January 2011 31 January Contemporary Women's Writing in Spanish Reading Group: Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
presented by Nagore Calvo 6.30-8.00 pm
Institute of Germanic
& Romance Studies, Room ST273
contact: Maria-Jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
21 February Contemporary Women's Writing in Spanish Reading Group: Maria Barbal, Canto rodado
presented by Ester Pou 6.30-8.00 pm
Institute of Germanic
& Romance Studies, Room ST273
contact: Maria-Jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
5 May
Entre escritoras:Laura Freixas: Carmen Martin Gaite
6.30 - 8.00pm, Room 275 (Stewart House)
Organised by Maria-José Blanco for the CCWW and in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes
for more information contact Maria-Jose.Blanco@sas.ac.uk
12 July Contemporary Women's Writing in Spanish Reading Group: Claudia Piņeiro, Las vuidas de los jueves
presented by Maria-José Blanco
6.30-8.00 pm
Institute of Germanic
& Romance Studies, Room ST273
contact: Maria-Jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
CFP WISPS(Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) XII Annual Conference Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
10th and 11th November 2011 Deadline for Submissions: 1st September 2011 Please send your proposals to: Maria-José Blanco (maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk) and Jennifer Fraser (j.fraser@bbk.ac.uk) www.wisps.org.uk
27 September
Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group:La hora violeta de Montserrat Roig presentado por Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo
6-7.30pm Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
13 October Entre Escritoras: Cristina Cerezales Laforet, "Carmen Laforet" Chancellor's Hall, 6.30pm
followed by wine reception Event is free and open to all
Organised by Maria-José Blanco for the CCWW and in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes.
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
10th and 11th November 2011 CONF: WISPS (Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) XII Annual Conference Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
Deadline for Submissions: 1st September 2011
Please send your proposals to: Maria-José Blanco (maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk) and Jennifer Fraser (j.fraser@bbk.ac.uk) www.wisps.org.uk
29 November Centre for Contemporary Women's Writing Spanish Reading Group: La ciudad en invierno de Elvira Navarro (2006) presentado por Mercedes Cebrián
6-7.30pm Room G35 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
Contact: maria-jose.blanco@sas.ac.uk
Spanish reading group: Isabel Allende, Paula Monday 22 February 2010, 4-6pm, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Consecutive meetings will be held once a month (last Monday of the month, 4-6 pm):
29 March, 26 April and 24 May 2010.
Organizer: Maria-José Blanco, IGRS More information
Spanish reading group:
Mercè Rodoreda, La plaça del Diamant (La plaza del Diamante)
The book will be introduced
by Noèlia Diaz-Vicedo.
Monday 29 March 2010, 4-6pm, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Participants may want to view the adaptation of the novel to a TV series: http://www.rtve.es/television/plaza-diamante/
Consecutive meetings will be held once a month (last Monday of the month, 4-6 pm):
26 April and 24 May 2010.
Organizer: Maria-José Blanco, IGRS
Study day: Carmen Laforet
May – date tbc
Organizer: Caragh Wells
Spanish reading group: Carmen Posadas, Juego de niños/ Child's Play Monday 24 May 2010, 4-6pm, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
The final meeting of the group will be 28 June 2010.
Organizer: Maria-José Blanco, IGRS More information
Book Launch: Tenebrario: doce pesadillas y un escalofrío by Nina Melero
21 June 2010 - 6.00- 8.00 p.m.
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies,
Stewart House (32 Russell Square) - Rooms 274/275
The book will be presented by Teresa Lawlor, Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies, Kingston University with readings by the author (in the original Spanish and in translation), this will be followed by an interview of the writer by Laura Rodríguez, founder and editor-in-chief of London’s Spanish cultural magazine El Colectivo (www.elcolectivolondres.com) and a wine reception.
