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				<title>Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-2/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:54:09 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p>I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.</p>
<p>Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.</p>
<p>I am&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1933362"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865792/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:36 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1865792"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865792/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group Iberian Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:25:23 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1833561"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1833561/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group Iberian Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 03:52:52 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings.  Although ‘death’ is  depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1817368"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817368/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1761563/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:23:45 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm.  Specifically, the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1761563"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1761563/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Simone Pinet deposited Clerical Soundscapes in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756322/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 02:27:11 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Using the evidence of the aural as intrinsic to mester de clerecía’s mode of diffusion and reception as point of departure, this chapter examines sound as a wider and complex system of references, actualizations, and allusions that articulate and structure the mode in its composition, as part of its tools to effect meaning. Music and song play ob&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1756322"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756322/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>William Nichols deposited Viajes al futuro y sociedad del simulacro: Modernidad, Disneyficación y ruinas de la resistencia en Quinteto de Buenos Aires de Manuel Vázquez Montalban in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692261/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:48:46 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lo largo de la obra de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, tanto en las obras dentro de la serie Carvalho como fuera y en la producción de libros no-ficción, el viaje sirve para como ímpetu narrativo además de eje temático para indagar las contradicciones de la globalización y explorar la memoria como estrategia de resistencia. Por un lado, el viaje o&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1692261"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692261/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>William Nichols deposited Telling the Story of Iberian Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628159/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 03:50:14 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a paper that I presented at the 2019 MLA in Chicago. In this paper I situate discussions of the field of Iberian Studies within the context of the crisis of the Humanities and the future of Cultural Studies.</p>
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				<title>Stefania Licata replied to the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/session-proposalproduction-and-circulation-of-afro-hispanophone-lusophone-arts-2/#post-1019117</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:17:35 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>the session is for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.</p>
<p>Thank you very much</p>
<p>Stefania</p>
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				<title>Jesús R. Velasco deposited Boundless Troubadours in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619372/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:51:13 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This paper deals with the complicated sociopolitical space defined by the use and transformation of what we call Occitan language. Literary and cultural production in Occitan language during the late 12th and early 13th centuries light up the boundary conditions, the boundary values of what we call courtly culture making them visible in all their&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1619372"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619372/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Jesús R. Velasco deposited Spatial Affinities: Poetry and Law in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619256/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2018 03:51:25 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The spatial affinity between poetry and the law is an interesting theoretical fiction to understand how the construction of the legal discipline is a process to turn all possible spatial affinities into spatial subalternities, into spatial submissions. One could say that legal spaces, the legal production of spaces, is a way to summon up different&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1619256"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619256/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-fashion/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:48:34 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP</p>
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				<title>Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601671/</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:49:27 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Panel: &#8220;Teaching the Global Hispanophone&#8221;.  Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1601671"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601671/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Edgar Illas replied to the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-catalan-forum-mla-2019-2/#post-1016514</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:20:53 -0500</pubDate>

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<li><strong> Session Title: Catalan Culture and the State</strong></li>
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<p>Session Organizer: Edgar Illas</p>
<p>Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (<a href="https://montseny.udg.edu/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=eillas@indiana.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">eillas@indiana.edu</a>).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Modern Catalan culture has been extensively studied in terms of nation building. This focus ha&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1601314"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-catalan-forum-mla-2019-2/#post-1016514" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-can-language-shift-be-reversed-insights-from-and-for-galician/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 02:09:40 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Call For Papers</strong><br />
