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CIAC promotes conference “Methodology and hypotheses for the analysis of images between Spain and Portugal”

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CIAC and the Centre for Galician Studies are organising the conference ‘Methodology and hypotheses for the analysis of images between Spain and Portugal’. The main speaker will be Carlos Pazos-Justo (Centre for Humanistic Studies at the University of Minho).

A summary of the event as described by the organisers: ‘The study of images, in their dimension as discourses of representation of the Other or of Us, has interested different areas, from comparative literature studies to marketing. In this presentation, framed within the field of cultural studies, we will report on a line of research into the different images at play in the peninsular space, particularly in relation to the case of Spain in Portugal and vice versa. In this way, we will report on the theoretical framework used, the hypotheses identified and some of the challenges.’

Carlos Pazos-Justo (Redondela, 1975), PhD in Cultural Sciences from the University of Minho, has a degree in Galician Philology (1998) and Portuguese Philology (1999) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. As a Camões Institute scholarship holder, he completed a postgraduate programme at the University of Porto (2001). He has a Master’s degree in Literature Theory and Portuguese Literature from the University of Minho (2009) and a Master’s degree in ‘Contemporary Spanish Culture’ (2009) from the University of Alcalá. He was a Reader at the Centre for Galician Studies (2003/2008) and is currently Professor of Spanish and Hispano-American Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Minho, where he directed the Master’s Degree in Spanish, Second Language and Foreign Language. He won the Carvalho Calero Research Prize in 2009 with Trajetória de Alfredo Guisado e a sua relação com a Galiza (1910-1921) and chaired the Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos (2022-2024).

The conference will take place on 19 March 2025 in Amphitheatre C at 9am.

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