Professor Fernández de Alba was invited by the Spanish Department at Bryn Mawr College to lecture on the Spanish Civil War. The lecture centered on how his Wheaton course involved students to reflect on the construction of memory through texts and images. With the collaboration of a local veteran of the International Brigades, students participated [...]

The volume, Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World (Ashgate 2011) has been chosen by the Award Committee of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women as this year's winner of their award for a Collaborative Project. Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this [...]

Faculty and Students attended the 6th International Conference on Transatlantic Studies at Brown University.

Professor Montserrat Pérez presented at The Renaissance Society of America, 2012 a talk entitled "Female Workforce in Early Modern Spain: Alonso de Castillo y Solórzano´s Teresa de Manzanares." She was also the chair of the panel "Writing the empire on the female body."

Professor de Alba was invited by the Cervantes Institute at Tel-Aviv (Israel) to lecture about the 80s Spanish cultural movement la Movida.