Section 9 at the 15th Lusitanian Conference, West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, September 19-23, 2023

together with Víctor Lara Bermejo (Cádiz) and Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (Augsburg)

>> Section description and program

Hispanic studies in new environments: Digitization, Reinscriptions, Interfaces

February 23-25, 2023 in Graz

Congress of the German Association of Hispanic Studies

Together with Martin Hummel (Graz), Hans Fernández (Berlin), Elke Höfler (Graz), Stefan Koch (Graz)

>> to the congress homepage

July 22-24, 2021, together with Stefan Koch

>> Program and description of the workshop

June 9-11, 2026

together with Martin Hummel

>> Program

On this Google map you will find all study places at Spanish universities for which you can apply to at the Institute of Romance Studies. As an Erasmus+ coordiator for Spain, I will be happy to advise you on the choice of your host university and the courses to be taken.

You can find more detailed information on the application and administrative process on the website of the International Relations Office: https: //international.uni-graz.at/de/auslandsaufenthalte/studienaufenthalte/erasmus-studienaufenthalte/

You can also find further options at: https://romanistik.uni-graz.at/de/internationales/

2nd ARQUS International Seminar in Romance Studies

"Ibero-Romance Languages in Europe and America (Contacts, Influences, Convergencies)"

Granada, October 9-14, 2023

• Organization: Dr. David Porcel Bueno (Departamento de Filologías: Románica, Italiana, Gallego-Portuguesa y Catalana, Universidad de Granada) & Dr. Stefan Koch (TU Dresden)
• approx. 35 students from the Arqus partner universities Graz, Leipzig, Padua, Minho and Granada (advanced Bachelor and Master students)
• Lecturers from Graz: Prof. Martin Hummel and Dr. Katharina Gerhalter (Erasmus+ coordinator for the BIP)
• Crediting in Graz: 3 ECTS as a free elective (Bachelor's or Master's degree program)

The Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (2nd ARQUS International Seminar in Romance Studies) comprised several course units (workshops/modules) dealing with different linguistic aspects of Spanish, Portuguese and other Ibero-Romance languages (Gallic, Catalan, Mirandesian) in Europe and America (e.g. sociolinguistics of the Spanish-speaking world, language policy, minority languages, comparison between different varieties, language contact, analysis of individual linguistic aspects such as morphosyntax, phonetics, lexicon, historical considerations, etc.).

The courses were held by a total of 16 international teachers in Spanish, Gallic and Portuguese. One aim of the seminar was to promote Ibero-Romance intercomprehension. The participating students also carried out small assignments in groups in interactive work tasks. An introductory online phase also took place prior to the face-to-face phase.

In addition, there was a cultural program that included a visit to the Alhambra (with explanations of Arabicisms in Spanish) as well as a visit to the cathedral, the tomb of the Reyes Católicos and the monastery of San Jerónimo (with explanations of Spanish language history).

>> An activity organized by the Arqus International Forum on Romance Studies

>> Report on the activity on the main ARQUS homepage

Romance Languages in the Americas and in Africa

September 2022 in Graz, together with Stefan Koch (Graz)

From September 19-24, 2022 the Arqus Summer School in Romance Linguistics "Romance Languages in the Americas and in Africa" was hosted by the University of Graz. Bachelor and Master's students from the Universities of Granada, Graz, Bergen, Vilnius, Munich and Augsburg successfully attended the classes.

The summer school consisted of three modules, which were laid out according to the principles of a blended intensive program: a preliminary online module from 1 to 14 September 2022, as well as the general module and the research module, the latter both held at the Department of Romance Studies of the University of Graz from 19 to 24 September 2022.

Renowned experts from the Universities of Utrecht, Santiago de Chile, Graz, Salvador de Bahía, Cádiz, Augsburg, Granada and Bergen taught various classes, e.g., on the morphosyntax of Portuguese and Spanish in Southwestern Africa, sociolinguistics and the lexicon of Spanish in the Caribbean and in Chile, forms of address in Spanish and Portuguese on both continents, and syntactic change in Italo-Romance emigrant varieties in Southern and Northern America in contact with other languages. In a very interactive environment, the students were also made familiar with modern methods in linguistic field work.

Previously, during the online module, the students received an introduction to the overall topic and the historical background of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian in Africa and in the Americas. In the concluding research module, the students worked in small groups on their own to carry out guided research tasks on specific topics, supervised by the teaching personnel.

Extracurricular activities included a guided walk in the UNESCO World Heritage historic center of Graz and a final excursion to the Styrian countryside.

The summer school was multilingual, and courses were taught in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, aiming at improving the inter-comprehension skills of the students.

The Summer School is part of the permanent activities by the international network Arqus International Forum on Romance Studies (AIFRS), an academic network within the Arqus University Alliance. A follow up edition will take place in Granada in September 2023.

Organization

• Katharina Gerhalter (Graz) katharina.gerhalter(at)uni-graz.at
• Stefan Koch (Graz) stefan.koch(at)uni-graz.at

Teaching personnel and course topics

Miguel Gutiérrez-Maté (Augsburg): Portuguese and Spanish in the Bantu-speaking area of West and Central Africa. Morphosyntax

Roxana Sobrino Triana (Bergen): Spanish in the Caribbean - Sociolinguistics, Lexicon, and Linguistic Attitudes

Soledad Chávez Fajardo (Santiago de Chile): Spanish in Chile - Historical Sociolinguistics and Lexicology

Roberta D'Alessandro (Utrecht): Italo-Romance in the Americas - Emigrant varieties under scrutiny

Martin Hummel (Graz) & Victor Lara Bermejo (Cádiz): Portuguese and Spanish address forms in America and Africa

David Porcel Bueno, Mónica Martins Guedes & Javier Salcedo (Granada): Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese face to face: morphology, phraseology and lexical influences on Spanish

September 20-24, 2021

Location: Universidad de Granada (Departamento de Filologías: Románica, Italiana, Gallego-Portuguesa, Catalana)

Target group: advanced Bachelor students (Spanish, Italian or Portuguese) and Master students of Romance Studies in Graz and Granada.

Teachers: David Porcel Bueno, Victoriano Peña Sánchez, Anna Suadoni, Alessandra Sanna (Granada), Katharina Gerhalter, Stefan Koch, Fausto de Michele (Graz), Dainius Būrė (Vilnius)

The multilingual seminar dealt with various aspects of cultural and linguistic contact within the Mediterranean region (between the Iberian and Apennine peninsulas) and thus broadened the horizon of individual language studies (Spanish, Portuguese and Italian). The linguistic topics were contrastive and the literary topics were comparative. As the courses were held in Italian and Spanish, interest in the other language and intercomprehension were also encouraged.

You can download the detailed program here.

This seminar is organized within the framework of the Arqus International Forum on Romance Studies (AIFRS). Some of the eight participating students from Graz received an Arqus Twinning grant.

Here you can find the Arqus report on the seminar.