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Read more at: Mexico Noir: Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Narrative and Photography

Mexico Noir: Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Narrative and Photography

The symposium adopts an intermedial and interdisciplinary approach to explore the allusive nexus of the dark in contemporary Mexican narrative and photography during decades of deepening crisis marked by the high profile staging of atrocities and the re-emergence of an ironic noir aesthetic .


Read more at: Branding Latin America

Branding Latin America

A conference convened by Dunja Fehimovic and Rebecca Ogden. Branding is the deliberate projection of a consciously-constructed image or identity, the marketing of the self to the other, the selling of specificity.


Read more at: Ibero-Romance Linguistics Fest

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Fest

Comprising: The Third Cambridge Conference on the 'Histories of the Ibero-Romance languages' to be held at Queens' College , University of Cambridge, on the 23rd and 24th March 2015 and preceded by a Colloquium in honour of Prof. Chris Pountain in the morning of the 23rd March. Online registration is now open.


Read more at: Gillian Harris commended at Stephen Spender Prize

Gillian Harris commended at Stephen Spender Prize

Gillian Harris, former student of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Tripos 2014), had her poem commended by judges at the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. Many congratulations to Gillian! Her entry was a translation of a poem by Argentinian poet Susana Thénon, you can read it here .


Read more at: Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars 2014/15

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars 2014/15

You can find the programme for this year on this event listing.


Read more at: Clipflair Workshop

Clipflair Workshop

The aim of these workshops is to introduce Clipflair, an EU-funded project for Foreign Language Learning.


Read more at: The Anthony Close Scholarship

The Anthony Close Scholarship

We are delighted to announce that Clare College (University of Cambridge) has officially approved the Anthony Close Spanish Golden Age Research Scholarship that will fund a PhD student working on Early Modern Spanish and Spanish American Literature and Culture. The scholarship provides funding for up to a maximum of three...


Read more at: The Norman MacColl Symposium 2014

The Norman MacColl Symposium 2014

The Norman MacColl Symposium 2014 in Spanish Cinema in honour of Román Gubern is entitled: Canon, contra-canon y cinefilia: Historias del cine español en un contexto internacional .


Read more at: Prof Brad Epps at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

Prof Brad Epps at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

Prof Brad Epps at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán . Prof Epps, Professor of Spanish and Head of the Dept of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge, gave a lecture entitled “La insoportable levedad de los huesos. El documentalismo fílmico de Patricio Guzmán en Nostalgia de la Luz ” as part of the series of...


Read more at: Anthony Close Scholarship in Spanish Golden Age Studies
Francisco de Zurbarán, Still-life with Lemons, Oranges and Rose

Anthony Close Scholarship in Spanish Golden Age Studies

Clare College continues the fund-raising campaign to establish The Anthony Close Scholarship in Spanish Golden Age Studies . If you would like to make a donation and for further information, please refer to this page .