Lucía Etxebarría (Valencia, Spain, 1966) is one of the most polemical and best known contemporary Spanish writers. Part of the ‘Generacion X’, Etxebarría began her career in 1996 with a biography of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. She published her first novel in 1997, Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas and her second novel Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes (1998) won the Nadal Prize. She has published more than 15 novels winning amongst others the Planeta Prize in 2004 with De todo lo visible y lo invisible. Etxebarría has also published poetry, essays and film scripts. Her books are best sellers and always bring controversy. The author will be reading from her latest work Lo verdadero es un momento de lo falso(2010).
12 March 2010, 4pm – 7pm
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Readings by
Montserrat Abelló
Lala Isla
María Reimóndez
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women Writers and the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory are delighted to present an afternoon of readings by three writers representing the three romance languages of the Spanish Peninsula. Catalan poet Montserrat Abelló, Spanish cultural historian Lala Isla and Galician novelist María Reimóndez, will be reading from recent works treating the theme of memories. Three different ways of narrating - poetry, cultural history/ autobiography and the novel - will be represented by these three women; three generations of women who grew up during very different political and social eras in Spain; three generation of women who will be reflecting on those different times through their writing and memories. Catalan poet Montserrat Abelló (1918) has just won the Premi d'Honor de les letres Catalanes being the first woman poet to won such a prestigeous literary prize. She has been publishing her own poems since the 1960s and has also edited several anthologies of women’s poetry.
Spanish cultural historian Lala Isla (1947) runs workshops with Spanish refugees, exiled and emigrants from Spain, part of Historytalk. She has co-produced films on the theme of the exiled of the Spansih Civil War. She published her autobiographical book Londres, pastel sin receta in 2002 and has recently finished her second book which will be published shortly.
María Reimóndez (1975) is a Galician novelist, as well as a translator and interpreter. She published her first novel Moda galega in 2002. Her novel O club da calceta (2006) has been translated into a number of different languages and has been adapted as both a theatrical piece and film. She writes for a number of Galician newspapers.
Carmen Martín Gaite 10 years on:
revisiting her textual and visual legacy
Conference to be held at IGRS, London, 10-11 December 2010.
Co-organizers: Dr Maria-José Blanco and Dr Jessamy Harvey with the collaboration of Dr Mercedes Carbayo-Abengózar.
The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS, Birkbeck) and the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies) are collaborating on a two day conference hosted by the IGRS, Stewart House, London, focusing on the textual and visual output of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) on the 10th anniversary of her death. A multifaceted cultural producer, Martín Gaite was the author of novels, children’s fiction, short stories, and poetry, as well as a scriptwriter, translator, essayist, historian and collage artist. Her work, particularly the novels, have long been the focus of academic study in Anglo-American and European universities, and in the last few years scholars have begun to focus on the most ignored aspects of her work resulting in a growing number of critical publications.
The aim of this conference is to bring all participants into a dialogue about the ways in which our perceptions of the author have changed in the last decade not only with the emergence of posthumous work, which invites a review of past scholarship, but also given the increased importance of visual studies within Hispanism.
The first day of the conference will focus on the visual aspects of Martín Gaite’s work, while the second day will focus on the written work and especially in the author’s manuscripts which both José Teruel and Maria Vittoria Calvi, two of our key note speakers, have helped with their publication.
The main conference themes are, among others:
- the images of America in Martín Gaite’s work
- the transformation of the written word into visual media
- the reinterpretation of the author’s legacy
- the interplay between public and private persona
- the comparison of her children’s literature with that of other European women writers
There will be a series of panels focussing on the visual and the written work, such as:
- Screen adaptations: Visualizing the textual
- Posthumous manuscripts: Opening the past
- Revisiting the textual legacy
In addition, there will be two round tables:
- Carmen Martín Gaite’s Visión de Nueva York (2005) and collage art
- Children’s literature in Europe: Carmen Martín Gaite and other women writers for children
This conference has been made possible thanks to the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain in London http://www.spainculture.co.uk/
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