AIFRS Events

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