CFP – 41st ACIS Conference (Lisbon, September 2019)
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...
1st IberTRANSLATIO Conference
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...
De espaldas abiertas. Relaciones literarias y culturales ibéricas (1870-1930)
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,’...
CFP International Conference “Writing spaces, mapping words”
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...
Iberianism and Crisis: Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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...
IStReS’ “Who is who” reaches 50 profiles
We are pleased to announce that the IStReS "Who's Who" section now includes 50 academic profiles, while the database has now expanded to include over 1600 bibliographic references. This past year has been one of intense work, but we believe that all the dedication...
ACIS 40th Conference in Barcelona: CFP extended
On 5-7 September 2018, the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies (ACIS) will hold its 40th Anniversary Conference, organized jointly by the GREL (àrea de Ciència Política, Facultat de Dret de la Universitat de Barcelona), the University of Chester (UK), and the...
Península Ibérica. Nações e transnacionalidade entre dois séculos (XIX e XX)
Edited by Sérgio Campos Matos and Luís Bigotte Chorão. V. N. de Famalicão, Húmus / Centro de História, 2017, 346 pp. The last two centuries have seen radical changes to the relationship between Portugal and Spain, in large part due to shifts in power on the...
IStReS database questionnaire
We have prepared a short questionnaire that aims at analysing the use of the IStReS website and its database. Our purpose is to determine whether these tools have been applied for researches in the field of Iberian Studies, or to find information about scholars in...
A New History of Iberian Feminisms
Edited by Silvia Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2018, 544 pp. A New History of Iberian Feminisms, a publication edited by Silvia Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson, offers both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of...