I Hispanic studies forum
7 May 2019
This lecture cycle welcomes scholars and academics in the fields of Hispanic linguistics, literature, and culture, as well as translators, students, and all who are interested in the Spanish language and the culture of Spanish-speaking countries. The languages of the conference are Spanish and Lithuanian. Admittance is free.
TUESDAY 7 JUNE
- 9.00 - 9.15 Opening event
Bernardo López López-Ríos (Cultural Attaché, the Spanish Embassy in Lithuania), Inesa Šeškauskienė (Dean, the Faculty of Philology) and Marta Plaza Velasco (the coordinator of the forum) will open the forum.
- 9.15 - 10.00 1st SESSION. Literary criticism: in memoriam Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Akvilė Šimėnienė (ISM University of Management and Economics, Mykolas Riomeris University): “The literary criticism of Birutė Ciplijauskaitė“ (in Spanish)
- 10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break
- 10.30 - 12.30 2nd SESSION. Translation (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Jordana González (Vilnius University, Institute of Foreign Languages): “Julio Cortázar: stories about cronopios and the famous“ (in Spanish)
Jurga Katkuvienė (Vilnius University, Institute for Literary, Cultural and Translation Studies): “Invisible translation: Octavio Paz’s Sunstone”
Nomeda Lukoševičienė (Vilnius University, Institute for Literary, Cultural and Translation Studies): “Oral and written translation: two sides of the same coin or distant cousins?” (in Spanish)
- 13.00 - 14.30 1st LECTURE. Culture (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Gustaw Juzala (Vilnius University, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic): “The musical folklore of South America” (in Lithuanian)
- 15.00 - 16.30 2nd LECTURE. Literature (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Gintaras Varnas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) “The theatre of Federico García Lorca: between old Andalusian multiculturalism and surrealism” (in Lithuanian)
- 17.00 - 18.30 1st DISCUSSION. The poetic connections between Spain and Lithuania: Lithuania in Spanish poetry / Lithuanian poetry in Spanish (Room 92, Faculty of Philology)
Moderator: Marta Plaza Velasco
Participants: Cristóbal Polo (poet), Joaquín Carmona (poet), Carmen Caro (translator), María Sebastiá (translator), and Dovilė Kuzminskaitė (translator).(in Spanish with simultaneous translation to Lithuanian.)
WEDNESDAY 8 MAY
- 9.00 - 10.30 3rd SESSION. Workshop (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Carlos García Fernández (Vilnius University, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic) “Deciphering a text written in an unknown language” (in Spanish)
María José de Urraza and Vigilija Žiūraitė (Vytautas Magnus University): “Recognising and teaching sociocultural aspects in Spanish lectures” (in Spanish)
- 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
- 11.00 - 12.30 3rd LECTURE. Art (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Regimanta Stankevičienė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute): “Hispanic influences in the Lithuanian depictions of Jesus of Nazareth”(in Lithuanian)
- 13.00 - 14.30 4th SESSION. Lexicography and teaching Spanish as a foreign language (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Aleksas Kulvietis (Klaipėda University): “Native language semantics in teaching the Spanish language” (in Spanish)
Ricardo Enguix Barber (MAEC-AECID lecturer, Kaunas University of Technology): “Indirect feedback about errors in written Spanish assignments” (in Spanish)
Alfonso Rascón (Vilnius University, Institute of Foreign Languages): „Bilingual Spanish, Lithuanian and English dictionaries: microstructural aspects” (in Spanish)
- 15.00 - 16.30 2nd DISCUSSION: ES-LT and LT-ES translation tendencies (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Participants: Jūratė Derukaitė (Klaipėda University), Aistė Kučinskienė (Vilnius University, Institute for Literary, Cultural and Translation Studies), Nomeda Lukoševičienė (Vilnius University, Institute for Literary, Cultural and Translation Studies) and Alexandra Bondarev (translator) (in Spanish)
Moderator: Carmen Caro Dugo
- 17.00 - 18.30 3rd DISCUSSION: Teaching Spanish as a foreign language in Lithuania: achievements and challenges (V. Krėvės Room (118), Faculty of Philology)
Moderator: Aistė Kučinskienė
Participants: Jūratė Derukaitė (Klaipėda universitety), Rima Sabaliauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University), Carlos García Fernández (Vilnius University, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic), Indrė Pranaitė (Vilnius Waldorf Open School), Ricardo Enguix Barber (MAEC-AECID lecturer, Kaunas University of Technology) and Germán Degollado Brito (Ispanų kalbos namai).
The conference is organised by the Spanish Philology Study Programme Committee (Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University)
Conference coordinator: Marta Plaza Velasco