Please note the deadline for booking this conference is 30 October 2009
The Cultural and Literary Meaning of the Spanish Political Exile of 1939
Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation
Hispanic Studies, Department of Modern Languages. School of Arts, Languages and Literatures
University of Exeter, Reed Hall
November, 9 to 11th 2009
With the end of the Civil War began the exile of many thousands of Spaniards, who, obliged by historical circumstance would leave their native land. Exactly seventy years after this mass exodus, the Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation together with the University of Exeter, has organised an international colloquium aimed at teachers, scholars and students of Spanish literature, history and culture at the University of Exeter and other British universities. The colloquium will be dedicated to the study of those writers and intellectuals prominent in the post Civil War Spanish Diaspora who, through their work, were to enrich the cultures of the lands among them the United Kingdom, which they would come to regard as their own.
This is the second collaboration with the Largo Caballero Foundation since March 2007. A symposium on the Recovery of Historical Memory was organised by Hispanic Studies at that time and the Director of the Foundation attended and established this very fruitful link. The Foundation counts amongst their close collaborators important figures in the field of historical and cultural memory.
Keynote speakers to include: Professor Nigel Dennis (University of St Andrews), Professor Julio Aróstegui (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Professor Jorge Urrutia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Professor Fanny Rubio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Professor Derek Flitter (University of Exeter), Dr Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles (University of Exeter) and Dr Aileen Logan (University of Exeter)
Please note the deadline for booking this conference is 30 October 2009