Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Cambridge Hispanic Research Seminars 2009-2010
This is a seminar for staff and graduate students at which papers are given by graduate students, members of staff, and speakers from outside Cambridge. ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE DEPARTMENT ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND.
LENT TERM PROGRAMME
We warmly invite you to this term's CAMBRIDGE HISPANIC RESEARCH SEMINARS which will take place at 5.30 pm in The Latimer Room, Clare College.
Wednesday, 20 January
Dr Derek Flitter (University of Exeter)
"A New Eschatology: the Discourse of Apocalypse in Spanish Romantic Drama."
Wednesday, 3 February
Dr Beatriz Barrantes-Martín (Mississippi State University, USA)
"Literatura española en Inglaterra: descubrimiento y nostalgia en la primera mitad del siglo XX." N.B. This talk will be given in Spanish.
Wednesday, 17 February
Dr José Luis Caramés Lage (University of Oviedo, Spain)
"La narrativa de José Luis Caramés Lage en el contexto de la novela española actual." N.B. This talk will be given in Spanish.
Wednesday, 24 February
Dr Deborah Toner (University of Warwick)
"Yankees, Toffs and Miss Quixote: Drunken Bodies, Citizenship and the Hope of Moral Reform in Nineteenth-Century Mexican Literature."
Wednesday, 3 March
Ms Andrea Acle (Magdalene College, University of Cambridge)
"Political Thought in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Second-Hand Ideas or Authentic National Creation?"
Refreshments Provided
Drinks will be served at the seminar, and those attending are invited to join the speaker for dinner after the talk at an inexpensive local restaurant.
For further information please contact one of the organisers, Andrea Acle aa459@cam.ac.uk or Helen Lima de Sousa hw321@cam.ac.uk
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