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Acclaimed Mexican Poets Visit UCC!

Francisco Segovia and Myriam Moscona

will be reading from their work on

Tuesday, 1st of May, 2007 – ORB 1.24 – 5 p.m.

Readings will be in Spanish and English – All Welcome!

Francisco Segovia (Mexico City, 1958) is a poet, translator and essayist. Among his books of poems are Fin de fiesta, El aire habitado and Rellano. He is also author of the essay book Retra hablado and the short prose collections Abalorios y otras cuentas and Conferencia de vampiros. He has taught literature at several universities, including UNAM and El Colegio de México, and has worked as a lexicographer for a handful of reference books including the Diccionario del Español de México, Enciclopedia Británica and Oxford Spanish Dictionary.

Myriam Moscona (Mexico City, 1955) is a Mexican journalist, translator and poet who comes from a Bulgarian Sephardi Jewish family. She has published several collections of poems including Último jardín (1983), Las visitantes (1989, Winner of National Poetry Prize of Aguascalientes), Las preguntas de Natalia (1992), El árbol de los nombres (1992), Negro marfil y Vísperas (1997). She has also worked extensively on translation and won the National Prize for Poetry in Translation in 1996 for her translation (along with Adriana González Mateos) of William Carlos Williams’s La música del desierto.

Organised by the Centre for Mexican Studies, UCC, in conjunction with the Mexican Embassy, Dublin

DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES

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SEMINAR IN INSULAR STUDIES

R E S E A R C H S E M I N A R

PROF. ALAN DEYERMOND

Research Professor, Queen Mary, University of London

‘Official and Opposition Historiography in Late Medieval Spain’

History is, as we all know, written by the victors. The great majority of historical writing that has survived from the Middle Ages was written at the behest of those in power, and was designed to further their interests. History written by the losing side seldom survives, either because it was dangerous to write it or even to possess it, or because of the purging of archives and libraries. We can, however, sometimes trace the historiography of the defeated, either through library catalogues or because it may serve as source material for more conformist works. Moreover, some opposition historiography survives in full, because it is so tactfully presented that it seems innocuous, because the author was in too strong a position for suppression to be practical, or because the work seems to have passed unnoticed. The paper will consider examples of both types of historiography produced in late medieval Spain.

Thursday, 15th of March, 2007

5 p.m.

O’Rahilly Building, Rm. 1.85

Followed by a reception

All Welcome

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|DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES |

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|PRESENTS |

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|‘Surviving the Doctorate: |

|Tales from Hispanic Studies’ |

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|Round Table Discussion |

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|Participants: Ana Cruz García, Katharina Greiner & Martín Veiga |

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|Friday December 8th 2006 |

|ORB 1.24 at 4 pm |

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|Reception afterwards in ORB 1.51 |

|All Welcome! |

DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES

& IRISH CENTRE FOR GALICIAN STUDIES

R E S E A R C H S E M I N A R

CHRISTOPHER GEORGE

University of Santiago de Compostela

‘The Beat Generation and Brais Pinto: A Comparative Study’

A generalised comparative study of two seemingly distinct groups within distinct literatures/literary systems (American and Galician) following the established conceptual guidelines of theorists such as Claudio Guillén, Tötösy de Zepetnek and Julia Kristeva involving the scope/purpose of comparative studies, importance of non-textual factors such as philosophy, sociology, or psychology, and intertextuality as opposed to the traditional concept of influence. Emission, reception, literary generations, nationalism and periphery literatures, publication and socio-historical factors are also taken into account to establish a historical-literary context for both groups and explore the similarities, differences, and possible parallels between the two.

Talk will be given in English

Friday, 3 November, 2006

4 p.m.

O’Rahilly Building, ORB 1.24

Followed by a reception in ORB 1.51

All Welcome

DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES

R E S E A R C H S E M I N A R

DR ANJA LOUIS

University of Sheffield

‘Women, Melodrama and the Law: Carmen de Burgos’s work as a case study’

This paper explores the relationship between melodrama and law. My aim is to demonstrate that popular culture, in general, can have a positive function in the renegotiation of identities and how Burgos’s work, in particular, reworks melodramatic conventions in order to foreground and question accepted identity formations. I will use the fiction of Carmen de Burgos as a paradigmatic case to draw conclusions about the relationship between melodrama as a genre of Manichean worldviews and law as a system of binary oppositions and analyse Burgos’s subversion of the former as a means to criticise the latter. It is my aim to show how two disciplines with quite disparate aims share important matter of common concern, and how transgressing the boundaries that separate them enriches our understanding of both.

Friday, 6th of October, 2006

4 p.m.

O’Rahilly Building, ORB 1.85

Followed by a reception in ORB 1.51

All Welcome

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