism in cinema and literature, exploring questions related to language and identity. Gimeno Ugalde’s current project studies literary self-translation in the Iberian Peninsula, an undertaking at the head of her new line of research within group DIAA, IberTRANSLATIO – Iberian Studies and Translation Spaces. Dr. Gimeno Ugalde is also interested in the origins and development of Iberian Studies as a discipline. Together with Santiago Pérez Isasi, she is the co-editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS) and co-leads the project IStReS (Iberian Studies Reference Site).

Esther Gimeno Ugalde has contributed to the field of Iberian Studies with books such as La identidad nacional catalana. Ideologías lingüísticas entre 1833 y 1932 (single author, Iberoamericana, 2010) and Catalunya/Catalunha. Relacions literàries i culturals entre Catalunya i Portugal (co-editor, Humus/Onada, 2013). Other publications specializing in this area include, “A utopia ibérica n’A Jangada de Pedra (do romance ao roadmovie)” (2011),  “Polyglot Iberia – or What Is the Place for Iberian Languages in Current Cinema? Presence (and Absence) of Iberian Languages in Cinema” (2013), “La encrucijada bilingüe en la literatura: Reflexiones sociolingüísticas y literarias en torno a L’últim home que parlava català de Carles Casajuana” (2013), or “The Iberian Turn: an overview on Iberian Studies in the United States” (2017).