PATHWAYS, EXPLORATIONS, APPROACHES

Catalan crime writer and police scientist Marc Pastor and Valencian singer-songwriter Pau Alabajos will participate in the annual Sant Jordi celebrations from 22 to 26 April.

Keynote address by Diana Taylor forms part of the Graduate School Masterclass on Violence and Trauma: Approaches to Politics, Practice and Performance in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences

This talk will focus on the Catalan independence challenge in Spain and examine its origins and prospects for resolution.

Carnival week, organized by the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, is presented as a meeting point for different  cultures.

GRADchances Language Fair

Seminar by Professor Michael Chanon, followed by documentary screening on memory and politics in Chile and Argentina. The event has changed location and will be held in Room 5 of the Western Gateway building, not the West Wing of the Quad, as advertised.

Inaugural reception, attended by Her Excellency, Silvia Merega, Ambassador of Argentina to Ireland, is followed by a plenary on Argentine Cinema Since the 1990s by Professor Álvaro Fernández-Bravo (CONICET/Universidad de San Andres, Argentina). The event will open the three day festival including three outstanding Argentine films at 8pm on Monday 24th February, 7pm on Tuesday 25th February and 7pm on Wednesday 26th February.

Broadcasting the Americas: Academic Reflections and Media Practice on Politics and Culture

"Monuments and Memory in São Tomé and Príncipe: Troubling Views on the 'colonial present'"

"A Lingua Das Bolboretas / Butterfly's Tongue"

"18 Comidas: un menú de Jorge Coira"

Screening of "Mass Murder in Mexico" followed by Q&A with the director

Viewing the Northwest: Galician Films, Screenings and Discussions

Aula Maxima
Monday 23 January 2017
1 pm

'Brazil and United States in a Time of War: the Good Neighborhood Policy and Inter-American
Relations during World War Two' - Fernanda Rabelo (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Fluminense, Brazil)

President Michael D. Higgins launches Irish in Latin America Exhibition

Ecocritical Encounters: Women and Nature in Galician and Irish Cultural Production

Wednesday 3rd – Thursday 4th May 2017

'Translated Literature as Armchair Travelling'

Gabriela Saldanha (University of Birmingham)

ORB 1.24 - 4pm

Fiction in Brazilian Fashion Magazines

Ana Cláudia Suriani (University College London)

Friday, 17 February 2017

ORB 1.24 - 4pm

Critical Approaches to the Portuguese-speaking world

Filipe Meneses (Maynooth)
Nélia Alexandre (Lisbon)

The Irish Centre for Galician Studies is delighted to invite you to the half-day event 'Galician Sounds: Music and Poetry in Contemporary Galicia', which will take place on Wednesday the 22nd of March 2017 in room ORBG27b (Mary Ryan Room).

Liminalidades en la dramaturgia de frontera mexicana en los albores del siglo XXI
Dra. Susana Báez Ayala
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

Thursday 27 April 1 pm
Mary Ryan Meeting Room

The Drowned Days / Os días afogados

A powerful documentary from Galicia that explores the role of home made movies in creating a portrait of community under threat.

For his work on Galician Studies and promotion of Galician language and culture.

September the 6th – 7:00pm – Cork Central Library