Hispanic Research Seminars

2009/10 - Semester 2

Seminar organiser - Professor Nigel Dennis

All meetings are held at 4pm in Room 36, Spanish Department, St Salvator's Quad.

19 February
Dr Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh)
De Arturo Pérez-Reverte y la brumosa tierra natal de nuestra alma

5 March
Prof Mercedes Camino (University of Lancaster)
El melodrama fascista y memorias cinematográficas de los maquis: de Dos caminos (1954 a El laberinto del fauno (2006)

12 March
Prof Julio Neira (Centro de Letras Andaluzas/UNED)
El exilio en Glasgow del poeta Luis Cernuda

19 March
Daniela Omlor (St Andrews)
Entre memoria y desmemoria: the case of Jorge Semprún's Federico Sanchez

16 April
Prof Andrew Ginger (University of Stirling)
The Image of Nonsense: Berlanga's Cinema and the Spanish Visual Tradition

23 April (with IECIS)
Prof Daniel Chamberlain (Queen's University, Canada, and Mundus Visiting Scholar 2010)
El Corrido: Identity, Narrative and  Memory Places

30 April
Leticia Neria (St Andrews)
Laughing when it hurts: a theory of humour in authoritarian regimes

2009/10 - Semester 1

Seminar organiser - Professor Nigel Dennis

All meetings are held in Room 36, Spanish Department, St Salvator's Quad.

Friday 16 October, 4:00 p.m.
Dr Emilio Peral Vega (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
La figura de Pierrot en el teatro español del siglo XX

Friday 27 November, 4:00 p.m.
Dr Javier Letrán (University of St Andrews)
'Mis queridos maestros': Luis García Montero y los poetas del 27

Friday, 4 December, 4:00 p.m.
Professor Nigel Dennis (University of St Andrews)
Lorca's Politics