skip to content
 

News and Events

Read more at: Third Annual Lecture on Catalan Studies: "The Art of Drinking in Catalonia"

Third Annual Lecture on Catalan Studies: "The Art of Drinking in Catalonia"

Wednesday 14 May, 6pm, Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College Celebrating that Catalonia has been designated the World Region of Gastronomy for 2025, Professor Bob Davidson of the University of Toronto, and a specialist in Food Studies, will deliver a talk on the drinking tradition in Catalonia. Food Studies as a discipline has...


Read more at: Karim Aïnouz – Filmmaker in Residence 2025
Karim Aïnouz holding a camera.

Karim Aïnouz – Filmmaker in Residence 2025

Cambridge Film and Screen will be hosting the award-winning Algerian-Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist Karim Aïnouz as its Filmmaker in Residence for 2025. Aïnouz will be in Cambridge during the week of 2-6 June and will be participating in a variety of screenings and workshops with students. Aïnouz’s distinct and...


Read more at: Cambridge Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars for Lent term 2025

Cambridge Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars for Lent term 2025

We are very excited to announce the first Cambridge Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars for Lent term 2025. This term's talks will be Olivia Vázquez Medina on Dolores Reyes’ “Cometierra”, Nick Jones on blackness in Cervantes' writings, and Bryan Cameron, Elena Martínez-Acacio Alonso and Rubén Pérez Hidalgo on racism...


Read more at: Book launch, 'The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé: Feminism and Francoism'

Book launch, 'The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé: Feminism and Francoism'

Professor Sally Faulkner's The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé is the first English monograph on this brilliant Spanish director. The book launch will be held at McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus, on Wednesday the 23rd of October, 5pm.


Read more at: Amaryllis Furness wins Phoebe Taylor Prize for outstanding Spanish translation

Amaryllis Furness wins Phoebe Taylor Prize for outstanding Spanish translation

The 2024 Prize, established in the memory of our former student, was awarded for Amaryllis' project on the 1949 short story “Raíz del sueño” by Marta Brunet


Read more at: Symposium: Indigenous film, art and activism: counter-cartographies of the Amazon

Symposium: Indigenous film, art and activism: counter-cartographies of the Amazon

Date: 9 May 2024 Time: All day Location: SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP This one-day symposium explores the relationship between film, art, and activism in the Amazon. Along with in-person discussions by international speakers, the programme includes a number of contemporary Amazonian films...


Read more at: Carlos Fonseca awarded the 2024 Anna Seghers Prize for promising young writers
cfonseca

Carlos Fonseca awarded the 2024 Anna Seghers Prize for promising young writers

The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Dr Fonseca - novelist, critic and Spanish lecturer - on the award for young Latin American writers.


Read more at: Cambridge pioneer JB Trend's 'La civilización de España' published in Spain for the first time
J.B. Trend

Cambridge pioneer JB Trend's 'La civilización de España' published in Spain for the first time

Trend helped organise the contingent of almost 4,000 Basque children who were shipped to England in 1937 after the bombing of Guernica.


Read more at: Dr. Lucy Foster wins the 2023 Bridport First Novel award

Dr. Lucy Foster wins the 2023 Bridport First Novel award

The Spanish and Portuguese Section is delighted to share that our colleague and former PhD student, Dr. Lucy Foster, has won the 2023 Bridport First Novel award.


Read more at: Dr Jorge Agulló appointed new Ibero-Romance Junior Research Fellow at Queens College
spainlanguages

Dr Jorge Agulló appointed new Ibero-Romance Junior Research Fellow at Queens College

Dr Agulló will work on Ibero-Romance Linguistics for three years from October, based at Queens' College.