AIFRS Events

Organisation: Pedro Dono López & Maria Micaela Dias Pereira Ramón Moreira (Universidade do Minho)

Who is it for? Bachelor students, Master students, and PhD candidates in Romance languages

When?

Online Phase: 14–18 September 2026 (thematic introduction)

Face-to-Face Phase: 21–25 September 2026 (lectures, workshops, and talks by teaching personnel from the participating universities, joint cultural activities in Braga, Portugal)

Where? Escola de Letras, Artes e Ciências Humanas, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga

Participating universities: Granada, Graz, Padua, Minho, Leipzig, and Wroclaw

The Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) will take place at the Universidade do Minho in Braga (Portugal) in September 2026 and is primarily held in Spanish and Portuguese. The BIP explores various linguistic topics focusing on Spanish and Portuguese, as well as other Ibero-Romance languages such as Galician. The topics of the BIP include, for example, texts and written language, varieties and linguistic variation, as well as cultural and linguistic contact situations in Ibero-Romance in Europe and America.

Date:  1–2 June 2026

Venue: Department of Romance Studies, University of Graz

Organisation: Katharina Gerhalter (University of Graz), Stefan Koch (University of Graz), Laura Checconi (University of Graz)

1 June 2026, 10.00–11.30

Anna Polo (University of Padua)
Diglosia y jerarquías lingüísticas en el Virreinato de Nápoles: el napolitano entre uso oral y marginalidad normativa entre toscano y español

2 June 2026, 11.45–13.15

Giulia Nalesso (University of Padua)
Más allá del español: la realidad plurilingüe de España en la universidad. Retos y propuestas didácticas

These workshop series is part of the Arqus Bottom-up Initiative “Beyond majority languages: teaching promotion and research dissemination of minority and minoritized languages in Europe”.

Date: 7 and 29 May 2026
Venues: Centro di Studi Galeghi, University of Padua, and Department of Italian, University of Padua
Organisation: Pedro Dono López (University of Minho), Center for Galician Studies (University of Padova), Katharina Gerhalter (University of Graz), Stefan Koch (University of Graz)

7 May 2026
Elías González (University of Minho)
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In occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Center for Galician Studies at the University of Padova

29 May 2026
Sabine Heinemann (University of Graz)
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This workshop series is part of the Arqus Bottom-up Initiative “Beyond majority languages: teaching promotion and research dissemination of minority and minoritized languages in Europe”.

Virtual module:  8–14 May 2026 (online)

Face-to-face module: 18–22 May 2026

Venue: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, University of Granada

Website: https://bip-adverbs-romance-2026.uni-graz.at/de/

Organisation: David Porcel Bueno (University of Granada), Katharina Gerhalter (University of Graz), Stefan Koch (University of Graz), Mónica Martins Guedes (University of Granada) 

Participants: Master, PhD and advanced Bachelor students of Romance linguistics, Romance philology, Romance languages or general linguistics.

Participating Universities: University of Granada (host), University of Graz (co-organiser), University of Minho (Braga), University of Wrocław, Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca), Marie and Louis Pasteur University (Besançon).

Short description: The Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (= BIP) provides the students with a comprehensive view of how adverbs and adverbial modification work in the Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian). Apart from the standard languages, a particular focus will also lie on spoken varieties, non-canonical adverbs, Romance dialects, the Latin-Romance interface, and Romance-based creole languages.

As the classification of the word-class “adverb” is fuzzy itself, the topic of this BIP expands to contiguous word-classes such as prepositions and discourse markers. A strong focus of the BIP also lies on the empirical and methodological foundations for linguistic research. The students are provided with the scientific tools to not only study adverbs, but to conduct data and theory based linguistic research in general, with a strong methodological background (e.g., corpus linguistics, field work, questionnaires, etc.).

