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The XXV anniversary of the German Association of Hispanic Studies (DHV) in Augsburg will focus on transatlantic relations (Europe, America, Africa) and is dedicated to the polycentric dynamics of Spanish-speaking worlds and their diversity. The aim is to reflect on questions of Ibero-American positionality, intercontinental interdependence, and Spanish-speaking ‘glocality’ from the perspectives of linguistics, media (literature/film/art) & cultural studies, foreign language education and subject didactics, and to discuss new and different paths and horizons for international Hispanic studies in the context of current trends and challenges worldwide.
The early modern printing and book trade city of Augsburg, which was historically closely linked to the empire of Charles V through the patrician families of Welser and Fugger, prominently mentioned in Cervantes’ Don Quijote (II, 54), is predestined, with its University as the founding site of the first German Hispanists Congress in 1977, together with its 40-year-old Institute of Iberian and Latin American Studies (ISLA), to be the venue for the 50th anniversary of the German Hispanic Studies Congress in 2027 and, at the same time, a space for reflection on a hundred years of the “Generación del ‘27” and the 400th anniversary of the death of Luis de Góngora, whose baroque poetic became groundbreaking for modernism on both sides of the Atlantic, with the aim of conducting diachronic and current assessments, evaluations, and reorientations of Hispanic knowledge and discourse transfer.
In addition to the section work, interdisciplinary keynotes by Cristina Rivera Garza and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht are planned, along with cross-disciplinary formats and forums on the overarching theme, which are intended to contribute to further networking and disciplinary openness.
Call for Sections [Span/Ger]
CfS Deadline: Mar-31, 2026
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Dr. Nora Zapf
Ibero-Romance Studies
University of Augsburg
nora.zapf@philhist.uni-augsburg.de
Lena Ringen
ISLA Institute of Iberian and Latin American Studies
University of Augsburg
lena.ringen@uni-a.de
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