Dr. Cristina Matute, presented a paper titled "Clases, jerarquía e interpretación de los adverbios en el margen preverbal de la oración: notas para su estudio en el español medieval", coauthored with Teresa Mª Rodríguez-Ramalle (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) at the 9th Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain), 10-14 September.
Dr. Aitor Bikandi-Mejias (Spanish) ha publicado “Locura y Fe: Don Quijote, Montaigne, Pascal; y el eco de San Pablo." La Dialéctica de Sofía: Publicación crítica digital sobre Filosofía y Literatura (2012): Web. 6 Febrero 2012.
Dr. Diana Trevouledes (Psychology) co-authored the book Success and Sanity on the College Campus: A Guide for Parents (R&L Education, October, 2012).
Dr. Alicia Ramos Mesonero (Spanish Department) recently published La incógnita desvelada: Ensayos sobre la obra de Rosa Montero (Peter Lang, June, 2012).
Dr. John R. Welch presented the paper “Moral Emotions in Rational Choice” at the Conference on Moral Emotions and Risk Politics held at the Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands, August 20–22, 2012.
Verónica Azcue presentó en en el VII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, que tuvo lugar en Oviedo del 11 al 15 de junio de 2012, la comunicación titulada: "La obra de Cervantes en el exilio teatral republicano de 1939".
Dr. Anne McCabe (English) recently published a book review of Systemic Functional Grammar of Spanish: A Contrastive Study with English, by Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla (2010), in Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 34/1: 171–77.
Dr. Alicia Ramos Mesonero acaba de publicar el artículo "La noche desnuda: radiografía de la desaparición del POUM" en la revista Hispania Nova.
Dr. Cristina Matute presented the paper “La variedad dialectal del castellano en la Edad Media a través del corpus digitalizado Biblia Medieval” at the XXX Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada held at the Universitat de Lleida on April 19-21st 2012.
Dr. Cristina Matute (Spanish) recently published the book chapter "Sobre la trascendencia de la variación pronominal en la General Estoria de Alfonso X el Sabio" in the book Estudios de filología y lingüística españolas. Nuevas voces en la disciplina, co-edited by E. Pato and J. Rodríguez Molina, Bern: Peter Lang, 235-258.
Dr. Rafael Cabañas publicó “Espacios misteriosos, motivos fantásticos y terror absurdo en los microcuentos de Ramón Gómez de la Serna” en Lejana, Revista crítica de narrativa breve.Universidad Eötvös Loránd (Budapest) 4 (enero 2012): 1-13.
Dr. Rafael Cabañas publicó “El recurso auto-epistolar como terapia: motivos temáticos recurrentes y greguerías en Cartas a mí mismo (1956) de Ramón Gómez de la Serna”. Olivar. Revista de Literatura y Cultura Españolas. [Número Monográfico: Miradas contemporáneas, textos nuevos. Edit. Natalia Corbellini]. Universidad nacional de la plata (La Plata) Año 12, nº. 16 (2011): 139- 160.
Dr. John R. Welch (Philosophy) published "Real-Life Decisions and Decision Theory," in Handbook of Risk Theory, ed. Sabine Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012), pp. 545–573.
Dr. Alesia Slocum (Marketing and Management) co-authored the article, "Bridging Western vs. Eastern Thinking: Global Strategy Requires a Meeting of the Minds," with Kimeo Kase and Yingying Zhang, in the IESEInsight (Issue 11, Fourth Quarter - pp. 59-66).
Dr. Paul Vita (English) presented the paper, "Redressing Youth's Wrongs: Cervantes and Dickens" at the International Conference held in France and England commemorating Charles Dickens's 200th Birthday: Dickens and the Idea of the "Dickensian": A Tale of Four Cities. February 2-9, 2012.
Dr. Alesia Slocum (Marketing and Management) co-authored the book Asian vs. Western Management Thinking: It's Culture Bound Nature, with Kimio Kase and YingYing Zhang (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Dr. Raúl Martín presented his paper "La epopeya polar contemporánea: exploración, deporte y ciencia" at a special conference entitled Historia de la exploración polar centenario de Amundsen-Scott en el Polo Sur 1911-1912 on January 17 at the Universidad de Valladolid.
