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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · 20d

@hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social . Please read this call for papers for a conference on perpetrator memory in Spanish Culture.
www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...

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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · 20d

Please join is on December 4th and 5th to discuss perpetrator memory in Contemporary Spanish Culture.

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 22d

#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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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted to be a part of this cohort.

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 27d

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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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · 20d

I was honoured to be part of the Reading Bodies project. I am looking forward to reading this special issue.

Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social · 22d

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

Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congratulations, Rebecca

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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · May 20

Spanish Food Studies on fire in el Ateneo.

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Zenda @zendalibros.bsky.social · May 19

"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.

www.zendalibros.com

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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · May 19

Looking forward to introducing this fantastic session tomorrow.

Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · May 5

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.

ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Convergencias literarias: género, narrativa y fandom en la literatura española contemporánea | Literary convergences: Gender, genre and fandom in contemporary Spanish literature

ilcs.sas.ac.uk

Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · May 19

Promises to be a great event

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.

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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · May 14

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · May 12

Interesantísima sesión sobre El exilio interior esta noche en Tipos Infames. Gracias a Isabelle Touton, Germán Labrador y Juana Salabert.

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Hoja de Lata Editorial @hojadelataedit.bsky.social · May 7

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.
www.todostuslibros.com/libros/el-ex...

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · May 7

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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Lorraine Ryan @ryanlor.bsky.social · May 5

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.

ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Convergencias literarias: género, narrativa y fandom en la literatura española contemporánea | Literary convergences: Gender, genre and fandom in contemporary Spanish literature

ilcs.sas.ac.uk

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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · Apr 25

Reminder: This conference on 8 & 9 May will take a comparative perspective on #memory culture in Germany, the USA and beyond. How is it linked to a healthy #democracy?
Members of the #UARuhr are welcome to join.
Register until 1 May: www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...

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