News and Events

Third Annual Lecture on Catalan Studies: "The Art of Drinking in Catalonia"

Robert Lee — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:40:02 +0000

Wednesday 14 May, 6pm, Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College Celebrating that Catalonia has been designated the World Region of Gastronomy for 2025, Professor Bob Davidson of the University of Toronto, and a specialist in Food Studies, will deliver a talk on the drinking tradition in Catalonia. Food Studies as a discipline has...

Karim Aïnouz – Filmmaker in Residence 2025

Nia Bolland — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:10:30 +0000

�� Film and Screen will be hosting the award-winning Algerian-Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist Karim Aïnouz as its Filmmaker in Residence for 2025. Aïnouz will be in �� during the week of 2-6 June and will be participating in a variety of screenings and workshops with students. Aïnouz’s distinct and...

�� Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars for Lent term 2025

Nia Bolland — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:11:00 +0000

We are very excited to announce the first �� Hispanic and Lusophone Research Seminars for Lent term 2025. This term's talks will be Olivia Vázquez Medina on Dolores Reyes’ “Cometierra”, Nick Jones on blackness in Cervantes' writings, and Bryan Cameron, Elena Martínez-Acacio Alonso and Rubén Pérez Hidalgo on racism...

Book launch, 'The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé: Feminism and Francoism'

Nia Bolland — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:17:27 +0000

Professor Sally Faulkner's The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé is the first English monograph on this brilliant Spanish director. The book launch will be held at McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus, on Wednesday the 23rd of October, 5pm.

Amaryllis Furness wins Phoebe Taylor Prize for outstanding Spanish translation

Darragh Murphy — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:42:44 +0000

The 2024 Prize, established in the memory of our former student, was awarded for Amaryllis' project on the 1949 short story “Raíz del sueño” by Marta Brunet

Symposium: Indigenous film, art and activism: counter-cartographies of the Amazon

Amani Ameer — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:33:57 +0000

Date: 9 May 2024 Time: All day Location: SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, ��, CB3 9DP This one-day symposium explores the relationship between film, art, and activism in the Amazon. Along with in-person discussions by international speakers, the programme includes a number of contemporary Amazonian films...

Carlos Fonseca awarded the 2024 Anna Seghers Prize for promising young writers

Darragh Murphy — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:24:05 +0000

The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Dr Fonseca - novelist, critic and Spanish lecturer - on the award for young Latin American writers.

�� pioneer JB Trend's 'La civilización de España' published in Spain for the first time

Darragh Murphy — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:42:27 +0000

Trend helped organise the contingent of almost 4,000 Basque children who were shipped to England in 1937 after the bombing of Guernica.

Dr. Lucy Foster wins the 2023 Bridport First Novel award

Amani Ameer — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:34:51 +0000

The Spanish and Portuguese Section is delighted to share that our colleague and former PhD student, Dr. Lucy Foster, has won the 2023 Bridport First Novel award.

Dr Jorge Agulló appointed new Ibero-Romance Junior Research Fellow at Queens College

Darragh Murphy — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:24:59 +0000

Dr Agulló will work on Ibero-Romance Linguistics for three years from October, based at Queens' College.