Dr. Taieb Gasmi has been invited by the International Development Bank (IDB) to be part of the Selection Committee of the IDB Prizes for Science and Technology for year 2012. IBD is a subsidiary of the World Bank. The Selection Committee (4 members from IBD and 2 external members ) will meet in the IDB Headquarters, in Jeddah, KSA on 28-29 January 2012.
Dr. Cristina Matute presented the invited paper 'Sobre la utilidad de un corpus paralelo de textos bíblicos medievales para estudiar la historia del español' at the "Simposio sobre edición digital de textos múltiples", Novermber 23-24, 2011, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, co-authored with Andrés Enrique-Arias (UIB).
Dr. Ángeles Encinar (Spanish) gave two invited papers, “El auge del microrrelato en la narrativa española de las últimas décadas” and "Una narrativa visual: microficciones y dibujos de José María Merino”, at the Seminario de Teoría de la Literatura, Universidad de Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 24, 2011.
Cary Barney, MFA, has published an article, "Mentoring a Millennial", in the Fall 2011 issue of Teaching theatre Journal. The article describes the process of developing and producing a student play, Cathie Smith's The Millennials, at SLU Madrid in the academic year 2010-1.
Dr. Ángeles Encinar (Spanish) recently published a scholarly edition of José María Merino's La orilla oscura (Madrid: Cátedra, 2011)
Dr. M. Kahle (Greek & Latin) ha defendido su tesis doctoral: "El surgimiento de la doctrina de la transmigración de las almas en la India" en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en el progama de doctorado de "Ciencias de las Religiones".
Dr. M. Kahle (Greek & Latin) ha publicado el capítulo “Los caminos al Más Allá en los himnos del Rgveda: Traducción y comentario de los himnos RV 10.14, 10.16 y 10.56”, en: R. Martín Hernández y S. Torallas Tovar (eds.), Conversaciones con la muerte: Diálogos del hombre con el Más Allá desde la Antigüedad hasta la Edad Media, CSIC, Madrid, pp.183-205.
Dr. M. Kahle (Greek & Latin) ha publicado el capítulo “Empédocles y la pañcagnividya”, en: J. A. Belmonte y J. Oliva (eds.), Esta Toledo, aquella Babilonia. Convivencia e interacción en las sociedades del Oriente y del Mediterráneo Antiguos, UCLM, pp. 429-442.
Dr. M. Kahle ha presentado su comunicación “Nuevas perspectivas sobre el surgimiento de la doctrina de la transmigración de las almas en la India” en el congreso 700 años de Estudios Orientales en Salamanca / 700 años de Estudios Orientales en España, Universidad de Salamanca, Sept. 2011.
Dr. M. Kahle ha presentado su comunicación “Antecedentes de la teoría del karma en la literatura védica” en el IX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones, Facultad de Filología – UCM, Oct. 2011.
Dr. Muhsin Al-Ramli recently published Dormida entre soldados, a book of poetry written in both Arabic and Spanish, with Editorial Hispano-Egipcia Sanabel (2011).
Dr. Anne McCabe (Languages & Literature) gave a workshop titled ‘Literacy at secondary school: approaching writing in English in history classes’ at the II Congreso Internacional sobre Enseñanza Bilingüe en Centros Educativos’, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, October 20-22, 2011 (with Rachel Whittaker).
Dr. Anne McCabe (Languages & Literature) presented ‘Two perspectives on knowledge structures and academic language’ at the 1st Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference, Queens University, Belfast, October 14-15, 2011.
Dr. Rafael Cabañas presented his paper “El desafío personal y la experiencia poética en la traducción al español de Scene from the Movie GIANT”, en XVIII Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas. Realidad, Virtualidad, representación. Universität Passau, Alemania, marzo 2011.
Dr. Anne McCabe presented 'Appraisal in Student Writing: Analysis of Texts Produced in Content-And-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) Classes' at the International Workshop on the Evaluative Function of Language: Evaluation Across Text Types and Cultures, October 6-8, 2011, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, co-authored with Rachel Whittaker (UAM).
