January 2012
“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
December 2011
“Jesus of History, Christ of Faith: Substance or Hype?”
Dr. Mark Abbott
Monday, 5th · 12:00 pm · PRH2
“Why Voters and Politicians Decide Nothing – The New Crisis of Democracy”
Denis MacShane, MP
Monday, 5th · 5:30 pm · PRH8
"El cuento español en el siglo XXI: Nuevas generaciones"
Session 3: Berta Marsé.
Thursday, 1st · 11:00 pm · PRH4
November 2011
“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
“Creating Interactive Activities with JCLIC”
Sulma Farfán, SLU-Madrid
Tuesday 22nd · 1:00 pm · PAH19
"Just How Do We Learn A Second Language Anyway?"
Moderated by Cristina Matute, Ph.D.
Spanish, SLU-Madrid
Wednesday, 16th · 10:00 am · PRH3
"El cuento español en el siglo XXI: Nuevas generaciones"
Session 2: Eloy Tizón and Iban Zaldua.
Thursday, 17th · 11:00 pm · PRH8
"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
“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
“Sun is always there - Photovoltaic renewable energy”
Fernando Sánchez, Managing Director SolarMax-Spain
Monday, 7th · 4:00 pm · PAH20
"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
“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
October 2011
"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
July 2011
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
June 2011
"Latinos en Nueva York"
Conferencia de Marithelma Costa, Ph.D. (Hunter College/CUNY)
Tuesday, 21st · 11:00 am · Room 10
April 2011
"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
March 2011
"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
February 2011
"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
January 2011
"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
December 2010
"Making Human Rights Real: Rights and Humanity and the Human Rights Approach"
Guest presentation, by Professor Julia Häusermann MBE (founder & president of the International Human Rights Organization, Rights and Humanity)
Thursday, 2nd · 5:30 pm · PRH 8
November 2010
"What is Psychotherapy and Why Does It Work?"
Presentation by guest speaker and psychologist, Vega García Candelas
Tuesday, 30th · 4:00 pm · PRH 7
Conversación con Manuel Longares, Premio Nacional de la Crítica en 2001 por su novela Romanticismo
Tuesday, 30th · 11:00 am · PRH Aula 6
"Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation"
Lecture by Gisèle Sogas Rodríguez (Ben Franklin Institute, University of Alcalá)
Tuesday, 23rd · 2:30 pm · PRH 10
"Frailes Medievales: De la Humildad al Poder”
Presentation by Francisco García Serrano
Monday, 22nd · 5:30 pm · Library Reading Room
“Poetry, Friendship, Politics"
Presentation by Anne Dewey
Monday, 22nd · 5:30 pm · Library Reading Room
"En breve: cuentos de escritoras españolas (1975-2005)"
Seminario
Jueves y Viernes, 18 y 19 · día 18 de 10:00 a 12:00 · Aula 8
"Distributed fibre sensor for monitoring large civil structures"
Presentation by Dra. Sonia Martín López (Instituto de Óptica "Daza de Valdés", CSIC)
Monday, 15th · 4:00 pm · PAH 20
"Hospitality"
Ana Ruiz of the Glion Institute of Higher Education in Switzerland presents on their world-renowned hospitality management school
Wednesday, 3rd · 2:00 pm · PRH 10
"Democracy in Venezuela"
The Politics Club features Dr. Mario Ojeda discussing this topic
Tuesday, 2nd · 7:00 – 9:00 pm · PRH 13
October 2010
"El Caribe fortificado"
Eduardo Lizalde
Director and producer of the documentary talks about the history of the Caribbean and his experiences making the film (a timely event to reflect upon Christopher Columbus 'discovery' of the Americas)
Thursday, 14th · 11:00 am · Rice Room (Library)
"How Protestants pray"
Professor Melanie Mitchell
Wednesday, 13th · 1:45 pm – 2.30 pm
"The Islamic Culture of al-Andalus: an Archeological Perspective"
Dr. Juan Zozaya
Wednesday, 6th · 4:00 pm · PRH 8
"Presumed Guilty: A Death Row Exoneree's Story of Supreme Injustice and Reflections on the Death Penalty"
Juan Meléndez
Wednesday, 6th · 12:00 noon · PRH 8
"My own work in UNESCO's Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace"
Ming Kuok Lim
Doctor of Philosophy in Mass Communications
Tuesday, 5th · 11:00 - 12:15 · PRH 14
September 2010
"The Imaginary of Life After Death in Three Spanish Films: The Others, The Orphanage (El orfanato) and Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)"
Dolores Miralles, Ph.D.
University of California-Davis
Monday, 27th · 2:30 pm · PRH 13
"Dickens's Dream and the Conception of Character"
Leon Litvack, Ph.D.
Queen's University Belfast
Tuesday, 14th · 11:00 am · PRH 13
July 2010
"Arquitecturas aumentadas"
Pablo Valbuena (architect)
Wednesday, 14th - 15:30 · Everett Rice Room (Library, Loyola Hall)
"La elocuencia del silencio o la lectura 'entendida': Julia, de Ana María Moix."
