Research and Cooperation Activities 2012
Oct 5-9 Panel (organizers Philippe Bootz & A. LópezVarela) on Digital Semiotics at the International Semiotic Association Conference. Nanjing, China
Oct 4-6 International Conference Electronic Literature and Media Art. Instituto Franklin Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
June 25- July 20 participant (A. LópezVarela) Harvard Institute World Literature, Bilgi University, Istanbul
May 24-25 VI Jornadas Universidades Publicas Madrileñas sobre el Sahara Occidental : Democracia y Derechos Humanos. Círculo Bellas Artes Madrid.
April 3 Intermedial Semiotics. (invited lecture A. LópezVarela) Prof. Amitava Chakravorti , Dept. Comparative Literature, University Delhi.
March 25-April 1 A. LópezVarela (invited speaker) Prof. Vandhana Sharma, organizer International Conference on Myth, Orality and Folklore in World Literature Shri MataVaishno Devi University , India.
Feb. 17-19 Philip Roth between Past and Future: Literature, History and Ethics. Venezia/La biblioteca d'Israele. Invited speaker: Prof. Gustavo Sánchez Canales (Univ. Autónoma Madrid) Program Photos of the event.
Feb 4 Cooperación Co-desarrollo. Participación de SIIM en el Foro Hispano-Africano 2012 y Movimiento por la Paz Presentación Participantes Photos
Jan 20-24 University Hyderabad, India. Confernce on Accesibility in the Web and Lectures on Intermediality. Photos.
Jan 18-19 Pondicherry University, South India Seminar on Comparative Literature . Photos and Women Studies Workshop Photos
Jan 15-17 Maharata Institute of Technology. Bhubaneswar , Osissa, India. International Seminar on Cultural Communication B-learning and E-learning . Programme Photos Work with Bengali Poet Anjan Sen
Jan 8-9 Delhi University Cooperation Europe/India Workshop . CISCA Programme Conference Photos
Research and Cooperation Activities 2011
Dec 7-10 Cooperation Europe/India Workshop . CISCA Aarhus University, Denmark. CISCA photo album
Nov. 18 Excma Sra. Dña. Rosalía Aranda. Decana de la Facultad de Formación del Profesorado. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid . Jornada Presentación Proyecto de Cooperación Interuniversitaria. Aula Histórica 13-30-14.00 Facultad de Filología Información sobre el programa de cooperación Project Press Dissemination Complutense Sahara Team Photos of cooperation program Website of Sahara Cinema Festival
Nov. 18 Conference by Prof. Rina Ramdev, Sri Venkateswara College, Univ. Delhi "The Culture Industry in the Postcolony: Readings Beyond the Mediatized Consumption of Indian Writing in English" Aula Histórica 13.00-14.00 Facultad de Filología , Universidad Complutense Madrid Late Diwali Celebration . Presentation of Leyla Zurah and her group of Hindu dancing and Bollywood, SALAAM
Oct 5-7 Workshop Literature and Digital SocietyUniversité Paris 8 Photos of the event
Oct 3-4 Workshop:Online Creative Writing organized by Gustavo Sánchez Canales(Universidad Autónoma Madrid)Presentation Prof. López-Varela (UCM) Presentation Prof. Maya Zalbidea (Univ. CamiloJoséCela & SIIM coordinator Gender Issues)
Sept 20. Meeting ExecutiveCommittee European Network for Comparative Literary Studies. REELC/ENCLS
July 1-30 Research Seminar. Harvard Institute for World Literatures. Peking University, Beijing
June 23-26 Research panels at the Conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies NECS. Kings College, University of London. Panel: Intermedial Soundscapes, Politics and Memory (coordinator Prof. A López-Varela)
April 26 Research Seminar. Seminario de Semiótica, Comunicación y Cultura 2011 Coordinator: Prof. Cristina Peñamarín. Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, UCM. Guest speaker: Prof. A. López-Varela: Relaciones interpersonales e intermedialidad: Fundamentos cognitivo-emocionales de la comunicación
May 27-28 Research Seminar: The Other City: Real and Virtual Encounters in Emergent Urban Environments. Universidad Complutense Madrid and Universidad Autónma Madrid. Invited participants: Prof. Tutun Mukherjee, Head, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. India; Prof. Steven Tötösy (Purdue Univ.), Prof. Agata Lisiak (Independent Scholar, Berlin), Prof. Christopher Larkosh (Univ. Mass) Prof. María Victoria Sotomayor and Prof. Gustavo Sánchez Canales (Univ. Autónoma Madrid).
March 11-12 Forum for Intermedial Studies Linnaeus Univ.,Sweden. Seminar: Narration as Transmedial Phenomenon.