Teaching personnel: Adrian Chircu (Cluj-Napoca), Martin Hummel (Graz), Adam Ledgeway (Bergamo), Cecilia Poletto (Padova & Frankfurt), Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (Bielefeld), Katharina Gerhalter (Graz), Sandra Jiménez Pareja (Alicante), Stefan Koch (Graz), Elisabeth Sachse (Leipzig), Inka Wissner (Besançon), Juan Manuel Ribes Lorenzo (Zaragoza), Martina Rossi (Graz)

Jornadas de lenguas románicas minoritarias y minorizadas

Date:  13–14 May 2026

Venue:  Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, University of Granada

Organisation: David Porcel Bueno (University of Granada), Katharina Gerhalter (University of Graz), Stefan Koch (University of Graz), Mónica Martins Guedes (University of Granada)

Programme:

13 May 2026

12:30–13:15, Sala 10B (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras)

Siria Guzzo (Università degli Studi di Salerno): Shifting Italianities in England: A Comparative Study of Language, Minority, and Migration from the 1950s Post-War Wave to the Post-2008 Influx

13:30–14:15, Sala 10B (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras)

Andrea Listanti  (Universidad de Granada): L’acquisizione dell’italiano come lingua minoritaria tra parlanti heritage adulti e bambini: Due studi sul soggetto postverbale

15:30–16:15, Sala 4 (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras)

Mauro Azzolini  (Università degli Studi di Palermo): Triste, femenino y final: cultura popular y legitimación poética en las jarchas mozárabes

16:30–17:15, Sala 4 (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras)

Xoan Carlos Goris García  (Instituto da Lingua Galega): Acomodación lingüística nunha lingua minorizada: o caso do galego

16:00–16:45, Sala 1(Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación)

Raquel Serrano López (Universitat de Barcelona): Intercomprensión interfamiliar: estrategias para la comprensión de las lenguas iberorrománicas

17:00–17:45 , Sala 1 (Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación)

Javier Martín Salcedo  (Universidad de Granada/Universidade Federal da Bahia): As contribuições da língua e da cultura iorubás no português baiano

14 May 2026

11:00–12:30,  Sala 22 (Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación) 

Andrea Arcuri  (Instituto Dante de Granada): Workshop: El siciliano en el aula: desafíos y posibilidades de una experiencia docente

These Jornadas are part of the Arqus Bottom up Initiative “Beyond majority languages: teaching promotion and research dissemination of minority and minoritized languages in Europe”

Jornada Arqus sobre Línguas Minorizadas/Minoritárias

Date: 17 April 2026

Venue: Auditório Escola de Letras, Artes e Ciências Humanas, University of Minho

Organisation: Pedro Dono López and Maria Micaela Dias Pereira Ramon Moreira

Programme:

Fernando Groba Bouza (IES do Barral de Ponteareas)
“Is Galician a minoritised form of Portuguese?”

Alfredo José Marques da Silva (University of Minho) and Domingos Joaquim da Silva (University of Minho)
“A brief introduction to Guinea-Bissau Creole: some of its structures (gender and number inflection) and lexical similarities”

Cláudia Martins (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança) and Joana Aguiar (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança/University of Andorra)
“Mirandese: the current state of affairs and pathways to linguistic vitality”

This workshop series is part of the Arqus Bottom up Initiative “Beyond majority languages: teaching promotion and research dissemination of minority and minoritized languages in Europe”

Date: 11 February and 22 April 2026

Venue: Department of Romance Studies, University of Graz

Organisation: Katharina Gerhalter and Stefan Koch

Programme:

11 February 2026: Carsten Sinner (University of Leipzig)

“Galicisch am Río de la Plata: Einfluss einer minorisierten Migrationssprache auf das Rioplatense-Spanisch” [Galician at the Rio de la Plata: The influence of a minoritised migratory language on Rioplatense Spanish]

22 April 2026: Pedro Basalo Bembibre (University of Salamanca)

“Algunhas singularidades da aprendizaxe dunha lingua minorizada: o caso do galego”

This workshop series is part of the Arqus Bottom up Initiative “Beyond majority languages: teaching promotion and research dissemination of minority and minoritized languages in Europe”

Workshop: Romanische Minderheiten-, Regionalsprachen und Dialekte innerhalb und außerhalb Italiens. Zwischen Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachpolitik, Revitalisierung und Standardisierung

Date: 8–9 October 2025

Venue: Afro-Asiatic Institute, Graz, and Department of Romance Studies, University of Graz

Organization: Stefan Koch and Katharina Gerhalter

www: https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/stefan.koch/workshop-minderheitensprachen-in-italien/

The workshop is part of the ARQUS Bottom-up Initiative “Beyond Majority Languages: Research Dissemination and Teaching Promotion of Minority and Minoritised Languages in Europe”, organised by the ARQUS International Forum on Romance Studies (AIFRS) and funded by the ARQUS University Alliance. The workshop took place in an innovative format, combining the third mission with academic exchange. It thus brought together a threefold target audience: experts, students and the general public.

