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We've just changed our Bluesky handle to ACIS47th, and we are delighted to announce that next year's conference will be held at the Universidade do Minho in Portugal in early September. We cannot wait!! 🎓🇵🇹

Our 46th conference was a success! It's always a pleasure to meet up and exchange ideas about Contemporary Iberian Studies 🌍 Thanks to the organising team, the ACIS executive committee and, especially, all our wonderful speakers! Some final highlights of day 3, including a very special dinner ✨

What an amazing panel on gender and the body in Spanish cinema at @acis46.bsky.social! Thanks to the organisers for such a stimulating conference 😍

Amazing walking tour of beautiful Santiago de Compostela led by our colleagues of Rede Galabra! 🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏿‍♂️

Starting day 3 with our last plenary talk: ‘Spanish Silent Cinema, Between Technophilia and Technophobia’ by Leigh Mercer (University of Washington)

Highlights of day 2! ✨

🛬 Plenary talk ‘Turismo e Iberismo’ by Xerardo Pereiro

📖 Panels on Cinema, Poetry, Education, Football, Theatre, Postcolonial Relations, and Feminism, among orhers

🚶🏿‍♂️Amazing walking tour of the beautiful city of Santiago de Compostela led by our colleagues of Rede Galabra

Just a few highlights from day 1!

📚Plenary talk by Domingo’s Manaça Joaquim
🏫Panels on Tourism, Music, Ecology, Spanish-Lusophone Relations, Art and Society, the Spanish Civil War, and much more.
✍🏽 Workshop on Academic Publishing by the editors of IJIS
🎶Concert by Galician artist Mondra

Septiembre 2025 – Especial ACIS 46 desde Santiago de Compostela Participantes: Nadia Albaladejo García (Independent Scholar), Josep-Anton Fernàndez (Institut Ramon Llull), Fiona Noble (University of Stirling), Carlos Pazos-Justo (Universidade do Minho), Santiag…

Anunciamos #Pleibéricos31 desde el congreso de ACIS en Santiago
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Delighted to have taken part in the @acis46.bsky.social conference in Santiago. It was an honor to share the panel on #magicalrealism with Prof. @drcesarpdp.bsky.social and researcher Sarah Vidal. An enriching space for dialogue and inspiring ideas! ✨📚 #ACIS46
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Terrific first day of @acis46.bsky.social, sharing conversation and good food with Hispanists from right across the globe! And all in one of my favourite Spanish cities: Santiago de Compostela :)

Our Annual ACIS Conference is happening next week! We're especially excited that, for the first time, it will take place in Galicia, hosted by Rede Galabra.

Please find below a statement from the ACIS Executive Committee on Palestine, academic solidarity, boycott and sanctuary.

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📢 Call for Articles for International Journal of Iberian Studies!
🗓 Deadline submission for this Call: 15 May 2025
📬 Submissions also accepted on a rolling basis
👉 Visit: www.intellectbooks.com/internationa...
📝#IberianStudies
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Delighted to see 'Strategies for Writing Gibraltar into the World'! Congratulations to guest editor, @rpnewcomb.bsky.social, contributors: Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, David Álvarez + José Juan Yborra Aznar. @antonpujol.bsky.social @acis46.bsky.social intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/ijis/38/1

We're excited to share more information about our next conference at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela! CFP is open until the 16th of May, we look forward to receiving your proposals!

CFP for the 3rd EUT+ Conference on multilingualism and plurilingualism 🗣, taking place on January 15–16, 2026 at @WeAreTUDublin CFP below ⬇️

This seminar, 'Salvador Dali: emblems and mystical art', by Veronica Tartabini is happening tomorrow at 5pm ⬇️

I Congreso sobre Estudios Hispánicos en Portugal 🇵🇹. Información para la convocatoria ⬇️

'An Interview with Cristina Martins' by Robert Newcomb on the Mirandese language. Fascinating! Both Robert Newcomb and Cristina Martins were keynote speakers at the 44th ACIS Conference in Porto back in 2023 🗣 ➡️ escholarship.org/content/qt93...

Looking forward to this event on PhD thesis by Pleibéricos!

Febrero 2025 – Tesis doctorales – volumen II Participantes: Louise Evans (University of Liverpool), Lucia Filipova (Princeton University), David Campbell (University of Michigan), Saray Espinosa (Universitat de Girona), Oier Quincoces (U…

El día 20, 7pm CET llega #Pleibericos29 nuestro segundo especial Tesis Doctorales, con 6 proyectos que nos dan una idea del futuro del campo de los #EstudiosIbéricos. Nuestro anfitrión es Matt Hilborn, uno de los participantes de la edición anterior. + info:
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We invite you to have a look at University of Warsaw's journal Anuario Histórico Ibérico, focused on the history of Spain and Portugal, starting from the establishment of kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages to the 20th century: al.uw.edu.pl/anuariohisto...

Congratulations and very warm welcome to the new co-editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies, Parker Lawson (Belmont University), who will work alongside the other co-editors, Deirdre Kelly & Anton Pujol, and the editorial board!

This year's newsletter is available on our website!

You'll find information about the CFP for the next conference in Santiago de Compostela, our past conference in Dublin, the call for a new editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies & much more!
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Co-editor role: exciting opportunity! The editorial team of the International Journal of Iberian Studies is expanding and recruiting a co-editor. Deadline 31/1/25. Please see the link for details about how to apply, about the role and person specification: iberianstudies.net/co-editor-ro...