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The 25th Anniversary Congress 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, horizons, and approaches 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 Hispanic Studies Congress in 1977, together with its 40-year-old Institute of Iberian and Latin American Studies (ISLA), to be the venue for celebrating 50 years of German Hispanic Studies 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 (1627) of Luis de Góngora, whose innovative 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 international section work, interdisciplinary keynotes will be given by Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Emeritus, Stanford University), along with cross-disciplinary formats and forums on the overarching theme, intending to contribute to further networking and disciplinary openness.

Update Apr-26: We are overwhelmed by the great international interest in the congress, which, to mark the anniversary, will comprise a total of 25 sections, encompassing the fields of linguistics, literary and cultural studies, and subject-specific pedagogy. Follow the new insta account for more information. Nos vemos.

Update Jun-26: The central Call for Papers for the 25 anniversary sections has been published.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Prof. Dr. Victor A. Ferretti (Conference Chair)
victor.ferretti@uni-a.de

Dr. Nora Zapf (Ibero-Romance Studies)
nora.zapf@philhist.uni-augsburg.de

Lena Ringen (ISLA Institute)
lena.ringen@uni-a.de

Andrea Nava Cano, Lucía Ramírez Quintero & al. (Organizational Team)
team27@philhist.uni-augsburg.de

For general inquiries and contact information, please use the official conference address hispaux27@philhist.uni-augsburg.de (if necessary, your request will be forwarded to the appropriate unit or person).

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