The Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies (ACIS) will hold its 46th Annual Conference, which will take place at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, from 3-5 September 2025. It will be hosted by Rede Galabra/USC coordinated by Prof. Elias Torres Feijó. The conference will be held in a hybrid format, in person and online. In this last case, a video recording of your presentation will be requested in due time.
You are cordially invited to offer a paper, panel, or workshop presentation. Proposals for individual papers as well as panels on specific themes (max. four papers per panel) are encouraged. Any proposed panel should be organised by one convenor, who will be responsible for inviting the speakers and chairing the session. You are also invited to suggest any speakers you think would be willing to offer a paper, but please note that ACIS does not normally offer a fee or expenses for speakers.
ACIS encourages proposals from postgraduate students, and a small number of partial conference fee bursaries are available – please see application process details below and encourage your students to consider this.
Below are the suggested thematic areas for papers and panels, which must advance understanding of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century socio-cultural, economic, and political issues and realities and relate primarily to Spain and/or Portugal and transnational issues and processes relating to the Iberian Peninsula within the wider Lusophone and Hispanic worlds. Both single-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged, and the themes listed below are not exclusive:
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Politics, Government, International Relations, the EU, Nationalism, Regionalisms, Transnational issues and processes
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Economics, Business, Labour, Social and Welfare issues
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Cultural Production in all its forms (e.g., film, television, journalism, literature, media, advertising, digital communication & social networking)
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Social and Cultural Studies (e.g., identity, gender, ethnicity, popular culture)
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Leisure, Tourism, Sport
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Contemporary History
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Language, Linguistics, Language Policy
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Education and Pedagogy
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Relationships between narratives, communities, territories
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The selection of panels/papers will be made by the Conference programme convenors in consultation with the Executive Committee, and these decisions will be final. Papers will be allocated 30 minutes on the programme (20 mins for the paper and 10 mins for discussion).
We are pleased to announce the keynote speakers for this year’s Annual Conference: Prof. Leigh Mercer (University of Washington); Prof. Xerardo Pereiro (Universidade de Trás Os Montes e Alto Douro); and Prof. Domingos Manaça Joaquim (Instituto Superior de Educação de Luanda).
Keynote speakers in previous years have included novelist Use Lahoz, journalists and writers Elvira Lindo and Martín Caparrós, historian and diplomat Professor Angel Viñas, political science expert Professor António Costa Pinto, Professor Robert Newcomb, and the Association’s honorary President, historian Professor Paul Preston.
If you wish to offer a paper or panel send your proposal to the ACIS 2025 by FRIDAY, 16th MAY 2025. Informal enquiries concerning papers and topics are welcome before the deadlines.
There is more information about the Association at https://www.iberianstudies.net/conferences.