The workshop was divided into two parts: a session open to the general public on 8 October 2025 (third mission) and an academic session on 9 October 2025 (academic workshop). The public session took the form of a round table, during which various selected Romance minority languages and dialects in Italy (and Italian as minority languages outside of Italy) were presented and discussed by the participants in terms of their status (both politically and amongst speakers), vitality and transmission to the next generation. The second part was dedicated to the presentation and discussion of the participants’ current (primarily linguistic) research on Italian minority languages and dialects.

The workshop was open to all theoretical approaches. Formal, corpus-based, philological, quantitative approaches, etc. (diachronic and synchronic) were equally welcome. Relevant contributions from fields other than linguistics, such as anthropology, cultural studies and history, were also possible. The workshop aimed to provide as broad a basis as possible for discussions of all kinds, and accordingly, the range of contributions was wide-ranging.

Programme: 

8 October 2025, Round Table, Afro-Asiatic Institute, Graz

19.00–22.00

Luca Melchior (Universität Klagenfurt): Friulan
Marko Simonovic (Universität Graz): Fiuman
Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco (Universitetet i Bergen): Italian in Costa Rica
Stefan Koch (Universität Graz): Moderation

9 October 2025, Department of Romance Studies, University of Graz, Graz

09.30 Sabine Heinemann (Universität Graz)
Einführung – Rechtlicher Status und Standardisierung italoromanischer Minderheitensprachen [Introduction – Legal status and standardisation of Italo-Romance minority languages]

10.00 Laura Linzmeier (Universität Regensburg)
Eine Insel – viele Sprachen: Strategien zum Erhalt des Sassaresischen im mehrsprachig geprägten Sardinien [One island – many languages: Strategies for the language maintenance of Sassarese in plurilingual Sardinia]

10.45 Pause

11.00 Franco Finco (PH Kärnten) & Luca Melchior (Universität Klagenfurt)
Im Spannungsfeld zwischen wissenschaftlicher Beschreibung und Normierungsbestrebungen: Das Projekt der Gramatiche furlane di riferiment [Between scientific description and standardisation efforts. The Gramatiche furlane di riferiment-project

11.30 Stefan Semmelmann (Universität Regensburg)
Die Aushandlung eines eigenen Schriftsystems als (kodifikatorischer) Emanzipationsprozess am Beispiel einer deutschbasierten Sprachminderheit in Italien [The negotiation of a distinct writing system as a (codificatory) process of emancipation, using the example of a German-based linguistic minority in Italy]

12.00 Erica Autelli (Universität Innsbruck)

Preservazione e valorizzazione delle minoranze linguistiche in Italia attraverso la fraseografia e l’analisi comparativa

12.30 Lunch 

14.00 Johannes Mücke (Universität Graz)
Kontakt und Variation im korfiotischen Italienisch: Kontaktphänomene als sprachliche Variation in einem narrativ-biographischen Korpus [Contact and variation in Corfiot Italian: Contact phenomena as linguistic variation in a narrative-biographical corpus]

14.30 Marko Simonovic (Universität Graz)

Inter-language mappings: Perché non xe dificile parlar de scienza in fiuman

15.00 Pause

15.15 Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco (Universitetet i Bergen)

Das Studium des Italienischen als Minderheitensprache in Costa Rica: Methodologische und ethische Überlegungen [The study of Italian as minority language in Costa Rica: Methodological and ethical considerations]

15.45 Laura Checconi (Universität Graz) & Martina Rossi (Universität Graz)

Influenze dialettali sull’italiano di nuovi emigrati a Graz

This workshop series is part of the Arqus Bottom up Initiative “Beyond majority languages: teaching promotion and research dissemination of minority and minoritized languages in Europe”

Online Module: 15–18 September 2025

Independent study and preparation: 18–22 September 2025

Face-to-Face Module (Padova): 22–27 September 2025 

Venue: Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari, Università degli Studi di Padova.