<em><strong>Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician</strong></em><br />
<em>(Guaranteed Session, MLA Convention, Chicago, 3-6 January, 2019)</em></p>
<p>On the 35th Anniversary of the Galician Language Bill &#8220;Lei de  normalización lingüística&#8221; (1983), it is time for Galician and international scholars to re-assess the process of language planning unde&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1600948"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-can-language-shift-be-reversed-insights-from-and-for-galician/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Edgar Illas started the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-catalan-forum-mla-2019-2/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 03:52:19 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Catalan Culture and the State</p>
<p><b>Forum:</b><i> LLC Catalan Studies</i><br />
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).</p>
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				<title>Mario Santana started the topic CFP Iberian Studies and the Crisis in the Humanities in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iberian-studies-and-the-crisis-in-the-humanities/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:09:53 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&lt;h1&gt;Iberian Studies and the Crisis in the Humanities&lt;/h1&gt;<br />
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&lt;b&gt;Forum:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian&lt;/i&gt;<br />
How can theoretical and methodological approaches emerging from Iberian Studies respond to the current attack on the Humanities? Abstracs and short bio by 1 March 2018; Mario Santana&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1599715"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iberian-studies-and-the-crisis-in-the-humanities/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Aurelie Vialette started the topic CFP MLA 2019 in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2019-2/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:49:56 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Galdós”</p>
<p>Catalan Studies Forum and Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG).</p>
<p>Abstracts should be sent to <a href="mailto:aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu</a></p>
<p>Deadline: March 1st, 2018.</p>
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<p>Short description:</p>
<p>The literary, social and political debates around Benito Pérez Galdós’s work in Catalonia. T&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1599294"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2019-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Aurelie Vialette posted an update in the group Iberian Studies: MLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Gald [&#133;]</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599291/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:45:50 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Galdós”<br />
Catalan Studies Forum and Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG).<br />
Abstracts should be sent to <a href="mailto:aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu</a><br />
Deadline: March 15th, 2018.</p>
<p>Short description:<br />
The literary, social and political debates around Benito Pérez Galdós’s work in Catalonia. The role of Catalonia. T&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1599291"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599291/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Remy Attig deposited Did the Sephardic Jews Speak Ladino? in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597305/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 04:02:16 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The term ‘Ladino’ has been used by some scholars in reference to the language spoken by the Sephardic Jews.  Sometimes it has been used in reference to the language spoken by the Jews in Medieval Spain while at other times scholars have used this term in reference to the language spoken by the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire in the centuries fol&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1597305"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597305/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Hania Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO'S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591613/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:51:55 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Giorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1591613"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591613/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco deposited The International National: Ius Commune and the fictions of citizenship. in the group Iberian Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:12:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following text was presented as part of the Presidential Panel at the American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht (The Netherlands), July 8th 2017. The panel was composed of Joseph Slaughter (ACLA President, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of New York), Maria Aristodemou, Law, Birkbeck College,&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1577151"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1577151/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Hania Nashef deposited Ideal Cities-Marred Individuals: J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago's A Caverna in the group Iberian Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:17:43 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the final pages of J. M. Coetzee&#8217;s The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago&#8217;s A Caverna, the main protagonists flee to an unknown destination from their respective &#8220;utopias.&#8221; Both allegorical novels expose the ills of two guarded and structured communities. A Caverna, a parable of Plato&#8217;s cave, depicts the story of the lives of 64-year-old&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1572824"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1572824/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: 2nd North American Symposium of Galician Studies in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2nd-north-american-symposium-of-galician-studies/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:44:32 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>2nd North American Symposium of Galician Studies: Academic Renewal, </strong><strong>Artistic Communication and Social Innovation</strong></p>
<p><strong>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor</strong></p>
<p><strong>April 20-23, 2016 </strong></p>
