It’s time to celebrate 100 years of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies! As part of this celebration, we take a look at the changes within ‘Spanish Studies’ in the past decades. In this episode we turn the spotlight on developments in Visual Hispan
In this episode, learn about Argentina’s singular relationship with psychoanalysis (did you know Argentina has the highest number of psychoanalysts in the world, by a long margin?), how it exported that to Spain, and how cultural tensions were
What has a stout, fiddle-playing Irish man got to do with Britain’s cultural diplomacy in tense 1940s Spain? Everything. Find out about the ‘soft power weapon’ that was Walter Starkie, founder of the British Council in Madrid, and learn about t
Che Cristo: the iconic 1967 post-mortem photograph of a beatific Che Guevara has never lost its potency. Thirty years later, it inspired Argentine filmmaker Leandro Katz to make the documentary El día que me quieras. This film was the subject o
Episode 3: Research Journeys, Part Three.Find out how a busman’s holiday can really refresh your research perspective, while listening to four top academics from the UK and Ireland treat us to their journeys through the literature and cultu
Episode 2:Title: Research Journeys, Part Two 19th century opera, Spanish Golden Age poetry, 20th century visionaries, Renaissance religious painting, philosophy and modern art in Latin America. What do they have in common? They all make up
Episode 1:Title: Research Journeys, Part One Biographer of the giants of Latin American literature, teacher of the intricacies of Latin American Cinema to Cuban students and an expert on a particular 16th century Peruvian saint, Professor S