MARIQUITA: Tradición y Transgresión

Featuring presenters Jesús Pascual, director of ¡Dolores, Guapa! (2022), Miguel Caballero (Northwestern University) and moderator Sandra Baena-Velázquez (NYU).

Friday, October 3, 2025

 

The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life

Featuring presenters Megan Saltzman (Mount Holyoke University), Enric Bou (Università Ca’ Foscari), and Susan Larson (Texas Tech), and moderator Vicente Rubio-Pueyo (Fordham University).

Friday, May 9, 2025

Soft Power, Hard Power, and Conquest in Premodern Iberia

Featuring presenters Seth Kimmel (Columbia University) and Simon R. Doubleday (Hofstra University), and moderator Paulina León (NYU).

Friday, April 25, 2025

Publishing an Article in Iberian Studies

Featuring presenters Simon Doubleday, Chair (Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Hofstra), Pedro García-Caro (Periphērica, University of Oregon), Julia Hernández (Bulletin of the Comediantes, Yale), Therese Martin (Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, CSIC), Rosi Song (Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Durham University)

Friday, November 15, 2024

 

Fashion in Spain Roundtable

Featuring presenters Francisco Fernández de Alba (Wheaton College, MA), Nick Wolters (Wake Forest University), Inés Corujo Martín (New York City College of Technology, CUNY) and moderator Ameya Tripathi (NYU). 

Friday April 12, 2024

The Wolf King Book Conversation

A conversation on The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in Al-Andalus with author Abigail Balbale (NYU) and Mohamad Ballan (Stony Brook). 

Tuesday November 7, 2023

Between Spain and Harlem: A Roundtable on Translation and Race

Panel moderated by Ameya Tripathi (New York University) exploring exchanges between Harlem, Spain, and back again in the 1920s and 1930s featuring Anne Donlon (Independent Scholar), Rocío Cobo-Piñero (Universidad de Sevilla) and Rebecca Pawel (University of Bridgeport / Columbia). 

Friday September 29, 2023.

Virtual Book Launch – “Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants”

Roundtable moderated by Jo Labanyi (New York University) featuring the co-editors of the book, Dalia Kandiyoti  and Rina Benmayor along with the following presenters: Alfons Aragoneses, Devin E. Naar , Rita Ender, Michal Rose Friedman, Charles A. McDonald, Uluç Özüyener, and Victor Silverman.

Tuesday February 28, 2023.

Iberian Soundscapes

This event was moderated by Robert Myak (Princeton University) and featured contributions from Ana Fernández Cebrián (Columbia University), Víctor Pueyo (Temple University), Rosi Song (Durham University), and Adam Mahler (Harvard University).

Thursday February 2, 2023

Stories Worth Telling: A Roundtable on Biographical Writing

This event was moderated by Esther Liberman Cuenca (University of Houston-Victoria/Princeton IAS) and featured contributions from Theresa Earenfight (Seattle University), María Americo (St. Peter’s University, Jersey City), and Pura Fernández (CSIC/NYU).

Friday December 2, 2022

 

José Colmeiro on Transatlantic Connections: Historical Memory and Transnational Justice

This presentation focuses on the transnational aspect of memories in the Hispanic world, with attention to the post-authoritarian transitional processes in Spain and Latin America and the efforts to confront the collective traumas of the past across borders, the building of transatlantic networks of solidarity, and the challenges of obtaining justice under the umbrella of universal jurisdiction. Introduction given by Ameya Tripathi (NYU).

Wednesday October 12, 2022

el taller Summer Institute 2022: Fashioning Iberia

Explorations of the sights, smells, tastes, and textures of the Iberian world, featuring interventions by María Judith Feliciano (Independent Scholar),Tara Zanardi (Hunter), Anya Andreeva (Fellow, The Hispanic Society), and Robert Davidson (U. of Toronto).
Chaired by Louisa Raitt (IFA/NYU), moderated by Abigail Balbale (NYU).

Wednesday, June 8th 2022

el taller Summer Institute 2022: Graphic Iberia

New scholarship on graphic narratives in, around, and about the Iberian Peninsula, featuring short papers by Antonio Córdoba (Manhattan College), Xavier Dapena (Iowa State), Christine Martínez (NYU), and Moisés Hassan (Stony Brook).
Chaired by Víctor Sierra Matute (Baruch College), moderated by Juan Jesús Payán (Lehman College).

Wednesday, June 8th 2022

el taller Summer Institute 2022: el taller Reads Together

Ana Laguna (Rutgers) discusses her book, Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain (Bloomsbury, 2021), in conversation with Nick Jones (Yale) and Christina Lee (Princeton).
Chaired by Jordana Mendelson (NYU).

Tuesday, June 7th 2022

Departure and Return: In Search of the Sephardim of Cuba

Ruth Behar (U Michigan) presents her talk “Departure and Return: In Search of the Sephardim of Cuba.” Introduced by Ronnie Perelis (Yeshiva U), response by Carlos Yebra López (NYU).

Friday, April 8th, 2022

Spanish Diasporas: Affect and Laws of Return

Charles A. McDonald (Northwestern) presents his talk “Sepharad’s Returns: Historical Sensibilities and the Politics of Inclusion,” with responses by Benjamin Hary (NYU Tel Aviv) and Alicia Campos Serrano (UAM/NYU)

Friday, February 11th, 2022

Author Conversation with Joshua Cohen and S.J. Pearce

A conversation between author Joshua Cohen and S.J. Pearce (NYU) on the subject of Cohen’s recently published novel, The Netanyahus.

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

 
“Women as Cultural Mediators between Spain and the U.S.”

Presentations and conversations with Evelyn Scaramella (Manhattan College), Leslie Harkema (Baylor University), Ameya Tripathi (Columbia University), and James D. Fernández (NYU). Moderated by Anne Donlon (MLA)

Thursday, November 4th 2021

 

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The Specters of History in the Films of Pedro Costa”

A conversation from our 2021 Summer Institute with Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa and film scholar Glòria Salvadó-Corretger (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Organized and Introduced by Sara Nadal-Melsió (NYU). Moderated by Francisco Quinteiro Pires (NYU).

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021

Writing, Filming, and Thinking Rural Spain

Roundtable from our 2021 Summer Institute. Chaired by Vicente Rubio Pueyo (Fordham/NYU Urban Democracy Lab). Featuring Natalia Castro Picón (Princeton), Luis Moreno Caballud (UPenn), Christine Martinez (NYU), and Alba Solà-Garcia (UPenn)

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021