'Carmen Conde: Politics and Poetry from the 1940s to the Transition' by Jean Andrews @uniofnottingham.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Carmen Conde: Politics and Poetry from the 1940s to the Transition

The Spanish poet Carmen Conde’s literary career spanned seven decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s. Resident in Spain throughout her life, a small but significant proportion of her poetic output is...

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Andrea Hepworth examines spatial, digital & virtual methodologies—civic initiatives, social media & immersive tech—foster engagement with ‘difficult heritage’ of Spanish deportees to Nazi concentration camps, the legacy of Franco's regime & Holocaust remembrance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have extended deadline for submission to our special issue on video essays to August 31, 2026 - due to phenomenal interest! Check out our video below for all the info. vimeo.com/1155559764?f...

Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies

The Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies welcomes innovative research in videographic criticism. LINKS to key information: Call for papers: CFP Information for authorsL:…

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Congratulations to @elizabethscarlett.bsky.social whose article 'Gender and Adaptation in the Filmic Legacy of Emilia Pardo Bazán' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... was awarded a distinction by The Adela Zamudio essay competition, run by Feministas Unidas.

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ALT: a congratulations card with a firework display in the background

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Calling all video essay practitioners in Spanish and Latin American Studies - submit to our special issue Moving Images/Moving Geographies: Video Essays in ‘Spanish’ Visual Cultures Details below go.qub.ac.uk/G6kbc

New issue out! Feat. Sarah Bowskill @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on how prize network marginalises Mexican women authors; Sandra González Basanta @universidadoviedo.bsky.social 'Estrategias frente a un duelo interminable: Los hijos muertos de Ana María Matute' www.tandfonline.com/toc/cbhs20/c...

Bulletin of Spanish Studies

Volume 102, Issue 7 of Bulletin of Spanish Studies

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I am certain that if we had mainstream language learning pathways from 16-18, we would have a greater pool of applicants for university philology degrees. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/10/h...

How the manufactured narrative of ‘failure’ is distracting us from resolving the systemic problems holding back the study of Modern Languages – Part 2.  - HEPI

This post was kindly written by Vincent Everett, who is head of languages in a comprehensive school and sixth form in Norfolk. He blogs as The Nice Man Who Teaches Languages.  In Part 1, I looked at h...

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📢 Galician Studies panel at the AHGBI Annual Conference 2026, hosted by @lancasteruni.bsky.social Dr Martín Veiga, from University College Cork, is putting together a Galician Studies panel for the 71st Annual Conference of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social. 📩 Enquiries & abstracts: m.veiga@ucc.ie

We saw Samara Joy and her brilliant jazz musicians in Santiago, Chile last month. What absolute joy!

Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn@lizgloyn.bsky.social · last yr.

#TinyJoys is sitting on the sofa with a good book and the Proms on iPlayer. Specifically The Great American Songbook with Samara Joy. The *lungs* on that woman! And those brass players!

Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455

@llc-rhul.bsky.social Open Day @royal holloway

Getting ready to meet everyone at today's Open Day @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social!

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

WHN Annual Book Prize

We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…

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Few obituaries of Forsyth mention that his remarkable career (whatever one thinks of his retrograde politics) was possible because he took the time to make himself fluent in five languages. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Frederick Forsyth: adventurer and bestselling spy novelist

A pilot who turned to writing to clear his debts, British author Frederick Forsyth, who died Monday aged 86, penned some 20 spy novels, often drawing on real-life experiences and selling 70 million co...

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Shout out to our Inter-Library team in the Library @royalholloway.bsky.social. I have recently placed two requests for specialist articles and they were sent to me the same day - fantastic service! 👏

So wonderful to celebrate Ann Hobbs, administrator extraordinaire in the Humanities team today, who has spent 30 years at Royal Holloway!

'If ever you’re in need as I was may you have an island of strangers like I had.' Michael Rosen nails it again.

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds

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These are good, but my favourite example of this genre remains Dr Weliton Menário Costa's 2024 'Kangaroo Time': informative, inclusive and utterly joyful doctoral science: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Eurovision meets science, dance your PHD competition winners

Could you explain

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Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière. The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière

The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

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📚Colleagues might be interested in this co-authored piece by AHGBI member María Delgado on the potential impact of decoupling outputs from individuals in the REF—just out on Wonkhe: wonkhe.com/blogs/portab... #REF #HigherEd #AHGBI

Portability within REF remains key to fairness

Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment

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On Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Bulletin of Spanish Studies - Episode 8

Podcast Episode · Queens University Belfast - Bulletin Of Spanish Studies Podcast · 04/16/2025 · 45m

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What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Now live open.spotify.com/episode/3FHu...

Bulletin of Spanish Studies - Episode 8

Queens University Belfast - Bulletin Of Spanish Studies Podcast · Episode

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I really enjoyed presenting on MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the British Film Institute Reuben Library last night, and celebrating the publication of my BFI Film Classics volume on the film. Thank you *very* much to everyone who came, and to those who bought copies of the book! 1/2

I’m looking forward to talking about MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the BFI library in London this coming Monday, 6.30pm. More info and link to tickets here👇

Out in July: my book on space and place in Spanish horror and Gothic. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

The Nightmares of Presence

From haunted houses to sandy beaches, The Nightmares of Presence explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through audiovisual media. With an em…

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A wonderful evening of conversation and shared commitment to the promotion of Spanish language and culture ☀️☀️

We were also delighted to be joined by the wonderful team from SPLAS, including Marian Aldaz Aréchaga, curator of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival, and Dr. Carlos Soler Montes, Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Head of SPLAS at the University of Edinburgh.

Luis Garcia Montero on the importance of Hispanism, and of Humanities, at the opening ceremony

Luis García Montero at the opening of this year's AHGBI Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh: "la gran tarea del hispanismo es difundir la transnacionalidad, para aprender y respetar la mirada del otro"

Prof. Sarah Wright (@sarahwright.bsky.social), president of AHGBI, with Caroline Boyle, Chilean Consul ☀️