<p>As a continuation of the first conference organized by the Galician Studies Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in May, 2014, this second meeting at the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-430233"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2nd-north-american-symposium-of-galician-studies/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: Medieval Iberian languages and (socio)linguistics in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-medieval-iberian-languages-and-sociolinguistics/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:28:07 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>A (late) reminder on this Call for Papers.<br />
Proposals on all Iberian languages and (socio)linguistics are very welcome.<br />
There is still time&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></p>
<p><b>51st International Congress on Medieval Studies</b><br />
<b>May 12-15, 2016, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States</b></p>
<p>Sessions Sponsored by the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS)</p>
<p><b>1)&hellip;</b></p></blockquote>
<p><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-430179"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-medieval-iberian-languages-and-sociolinguistics/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Elisa Martí-López started the topic !5th Colloquium North American Catalan Society in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/5th-colloquium-north-american-catalan-society/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:05:10 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El 15è Col·loqui Internacional de la North American Catalan Society es va celebrar a Barcelona, a la seu de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans, els dies 29-30 de juny i 1 de juliol del 2015. S’hi van reunir uns cent setanta especialistes en catalanística de l’Amèrica del Nord i d’Europa –amb una àmplia representació d’acadèmics procedents dels dife&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-429378"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/5th-colloquium-north-american-catalan-society/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-acla-2016-visual-interchanges-in-the-mediterranean-basin-5/</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:21:01 -0400</pubDate>

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<p><strong>Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval &amp; Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts</strong><br />
&nbsp;</p>
<p>Please consider submitting an abstract to the &#8220;<strong> Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval &amp; Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts</strong> &#8221; seminar of the 2016 American Comparative Literature&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-412699"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-acla-2016-visual-interchanges-in-the-mediterranean-basin-5/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mario Santana started the topic CFP Translation and Iberian Literatures in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-translation-and-iberian-literatures/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 12:08:26 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Pasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos</em> has posted a call for papers for a special issue on &#8220;Traducción y literaturas ibéricas&#8221; (<a href="http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html</a>).</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Durante las últimas tres décadas, el fenómeno de la traducción ha ido cobrando mayor visibilidad y relevancia dentro de los estudios literarios. No es ajeno&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-321893"><a href="https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-translation-and-iberian-literatures/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP:  &#34;Mobility and Migrations&#34; in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mobility-and-migrations-3/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:13:17 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;<span>Mobility</span> and <span>Migrations</span>:  movements of people and capital in 18th and 19th century Spanish worlds&#8221; (CFP for MLA 2016 convention)</p>
<p>How did money, people, goods and ideas move globally and across spaces of empire and postcolonialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?  What were the flows and crossings that counter and complicate n&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-91718"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mobility-and-migrations-3/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic MLA 2016 Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/mla-2016-global-hispanophone-cfps/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:12:11 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new MLA <em>Forum on Global Hispanophone</em> is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Global Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory</strong></p>
<p>The term ‘global Hi&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-91662"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/mla-2016-global-hispanophone-cfps/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>William Viestenz replied to the topic intro to Iberian Studies course in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/intro-to-iberian-studies-course/#post-5630</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:33:58 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Mario,</p>
<p>I taught a graduate course on Iberian Studies last year and I&#8217;ll email you my syllabus and thoughts on the seminar.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Bill</p>
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				<title>Mario Santana started the topic CFP: MLA 15th International Colloquium in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-15th-international-colloquium/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:03:36 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>CALL FOR PAPERS</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>15th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society</strong></p>
<p>Institut d&#8217;Estudis Catalans, Barcelona</p>
<p>June 29-30 and July 1st, 2015</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>CATALAN STUDIES AS GLOBAL CRITICAL PRACTICE(S):</strong></p>
<p><strong>TRANSFERENCES, TRANSFORMATIONS, TRANSITIONS, TRANSLATIONS</strong></p>
