On 25 November, there will be an event holding opening lectures of the Master’s degree and Doctoral Programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies at the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication

Fernando Reati and Raquel Taranilla will give the opening lectures of the Master’s degree and Doctoral Programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies.

Both lectures will take place at the ‘Cultural Space’ of the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication (First Floor).

The title of the conference given by Fernando Reati will be ‘Memoria de las memorias: treinta y cinco años de ficciones sobre el terrorismo de Estado en Argentina’ (‘Memory of Memories: 35 Years of Fictions about Terrorism in Argentina’), which will begin at 11:00.

Fernando Reati is professor of Latin-American literature in Georgia State University (Atlanta), where he currently works as co-director of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. He specialised in contemporary Argentinian literature and post-dictatorship memories. In addition, he has written several books. Among them, we should highlight ‘Nombrar lo innombrable: violencia política y novela argentina, 1975-1985’ (1992) (‘Naming the Unnameable: Political Violence and Argentinian Novel, 1975-1985’) and ‘Postales del Porvenir: la imaginación del futuro en la novela de anticipación de la Argentina neoliberal, 1985-1999’ (2006) (‘Postcards from the Future: Imagination from the Future in Novels of Anticipation of Neoliberal Argentine, 1985-1999’) Reati has also collaborated in academic magazines in Argentina, USA, Mexico, Spain, Italy or Germany.

Raquel Taranilla García will give her lecture at 12:30, called: ‘Claves narrativas del relato policial’ (‘Narrative Keys of Crime Novels’).

Raquel Taranilla works currently as professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She graduated in Law and is Doctor in Spanish Studies by the University of Barcelona (UB). Furthermore, she is the author of ‘Mi cuerpo también’ (2015) (‘My body too’), which tells how she survived cancer -avoiding drama-, and ‘La justicia narrante’ (2012) (‘The Narrating Justice’).