📢 Galician Studies panel at the AHGBI Annual Conference 2026, hosted by @lancasteruni.bsky.social Dr Martín Veiga, from University College Cork, is putting together a Galician Studies panel for the 71st Annual Conference of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social. 📩 Enquiries & abstracts: [email protected]

We saw Samara Joy and her brilliant jazz musicians in Santiago, Chile last month. What absolute joy!

Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455

@llc-rhul.bsky.social Open Day @royal holloway

Getting ready to meet everyone at today's Open Day @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social!

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Few obituaries of Forsyth mention that his remarkable career (whatever one thinks of his retrograde politics) was possible because he took the time to make himself fluent in five languages. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Shout out to our Inter-Library team in the Library @royalholloway.bsky.social. I have recently placed two requests for specialist articles and they were sent to me the same day - fantastic service! 👏

So wonderful to celebrate Ann Hobbs, administrator extraordinaire in the Humanities team today, who has spent 30 years at Royal Holloway!

'If ever you’re in need as I was may you have an island of strangers like I had.' Michael Rosen nails it again.

These are good, but my favourite example of this genre remains Dr Weliton Menário Costa's 2024 'Kangaroo Time': informative, inclusive and utterly joyful doctoral science: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière. The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.

📚Colleagues might be interested in this co-authored piece by AHGBI member María Delgado on the potential impact of decoupling outputs from individuals in the REF—just out on Wonkhe: wonkhe.com/blogs/portab... #REF #HigherEd #AHGBI

On Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Now live open.spotify.com/episode/3FHu...

I really enjoyed presenting on MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the British Film Institute Reuben Library last night, and celebrating the publication of my BFI Film Classics volume on the film. Thank you *very* much to everyone who came, and to those who bought copies of the book! 1/2

I’m looking forward to talking about MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the BFI library in London this coming Monday, 6.30pm. More info and link to tickets here👇

Out in July: my book on space and place in Spanish horror and Gothic. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

A wonderful evening of conversation and shared commitment to the promotion of Spanish language and culture ☀️☀️

We were also delighted to be joined by the wonderful team from SPLAS, including Marian Aldaz Aréchaga, curator of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival, and Dr. Carlos Soler Montes, Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Head of SPLAS at the University of Edinburgh.

Luis Garcia Montero on the importance of Hispanism, and of Humanities, at the opening ceremony

Luis García Montero at the opening of this year's AHGBI Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh: "la gran tarea del hispanismo es difundir la transnacionalidad, para aprender y respetar la mirada del otro"

Prof. Sarah Wright (@sarahwright.bsky.social), president of AHGBI, with Caroline Boyle, Chilean Consul ☀️

Parallel Session I: Medieval Studies (Room G.01, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh). Gemma Pellissa Prades (Universitat de Barcelona): “Hispanic translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the early printing press, 1494-1519”

Keah Amy Dixon (Universidade da Coruña): “En castellano en el original”: Dolores Vilavedra’s Spanish Translations of Galician Narrative from a Transcultural Perspective” (Project Room 1st Floor, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh).

Parallel session I: Jackie Stirling (Queen Mary University) on Feminising the Amigo Americano and the Queer Carnivalesque in 50s Spain (Room G.02, 50GS). Full title: “Feminising the 'amigo americano': Florián Rey’s La moza de cántaro (1954) and the Queer Carnivalesque”

Annual conference of the AHGBI under way! AGM in full flow. @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social

Another glorious day in Edinburgh. ¡El tiempo nos acompaña y no podemos pedir más! ☀️☀️☀️☀️

See you in a bit for Day 2 of the #AHGBI_2025_Conference_at_Edinburgh. Edinburgh is showing its sunny side again for Day 2. ¡Disfrutad del sol mientras dure! ☀️☀️☀️☀️

Lovely memories from last night, both at the Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner at #cafeandaluzedinburgh 🥂 Great food, even better company — thank you all for such a warm and joyful evening!

Ben Griffiths (University of Birmingham) discusses misleading editorial strategies of 17th century printer-booksellers.

María Xesús Nogueira Pereira (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) discussing insects in contemporary Galician poetry. Title: “Entre o (humano)animal e o posthumano. A poesía galega sobre as abellas”.

María Xesús Nogueira Pereira (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) discussing insects in contemporary Galician poetry. Title: “Entre o (humano)animal e o posthumano. A poesía galega sobre as abellas”.

Oliver Baldwin (Universidade de Lisboa) on Kassandra. Full title: “Kassandra: Tragedia Trans/Queer”.

Day 2 ☀️ Roundtable: Marginalised Voices in Iberian Television and Streaming with Miguel García (University of Bristol), Matthew Hilborn (University College Dublin), Abigail Loxham (University of Liverpool) and Fiona Noble (University of Stirling). Moderated by Miguel García (University of Bristol).

Sophie Stevens (Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study): “Misinformation meets ‘poner el cuerpo’: What is the Impact on Vulnerable, at Risk or Marginalised Women’s Bodies?

Catherine O’Leary reveals future traumas and memories that take shape in La mucama de Omicunlé (2015) by Rita Indiana.

Day 2 ☀️ Rocío Peñalta Catalán (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) presenta sobre las similitudes y diferencias entre 'La amortajada' y 'La tercera resignación'.

Have you ever wondered if you're using the colon correctly? 🤔

🔴Happening right now! Plenary session with Prof. Catherine Boyle (King’s College London) in Lecture Theatre G.03 at 50 George Square. Prof. Boyle is AHGBI's Past President and Chair of Trustees.

Today’s plenary talk at AHGBI 2025 was by Dr Jesse Barker (University of Aberdeen), who spoke on “Frames of Nature: Ecology and Politics in Visual Media (1928–2024).”

Cervantes Chair María José Solano: “Viajes literarios: una conversación con María José Solano” (with Prof Alexis Grohmann, University of Edinburgh)

@hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social Keynote lecture at Edinburgh Hispanists: Jesse Barker, 'Ecology and Politics in Visual Media'. It's been a memorable few days here. Thanks, Edinburgh and AHGBI.

Very happy to represent Portuguese Studies at the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social conference in sunny Edinburgh this week. I presented my work on crip theory and Fernando Pessoa on a panel with the fantastic @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @petehr.bsky.social and Álvaro González Montero 💙

Had a wonderful few days in Edinburgh at the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social conference. Old friends, new friends, inspiring research, and I even managed to see a @remediosvaro.bsky.social painting in the flesh.

Had a wonderful time presenting on Galician ruralism and contemporary performance art at @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social I met wonderful Galician studies people too 🥰

Had a fantastic time at #AHGBI2025 @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social ! 🎉 Our roundtable explored Marginalised Voices in Iberian TV & Streaming - I focused on romcoms & whose love stories actually get told 💘📺 Now more than ever, sharing time, space, & research with fellow Humanities scholars is vital!

🗣️ After a brilliant PGR Workshop, we’re diving into the next session: Dr Peter Baker (University of Stirling) on “How to Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul: Applying for Academic Jobs”