Organization: Anna Polo and Giulia Nalesso (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Participating universities: Padova, Graz, Leipzig, Minho, Granada

Programme:

Online Module

15 September

10:00-10:30 Anna Polo, Giulia Nalesso (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Welcome and presentation of the BIP

10:30-12:00 Carlos Pazos-Justo (Universidade do Minho)

Imaginarios lingüísticos en el espacio europeo. Una aproximación práctica

17 September

10:30-12:00 Carlos Pazos-Justo (Universidade do Minho)

Imaginarios lingüísticos en el espacio europeo. Una aproximación práctica

18 September

10:30-12:00 Mónica Martins Guedes (Universidad de Granada)

Lenguas en contacto (portugués, gallego y español): el caso del futuro del subjuntivo

Face-to-Face Module – Aula 6

22 September

9:30-10:00 Reception

10:00-11:30 Carmen Castillo Peña (Università degli Studi di Padova)

La ordenación conceptual del léxico y la lexicografíaplurilingüe en los siglos XV-XIX

11:30-13:00 Pedro Basalo Bembibre (Universidad de Salamanca/Centro di Studi Galeghi – Università degli Studi di Padova)

Particularidades da aprendizaxe dunha lingua minorizada: o caso do galego

14:30-16:00 Pedro Dono López (Universidade do Minho)

Galego e castelán na Galicia medieval. Convivencias e interferencias

23 September

10:00-11:30 Stefan Koch (Universität Graz)

Contacto histórico entre napolitano y español en el Reino de Nápoles

11:30-13:00 Katharina Gerhalter (Universität Graz)

Los préstamos del caló en el registro coloquial del español peninsular

14:30-16:00 Graça Gomes De Pina (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Il juego della interferência | O jogo de la interferenza | Il gioco da interferencia

24 September

10:00-11:30 David Porcel Bueno (Universidad de Granada)

Arabismos y hebraísmos léxicos y fraseológicos en la historia de las lenguas iberorrománicas

11:30-13:00 Nicola Carpentieri (Università degli Studi di Padova), acompañado por Stolfo Fent

Al-Andalus: Un Viaje Musical

14:30-16:00 Carlos Pazos-Justo (Universidade do Minho)

Imaginarios lingüísticos en el espacio europeo. Una aproximación práctica

25 September

Visit to Venice

26 September

9:30-11:00 Anna Suadoni (Universidad de Granada)

Valutare la competenza collocazionale in apprendenti ispanofoni di Italiano L2

Pausa libre

11:30-13:00 Stefania Mattarello (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Entre línguas próximas: desafios e estratégias no ensino do Português na Argentina

14:30-16:00 Lisa Gozzi (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna)

El contacto lingüístico entre español e italiano: consecuencias e implicaciones en el aprendizaje de ELE

27 September

Visit to Padua and closing ceremony

Date: 3–8 July 2025

Participating univiersities: Graz, Leipzig; Avignon 

Organizers: Ángela Calderón Villarino (Leipzig), Kurt Hahn (Graz), Astrid Poier-Bernhard (Graz), Marianne Beauviche (Avignon) 

Description: The Festival d’Avignon, founded by Jean Vilar, ranks alongside the Cannes Film Festival and the opera festival in Aix-en-Provence as one of the highlights of the French cultural calendar. Every summer, not far from the Palais des Papes (and within it too), visitors can marvel at both current trends in international theatre and complex adaptations of classical plays. Since 1947, the diversity of genres, aesthetics and performance and discussion formats presented has impressed a wide audience from France, Europe and around the world. In the process, the southern French city itself regularly becomes a multifaceted, polyphonic, multicultural stage.

For a distinctive feature of the Festival d’Avignon is that not only does the official programme bring together high-calibre artists, promote carefully curated projects, showcase daring productions and select a guest language each year (in 2025, the focus was on Arabic): Alongside and beyond this, a colourful fringe festival coexists, presenting non-stop theatre at countless venues across Avignon from early morning until late at night. To experience all this in its unique atmosphere, students and lecturers from the Universities of Graz and Leipzig travelled to Avignon in July 2025 and, together with fellow students from Avignon, attended selected main performances of the 79th edition of the festival as well as performances of the fringe festival, in order to discuss their staging and theatrical styles as well as their cultural and political dimensions.

Preparatory seminars examined the festival’s remarkable history, its place within the French cultural landscape, and the defining international, intercultural and transcultural nature of the Festival d’Avignon. In this context, the academic exchange between students from the Universities of Graz, Leipzig and the Université d’Avignon, who came together as part of the BIP, played a key role and guaranteed long-lasting, enriching experience.

Virtual phase: 27 to 30 May 2025

In-person phase: 2 to 6 June in Granada

Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on the history, language and literature of the Moriscos, organised by Bárbara Boloix, Assistant Professor in the Department of Semitic Studies and director of the MUNAZAM project, and David Porcel Bueno, Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Studies and member of the AIFRS management team.

