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Presented by the Iberian Studies Program at the , and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.

Conference Overview

Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up disciplinary space, altering established routines. Shattering the state’s epistemological frame complexifies the field through the emergence of lines of inquiry and bodies of knowledge hitherto written off as irrelevant.  This more complex understanding of the term has been gaining ground despite disciplinary inertia, as always happens with new epistemic paradigms according to Thomas Kuhn.

This conference brings together scholars whose work shows awareness of the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field to discuss the institutional challenges to the practice of Iberian Studies and to share work conceived from that relational point of view. 

Panelists

- Iberian and Latin American Cultures, °®åú´«Ã½

- Universidade Nova de Lisboa

- Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto

- Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

- Comparative Literature, °®åú´«Ã½

- Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge

- Comparative Literature, University of Barcelona

- History, The University of Chicago

- Iberian and Latin American Cultures, °®åú´«Ã½

-  Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

- Romance Studies, Duke University

- Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Chicago

- Romance Languages & Literatures, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

- Iberian and Latin American Cultures, °®åú´«Ã½

- Institut für Romanische PhilologieMaite Zubiaurre, Philipps-Universität Marburg

- Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles