“La niña guerrillera: entre la historia y la literatura”
Lecture by Dr. María Teresa Santa María Fernández
Tuesday 23rd · 12:30 pm · PRH-13
"Laura Riding: Modernist and Postmodernist"
Dr. James Womack (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Tuesday 23rd · 12:30 pm · PAH-20
"Challenges of Critical Care Medicine: Management of Serious Infections"
Lecture by Dr. Miguel Sánchez García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Tuesday 23rd · 2:00 pm · PRH-4
“Almodóvar en Estados Unidos/Estados Unidos en Almodóvar”
Lecture by Dr. Cristina Martínez Carazo (University of California, Davis)
Tuesday 23rd · 2:30 pm · PRH-15
“Slow Light Based On Stimulated Brillouin Scattering”
Lecture by Dr. Miguel González Herráez (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)
Monday 22nd · 1:00 pm · PAH-20
"Watches that Melt: The Persistence of Memory in Virginia Woolf"
Lecture by Dr. Francesca Orestano (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Monday 22nd · 1:00 pm · PRH-13
"Communication Ethics: The Case for Universal Proto-Norms"
Lecture by Dr. Clifford G. Christians (Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Monday 22nd · 2:00 pm · PRH-13
"Healthcare in Spain"
Lecture by Dr. Guillén (Hospital Clínico)
Friday 19th · 10:00 am · PRH-8
“Nanographenes: A Case Study in Molecular Engineering”
Lecture by Dr. Diego Peña (CIQUS, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Wednesday 17th · 2:00 pm · PAH-20
"Sustainability of the National Health System in an Intermediate-Economy Country (Spain) During a Time of Economic Crisis"
Lecture by Dr. José R. Repullo (Escuela Nacional de Sanidad/Instituto de Salud Carlos III/Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad)
Monday 15th · 2:00 pm · PRH-15
“Libya: Achievements, Challenges and Possible Futures”
Lecture by A. K. Lamin (Repsol) and Mikail Barah (FRIDE-Think Tank)
Thursday 11th · 6:30 pm · PRH-16
"Romanticismo"
Lecture by Manuel Longares
Thursday, 11th · 2:00 pm · PRH-15
“The Mali Crisis and the European Union”
Lecture by Alicia Sorroza (Real Instituto Elcano)
Wednesday, 10th · 2:00 pm · PAH-20
“Los Indignados: From La Puerta del Sol to Occupy Wall Street"
Lecture by Carlos Paredes
Monday, 8th · 12:00 pm · PRH-16
“Telling Stories with Pictures: Tales from the Trenches”
Lecture by Katya Adler (BBC Foreign Correspondent)
Thursday, 4th · 12:30 pm · PRH-15
“MUSC-100: Approaching the Arts”
Lecture by Elena Jáuregui
Monday, 11th · 5:00 pm · PRH-4
“Physics in Everyday Life”
Lecture by Javier Gamo, Ph.D. (Physics, SLU-Madrid)
Monday, 11th · 2:00 pm · PRH-1
"El escritor y su obra"
Lecture by Rafael Reig
Thursday, 6th · 2:00 pm · PRH-14
"Giving Students an Equal Chance: Learning to Read for Reading to Learn"
Lecture by Claire Acevedo
Wednesday, 6th · 5:30 pm · PRH-14
"The Environment and Cooperation with Latin America"
Lecture by Arturo López, Ph.D.
Wednesday, 6th · 3:30 pm · PRH-8
"Transparency International: Fighting Corruption"
Lecture by Mike Beke (Transparency International Representative in Spain)
Tuesday, 26th · 9:30 am · PRH-8
"Working as a Diplomat: My Personal Experience in Spanish and EU Foreign Policy"
Lecture by Enrique Mora Benavente (Director for Policy Planning, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation)
Monday, 18th · 6:30 pm · PRH-7
"A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War"
Lecture by David Mathieson (former adviser to UK Foreign Secretary)
Tuesday, 12th · 11:00 am · PRH-5
"Acción Social Protestante and Volunteer Opportunities"
Lecture by representatives of Acción Social Protestante
Friday, 25th · 11:00 am · PRH-13
"Democracy and the Arab Spring"
Lecture by Barah Mikail (Senior Researcher at FRIDE)
Monday, 3rd · 2:00 pm · PRH-13
"Viruses in Birds: Papillomavirus and Poxvirus"
Research presentation by Richard Williams (SLU-Madrid Natural Sciences Department)
Wednesday, 28th · 1:00 pm · PRH-3
"Counter-Terrorism in Action: NATO’s Vietnam in Afghanistan"
Lecture by Anthony Nicolopoulos
Tuesday, 27th · 3:30 pm · PRH-8
"Success and Sanity on the College Campus: A Guide for Parents"
Book presentation by Dr. Diana Trevouledes
Wednesday, 21st · 5:00 pm · PRH-8
"Central Asia: An Emerging Region?"
Lecture by Nicolás de Pedro (Research Fellow at CIDOB, Barcelona)
Monday, 19th · 5:00 pm · PRH-2
"The Euro Crisis and the Implications for Democracy"
Lecture by José Ignacio Torreblanca (Head of ECFR Spain)
Monday, 19th · 2:00 pm · PRH-13
"Valores de la cultura japonesa y la cultura hispánica: Diferencias y similitudes"
Lecture by Dr. Elena Gallego Andrade
Thursday, 15th · 12:30 pm · PRH-8
Spanish Guitar
Performance and Lecture by Óscar Herrero
Wednesday, 14th · 5:00 pm · PRH-3
"Muslim-Christian Collaboration in Practice"
Lecture by Fr. Nicolas Ayouba
Wednesday, 14th · 2:00 pm · PRH-3
"The Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship: Taking Your Graduate Education Abroad"
Lecture by Kelly Elizabeth Behrend, University of Richmond
Monday, 12th · 6:30 pm · PAH-20
"Discourses of Self in Weblog Writing"
Lecture Dr. Antonio García Gómez, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
Wednesday, 7th · 2:00 pm · PRH 4
Violin Recital
Performance by Elena Jáuregui
Monday, 29th · 5:00 pm · PRH-3
Charla-Coloquio
Lecture by Andrés Neuman, Spanish-Argentinean writer
Friday, 19th · 1:00 pm · PRH8
"Using Spanish in English Narratives: Issues and Themes"
Lecture by Omar Figueras
Tuesday, 16th · 9:40 am · PRH16
"Living Poetry, An Odyssey in Verse"
Lecture by James Ragan
Wednesday, 10th · 5:00 pm · PRH-1
"Anatomy of a Bestseller: How Fifty Shades of Grey and Modern Technology Made Romance Mainstream"
Lecture by Erin Galloway
Monday, 8th · 11:00 am · PRH3
"Planet Dickens: An Introduction to Charles Dickens"
Lecture by Michael Hollington
Thursday, 27th · 8:00 pm · Teresianas Facilities · Avda. del Valle, 23
"Renaissance Women and Arts"
Lecture by Dr. Cindy Stollhans
Tuesday, 25th · 3:30 pm · PRH-16
"Challenges Ahead for the 2013-17 US Presidency"
Lecture by Joe Hurd
Thursday, 20th · 11:00 am · PRH8
"La competencia pragmático discursiva en el aula L2/ELE"
Lecture by Dr. Isabel Alonso Belmonte, UAM
Thursday, 12th · 11:00 am · PRH7
"Evolución del género en español: lengua y sociedad"
Lecture by Dr. Ana Serradilla, UAM
Tuesday, 10th · 2:00 pm · Rice Room - Loyola Hall
"Conversación con Manuel Longares: Las cuatro esquinas"
Lecture by Dr. Ángeles Encinar and Manuel Longares
Wednesday, 4th · 11:00 am · PRH6
"Wrestling with the Future in the Vocabularies of Tradition: Reflections on Field Research on the Globalizing Circumstances of British Grammar Schools in Barbados"
Lecture by Dr. Cameron R. McCarthy, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana
Tuesday, 12th · 10:30 am · PAH24
"From Early Career Researcher to Academic: Social Science Research in the Real World"
Lecture by Dr. Joe Yates, Director of Social Science, LJMU
Thursday, 26th · 12:30 pm · PAH25
"Marxism Reloaded: Responding to the Economic Crisis"
Lecture by Jules Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University
Thursday, 26th · 4:00 pm · PRH16
"The History of Nursing in Spain"
Lecture by Llanos González Espinosa, Director of Nursing at La Zarzuela Hospital
Tuesday, 24th · 10:00 am · PRH16
"The Arts of the Bourbons in 18th Century Spain: French, Italian, or Spanish?"
Guest lecture by Dr. Tobias Locker
Thursday, 19th · 11:00 am · Rice Room
"Los Indignados - From La Puerta del Sol to Occupy Wall Street: We Are the 99%"
Lecture by Carlos Paredes, Spokesperson for Democracia Real Ya and main organizer of the 15th May Demonstration
Wednesday, 18th · 11:00 am · Room (TBA)
International Business Conference
Lecture by Daniel Agromayor, McDonalds
Wednesday, 18th · 11:00 am · PRH3
"La comparación de voces con fines judiciales"
Lecture by Dra. Juana Gil, CSIC
Wednesday, 18th · 4:00 pm · PAH24
"Art and Science, Interpretation and Coding: The Empirical-interpretive Nature of Ethnographic Research Methods"
Guest lecture by Kristine Muñoz
Tuesday, 17th · 11:00 am · PRH5
"Africans in the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid: Integration or Segregation?"
