by cathycollins | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
This CCWW conference was due to be held on 28 and 29 May 2020. Due to COVID-19 the conference had to be postponed to a later date. However we are delighted to bring you here short pieces from some of the speakers who were due to present their papers. This is a preview...
by cathycollins | May 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
‘Donde no entra el aire y el sol entra el médico’ – Spanish saying It wasn’t long before activists began raising their voices. Children, confined to crowded apartments, deprived of sunlight and fresh air, lacked proper space to learn and play....
by cathycollins | May 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
I could tell you about how I’ve just finished re-reading journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales’s reconstruction of bullfighter Juan Belmonte’s autobiography. The literary recreation of the life of the matador from Triana, which ended in suicide in 1962, warrants further...
by cathycollins | May 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Carlos Yebra López reflects on the revitalisation of Ladino made possible through online communities. This is discussed more fully in the video included below and was also the focus of a conference held at the IMLR in 2019 By virtue of their nature, diasporic...
by cathycollins | May 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Anne Simon reflects on self-isolating in the 16th century, with comparisons to today’s situation in the time of COVID-19 Katerina Lemmel in Birgittine habit (Imhoff-Tetzel-Holzschuher Epitaph, church of St. Sebaldus, Nuremberg). Wikimedia Commons. Author: Volker...
by cathycollins | May 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
As so many women, including nurses and other ‘front line’ staff currently combatting Covid-19 have suddenly become acknowledged heroes, it is very timely to consider another hitherto unsung hero, Doreen Warriner. Warriner’s battle, however, was not against the...
