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Faculties & Departments
Department of Spanish, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Public Lectures & Research Seminars
2011-2012
Conference:
Public Lectures:
Talk by His Excellency the Ambassador of Mexico to Ireland Carlos García de Alba on 'The State of Mexican-Irish Relations: Some Challenges.' October 18, 4 PM JH7. All welcome.
2010-2011
Conference:
Theatre Censorship around the World
Programme.
Thursday 30th September - Saturday 2nd October 2010
Public Lectures:
Roberta Quance, Maruja Mallo and the Interest in Children’s Art during the II Spanish Republic, December 1st 2010
Mícheál de Barra, 'Recuerdos de un Joven Irlandés en el País de los Gauchos', November 22 2010.
Arturo Ripstein & Paz Alicia Garcíadiego, Lecture by Renowned Mexican Film Makers, November 23 2010.
The Department of Spanish presents: A Celebration of Catalan Culture. This event will take place on Monday 28th March 2011 at 2.30pm - 5.00pm in An Foras Feasa Seminar Room, Iontas Building, NUI Maynooth. All are welcome. A wine reception will follow in the Student Common Room at 6.00pm.
The Department of Spanish and the Department of Anthropology present: Genocide 101: The Atrocities of the Amazon Rubber Boom, Roger Casement's Putumayo Journey, Contemporary Cultural Representations Thereof. This event will take place on Saturday, 26th March 2011 from 10.15am to 4.00pm in An Foras Feasa Seminar Room, Iontas Building, NUI Maynooth.
McAleese begins Spain visit - President Mary McAleese travels to Spain today for a three-day official visit that includes meetings with Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and other dignitaries. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0320/breaking7.html
Guest Speaker Thursday 24th February in Hall F, Mexican Film Director Eduardo Lucatero.
The Department of Spanish, SMLLC, NUI Maynooth invites you to join us for the Irish Premiere of the documentary film Lalo Guerrero: The Original Chicano. Throughout his long and extraodinarily prolific musical career, Lalo Guerrero chronicled the development of a unique Mexican-American identity in the United States. His music, which incorporated such diverse influences as boogie woogie, the Mexican ballad form known as the corrido and socio-political parody, addressed issues such as the racism endured by Mexican-Americans, their struggle for better working conditions during the farm workers' strike of the 1960s and their lack of representation in the US media. The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Dan Guerrero. The event will take place on Monday, 7 March 2011 from 4.00 to 6.00 pm in CS1, Callan Building, NUI Maynooth. All welcome.
2009-2010
Conference:
International Chicana/o Studies Colloquium.
For more information please download the programme
Public Lectures:
Mr José Luis Rocha, Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Managua 'Don’t Deported Migrants Have Any Human Rights?', March 10, 2010.
Dr Stephanie Dennison, (University of Leeds) 'National, Transnational and Post-national: Locating the Present and Future of Brazilian Cinema,'
March 9, 2010.
Dr Patricia O’Byrne, (Dublin City University), ‘A narratological approach to the reading of Entre visillos’, 1st December 2009.
Professor Victor Dixon (Emeritus Professor of Spanish, TCD), ‘The enduring Impact of the Civil War on the Life and Work of Buero Vallejo’ November 17.
Professor Phil Swanson, University of Sheffield, ‘Borges and Popular Culture’ October 15.
2008 - 2009
Conference:
3rd Association of British and Irish Lusitanists Conference, 11th & 12th September 2009.
Colloquiums:
Chicano Studies Colloquium, Prof. Ellen McCracken, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Prof. Mario García University of California, Santa Barbara, NUI Maynooth.
23rd March 2009.
Dr Niamh Thornton University of Ulster, Coleraine,
Dr Catherine Leen, NUI Maynooth.
23rd March 2009.
East meets West: Portuguese Encounters with India, China, and Timor, Speakers include: Professor Joseph Grange (USA), ‘Confucian ethics and pragmatic Chinese Thought’ 28th November 2008.
Public Lectures:
Exploring Censorship: An Foras Feasa – Department of Spanish Masterclass. CS1, Callan Building, NUI Maynooth. Thursday 14 May 2009.
Basque-Irish Encounter, Readings and Round-table Discussion with Unai Elorriaga and Liam Mac Cóil. Wednesday 11 February 2009 5.00 -7.00 p.m. JH Board Room, John Hume Building.
‘Women in the transition: José Sanchis Sinisterra plays female characters’, Dr José Saval, University of Edinburgh, 11 November 2008.
Tuesday 25 November 2008 The Irish College at Alcalá de Henares: Official Launch of NUIM-UAH Collaboration
Professor John Hughes and Dr Maite del Val, Director of International Relations (UAH), will officially launch the agreement for academic exchange and cooperation between NUI, Maynooth and the University of Alcalá (Spain) to be delivered under the banner of The Irish College at Alcalá de Henares.
Dr Andrés Guiral (Dept of Economics, UAH) ‘Exploring Causal Links between Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance: Causes or Consequences?’
Prof. Ubaldo Cerezo (Dept of Archival Studies, UAH) “Teatro antiguo español impreso: dificultades para su control” (‘Difficulties in the Control of Old Spanish Printed Theater Texts’
2007 - 2008
Public Lectures:
La inmensa minoría: Poesía y activismo por la paz en Colombia, Professor Enrique Yepes, Bowdoin College, Maine, USA, 1st May 2008 2.00pm, Hall F, Arts Building.
Remembering Admiral Brown, Mr J.J. O' Hara, President, Admiral Brown Society, November 20th 2007
Tierras áridas: los paisajes olvidados españoles, Professor Francisco Calvo García-Tornel, 25th October 2007
Colloquium
Mujeres Comprometidas: Women, the Republic & War. 25th April 2008.