Dr. Rafael Cabañas presented “Presencia de Madrid en la obra de Ramón Gómez de la Serna”. Estudios sobre Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Madrid: Albert Editor, 2010: 127-146.
Hilary Plass gave a 90 minute workshop entitled "Speaking Naturally" at the XXV Annual Conference of GRETA (Granada English Teachers Association) on September 10, 2011.
Dr. Rafael Cabañas has published "La importancia del español para negocios ante la incidencia de otras lenguas autonómicas en España". En Palabra, enunciado, texto en el aspecto cognitivo, pragmático y cultural. V Simposio de conferencia científica internacional.
Tomo II. Ed. E. N. Aznacheeva. Cheliabinsk, Rusia: Editorial S. de R. L. Enciclopedia, 2010: 223-228.
Dr. Marta Moreno (International Business), with Juan Romo, published the article "Unit root bootstrap tests under infinite variance," in the Journal of Time Seriew Analysis available at the Wiley Online Library (2011).
Anne McCabe presented 'First-Year University Writing: Creating a Cultivated Gaze' and 'Development of Appraisal In Content-and Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) History Compositions' (the latter with Rachel Whittaker of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) at the 38th International Systemic Functional Congress, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 25-29 July 2011.
Dr. Rafael Cabañas presented his paper, "Espacios misteriosos, motivos fantásticos y terror absurdo en los microcuentos de Ramón Gómez de la Serna," at the IX Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Fantástica Lo fantástico: Este y Oeste in Budapest, Hungary, sponsored by the Universidad Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, in June 2011.
La Dra. Ángeles Encinar, profesora de la facultad de Lenguas y Literaturas de nuestro campus, acaba de publicar un nuevo libro titulado: Más por menos. Antología de microrrelatos hispánicos actuales. Ha realizado este volumen en colaboración con la Dra. Carmen Valcárcel, profesora de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Dr. David Howden, professor of Economics, recently released his first
book “Deep Freeze: Iceland’s Economic Collapse”.
Dr. David Howden, professor of economics, was recently interviewed by
The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service’s Egill Helgason, about
his recent book on Iceland’s economic collapse.
Dr. Francisco García-Serrano Nebras (History) was invited to give three lectures in Japan:
“España y América ante la Leyenda Negra: mito y realidad”, Thursday, May 12th 2011, Instituto Iberoamericano, Sophia University, Tokyo Japan
“Reflexiones sobre la identidad: la invención medieval de España”, Saturday, May 28th-29th 2011, XXIII Congreso de CANELA (Confederación Académica Nipona, Española y Latinoamericana), Universidad de Estudios Extranjeros de Kioto, Japón, 28 y 29 de mayo de 2011.
“Assessing the idea of convivencia between the three cultures in medieval Spain”, Thursday, June 23th 2011, European Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo Japan.
Dr. Anne McCabe has published her book An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies, (London, Equinox, 2011).
Dr. Taeib Gasmi has been invited to present his study, "I.R. Laser-based Remote Sensing System for Ambient Air Quality Monitoring" at the 22nd General Congress of the International Commission for Optics, to be held in the city of Puebla, Mexico, from 15-19 August 2011.
Dr. Francisco García-Serrano Nebras (History) was invited to give a talk at East China Normal University (Shanghai) for New York University on Monday, March 28th. He will talk about “The Age of Expansion and the Early Presence of Spain and Portugal in Asia.”
Dr. Raúl Martín (Sciences and Engineering) has co-authored the article "Análisis y control de indicadores geomorfológicos en el Parque Nacional Picos de Europa," published in Proyectos de investigaciones en Parques nacionales 2007-2010.
Dr. Raúl Martín Moreno has published the article "The Little Ice Age in the High Teide (Tenerife, Canary Islands). Historic mentions and periglacial morphogenesis" in Eria , 83 (2010) pp.331-342. Click here for the Abstract of his presentation >>
Dr. Taieb Gasmi was invited to present his paper, "Infra-Red Laser Remote Sensing," at the Optics and Imaging Science conference in Italy, from 7-11 February, 2011.