A new milestone was achieved with the participation of 61 undergraduate and Master’s students from the universities of Graz, Minho, Wrocław, Amsterdam, Paris-Nord and Kraków.

Participating students learnt first-hand about the history of the Moriscos’ community in the ancient kingdom of Granada, its literature and evolution. The in-person phase included theoretical and practical sessions from specialists of recognised prestige in the field. In addition to the planned lectures, practical visits have been planned to the Sacromonte Abbey, the Historical Archive of Protocols of Granada, the Albaicín district and the towns of Bubión and Pampaneira, in the heart of the Granada Alpujarra.

More information

24 March and 9 April

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”.

7-12 July 2024

Organization: Claudia García-Minguillán, Verena Richter (both from the University of Graz), and Ángela Calderón (from Leipzig University).
Target group: Group of 12 students of French Language and Literature and French and Francophone Cultures from the Universities of Graz and Leipzig.

Arqus students from Graz and Leipzig attended the prestigious “Festival d’Avignon” in France as part of the activities organised by the Arqus International Forum on Romance Studies (AIFRS).

From 7 to 12 July, a group of 12 students of French Language and Literature and French and Francophone Cultures from the Universities of Graz and Leipzig spent an eventful week at the Festival d’Avignon as spectators and theatre critics. It is one of the most renowned cultural events in the world, celebrated annually since 1947 in the southern Provençal city of Avignon.

As the culmination of a semester dedicated to the study of contemporary theatre, the students from Graz and Leipzig visited 2 exhibitions and attended several performances per day, ranging from the various stages in the city centre to historical scenarios such as Carrière de Boulbon, Chartreuse-Villeneuve lez Avignon, or Cour d’honneur du Palais des papes. With Spanish as the invited culture this year, the students put their Romanist training to the test by attending plays not only in French —some of them with actors from the Comédie-Française— but also in Spanish, with a special focus on Latin American culture.

The programme offered them reinterpretations of classical myths in a context of social injustice, encouraged them to parade through the streets of Avignon with a concert of Andean music to learn about the situation of indigenous American peoples, and offered them scenarios that combined reality and fiction to reflect on the critical situation of human rights in the Southern Cone. The group also had the opportunity to visit the Maison Jean Vilar, where they learned about the history of the festival and the life of its founder. They had access to the archive’s library and enjoyed a friendly conversation with its director, who offered them information about research visits and institutional support for their projects.

Beyond the festival, the students gained a better knowledge of the region (with visits to the Avignon area), practiced their French by talking to locals, took a short boat ride on the Rhone, and shared a lunch while sharing their thoughts on the plays they had just seen, an activity that strengthened the alliance between Graz and Leipzig.

2-3 May 2024

Organization and contact: Dr. Ángela Calderón Villarino (angela.calderon@uni-leipzig.de)
Participating universities: Leipzig and Granada.

On May 2 and 3, Ana Gallego Cuiñas, Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures and Dean of the Faculty of Philology and Philosophy at the University of Granada, and Jenny Haase, Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, were guests at the Institute of Romance Studies at Leipzig University as part of a research colloquium on Hispanic Literature.

For full details and programme click here.

As a follow-up cooperation, a joint Arqus Twinning 2.0 event will take place in November 2024 (Leipzig / Granada).

Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)

9–14 October 2023, Granada,

Virtual phase: 3–6 October 2023

Participating universities: Granada, Graz, Minho, Leipzig, Padova
Organization: David Porcel Bueno (Granada), Stefan Koch (Graz)

The International Seminar deals with various linguistic phenomena that characterize the Ibero-Romance languages spoken outside of Europe contrasting them with the varieties on the Iberian Peninsula. The seminar is an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme funded by the European Comission. It adopts a contrastive, typological approach to the linguistic phenomena involved and consists of the core modules held in Granada and a virtual phase before and afterwards. Students will also be tasked with guided research on the topics at hand.

More information here and (in Spanish) here.