Lecture by Dr. Lucía Ferreiro, Universidad Europea de Madrid
Monday, 16th · 4:00 pm · PRH16
"Good and Bad Poetry, Good and Bad Repetition: An Exploration of Stylistics and Poetics"
Lecture by Dr. Michael Toolan, University of Birmingham, UK
Monday, 16th · 1:30 pm · PRH14
"Art under Franco"
Guest lecture by Paula Barreiro López
Thursday, 12th · 5:30 pm · PRH16
"Design Considerations in the New Generation of Aircraft"
Lecture by Hector Barrio Crespo
Thursday 12th · 4:00 pm · PRH13
"How to Work at European Union Institutions"
Guest lecture by Professor Augusto Bazán
Friday, 30th · 12:00 pm · PRH7
“Spain’s Public Health System: Its Strengths and Values”
Guest lecture by Prof. Miguel Guillén (Hospital Clínico San Carlos)
Friday, 23th · 10:00 am · PRH16
"Selective DNA Binding with Peptides and Metallopeptides"
Guest lecture by Eugenio Vázquez-Sentís (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Thursday, 22th · 5:30 pm · PAH25
"Reading from Presbyopia"
Guest lecture by Professor Geoff Jensen, Virginia Military Institute
Thursday, 15th · 3:30 pm · PRH 16
"Myth of Hispanic-Arabic Identity in Francoist Ideology"
Lecture by Allan Cameron
Tuesday, 13th · 2:30 pm · PRH16
"Hacia un lugar común. Poesía y crítica en la blogosfera hispánica"
Mario Martín Gijón Universidad de Extremadura
Wednesday, 29th · 12:30 pm · PRH10
"Poder y micro-resistencias en las autobiografías por mandato"
Dra. María E. Osorio, Universidad de Antioquia
Monday, 27th · 4:00 pm · PRH14
"Printing: the Next Industrial Revolution"
Guest lecture by Jonathon Beattie
Thursday, 16th · 4:00 pm · PRH13
"El alma, por los ojos desatada. Entre la confusión y la luz: las Soledades de Góngora y los retablos barrocos"
Dr. Ricardo González, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Monday, 6th · 12:30 pm · PRH13
Social Justice
Guest lectures by Alfredo Abad and Esther Ruiz of Acción Social Protestante
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Arizona
Monday, 30 th · 12:00 pm · PRH 11
"A Good Plan Gone Bad: Unintended Consequences of Urban Planning in Madrid"
Professor Malcolm Compitello
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Arizona
Tuesday, 17th · 11:00 am · PRH 4
"El alma, por los ojos desatada. Entre la confusión y la luz: las Soledades de Góngora y los retablos barrocos"
Dr. Ricardo González, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Monday, 13th · 12:30 pm · PRH13
"Why Voters and Politicians Decide Nothing – The New Crisis of Democracy"
Denis MacShane, MP
Monday, 5th · 5:30 pm · PRH8
"Jesus of History, Christ of Faith: Substance or Hype?"
Dr. Mark Abbott
Monday, 5th · 12:00 pm · PRH2
"El cuento español en el siglo XXI: Nuevas generaciones"
Session 3: Berta Marsé.
Thursday, 1st · 11:00 am · PRH4
"Creating Interactive Activities with JCLIC"
Sulma Farfán, SLU-Madrid
Tuesday 22nd · 1:00 pm · PAH19
"Una aproximación a la crítica literaria: Lukács, Bajtín y los pensadores españoles (Ortega, Bergamín y Mariano Baquero Goyanes)"
Dr. Luis Beltrán Almería
Teoría Literaria, Universidad de Zaragoza
Monday, 21th · 11:00 am · PRH6
"El cuento español en el siglo XXI: Nuevas generaciones"
Session 2: Eloy Tizón and Iban Zaldua.
Thursday, 17th · 11:00 am · PRH8
"Just How Do We Learn A Second Language Anyway?"
Moderated by Cristina Matute, Ph.D.
Spanish, SLU-Madrid
Wednesday, 16th · 10:00 am · PRH3
"Global Commerce and the Victorians: Eliot and Dickens on Interdependence"
Guest Lecture by Ayse Celikkol (Bilkent University)
Monday, 7th · 5:30 pm · Rice Room, Loyola Hall
"Sun is always there - Photovoltaic renewable energy"
Fernando Sánchez, Managing Director SolarMax-Spain
Monday, 7th · 4:00 pm · PAH20
"The effect of Socioeconomic Position on Health Status"
Esther Lopez-Garcia, Ph.D., Dept. Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Monday, 7th · 1:00 pm · PRH4
"El cuento español en el siglo XXI: Nuevas generaciones"
Session 1: Óscar Esquivias, Patricia Esteban Erlés and Nuria Labari.
