In case some members of the LLC Catalan Studies might not be aware of it, a flurry of translations has recently become available. I believe the latest is Private Life, by Josep Maria de Sagarra (Archipelago Books), which I am proud to have translated, but earlier this year Archipelago also published Life Embitters, Peter Bush’s translation of …[Read more]

Under a program of the American Literary Translators Association, a translating mentorship has been created which includes Catalan.  Currently, the experienced translator Ronald Puppo of the Universitat de Vic is helping the emerging translator Scott Shanahan with a translation of Mercè Rodoreda’s “Viatges i flors.” A mentorship lasts for one y…[Read more]

Pasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos has posted a call for papers for a dossier on “Translation and Iberian Literatures”: http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html

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Over the last three decades, translation has gained increasing visibility and attention in literary studies. This development is related to the questioning of p…[Read more]

Pasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos has posted a call for papers for a special issue on “Traducción y literaturas ibéricas” (http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html).

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Durante las últimas tres décadas, el fenómeno de la traducción ha ido cobrando mayor visibilidad y relevancia dentro de los estudios literarios. No es ajeno…[Read more]

Pls. spread the word, East Carolina University is hosting a Digital Innovation and Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities Symposium in Greenville, NC, March 18th, 2015. Speakers below, guests welcome, 5-7-minute lightning-round presentations are currently being solicited at our website. Both graduate students and faculty welcome.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

15th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society

Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona

June 29-30 and July 1st, 2015

CATALAN STUDIES AS GLOBAL CRITICAL PRACTICE(S):

TRANSFERENCES, TRANSFORMATIONS, TRANSITIONS, TRANSLATIONS

You are invited to submit paper abstracts or panel proposals on any topic…[Read more]

I am planning to prepare a course that would serve as an introduction to Iberian Studies.  If any of you has taught a similar course, or has ideas about how to teach it, and is willing to share, I would appreciate it.  Since I am more familiar with modern/contemporary culture, my plan is to design a course based on materials from that period (…[Read more]

For your information, here you will find the program for the First Conference of Iberian Cultural Studies in Germany:

http://iberianculturalstudies.weebly.com/

Disability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]

The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]