Contact: daporbue(at)ugr.es /stefan.koch1(at)tu-dresden.de

Joint Workshop for students from Graz and Leipzig, Summer Term 2023

May 2023, Graz

Teaching personnel: Verena Richter (Graz) and Ángela Calderón (Leipzig)

The workshop is part of two parallel seminars held in Graz and Leipzig by Verena Richter (Graz) and Ángela Calderón Villarino (Leipzig). Based on the oevre by Rodolfo Walsh (1927-1977, Argentina), Elena Poniatowska (*1932, Mexico), Rodrigo Rey Rosa (*1958, Guatemala) and Miguel-Anxo Murado (*1965, Galicia/Spain) the seminars aimed at throwing a light on the interrelation between literature and journalism in contemporary Hispanic literatures, exploring topics such as the interplay between fictionality and factuality, literary engagement in dictatorship(s), or literature and archives. As part of these two seminars, the students from Leipzig visited Graz in May 2023 for a two-day workshop on Rey Rosas’ auto-fictional novel El material humano (2009) in which diary entries are interwoven with journalistic investigations constantly blurring the boundaries between factual and fictional.

Contact: verena.richter(at)uni-graz.at

17–25 September 2022, Graz

Preliminary online phase: 1–14 September 2022

Organization: Katharina Gerhalter (Graz) and Stefan Koch (Graz)
Target group: advanced BA students and MA students of the Romance languages from Graz, Granada, Augsburg, Bergen, Munich, and Vilnius

Further information

The Summer School covered various aspects of the Romance languages in Africa and the New World. During a preliminary online phase (1–14 September 2022), the students received a general introduction and completed some online-tasks. During the Summer School itself, held in Graz from 17th to 25th September 2022, various classes, for example concerned with morphosyntax, lexicon and language contact, were taught by renowned experts in an interactive environment. The teaching personnel included experts from the universities of Graz, Granada, Bergen, Cádiz, Santiago de Chile, Utrecht and Augsburg. Students also worked in small groups on their own to carry out guided research tasks on specific topics of the classes, supervised by the teaching personnel.

Teaching personnel and topics:

• Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (Augsburg): Portuguese and Spanish in the Bantu-speaking area of West and Central Africa. Morphosyntax (in Spanish and Portuguese)
• Roxana Sobrino Triana (Bergen): Spanish in the Caribbean – Sociolinguistics, Lexicon, and Linguistic Attitudes (in Spanish)
• Soledad Chávez Fajardo (Santiago de Chile): Spanish in Chile – Historical Sociolinguistics and Lexicology (in Spanish)
• Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht): Italo-Romance in the Americas – Emigrant varieties under scrutiny (in Italian)
• Martin Hummel (Graz) & Victor Lara Bermejo (Cádiz): Portuguese and Spanish address forms in America and Africa (in Spanish and Portuguese)
• David Porcel Bueno, Mónica Martins Guedes & Javier Salcedo (Granada): Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese face to face: morphology, phraseology and lexical influences on Spanish (in Portuguese)

20–24 September 2021, Granada

Organization: Katharina Gerhalter, Stefan Koch (Graz); David Porcel Bueno (Granada)
Target group: advanced Bachelor students (Spanish, Italian or Portuguese) and Master students of Romance Studies in Graz and Granada.

Further information

The multilingual seminar dealt with diverse aspects of cultural and linguistic contact within the Mediterranean (specifically between the Iberian and Apennine peninsulas), thus widening the student’s horizon who usually concentrate on studies of a single language (Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian). The topics in linguistics were contrastive and the topics in literature were comparative. By holding the courses in Italian and Spanish, improving intercomprehension skills was actively encouraged.

Teaching personnel and topics:

• David Porcel Bueno (Granada): Una historia compartida: arabismos y hebraísmos en español, italiano y portugués
• Victoriano Peña Sánchez (Granada): Discurso de bienvenida y apertura (one session)
• Anna Suadoni (Granada): I verbi di movimiento in italiano e in spagnolo: valore letterale, metaforizzazioni e grammaticalizzazioni
• Alessandra Sanna (Granada): Alcune riflessioni sulla narrativa di Grazia Deledda: ricezione e punti di contatto con la letteratura spagnola
• Katharina Gerhalter (Graz): Infinitivos topicalizados en las lenguas románicas: diferencias y paralelismos
• Stefan Koch (Graz): Contacto lingüístico en el Mezzogiorno: influencias del español en el napolitano
• Fausto de Michele (Graz): “Don Chisciotte” e la maschera del Capitano della Commedia
• Dainius Būrė (Vilnius): Genealogie letterarie tra il Seicento e il Settecento: da “Venceslas” (1647) di Jean de Rotrou a “Vincislao di Lituania” (1791) di Gaetano Fiorio