2006 - 2007
Public Lecture:
Spirituality and Society: Aspects of Religion in Early Twentieth-century Spanish Fiction, Professor John Macklin, University of Strathcyde, 22 February 2007
Conference:
Islands, Insularities, and the Wider World. 29th - 30th March 2007.
2005 - 2006
Public Lectures:
Size Matters: The Satiric Body in Saramago’s Memorial do Convento,
Dr Mark Sabine, University of Nottingham, 27th April 2006.
Remembering Admiral Brown, J.J. O'Hara, President, Admiral Brown Society, February 2006.
Reinventing the Gothic?: Carlos Fuentes' Inquieta compañía, Dr Alma Conway, School of Languages, DIT, December 2005.
Literatura Portuguesa do Século XX (Twentieth-Century Portuguese Literature), Dra Eunice Cabral, University of Évora, October 2005.
2004-2005
Public Lectures:
Remembering the Spanish Civil War, Dr Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, Department of Spanish, University College, Dublin, April 2005.
"400 años del Quijote", Mr Miguel Ángel Miguel, Consejería de Educación en Irlanda, from the Spanish Embassy, April 2005.
"Camões, Portuguese war propaganda, and the dream of a safe colonial empire, 1914-1918", Dr Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, NUI Maynooth, March 2005.
Humour as a means for overcoming cultural barriers, Dr Pilar Garcés,
University of Valladolid, Spain, February 2005.
Beyond the Walls: Transvestite Masquerade and Transcendent Escape in García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba, Dr Paul McDermid, University College Cork, November 2004.
Borders, Batos Locos and Barrios: Space as Signifier in Chicano Film, Dr Catherine Leen, NUI Maynooth, November 2004.
Research Seminars:
"Una introducción a las teorías de adquisición de segundas lenguas", Ms Sonia
Nuñez Cortés, NUI Maynooth, April 2005.
"Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen: (a poetry) inspired by the gods
and committed to Man", Ms Teresa Fastudo, NUI Maynooth/University College
Dublin, February 2005.
Six contemporary Spanish female novelists, Ms Paloma Pérez, NUI Maynooth,
December 2004.
Matthias O' Conway 1766-1842 Linguist and Lexicographer, Dr David Barnwell,
NUI Maynooth, November 2004.
The ugly face of Franco’s Spain in Bardem’s Muerte de un ciclista, Mr Jesús Urda, NUI Maynooth, October 2004.
2003-2004
Public Lectures:
East Timor Revisited Once More (through the poetry of Francisco Borja da Costa and Celso Oliveira), Mr Anthony Soares, The Queen’s University of Belfast, March 2004.
The Censors’ Confusion: (Mis)Interpretations of the Works of Alfonso Sastre, Dr Catherine O’Leary, NUI Maynooth, February 2004.
La mexicanidad: ¿mestizaje o multiculturalidad?, Don Agustín Basave, Mexican Ambassador to Ireland, November 2003.
Antonio Machado And The Royal Art: Fact And Fiction, Dr Philip Johnston, University College Dublin, October 2003.
The ’27 Generation in Spain, Dr Philip Johnston, University College Dublin, October 2003.
2002-2003
Public Lectures:
Sujeto femenino en contextos de modernidad tardía, Professor Francisca López, Bates College, USA, March 2003.
Theatre Translation as Creative Re-Writing, Professor David Johnston, The Queen’s University of Belfast, November 2002.
Almodóvar and Lorca: Gender, Sexuality and the State, Professor David Johnston, The Queen’s University of Belfast, November 2002.
Portuguese Identity, Professor Onésimo Teotónio Almeida, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. October 2002.
Literatura vasca: palabras contra la quimera, Mr Pako Aristi, Basque Writer, October 2002. (Lecture organized by the Department of Sean Ghaeilge and the Department of Spanish).
Research Seminars:
The use of Ergativity in Basque: A Study, Ms Aintzane Belamendia, NUI, Maynooth, December 2002.
2001-2002
Public Lectures:
The Irish College at Santiago de Compostela, Mrs Monica Henchy, Former Librarian, Trinity College, Dublin, April 2002. (Lecture organized by the Library and the Department of Spanish)
Poetry and Fiction from Lusophone Borderlands: from Agostinho Neto to Jorge Arrimar and José Eduardo Agualusa', Dr David Brookshaw, University of Bristol, March 2002.
Problems of Translation: A Practical Workshop, Dr David Brookshaw, University of Bristol, March 2002.
Languages and Business, Ms Nicola Horgan, IBEC, March 2002.
Radical Propensities and Juxtapositions: Defamiliarization and Difficulty in Borges and Beckett, Dr Ciaran Cosgrove, Trinity College Dublin, February 2002.
El cine: testigo de la evolución histórica de España, Dr Isabel Mansilla, Universidad de Valladolid, February 2002.
Spanish Translations of the Poetry of Walt Whitman, Dr Isabel Mansilla, Universidad de Valladolid, February 2002.
2000-2001
Public Lectures:
Autobiography and Intertertextuality in Carajicomedia by Juan Goytisolo, Dr Stanley Black, University of Ulster, November 2000.
Spain and Ireland: An Exploration of Affinities, Dr Stanley Black, University of Ulster, December 2000.
The American Dream in Spanish Poetry: Some Early Twentieth-Century Visions of the United States, Dr Terence McMullan, The Queen’s University of Belfast, February 2000.
Twelve Paintings by Pablo Picasso (1897-1937), Dr Terence McMullan, The Queen’s University of Belfast, February 2000.