News and Events
Podcasts
October 2010 The World Cup in Latin America with Dr Matthew Brown and Dr Jo Crow. Available in English and in Spanish (both MP3 files)
March 2010 Tertulia sobre el mundial de fútbol 2010, con Arismendi da Silva, Francisco Romero-Salvadó y Matthew Brown (MP3 file)
Conferences, Seminars and Events
The Department regularly organises and hosts research conferences relevant to different areas of its research activity, and has a regular programme of research seminars, many given by visiting speakers. Details of forthcoming conferences and seminars are regularly posted on this website.
2011
5 December 2011
Empire and Tourism Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Societies. 8.30-5.15pm in 43 Woodland Road. Please contact Claire.Thomas@bristol.ac.uk or Sabrina.Fairchild@bristol.ac.uk.
Pen-Insularities: Writing East and West in Portuguese - An International Colloquium
15-16 April 2011. Further information is available.
March 2011
Launch of issue 4 of El Pensador
14-18 March 2011: Semana Cultural Week
A full list of events is now available (PDF format 4341 KB)
24 February 2011 - Football and Urban Development Workshop
Half-day workshop supported by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts, and the Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Societies. Further information is available (PDF format 91KB)
15 February 2011 - Dr Francisco Romero Salvadó's forthcoming book on the Spanish Civil War, 'La Larga Guerra Civil Española' (PDF format 1056KB) is about to be published in Spain. The book is being funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia) and will be distributed across all the main libraries in Spain (over 300).
Spring 2011
The Spring programme for the Conversatorios is now available.
2010
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46th Annual Conference of the Society of Latin American Studies 9-10 April 2010 University of Bristol |
Semana-Cultural Week 8-13 March 2010 sponsored by The Santander Group.
Recent conferences include The Historians of Medieval Spain (2004), The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs (2004), and the 2nd Annual Conference of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL) (2008). For the Pioneers, Adventurers, and the Creation of the Atlantic World Conference (2005) and other Latin American conferences and activities, see the Latin American studies section of this website.
Research-related Events for 2009
Departmental Research Seminars are held at 1:10pm, in Room G66, 15 Woodland Road, on Wednesdays throughout the year unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday 21 January 2009
Dr Juliet Perkins (King’s College London)
“Not Gender but Genre: The Three Marias of José Cardoso Pires’ ‘Alexandra Alpha’.”
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Prof. Robert Havard (Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)
“Salvador Dali and the Stone of Madness.”
Wednesday 25 February 2009
Dr G.J. Blaney (LondonSchool of Economics)
“Democratizing the Police: The Case of the Spanish Civil Guard.”
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Dr Amit Thakkar (University of Lancaster)
Title to be confirmed
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Dr Penny Dransart (University of Lampeter)
“Light on Dark Places? The Reception of the ‘Transgressive’ 1992 and 2002 Aztec Art Exhibitions in Britain.”
Further sessions from April to June 2009 will be announced in due course. Speakers include Drs J. Crow (Bristol), S.-A. Kitts (Bristol), C. Wells (Bristol), and C.A. Williams (Bristol), and a speaker from the Organisation of American States.
The Department’s annual Semana Cultural, with additional visiting speakers, will be 9-14 March 2009.