Call for Papers – The Life of Others: Narratives of Vulnerability for a special issue of Canada & Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies(Spring 2018 issue) Guest Editor: Eva Darias-Beautell. More information: https://transcanulleng.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/cfp-the-life-of-others-narratives-of-vulnerability In her Levinasian discussion of the functioning of ethical obligations in the face of global and local forms of […]
Archive | May, 2016
Call for Papers: Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Subversion, Resilience, and Shifting Responses.
Call for Papers: Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Subversion, Resilience, and Shifting Responses. All the information is available at https://subalternnarratives.wordpress.com/ This conference aims to look at the material histories and lives of subaltern women. In her 1988 essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, Gayatri Spivak extends the definition of the ‘subaltern’, going beyond “strict class analysis”, to incorporate […]
Lawrence Hill at the University of Salamanca
Bestselling and multiple award-winning Canadian author Lawrence Hill discusses his two most recent novels: The Book of Negroes and The Illegal at the University of Salamanca. 27 February (Juan del Enzina, 13:00-14:30): “Faction: The Merging of Fiction and History in The Book of Negroes.” 28 February (Juan del Enzina, 13:00-14:30): “The Illegal: Creating imaginary nations […]
English Studies: 65th Anniversary
65 years ago the Spanish University instituted English Studies at the University of Salamanca. Commemorating this ephemeris, our English Department is organizing a number of academic events encompassing the various interests of our field. Please, feel free to consult our website and join us in this momentous celebration