Monday, 7th · 12:30 pm · PRH8
"We The People: A Rough Guide to Democratic Practice in Britain"
Guest lecture by David Fred Mathieson, Ph.D.
Wednesday, 2nd · 2:30 pm · PRH16
"Interactive Lecturing" - CTE Workshop for Faculty and Graduate Students
Paaige Turner, Ph.D.
Communication – SLU
Thursday, 3rd · 4:00 pm · Seminar Room · PRH, 1st floor
"Sex trafficking and enslaved prostitution in Madrid"
Documentary presented by a representative from APRAMP: Asociaciόn para la Prevenciόn, Reinserciόn y Atenciόn de la Mujer Prostituida
Monday, 31st · 5:30 pm · PRH3
"Facilitating Discussion: Strategies to Engage your Students"
Daniel Chornet-Roses, Ph.D.
Communication, SLU-Madrid
Wednesday, 26th · 5:00 pm · Seminar Room, PRH, 1st floor
"Recent advancements in autism research"
Speaker: Beatriz López
Departament of Psychology (University of Portsmouth)
Friday, 21st · 1:00 pm · PRH16
"Art and Power: Politics and Aesthetics of the Baroque"
Presentation by Tobias Locker for the Art History program
Thursday, 6th · 4:00 pm · PAH 24
Recital de la poeta hispano-argentina Noni Benegas
Tuesday, 26th · 5:00 pm · PRH 2
"Aspectos románticos de la poesía de Rosalía de Castro"
Ponencia por la profesora Sara Fernández
Wednesday, 20th · 11:00 am · PRH 1
"El Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica"
Conferencia de David Heap, Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario, Canadá)
Tuesday, 5th · 11:00 am · Room 10
"Latinos en Nueva York"
Conferencia de Marithelma Costa, Ph.D. (Hunter College/CUNY)
Tuesday, 21st · 11:00 am · Room 10
"Comments that Count: Effective, Efficient Responses to Student Writing"
Presentation by Sue Mendelsohn (Writing Center Director and Associate Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program / Columbia University)
Wednesday, 27th · 7:00 pm · PAH 25
"Making Sense of the Internet for Social Movements and Global Activism"
Presentation by Andrew Calabrese (Associate Dean, College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado)
Thursday, 28th · 2:30-3:45 pm · PRH 3
"The Economics of Urban Spaces: Photography and Mina Loy’s Late Bowery Poems"
Presentation by Linda Kinnahan (Professor of English, Duquesne University)
MA in English Graduate Student Conference
Friday, 29th · 1:00-2:30 pm · Main Reading Room, Library
"Oralidad, cultura popular y subversión en la poesía de Gloria Fuertes"
Presentation by Dra. Reyes Vila-Belda (Indiana University)
Tuesday, 12th · 11:00 am · PRH 6
"Animals as Individuals: The Opposition between Environmentalism and the Moral Consideration of Animals"
Lecture by Dr. Óscar Horta (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Friday, 1st · 11:00 am · PRH 6
"La escritora y su obra"
Presentation by Cristina Grande
Thursday, 31st · 11:00 am · PRH 8
"Innovative Research Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases"
Presentation by SLU alumnus Dr. Chandrabali Ghose-Paul (The Aaran Diamond AIDS Research Center)
Thursday, 24th · 12:00 pm · PRH 7
"Language and the Ethical Interface"
Presentation by Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University, U.K.)
Thursday, 24th · 11:00 am · PRH 2
"Cómo enfocar el estudio literario"
Seminario de la Dra. Alicia Ramos para los estudiantes del Master de Español
Monday, 21st · 4:30-5:30 pm · PRH 3
"The Role of Entrepreneurship in Social Revolutions"
Dr. Miles Davis, Shenandoah University, VA, USA
Wednesday, 9th · 7:00 pm · Library Reading Room
"Trip to Morocco"
Presentation by Mr. Allen Hoppes, Associate Director of Morocco Exchange
Friday, 18th · 1:50-2:30 pm · PRH 16
"From Tunisia to Egypt: Towar Demoracy in the Arab World?"
Presentation by Marta Saldaña (Ph. D. candidate in Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Wednesday, 9th · 5:30 pm · Library Reading Room, Loyola Hall
"Cerebral Dynamite’: José Peirats, Anarchism and the Struggle for Enlightenment in 20th-Century Spain"
Dr. Chris Ealham
Tuesday, 25th · 6:30 pm · Library Reading Room
"Ireland in crisis: implications for the European Union"
Guest lecture by Dr. Michael Holmes (Liverpool Hope University)
Wednesday, 19th · 5:30 pm · PRH 16
