The cultural and linguistic diversity of the Iberian Peninsula (the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, Spain and Portugal) calls for a redefinition of national philological practices that goes beyond Portuguese and Spanish languages and literatures. Iberian Studies is an increasingly important research field that seeks to reflect the complexity of the Iberian Peninsula and analyse its different literatures, identities, cultures and history from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Under the main theme “New Approaches and Research Practices in Iberian Studies”, the II Jornadas de Estudios Culturales Ibéricos will provide a discussion platform for all those working in the field in order to assess its horizons and challenges.

Programme

Thursday, 16 November

09.00 Welcome

Stefan Garsztecki (Dean Faculty of Humanities, TU Chemnitz), Teresa Pinheiro (Institute for European Studies, TU Chemnitz)

SECTION I: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON IBERIAN STUDIES

Chair: Teresa Pinheiro

9.15 Esther Gimeno Ugalde (Boston College): El giro iberista: los Estudios Ibéricos en los Estados Unidos

9.45 Helena Buffery (University College Cork): Contemporary Iberian Studies and the World Republic of Letters

10.15 Discussion

10.45 Coffee Break

SECTION II: PORTUGAL AND SPAINSTILL BACK TO BACK?

Chair: Thomas Weißmann

11.00 José Miguel Sardica (Universidade Católica Portuguesa): Estudos Ibéricos e História Ibérica: passado, presente e futuro

11.30 Josep Sánchez Cervelló (Universitat Rovira i Virgili):
Republicanisme i iberisme peninsulars

12.00 Discussion

12.30 Lunch

SECTION III: THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL

Chair: Teresa Pinheiro

14.15 Nicola Gilmour (Victoria University of Wellington): The Spanish Historical Novel as Cultural Memory Practice

14.45 Manuel López Forjas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Henry George como paralelo histórico del colectivismo agrario español: la lectura de Joaquín Costay el contexto anglosajón

15.15 Discussion

15.45 Coffee Break

SECTION IV: DETERRITORIALIZING IBERIAN STUDIES: ARAB AND JEWISH STUDIES

Chair: Esther Gimeno Ugalde

16.00 Mohanad Amer Kadhim (Universidad de Oviedo): Creencias sobre el Día del Juicio entre los moriscos

16.30 Silvina Schammah Gesser (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Teresa Pinheiro (Technische Universität Chemnitz): Interpellating Sephardic Identities: Multiple Agendas in the Twenty-First Century

17.00 Discussion

19.30 Congress Dinner

Friday, 17 November

8.45 Opening Remarks – Teresa Pinheiro

SECTION V: LITERARY LANDSCAPES

Chair: Ana Troncoso

9.00 Enric Bou (Università Ca’ Forscari Venezia): Experiències de la proximitat: (in)utilitat, lleugeresa, (del ser i de les coses)

9.30 Juan C. Busto Cortina (Universidad de Oviedo): Visiones desde el centro hacia la periferia en el XIX: el caso de la literatura asturiana

10.00 Santiago Pérez Isasi (Universidade de Lisboa): Mapa Digital de Relaciones Literarias Ibéricas (1870-1930): consideraciones teóricas y metodológicas

10.30 Discussion

11.00 Coffee Break

SECTION VI: LITERATURE AND MEMORY

Chair: Enrique Rodrigues-Moura

11.15 Diego Rivadulla Costa (Universidade da Coruña): (Des)memoria e oralidade: consideracións sobre a nova novela galega da memoria

11.45 Izaro Arroita Azkarate (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), Mikel Ayerbe Sudupe (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea): Memoria e identidad nacional en La educación de Lili, de Ramon Saizarbitoria

12.15 Ana Gandara (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), Miren Ibarluzea (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea): Técnicas para el relato memorístico en la novela Manu Militari: transtextualidad y heterolingüismo

12.45 Discussion

13.15 Lunch

SECTION VIII: CULTURAL HISTORY

Chair: Thomas Weißmann

15.00 Beatriz Valverde Contreras (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): ¿Un reflejo, una consecuencia o un paralelismo? Las contestaciones sociales en Portugal y España entre 1900 y 1910

15.30 Rita Luís (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): The Spanish Experience of the Portuguese Revolutionary Process: “Political Tourism” or an Act of Exile?

16.00 Pablo Hernández Ramos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): What did the Papers say? Iberian Exchanges from a Historical Press Perspective

16.30 Discussion

18.00 Club der Kulturen – Iberian Evening

Saturday, 18 November

9.15 Opening Remarks – Teresa Pinheiro

SECTION IX: PROJECTS AND PROSPECTS

Chair: Silke Hünecke

9.30 Esther Gimeno Ugalde (Boston College), Santiago Pérez Isasi (Universidade de Lisboa): Iberian Studies Reference Site (IStReS): Una herramienta para investigadores de Estudios Ibéricos

10.00 Carsten Sinner (Universität Leipzig), Teresa Pinheiro (Technische Universität Chemnitz): The Joint Master Programme Iberian Studies

10.30 Enrique Rodrigues-Moura (Universität Bamberg): III Jornadas de Estudios Culturales Ibéricos

11.00 Discussion and Closure

12.00 Farewell Lunch

Beitrag von: Thomas Weißmann

Redaktion: Christof Schöch