<p>You are invited to submit paper abstracts or panel proposals on any topic&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-82994"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-15th-international-colloquium/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Mario Santana started the topic intro to Iberian Studies course in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/intro-to-iberian-studies-course/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 23:55:39 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am planning to prepare a course that would serve as an introduction to Iberian Studies.  If any of you has taught a similar course, or has ideas about how to teach it, and is willing to share, I would appreciate it.  Since I am more familiar with modern/contemporary culture, my plan is to design a course based on materials from that period (&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-82993"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/intro-to-iberian-studies-course/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic Eppur si muove in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/eppur-si-muove/</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2014 08:13:45 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Edgar. I understand your comment about the irrelevance of this manifestoes. I also understand that Despite the fact that we are not talking about a nation-making process, Ramon Cotarelo&#8217;s statements are an act of civicism where one citizen defends the rights of other citizens. That kind of civic attitude is precisely what the Vargas&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-79752"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/eppur-si-muove/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Edgar Illas replied to the topic Un manifiesto más in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5276</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:18:16 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you all for your posts and comments. I would just like to add a couple of observations.</p>
<p>On the significance of these manifestoes, my impression is that, in reality, they are inconsequential. I believe that one of the the fundamental errors that many intellectuals are making when it comes to the secession of Catalonia is to consider it a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-79729"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5276" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo replied to the topic Un manifiesto más in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5274</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:08:01 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Jennifer.</p>
<p>You are right, although My concern is that while the punitive bravado of the paragraph you mentioned may not be shared by the bulk of the population, the more subtle yuxtaposition of citizenship vs peripheral national identities can easily fly below the radar.</p>
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				<title>Jennifer Duprey replied to the topic Un manifiesto más in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5273</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:07:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Aldolfo and Elisa for these two posts. I agree with Elisa in what she says about the Manifiesto. Indeed there are no surprises in their discourse, yet one remains baffled with statements like this one: &#8220;Reclamamos al Estado que aplique toda la ley y advierta con claridad de las consecuencias de violarla. Ninguna infracción debe quedar&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-79704"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5273" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo replied to the topic Un manifiesto más in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5268</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:56:21 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Elisa.</p>
<p>What I am most troubled about is that the FAES/Vargas Llosa manifesto suggests a separation between citizenship and national identity  that echoes the centralization of national identities that characterized the Enlightenment unproblematically.  There is an obvious attempt to co-opt any discourse of modernity that is not a&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-79655"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5268" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Elisa Martí-López replied to the topic Un manifiesto más in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5267</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:41:58 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are the links:<br />
1) Cotarelo presents Súmate<br />
<iframe loading="lazy" title="(1º parte) Súmate, la asociación independentista catalana castellanoparlante se presenta en Madrid" width="625" height="352" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oieB8XKa_EA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>2) Un Pais normal<br />
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Documental &quot;Un país normal&quot;. #votarésnormal" width="625" height="352" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LNgBgGoRcE8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Elisa</p>
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				<title>Elisa Martí-López replied to the topic Un manifiesto más in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5266</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:35:00 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Adolfo, for bringing this important question to our forum.</p>
<p>In line with Adolfo’s latest links, I am posting other links that frame the question of the “Catalan Problem” from different perspectives both ideologically and also territorially. </p>
<p>The first “manifiesto” (the one prepared by Vargas Llosa and the FAES foundation and supported&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-79653"><a href="http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/#post-5266" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic Un manifiesto más in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/un-manifiesto-mas/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 06:23:14 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is the link to the Una España Federal para una Europa Federal manifesto launched yesterday  for those interested in tracing the coincidences and divergences between national and transnational contemporary discourses around Iberia.</p>
<p><a href="http://file02.lavanguardia.com/2014/07/16/54411154592-url.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">http://file02.lavanguardia.com/2014/07/16/54411154592-url.pdf</a></p>
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				<title>Mario Santana started the topic Iberian Cultural Studies in Germany in the forum Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/iberian-studies/forum/topic/iberian-cultural-studies-in-germany/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:36:59 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For your information, here you will find the program for the First Conference of Iberian Cultural Studies in Germany:</p>
<p><a href="https://xmail.uchicago.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=Hbf9Sk0hpkCwfxoCRSPQAMu6x3NgWNEI3TlNF4k_XYnDg5sqCnt0P_tTO-Het2vNDP1p_6GQf10.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fiberianculturalstudies.weebly.com%2f" rel="nofollow ugc">http://iberianculturalstudies.weebly.com/</a></p>
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				<title>Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo created the group Iberian Studies</title>
				<link>https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/64955/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 15:26:16 -0400</pubDate>

				
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