Dr. Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez (Art History) has been invited to present a paper at the conference Surrealism and the Americas organized by Rice University in Houston 4th and 6th of November 2011. The title of her talk is 'Risking Mexicaness: Gunther Gerzso's Dialogues with Surrealism and Abstraction'. Link to the conference >>
Dr. Carolina Aznar recently gave a conference in Toledo related to the archaeological importance of the ancient city of Meguido in Israel. The full text article, published in the December 2010 issue of La Tribunal de Toledo, can be found here >>
Dr. Francisco García-Serrano Nebras (History) was invited to present the paper: “Del convento al palacio: los frailes y las oligarquías castellanas (s. XIII-XIV) at the International Conference, Rulers of the Community, Subjects of the Divine, which will be held at the Colegio Mayor San Pablo-CEU, Madrid (Spain), November 15th-16th, 2010. Click here for more information >>
Dr. Rafael Cabañas, ha publicado: "Ficción criminal y parodia en La señal de Eduardo Mignogna, y su adaptación al cine". Ficción criminal "justicia y castigo" "Law & Punishment in Crime Fiction". Coordinadoras Mª José Álvarez Maurín, Natalia Álvarez Méndez. León: Universidad de León, Área de Publicaciones, 2010: 57-79.
Dr. Rafael Cabañas, ha publicado: "Presencia de Madrid en la obra de Ramón Gómez de la Serna". Estudios sobre Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Madrid: Albert Editor, 2010: 127-146.
Dr. Mary Prendergast (Sociology and Anthropology) was invited to
present her talk, "Hunters and Herders at the Periphery: the Spread of
Pastoralism in East Africa" at the 11th Conference of the
International Council for Archaeozoology, on August 28, 2010 in Paris.
Dr. Laura Muro (Accounting, International Business) presented the paper entitled, "The SEC Roadmap for the Application of IFRS to U.S. Issuers: a New Way to Teach Advanced Accounting," at a conference celebrating the 85th anniversary of the Cracow University of Economics in Cracow, Poland. The theme of the conference, which took place in June 2010, was "International Cooperation of Universities in the era of Globalization."
Anne McCabe (Languages and Literature) and Daniel Chornet-Roses (Communication) recently coauthored with Isabel Alonso Belmonte (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) 'In their own words: The construction of the image of the immigrant in Peninsular Spanish broadsheets and freesheets', in Discourse & Communication, 4/3: 227–242.
Dr. Brian Michael Goss (Communication) recently published the following journal article: “Rebel Yell: The Politics of The Celebration (1998)”. It appears in Studies in European Cinema, 6: 2 & 3, pp.215-227.
Dr. Brian Michael Goss (Communication) recently published the following chapter: “Sheffield Slumdogs: Reading The Full Monty (1997)”. It is included in Género e Culturas Mediáticas / Gender and Media Cultures”, Edited by Maria João Silveirinha, Ana Teresa Peixinho & Clara Almeida Santos. Portugal: Mariposa Azual. ISBN: 978-972-8481-18-6.
Dr. Brian Michael Goss (Communication) recently published a book review on “‘What the Heck Are You Up to, Mr. President?’: Jimmy Carter, America’s ‘Malaise’ and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country by Kevin Mattson (2009). It was printed in European Journal of American Culture, 29: 1, pp.69-72.
Dr. Brian Michael Goss (Communication) recently delivered the following conference paper: “‘Beyond the Duero’: The Junta de Extremadura’s Tourism Discourse and its Constructions of Identity”. The conference was entitled "Culture & Power Conference: Identity & Identification", convened in Ciudad Real, Spain in April 2010.
Dr. Esther Alcalá (Spanish) participated in a round-table discussion on "Lengua e inmigración en el contexto educativo y social" at the Congreso Internacional sobre Lengua e Inmigración, held at the Universidad Alcalá. 25 March, 2010.
Dr. Carolina Aznar (Sociology and Anthropology) was invited to present her talk "Phoenician Storage Jar in the Southern Levant iron Age IIB-C (second half of the 9th century BC-beginning of the 6th century BC) at the VIII Giornata Romana di Studie Mozeisi "Antonia Ciasca" on Friday 26 February 2010, sponsored by the Università di Roma.
