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Lorraine Ryan
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Senior Ruhr Alliance Research Fellow
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So sad to learn of the closure of one of my favourite bookshops in Madrid, Tipos Infames.

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Polémica por el cierre de la librería Tipos Infames: ¿tiene la culpa el capitalismo?
Lo que motiva, en último término, el odio que tienen los intelectuales al capitalismo es el resentimiento.
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January 25, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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#FellowFriday: Meet @ryanlor.bsky.social, Asst. Prof. of #HispanicStudies at the Univ. of Birmingham (UK). During her #fellowship, she is investigating Spanish #MemoryCulture with Prof. Zepp-Zwirner @unidue.bsky.social.
Learn more about her research & motivation in this Q&A (LinkedIn): t1p.de/b6lum
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January 23, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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Looking forward to giving this talk in the University of Wuppertal next week.
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January 21, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Fascinating second day of our Ordinary Men conference
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Only one day to go for our conference on perpetrator memory. Please see the full program here.
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College UA Ruhr: Ordinary Men. Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture | Conference
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December 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Yesterday, we celebrated the successful establishment of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities of the #UniversityAllianceRuhr in Essen at the ceremonial opening with the Minister of Culture and Science of NRW Ina Brandes and around 100 guests.
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group photo: Prof. Martin Paul (Rector of Ruhr University Bochum), Ina Brandes (Minister of Culture and Science of North-Rhine Westphalia), Prof. Julika Griem (Director of the College), Prof. Barbara Albert (Rector of University of Duisburg-Essen), Prof. Ute Schneider (Scientific Board member of the College), Prof. Friedrich Balke (Scientific Board member of the College), Prof. Maximiliane Wilkesmann (Scientific Board member of the College), Prof. Manfred Bayer (Rector of TU Dortmund University)
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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#FellowFriday: Meet Rashed Uz Zaman, a researcher in the field of #InternationalRelations at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research focuses on strategic and international security issues & civil-military relations in #Bangladesh.
Learn more about him in this Q&A (LinkedIn): t1p.de/hsutf
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November 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Find all info about our conference on perpetrator memory here.
college-uaruhr.bsky.social College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · Nov 19
Reminder: How do Spanish literature, film, and culture represent perpetrators in the context of the Civil War and Franco Dictatorship? Learn more in the conference 'Ordinary Men. Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture'.

📝 Register until 25 Nov.: www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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#FellowFriday: Our Senior Fellow Tulin Sener is Prof. of #EducationalPsychology at Ankara University, Turkey. An expert in developmental #psychology, she focuses on culturally contextualised perspectives.
Learn more about her research & her motivation in the Q&A on LinkedIn: t1p.de/h54fm
#Devpsy
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November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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The program for the international conference, Ordinary Men:Perpetrator Memory in Contemporary Spanish Culture, is now available. Registration has also opened.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The program for the international conference, Ordinary Men:Perpetrator Memory in Contemporary Spanish Culture, is now available. Registration has also opened.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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My New article on Elvira Navarro's La ciudad feliz, is out now.
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Gender and Immigration in Elvira Navarro’s La ciudad feliz
The representation of the Chinese immigrant in Spanish culture has mainly hewed to hackneyed stereotypes of machine-like and constant productivity, as well as homogeneity. In Alejandro González Iñá...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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@hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social . Please read this call for papers for a conference on perpetrator memory in Spanish Culture.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Please join is on December 4th and 5th to discuss perpetrator memory in Contemporary Spanish Culture.
college-uaruhr.bsky.social College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · Sep 16
#CfP
Call for papers for the conference ‘Ordinary Men: Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture’, 4-5 December 2025, Essen

Submit your abstract by 8 October 2025:
www.college-uaruhr.de/calls

Thanks for sharing! @fidromanistik.bsky.social
#HispanicStudies #Romanistik #MemoryStudies #OrdinaryMen
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September 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Delighted to be a part of this cohort.
college-uaruhr.bsky.social College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · Sep 11
We warmly welcome our new Senior Fellows!

Eight distinguished researchers from universities in Argentina, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Turkey, the UK and the USA form the fourth cohort of our international Senior #Fellowship Programme. #UARuhr

Learn more: t1p.de/0xvnv
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September 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
ryanlor.bsky.social
I was honoured to be part of the Reading Bodies project. I am looking forward to reading this special issue.
katharinemurphy.bsky.social Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · Sep 16
Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
oliviaglaze.bsky.social Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · Sep 16
Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm
September 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Spanish Food Studies on fire in el Ateneo.
May 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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"Merino ha afiliado su cuentística, con frecuencia, al ámbito de lo fantástico, tendencia donde su nombre destaca".

Ángeles Encinar escribe acerca de "De mundos inciertos", el volumen de cuentos de José María Merino. 
La obra cuentística de J. M. Merino - Zenda
Ángeles Encinar escribe acerca de 'De mundos inciertos', el volumen de cuentos de José María Merino que ha editado para Cátedra.
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May 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Looking forward to introducing this fantastic session tomorrow.
May 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Promises to be a great event
rebeccaingram.bsky.social Rebecca Ingram @rebeccaingram.bsky.social · May 2
Looking forward to presenting this edited volume with so many of our fantastic #foodstudies thinkers! Join us!

Con mucha ilusión presentamos nuestro volumen colectivo sobre la #gastronomia, los #foodstudies y la comunicación.

¡Venid!

@yanetacosta.bsky.social #academicsky
Volante que anuncia la presentación del libro Food studies en español. El Ateneo de Madrid, 20 de mayo, 11h.
May 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Ireland hopes to entice academics as US becomes ‘a cold place for free thinkers’
Proposed scheme involves talent scouts offering attractive packages to tempt academics and lecturers from abroad
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May 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Interesantísima sesión sobre El exilio interior esta noche en Tipos Infames. Gracias a Isabelle Touton, Germán Labrador y Juana Salabert.
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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El lunes que viene, 12M, presentamos #elexiliointerior en la librería #TiposInfames, Madrid
Una ocasión de lujo, con los responsables de la edición, Isabelle Touton y Germán Labrador, y con Juana Salabert, hija del autor y Premio Nacional de Narrativa.
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May 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Registration for the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions is now open!

🗓️ 24-26 June 2025 (single day tickets available)

📍In-person at Durham University, or online

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-n...
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May 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The Centre for the Study of Women´s Writing will host this fantastic New Seminar Series on Female-authored science fiction in Spain. Book now.

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Convergencias literarias: género, narrativa y fandom en la literatura española contemporánea | Literary convergences: Gender, genre and fandom in contemporary Spanish literature
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May 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM