Arqus International Forum on Romance Studies (AIFRS) workshops at the University of Granada

The University of Granada hosted a series of Arqus workshops on research and teaching of minority languages in Europe.

The Arqus International Forum on Romance Studies (AIFRS) organised a series of face-to-face workshops at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Granada. They are part of the project “Beyond majority languages: research dissemination and teaching promotion of minority and minoritized languages in Europe”, a bottom-up initiative funded through the Arqus Innovation Fund.

On 24 March, Alberto Gómez Bautista, from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, gave a lecture on the Galician and Mirandese languages titled “L processo de normalizaçon lhenguística de l galhego i de l mirandés an cuntesto”. 

On 9 April, the second workshop of the series took place in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Granada. As part of this workshop, Xulio Viejo Fernández, from the University of Oviedo, Spain, gave two seminars on the Asturian language from a historical and geographical perspective: “El asturiano: Claves Históricas y Realidad Presente” and “Entre Asturias y Galicia: Fronteras, Lengua e Identidad en la Cuenca del Navia-Eo”.

Arqus International Forum on Romance Studies (AIFRS)

The AIFRS network is an Arqus Community of Practice bringing together more than 50 researchers from different Arqus universities since 2021. The Forum focuses on research in Romance languages, mainly in the fields of linguistics and literary and cultural studies. It includes summer schools and international seminars for Arqus students, colloquia on Romance linguistics and literature, and lectures on minority languages in Europe.

The initiative aims to deepen research connections between universities by organising various research and development activities and developing innovative research lines. In the context of the Arqus goals, the group is actively involved in activities related to multilingualism, focusing on research on the development of skills for mutual understanding between Romance languages.