Canada Blanch Fundacion Seminar programme

Michaelmas Term 2008

Date

Name of speaker

Title

Venue

2 October 2008

Professor Paul Preston (LSE)

"We Saw Spain Die": Launch of book with the same title. 

Note: Anyone wishing to attend has to purchase a ticket via the Canning House Website. Tickets cost £6 (Members £4) and can be bought via the website: http://www.canninghouse.com/content/events/

Canning House (2 Belgrave Sqaure, SW1X 8PJ)

Note: This seminar starts at 18:30

15 October 2008

Professor Montserrat Guibernau (Queen Mary, University of London)

Does devolution foster separatism? The case of Catalonia

 

Room J116 (Cowdray House, LSE)

20 October 2008

Professor Paul Preston (LSE)

Debate about foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War.

Note: Tickets cost £5 (and includes wine) and can be bought either at the venue, by phoning 020 7224 2295, or by email at talks@dauntbooks.co.uk

Daunt Bookshop (83 Marylebone High Street, W1)            

Note: This seminar starts at 19:00

5 November 2008

Matthew Tree (Anglo-Catalan writer)

 Life on the Receiving End: A Subjective Look at Anti-Catalan Prejudice in Spain Today

Room J116 (Cowdray House, LSE)

12 November 2008

Dr. Manuel Ortiz Heras (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

Constante y diversa: La violencia política durante la dictadura franquista

Room J116 (Cowdray House, LSE)

19 November 2008

Dr. Mike Thompson (University of Durham)

Theatre Censorship in Franco's Spain

This event is presented in collaboration with the Department of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, King's College London.

King's College London (The Strand)

Note: This seminar will start at 17:15

26 November 2008

Dr. Andy Durgan (Fundació Andreu Nin)

Catalan Labour Wars, 1931-1937P: The Making of the 1937 "May Days".

Room J116 (Cowdray House, LSE)

3 December 2008

William Chislett (Real Instituto Elcano)

Image and Reality: Economics and Politics in Contemporary Spain

Room J116 (Cowdray House, LSE)

10 December 2008

Dr. Aurora Morcillo (Florida International University)

The Orient Within: Women's Self-Empowering Acts under Francoism

Room J116 (Cowdray House, LSE)

All the seminars will take place in the Cañada Blanch Seminar Room on the first floor of Cowdray House (Room J116) at 18:00, unless otherwise noted.
London School of Economics
Portugal Street
London WC2A 2AE

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