Colloquiums on Romance Literatures and Cultures!

Sukurta: 30 March 2022

The Arqus International Forum on Romance Studies (AIFRS), a multilingual, interdisciplinary network for research and teaching on the Romance languages within the Arqus European University Alliance, launches a new Colloquium on Romance Literatures and Cultures.

The first episode of the colloquium, hosted by the University of Graz, will be held online between April and June 2022. Members of the AIFRS will present their current research topics reaching from Literature in Medieval Veneto to Latin American theatre. The Colloquium will be open to all Arqus scholars in the field of Romance Literatures and Cultures interested in meeting and networking with other members from this community.

All lectures will take place on a Tuesday evening from 7 pm to 8:30 pm CEST via Webex on the following dates:

  • Ecrire l'histoire des relations culturelles interaméricaines par les arts de la scène (XIXe-XXe siècles) (in French). Simele Soares Rodgrigues (University of Lyon 3). 5th April.
  • Il Mediterraneo come ‚mare di letterature‘ (in Italian). Steffen Schneider (University of Graz). 3rd May.
  • L'Atlante della Letteratura del Veneto Medievale (in Italian). Giovanni Borriero, Fabio Sangiovanni (University of Padua). 24th May.
  • Constelaciones familiares e imaginarios históricos en la narrativa española moderna (in Spanish). Ángela Calderón Villarino (Leipzig University). 31st May.
  • Il laboratorio narrativo delle novelle di Grazia Deledda. Qualche considerazione (in Italian). Alessandra Sanna (University of Granada). 14th June.

To obtain the video conference link as well as further information about each lecture, please contact Verena Richter (University of Graz) at .

The AIFRS would also be pleased to welcome new members. Please contact the coordinators , or if you like to join.