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...
CFP “Beyond borders? New Formulations in Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds”
The Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies of University College Cork, with the support of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), organizes the symposium ‘Beyond Borders? New Formulations in Hispanic and Lusophone...
Exhibition “Pessoa: All Art Is a Form of Literature” at the Reina Sofía Museum
The Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid will be showing the Pessoa. All Art Is a Form of Literature exhibit from February 7th to May 7th 2018. The title of the exhibition, "Pessoa. All Art Is a Form of Literature", is based off of a quote by Álvaro de Campos, one of the most...
Call for Papers – Encounters, Rights, and Sovereignty in the Iberian empires
The Call For Papers is now open for the International Conference “Encounters, Rights, and Sovereignty in the Iberian empires, 15th-19th centuries”, which will take place at the University of Evora (Portugal), on the 24th and 25th of May 2018. Focused on the colonial...