Thursday 31st of May: Julia Hartley on love and reason in Dante

Thursday 10th of May: Liliana Worth on "Poema de Mio Cid"

IMPORTANT: The first session of this term takes place on week 3!

Due to organisatory reasons, the first I3MS session of this term does NOT take place on week 2, but on week 3.

THE FIRST SESSION OF THIS TERM TAKES PLACE ON WEEK 3

(Thursday 10th of May)

More information to follow.

CFP: 1st ARDIT International Congress of Predoctoral Medievalists

New term, more CFPs! This time the I3MS brings to you the CFP for the 1st ARDIT International Congress of Predoctoral Medievalists, to take place from the 14th to the 16th of November 2012 in Barcelona. More information at the official site: http://arditculturesmedievals.weebly.com/1r-congreacutes-internacional-ardit.html

Esguardant e pensant qual era aquest món

Medieval thought, traditionally related to major figures and to the works produced by an intellectual elite, provides, however, a great richness and variety when we broaden our sight to encompass the ensemble of those who formed medieval society. With the introductory phrase of this text, from the preface of the Llibre dels Fets by Jaume I, we aim to open the door to the multiple points of view and reflections provided by graduate researchers within a wide range of aspects related to knowledge and its language, the arts, the ways of learning, the transmission of proficiency, the objects and the spaces in which the thoughts are reflected in the context of medieval age.

With a distinctly interdisciplinary diffusion intention, the congress aims to announce innovative researches on multiple and corresponding fields, such as History, Philosophy, History of Art or Philology among others. Our main objective with this call, with which we encourage you to participate, is to give access to new spaces of creation and network transmission of knowledge, thus  confronting the specialization and compartmentalization of expertises usually attributed to the academic world. The accepted papers will define the final sections in which the congress will be divided.

Proposals will be accepted until June 20th 2012. You will receive an acceptation/refusal answer from the scientific committee before August 20th.

Review of the I Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación en Literaturas Hispánicas

Yesterday and today took place the I Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación en Literaturas Hispánicas, at the Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla and the Facultad de Filología (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). One member of the I3MS participated in the last session of the first day and wants to share her impressions with us:

Efficiency. There is no better adjective to describe this congress. Efficiency on the side of the organisation, and efficiency on the side of the speakers. On the side of the organisation because this congress has been organised exclusively by graduate students of the Universidad Complutense, with some support from the Facultad de Filología and the Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, and in a record time. On the side of the speakers because papers have stuck to the available time and shown that young Hispanists are well prepared.

As this is just a short review, I will not analyse the papers individually, but in general. With regard to the research lines represented, there were three: "La edición ayer y hoy" (Text-editing yesterday and today), "Tradición y transgresión en la literatura hispánica" (Tradition and transgression in Hispanic literature) and "Estudios interdisciplinares" (Interdisciplinary studies). Papers on the two first research lines were mainly devoted to ecdotics and intertextuality. The results were very satisfactory and showed that there is still a lot of work waiting to be done in both fields and graduate students with the skills to do it. Moreover, it demonstrated that some traditional views can be updated and applied to modern research, as well as that certain well-studied research fields need a review from a modern point of view and with modern tools. Unfortunately, I could only listen to one paper on interdisciplinary research, but it showed that philological methods can be applied to other fields, in this case, the study of opera.

In general, my impression was very positive. Moderators did very good jobs and I only missed more active Q&A turns. I think this kind of initiatives show the healthy state of research in Hispanic literature, above all research performed by young people, and should inspire us at the I3MS to keep going.