ACIS Conference 2007
Oxford Brookes University
Programme
Tue 4 Sep - Wed 5 Sep - Thu 6 Sep
Tuesday 4 September
11.00: ACIS Executive Committee Meeting
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11.00 – 12.15: Registration
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12.15 – 1.15: Lunch
Main Refectory
1.30:  Conference Opening
Room A

Opening: Professor Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University

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followed by

Inauguration of Professor Paul Preston as ACIS President

Plenary: 2.00 – 2.50
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Paul Preston
London School of Economics
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Civil War
Chair: David Corkill
Plenary: 2.50 – 3.40
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Antonio Costa Pinto
Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon
Authoritarian Legacies and Attitudes Toward the Past in Portuguese Democracy
Chair: David Corkill
3.40-4.10: Tea/ Coffee
Main Refectory
Parallel Sessions: 4.10 – 5.40
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Ana Souto
University of Nottingham
América en Sevilla: la influencia del Panhispanismo en las relaciones entre España y Latino América.
Jaine Beswick
University of Southampton
English at school, Portuguese at home: Identity practices in the Portuguese-speaking community of Bournemouth
Álvaro Jaspe
University of Ulster
“Cautela, seguir mudo”.  Madrid’s diplomatic response to the emergence of the Irish Free State 1918-1981.
Ana Souza
Goldsmiths College London
“Replanted Trees”: The Effect of Migration on the Linguistic and Cultural Identities of a Group of Brazilian Mothers in the UK

Gerald Blaney
Cañada Blanch Centre, LSE
An Inveterate Obstacle to Democratic Development? A Reassessment of the Spanish Civil Guard
Chair: Ron Neild

Guida de Abreu
Oxford Brookes University
Cultural identity development of Portuguese students in British schools.

Chair: Rosemary Richardson

 
6.00 – 7.00+: Reception & demonstration at OUP Bookshop
8.00: Dinner Main Refectory
 
Wednesday 5 September
Parallel Sessions: 9.00 – 10.30
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Nicola Rooney
Trinity College Dublin
Ecclesiastical Responses to Violence in the Basque Country during the Franco Dictatorship
Lénia Marques
Universidade de Aveiro
António Nobre, “Pintor do meo país estranho”

Margaret Woods
Independent researcher, Palma de Mallorca

Oppositional Basque Priests during the Franco Regime 

 

Goffredo Adinolfi
Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa
Formas de propaganda e limites do consenso no Portugal salazarista (1933-1944)

 

Natalia Benjamin
Former Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes

The Basque Children Refugees in Great Britain
Chair: Jeremy MacClancy

Chair: Jaine Beswick
10.30 - 11.00: Tea/ Coffee
Main Refectory
Parallel Sessions: 11.00 - 11.30
Room A Room B

Keith Salmon
University of Hertfordshire
Reflections on the Economic Transition in Spain
Chair: Jackie Cannon

Carmen Arnáiz
UWE, Bristol
Violent Veg and the Translation of Humour and Taboo
Chair: Fernando León Solís

Parallel Sessions: 11.30 – 12.30
Room A Room B

Neil Hughes
Nottingham Trent University
Blended Learning in Spanish Area Studies

Lorraine Ryan
University of Limerick
Memory in its Infancy: Republican Counter-Memory in Contemporary Spain

Discussion session
Chair:  Mark Gant

Dominic Keown
University of Cambridge
¡Ay Carmela!: a Civil War text?
Chair: Anja Louis

12.30 – 1.45: Lunch
Main Refectory
Plenary: 1.45 - 2.35
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Jeremy MacClancy
Oxford Brookes University
Gugu: for whom, what for?
Chair: Carmen Usategui

2.35 - 2.50
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Margaret Andrews
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
Information session on IGRS activities
2.50 – 3.20: Tea/ Coffee
Main Refectory
Parallel Sessions: 3.20 – 4.20
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Anja Louis, University of Sheffield
Juicio de faldas: Sáenz de Heredia’s women lawyers

Miguel Cardina, Universidade de Coimbra
Movimentos Estudantis em Portugal e Espanha: 1956-1974

Carmen Domínguez, University of Paisley
Mujeres en pie de guerra de Susana Kosta o la historia nunca contada
Chair:  Gabrielle Carty

Alexandra Silva, Universidade de Coimbra
Intercâmbio cultural entre os estudantes da Universidade de Coimbra e os estudantes espanhóis, na década de 1980
Chair:  Margaret Clarke

4.20 - 5.30: Annual General Meeting
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5.40 - 6.40
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Documentary film: The Guernica Children
 7.30: Vino de honor, Headington Hill Hall (courtesy of the Spanish Embassy)
 8.00: Cena de gala, Headington Hill Hall
 
Thursday 6 September
Parallel Sessions: 9.00 – 9.35
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Margaret Clarke
University of Portsmouth
The Citizen’s Door: The Creation and Development of E-Democracy in Portugal
Chair: Parissa Tadrissi

Leland L’Hote
Iowa State University
New Perspectives on Immigration in Valencia: The Impact of Spain’s Latest Regularization Process
Chair: Rafael Pepiol

Cervantes Plenary: 9.35 – 10.25
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Enrique Banús
Jean Monnet Professor, Universidad de Navarra
En busca de la Utopía: los Estudios Ibéricos: ¿puente o frontera?
Chair: Teresa Lawlor
10.25 – 10.55: Tea/ Coffee
Main Refectory
Parallel Sessions: 10.55 - 11.30
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Fernando León Solís
University of Paisley
Estatut y Mesianismo
Chair: Carmen Arnaiz

Bernadette O’Rourke
Heriot Watt University
Sociolinguistic Connections between Northern and Iberian Atlantics: Comparisons between Galician and Irish
Chair: Álvaro Jaspe

Parallel Sessions: 11.30 - 12.30
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Mark Dineen
University of Southampton
The Portuguese Diaspora in Venezuela: Transnational Practices and Networks
Catherine O’Leary
NUI Maynooth
Carmen Martín Gaite and the Censors

David Corkill
Manchester Metropolitan University
The 3 P’s (Picking, Plucking and Packing): Portuguese Migrant Labour in East Anglia
Chair: Susana Romans-Roca

Parissa Tadrissi
College of Charleston
Al filo de la navaja: viviendo los límites en Okupada de Care Santos 
Chair: John Macklin

 

12.30: Closing
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12.45: Lunch
Main Refectory

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