by Santiago Pérez Isasi | Mar 18, 2019 | News
The Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies will hold its 41st Conference, organized by CEC-Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, in collaboration with CHAM-Centro de Humanidades, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, on 4-6 September 2019.
Proposals for individual papers as well as panels on specific themes (max. four papers per panel) are encouraged. Proposals will be accepted in any of the following languages: English, Spanish or Portuguese. Any proposed panel should be organised by one convenor who will be responsible for inviting the speakers and chairing the session.
Papers and panels must advance understanding of contemporary socio-cultural, economic and political issues and realities and relate primarily to Spain and/or Portugal and transnational issues and processes relating to the Iberian Peninsula within the wider Lusophone and Hispanic worlds.
If you wish to offer a paper, please send your proposal to the ACIS 2019 Programme Convenors (Susana Relvas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Jesús Revelles Esquirol, Universitat de Isles Baleares) at the email address: ACIS2019LISBON@gmail.com by Friday 17th May 2019. Informal enquiries concerning papers and topics are welcome before the deadlines.
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by Santiago Pérez Isasi | Feb 4, 2019 | News
IStReS is pleased to announce the 1st IberTRANSLATIO International Symposium – Iberian and Translation Studies: Re-Defining Contact Zones, which will take place on March 28-29, 2019, at the School of Arts and Humanities from the University of Lisbon.
The symposium will explore theoretical-methodological questions dealing with the relation between Iberian Studies and Translation Studies. Drawing on Mary Louise Pratt’s overarching concept of the ‘contact zone’ (1991), the aim of our symposium is twofold: to re-define the multiple ‘contact zones’ between these two fields of inquiry and to investigate ‘contact zones’ between the different Iberian literary systems through translational practices.
Among others, the conference will address the following subjects:
- Theoretical and methodological approaches to Iberian Studies and Translation Studies
- Translation as a complex mode of literary circulation in the Iberian Peninsula
- Translation flows among the different Iberian literary systems
- Power dynamics and intra-Iberian translation
- The role of patronage in intra-Iberian translation
- Intra-Iberian collaborative translation
- (Iberian) literary authors as translators of Iberian literatures
- Translation agents and their networks within the Iberian space
- Self-translation in the Iberian space
- Translating heteroglot works in the Iberian Peninsula
The academic program includes distinguished scholars from Europe and the U.S.A. and will be complemented by a round-table featuring literary translators.
Organizing Committee: Esther Gimeno Ugalde (University of Vienna), Marta Pacheco Pinto (CEC, FLUL) and Ângela Fernandes (CEC, FLUL)
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by Santiago Pérez Isasi | Jan 28, 2019 | News
By Antonio Sáez Delgado and Santiago Pérez Isasi. Granada: Comares, 2018.
This volume focuses on the historical moment in which Iberian literary and cultural relations were most intense: the period between 1870 and 1930, the generation of Antero de Quental, ‘Clarín,’ Eça de Queirós and Emilia Pardo Bazán, all the way until the Iberian modernist and avant-garde movements. An analysis of the contacts between Portuguese and Spanish writers and artists shows how, at least among the cultural elite, the stereotype of these two countries as living with their backs turned on one other is not correct, as there existed fluent and fruitful dialogues across political and linguistic borders.
The methodology applied in this volume is rooted on the most recent developments in the field of Iberian Studies, which is now understood as a subfield of Comparative Literature rather than as an expansion of Hispanic Studies. The Iberian Peninsula, then, is conceived as a complex multilingual and multicultural system, in which diverging literary systems established a fluctuating relationship of mutual interdependence. This network of literary relations and interferences justifies a comparative analysis of Iberian literatures and cultures, such as the one proposed in this text.
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Antonio Sáez Delgado‘s and Santiago Pérez Isasi‘s profile in the IStReS ‘Who is who’
by Santiago Pérez Isasi | Dec 19, 2018 | News
Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities, 30-31 May 2019
In recent years, literary studies have paid increasing attention to the dimension of space, applying concepts and methodologies adopted from Philosophy, Urbanism, Geography or Social Sciences. From Franco Moretti’s early proposals in his Atlas of the European novel, 1800-1900 (1998) and Bertrand Westphal’s Geocriticism (1999) to Robert Tally’s Geocritical explorations (2011), the relation between literature and space, and between literature and cartography, has been approached from different perspectives. The mapping of fiction, in particular, has attracted much specific discussion and theorization (for instance, by Piatti et al, 2017).
On the other hand, this spatial turn in the Humanities has also been aided by the parallel development of the digital turn: digital technologies and methodologies applied to the Humanities, and more specifically to literary studies, have allowed for new approaches to texts and cultural systems. In the case of literary cartographies, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), even with their practical and epistemological limitations, have helped the development of digital literary cartographies, such as The space of Slovenian Literary Culture, Compostela geoliteraria or Atlas das paisagens literárias de Portugal continental, to name but a few examples.
This conference aims to explore the interconnections between geography, cartography and literary studies, with particular attention to the use of digital technologies (namely GIS) for literary analysis. Proposals that apply these methodologies to Iberian literatures will be given priority, although we welcome papers dealing with any linguistic and geographical context.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theoretical reflections on the crossings between geography, cartography and literature
- Spatial configurations in Literary Theory, Literary History and Comparative Literature
- Geocriticism, literary geography and its applications
- The spaces of the literary system: production, distribution, mediation, reception
- Maps and texts, maps in texts, texts in maps
- Digital Humanities, GIS and digital literary cartographies
- Network analysis applied to literary networks
Proposal submission: All proposals should be sent to maplit@letras.ulisboa.pt by January 11th 2019.
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Conference organized by the Center for Comparative Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon.
by Santiago Pérez Isasi | Nov 30, 2018 | News
By Robert Patrick Newcomb. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018
Robert Patrick Newcomb’s Iberianism and Crisis examines how prominent peninsular essay writers and public intellectuals, active around the turn of the twentieth century, looked to Iberianism to address a succession of political, economic, and social crises that shook the Spanish and Portuguese states to their foundations.
Bringing into dialogue prominent fin-de-siècle peninsular literary intellectuals, including Joan Maragall, Oliveira Martins, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Antero de Quental, and Miguel de Unamuno, Newcomb engages in a comparative analysis of textual sources across national and regional borders, languages, and literary canons.
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Robert Patrick Newcomb’s profile in the IStReS Who is who
