ASSOCIATION FOR CONTEMPORARY IBERIAN STUDIES

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE

5 - 7 September 2000


ASSOCIATION FOR CONTEMPORARY IBERIAN STUDIES

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE

5th - 7th September 2000

Tuesday 5th September:

11.30 am Registration (Claude Gibb Hall)

13.00 pm Lunch (Claude Gibb Hall)

2.00 pm Plenary: (Rutherford Hall)

Mercedes Bengoichea (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)

***(Topic to be confirmed) on Gender in the Dictionary of the Real Academia

with support from Instituto Cervantes

2.45 pm Parallel Sessions:

Esther Zaplana Rodríguez (University of Northumbria at Newcastle)

Spanish feminism warring with the mother/land

Chris Perriam (University of Newcastle)

“Star-gazing at Carmelo Gómez”

3.30 pm Tea

4.00 pm Parallel Sessions:

Carlota Larrea (University of Luton)

Spanish film within the HE curriculum in the UK and Ireland: a survey of teaching practices

Carmen M Edwardes (Bristol University)

Social history and the building of an Azorean identity; the relationship between the emergence of an Azorean diaspora and literature as the expression for cultural and regional identity

4.45 pm Cristina Agua-Mel (Trinity College Dublin)

Wine Advertising in Spain and Portugal

Lisa Clughen (Nottingham Trent University)

Lorca’s Anorexics

5.30 pm Wine tasting with Richard Granger Fine Wines, West Jesmond, Newcastle (Claude Gibb Hall)

7.00 pm Dinner followed by a film at the Tyneside cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle (included as part of the programme).

Depart from Claude Gibb Hall entrance at 8.45 p.m.

Tyneside Cinema Spanish Film Festival

9.15  pm Film. Director José Luis Cuerda.

11 pm Late bar (Ellison Building)

Wednesday 6th September:

9.30 am Parallel Sessions:

Andrew Dowling (Institut d’Estudis Catalans; Barcelona)

“For Christ and Catalonia”: Catholicism and Catalanism under the Franco regime.

Mike Harland (Glasgow University)

Freedom of Expression and the Censor in 1960’s Portugal: How Jorge de

Sena and other writers used different techniques to speak out.

10.15 am Pablo La-Porte (Heriot-Watt University; Edinburgh)

“From rage to silence”: CNT and the Moroccan campaigns (1909-1921)

Silene de Moraes Freire (Universidade do Estado do Rio e Janeiro)

O papel da Igreja na sociedade brasileira: elementos para análise do fenômeno religioso no Brasil.

11.00 am Coffee

11.30 am Parallel Sessions:

Keith Salmon (University of Luton)

Spanish foreign direct investment: forging an Iberian- South-Atlantic axis and redefining the Spanish cultural realm.

Juan Antonio Lalaguna (Imperial College)

El caso contra José Rizal (1861-1896)

12.15 am Cezar Honorato (UERJ/UFF)

Os Investimentos Ibéricos no Processo de Privatização Brasileiro Contemporâneo

Beatriz Anson (London School of Economics)

The PCE at the cross-roads, 1956-1964.

13.00 pm Lunch

2.00 pm Parallel Sessions:

Martin Eaton (University of Ulster (Coleraine)

The Development of a Virtual Field Trip on the Human Geography of Portugal and its Usefulness to Undergraduate Teaching.

Pepiol, Rafael and Jackie M.Cannon (University of the West of England and Oxford Brookes University)

Region, Product, Image: The Case of the Valencian Community.

2.45 pm Parallel Sessions:

Glória Lúcia Tavares dos Santos (FAETEC; Brasil)

A Iinfluência Portuguesa Naeducação Profissionalizante no Brasil Contemporâneo.

Julie Garside & Helena Buffery (University of Birmingham)

“ . . . invaded by boatloads of Mitsubishis”: Cultural colonisation, linguistic identity and virtual spaces in Ibiza.

3.30 pm Tea

4.00 pm Parallel Sessions:

Tony Morgan (Anglia Polytechnic University)

“Jobs for the boys (and girls)?”: Cultural resistance to the Protestant work ethic in contemporary Spain.

Ann McFall (Heriot-Watt University)

Environmental Correctness as a Spanish Phenomenon.

4.45 pm AGM

5.30 pm Plenary (Rutherford Hall):

Guest speaker: Carmen Martínez Ten

Situación de la mujer en España

6.45 pm Vino de Honor sponsored by Harper Collins Publishers

7.20 pm Meet at the entrance to Claude Gibb Hall for departure by coach for Close House

7.45 pm Conference Dinner: at Close House, Heddon-on-the Wall.

Thursday 7th September:

9.30 am Parallel Sessions:

Ivan Pliego (London School of Economics)

Mexico and the Spanish Civil War

Rob Rix (Trinity & All Saints, Leeds)

Logos de remate: el diseño y la imagen corporativa en la España actual

10.15 am Parallel Sessions:

Vicente Tao-hsun Chang (Universidade de Lisboa)

Harmony as Social Communication: A Pragmatic and Critical Approach to Portuguese Advertisements

Heather Moyes (University of Wales; Cardiff)

Re-defining the project: changing conceptions of “Spain” in the ideology of the PSOE since 1978

11.00 am Coffee

11.30 am Parallel Sessions:

Crispin Coates (University of Nottingham)

The Aznar Government 1996-2000, a Foreign Policy Appraisal

Elena Teso (Liverpool John Moores University)

Gender and the language of the Spanish Administration: Recommendations for non-sexist usage

12.15 am Parallel sessions

Hilary Rollin and Rosemary Richardson (Oxford Brookes University and USA)

Entrepreneurial Activity in Spain: Opportunities, Hazards and the Impact of the Prevailing Business Culture

Daniele Conversi (University of Lincolnshire)

The nation as a daily plebiscite: Renan, Ortega and Basque radicalism

13.00 Lunch

Afternoon

As part of the Tyneside Spanish Cinema Festival timed to coincide with the Conference, you can see Abre los Ojos at a special discount rate on production of your conference badge.

There will be a stand displaying Harper Collins Spanish publications in the Ellison Building foyer throughout the conference

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