Murder in the Multinational State. Crime Fiction from Spain
By Stewart King. Routledge 2019 Stewart King’s Murder in the Multinational State. Crime Fiction from Spain provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between detective fiction and national and cultural identities in post-Franco democratic Spain....
Article on the IStReS project
IStRES is pleased to announce the publication of the article “The IStReS Database: Reflections on the Configuration of the Field of Iberian Studies” (Revista de Humanidades Digitales, vol. 3, 2019, pp. 46-63). Authored by the two coordinators of IStReS, Santiago Pérez...
CFP – Arts and Models of Democracy in post-authoritarian Iberian Peninsula
The University of Huddersfield organizes, on 28 and 29 November 2019, the International Conference 'Arts and Models of Democracy in post-authoritarian Iberian Peninsula'. This two-day conference aims to innovatively question how artistic practices and institutions...
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...