Dra. Gema Pérez-Sánchez
Tuesday, 13th · 10:00-10:50 am · Everett Rice Room (Library, Loyola Hall)
"The Work of Aurora Luque"
Ricardo Virtanen (poet and critic) (11:00-11:50)
Poetry Recital by Aurora Luque (12:00-12:50)
Wednesday, 7th · Everett Rice Room of the Library (Loyola Hall)
June 2010
"Positioning the Male Body as a Site of Humor"
Robert L. Krizek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, SLU-St. Louis Campus)
Wednesday, 9th · 11:00 am · PRH 2
"Interactive Lecturing"
Paaige Turner
Associate Vice President and Professor of Communication, St. Louis Campus
Wednesday, 2nd · Everett Rice Room (Loyola Hall)
May 2010
"Del cine a la literatura en Scene from the Movie GIANT, ganadora del ‘Poetry American Book Award’ USA 1993 y algunas notas sobre la importancia de la traducción de la literatura chicana"
Tino Villanueva
Thursday, 20th · PRH 1
April 2010
"Vulnerability and Freedom in Addictive Behavior – the Role of Public Health"
Professor Javier Ayesta
Universidad de Cantabria
Wednesday, 14th · PRH 5
"New Media, Community, and the Global Girl: An Ethnographic Study of Mobile Professional Women"
Erika Polson
Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
Monday, 12th · PRH 13
"Ultralong fiber lasers and other applications of the Raman effect in optical fiber"
Dr. Juan Diego Ania Castañón
Instituto de Óptica CSIC
Tuesday, 6th · PAH 3
"Learning, Teaching, and Research in the 21st Century. The Evolving Roles of Faculty, Librarians, Instructional Technologists and Students in Liberal Education"
Ms. Susan Perry
Mellon Foundation
Tuesday, 6th · PRH 16
"Frau Brecht (From Jewish Vienna to Communist Berlin)"
Dr. Gitta Honegger
Arizona State University · PAH 3
March 2010
"Cine, literatura y política en España"
Dra. Cristina Martínez Carazo
University of California
March, 23rd · 12:30, Room 6
"Liberal Identity Politics and the Limits of Embodied Subjectivity: U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove"
Anne Dewey
Women’s Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series
Tuesday, 23rd · 2:00 pm · PRH 13
"The Perfect Wife’ and the widows of the living ~ cases of bigamy from the Inquisition during the sixteenth-century Spain"
Satoko Nakajima from
Tokyo Kaiyo Daigaku University (Japan)
Wednesday, 3rd · 12:30 pm · PRH 1
February 2010
"Anti-exoticism in the works of Tunisian writer Emna Belhaj Yahia"
Roswitha Zahlner Casmier, Ph.D.
First in a series of informal lectures by SLU-Madrid professors presenting their research in the field of Women’s Studies
Thursday, 25th - PRH 13, 2:00 pm
December 2009
"Roman Law in the modern world: a legal survey"
Diana Torres Prieto
UNED
Thursday, 3rd - 17:30 · PAH 3
"Optical fiber measurements and applications at IFA-CSIC"
Dr. Pedro Corredera
StoIFA-CSIC, Madrid
November 2009
"Charles Dickens y Benito Pérez Galdós"
Dr. Francisco Caudet Roca
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Monday, 23rd · 4:00 pm · PRH 6
"Memoria y testimonio: la poesía española de los años 50"
Dra. María Payeras Grau
Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Wednesday, 12th · 2:00 pm · PRH 8
"La realidad del mito en la poesía femenina española contemporánea"
Dra. María Payeras Grau
Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Tuesday, 11th · 11:00 am · PRH 6
"Ecology and Conservation of Wolves in Spain"
Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco
Director of the National Strategy of Wolf Conservation Office
Ministry of Environment
Tuesday, 4th · 6.30 pm · PRH 16
October 2009
"Memorias de un adolescente en la Guerra Civil"
Antonio Ferres
Para finalizar su intervención, nos leyó un poema sobre Madrid, “LA CIUDAD DE LA VICTORIA”, escrito expresamente para este acto.
Thursday, 30th · 12:30 p.m
Room PRH-8 (Avda. del Valle, 28)
"Hasta la Gramática Siempre! An analysis of editorial metadiscourse in Wikipedia's entry for Che Guevara"
Tom Bartlett, Ph.D
Cardiff University
Monday, 27th · 3:00 p.m · PRH 16
"La importancia de la escritura en español en Estados Unidos"
Dr. Emilio Mozo
Doctorado honoris causa en literatura "World Academy of Arts and Culture”
Wednesday, 21st ·17:30h · Aula Rice (Loyola Hall)
"Ovid and Christopher Marlowe"
Georgia E. Brown, Ph.D
Cambridge University
Monday, 20th · 5:00 p.m · Rice Art Room (Avda. del Valle, 30)
"Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: el gran burlador de América"
Dr. Juan Francisco Maura, Visiting Professor
Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus
Wednesday, 19th · 5:00 pm · PAH 2
"Politics and Religion in Plato's Laws"
Dr. David Hernández de la Fuente
Universität Postdam - Universidad Carlos III Madrid
Thursday, 15th · 14:30 · Aula 3 (Padre Arrupe Hall)
"Mujerista Theology"
Ada María Isasi Díaz, Ph.D
Drew University
Tuesday, 6th · 12:30-13:45 · PRH 16
"Communication and Relationships in Cultural, Intercultural, and Cross-cultural Perspective: An Ethnographic Journey"
Kristine L. Fitch Ph.D.
University of Iowa Wednesday
Thursday, 1st · 11:00 am · PRH 4
April 2009
"Melville and Darwin: Writing the Galapagos"
Michael Jonik, Ph.D. Candidate
State University of New York, Albany
Thursday, 23rd · 14:00 · PRH 4
"Teatro español contemporáneo contra la discriminación y el maltrato"
Dr. Raquel García Pascual
CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Wednesday, 22nd · 15:30 · PRH 12
