I Conference on Hispanic Studies in Portugal (ICEHP2025)

Tribute to Professor Maria de Lurdes Correia Fernandes

Second circular

Organisation: Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Culture, Space and Memory (CITCEM); Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto (IF-UP); Centre for Linguistics of the University of Porto (CLUP); Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies (DEPER), Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP); Education Department of the Spanish Embassy in Portugal; Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa; Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Espanhol Língua Estrangeira (APPELE)

Venue: FLUP, Porto, Portugal

Start date: October 30, 2025

End date: October 31, 2025

Type of event: in-person conference

Contact person/E-mail: Rogelio Ponce de León Romeo, icoloquiosobreestudoshispanico@gmail.com

Description:

The aim of this Conference is to bring together specialists from several fields (literature, culture, linguistics, translation, teaching and teachers training) whose studies are related to Hispanic studies, to Spanish or the other languages ​​of Spain, as well as to their cross-cultural representations, in the Portuguese context. This first edition is held also as a tribute to Professor Maria de Lurdes Correia Fernandes, specialist in ​​culture at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, who has recently retired.

Submitted papers must be connected to the following thematic areas:

1) Reception of Spanish or Latin American authors, works, movements or trends (in literary, cultural, linguistic, philosophical or spiritual fields).

2) Spanish, Latin American, Galician, Catalan and Basque linguistic, literary or cultural studies in Portugal.

3) Considerations on Spanish teachers training in Portugal.

4) Contrastive linguistics Spanish/other languages ​​of Spain – European Portuguese angles.

5) General or specialized translation perspectives and difficulties (Spanish/other languages ​​of Spain – European Portuguese or European Portuguese – Spanish/other languages ​​of Spain).

Abstract: should not exceed 300 words and must include a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 5 keywords.

Short biodata: should not exceed 150 words and must be sent with the abstract, in the same file.

Registration fees: attendees without a paper: 20€; attendees with a paper: 40€. In case of co-authored papers, each author must pay the registration fee.

CITCEM, IF-UP and CLUP researchers, FLUP students and APPELE members will have the conference fee waved.

Scientific Committee

• Alberto Gómez Bautista (Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa)
• Alexia Dotras Bravo (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança)
• Álvaro Iriarte Sanromán (Universidade do Minho)
• Ana Belén Cao Míguez (Universidade da Beira Interior)
• Ana María Cea Álvarez (Universidade do Minho)
• Ângela Fernandes (Universidade de Lisboa)
• Antonio Chenoll Mora (Universidade Aberta)
• António Apolinário (Universidade de Coimbra)
• Antonio Sáez Delgado (Universidade de Évora)
• Beatriz Moriano Moriano (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• Carlos Pazos Justo (Universidade do Minho)
• Francisco Fidalgo Enríquez (Universidade de Aveiro)
• Gabriel Magalhães (Universidade da Beira Interior)
• Isa Vitória Severino (Instituto Politécnico da Guarda)
• Isabel Araújo Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• Joan Rodríguez Sapiña (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro)
• José Adriano Carvalho (Universidade do Porto)
• José Ignacio Vázquez Diéguez (Universidade da Beira Interior)
• José María Santos Rovira (Universidade de Lisboa)
• Luís Fardilha (Universidade do Porto)
• María Dolores Lerma Sanchis (Universidade do Minho)
• Maria Fernanda de Abreu (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Real Academia Española)
• Maria Idalina Resina Rodrigues (Universidade de Lisboa)
• María Jesús Botana Vilar (Universidade do Algarve)
• María Luisa Aznar Juan (Universidade de Coimbra)
• Marta Saracho-Arnáiz (Instituto Politécnico do Porto)
• Mercedes Rabadán Zurita (Universidade do Algarve)
• Noemí Pérez Pérez (Universidade de Aveiro)
• Pedro Abreu (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• Pedro Dono López (Universidade do Minho)
• Santiago Pérez Isasi (Universidade de Lisboa)
• Sónia Duarte (Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto)
• Susana Relvas (Instituto Politécnico de Viseu)
• Tamara Aller Carrera (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança)
• Xaquín Núñez Sabarís (Universidade do Minho)
• Zulmira Santos (Universidade do Porto)

Host committee

• Alegría Royo Beltrán (Universidade do Porto)
• Andrea Rodríguez Iglesias (Universidade do Porto)
• Andrés Xosé Salter Iglesias (Consejería de Eudación, Embajada de España en Portugal)
• Fernando Ruiz Pérez (Universidade do Porto)
• Hugo Rocha (Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Espanhol Língua Estrangeira)
• Joana Matos Gomes (Instituto de Filosofia)
• María del Pilar Nicolás Martínez (Universidade do Porto)
• Mariana Leite (Universidade do Porto)
• Mirta dos Santos Fernández (Universidade do Porto)
• Marta Pazos Anido (Universidade do Porto)
• Mónica Barros Lorenzo (Universidade do Porto)
• Richard Bueno Hudson (Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa)
• Rogelio Ponce de León Romeo (Universidade do Porto)

Deadlines:

Deadline for submissions: April 11, 2025

Notification of accepted proposals: May 31, 2025

Official languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Basque and Mirandese.

Plenary speakers:

• José Adriano Carvalho (Universidade do Porto)
• José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto)
• Maria de Lurdes Correia Fernandes (Universidade do Porto)