Jan 20-12 OLE Officina di Letteratura Electtronica Napoli (Italia).
Research Activities 2010
EAAS Networks Research meeting : Julia Ward Howe's The Hermaphrodite Literature, Hermaphrodite: intersex-ions of writing, culture and media Salón de Grados Facultad de Filología UCM 4-5 November 2010. Seminar schedule
SIIM Research Team organizers of Outline of the Modern City: Images, formats, styles.Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2010 Programme Centre of Excellence in Image Studies CESI Bucharest
19th Conference International Association of Comparative literature /Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, 15-21 August 2010. Steven Tötösy and Asunción López-Varela Panel Organizers Session II Locating Culture in the Hypertextual Age: "Comparative Cultural Studies and Interculturalism in the Age of the Digital Turn."
Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication(Catac) conference 15-18 Junio University Bristish Columbia, Vancouver, Canada "From Intersubjectivity to Interculturalism in Digital Learning Environments" Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Vancouver, Canada, 15-18 June 2010 . Edited by Fay Sudweeks, Herbert Hrachovec and Charles Ess. School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, Murdoch WA 6150 Australia
Electronic Literature Organization Brown University 3-6 June 2010 López-Varela Panel coordinator.
Humanities, Arts, Sciences and Technology -Advanced Collaboratory University of Illinois LópezVarela "Intermedial Semiotics and Education" Hastac Conference 16-17 April 2010
American Comparative Literature Association Univ. New Orleans López-Varela ""Fractured Topographies: From Avant-Garde to Electronic Literature" 31 March-5 April 2010
Cultural Studies Association University California Berkeley López-Varela "Intermedial Semiotics: a cultural studies approach" 17-25 Marzo 2010
Digital Assembly University of Florida 23-28 February 2010 A. López-Varela "Reconfigurations: Intermediality, Multimodality, Remediation and their environs"
Research Activities 2009
Eurocall Computer Mediated Communication SIG: Workshop Universidad de Leon López-Varela "Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation: Research Program" 23-25 Abril 2009
López-Varela "Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature" American Comparative Literature Association, Global Languages, Local Cultures" Harvard University, March 26-29, 2009,
López-Varela "Multimodal Metaphor and Digital Literature" AEDEAN Workshop "Metaphor, Metonymy and Multimodality" University of Amsterdam June -3-5, 2009
López-Varela & Mariana Net Course Organizers Summer Programme Real & Virtual Cities para el International Summer School for Semiotic Studies: Pan European Culture Heritage in the Global World. International Semiotic Institute. Imatra, Finland, June 5 - 9, 2009
López-Varela "The Study of Co-operation and Collaboration between Media and Art Forms" Forum for Intermedial Studies: Intermediality - Linneaus University, Sweden Sept. 15-17, 2009
López-Varela "Intermedial Semiotics and Intersubjective Approaches" Semio X Conference 22-26 Sept 2009, À Coruña, Spain International Semiotics Association
Research Activities 2008
López-Varela Transatlantic Dialogues: Europe and the US May 22-24 2008. Fulbright Commission and University of Bucharest.
López-Varela "E-motions and the Pleasures of the Interface" EAAS Networks Research meeting: "E-motion: Sentiment and Technology" Annual Fatih University Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies. Istanbul, Turkey, May 16-17, 2008,
López-Varela "Canon and border-crossing in the work of Mina Loy" EAAS Networks Research meeting: Colloque International Les Réécritures du Canon dans la littérature féminine de langue anglaise (II) Université Paris X-Nanterre, 6-7 Juin 2008
López-Varela " Bridging Intertextuality and Intermediality from a Cultural and Literary Perspective" E-lit conference. Universisty of Bergen (Norway). Sept. 11-14 2008
López-Varela "Studies on Intermediality as Intercultural Mediation" European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) 2nd European Communication Conference Barcelona 2008, 25-28 November 2008.
López-Varela & Mariana Net "Mindscapes: Cityscapes, Landscapes, Hyperspaces". Cultural Landscapes: Heritage and Conservation. 3rd Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE). Instituto Franklin. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. 16-19 Octubre 2008.
López-Varela "Intermedial Literary Spaces: Bridging the Material and the Cultural" XXXII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-norteamericanos (AEDEAN) Universidad de las Islas Baleares Palma de Mallorca, 13-15 noviembre 2008
Research Activities 2007
López-Varela Re-Mediating Literature Conference Utrecht University July 4-6, 2007
López-Varela The Urbanity of the World and the Dividing of the Cities International Conference Creativity and Transformations of Societies KCTOS/INST 6-9 Dec 2007
Research Activities 2006
López-Varela, “·B-learning Approaches to the Teaching of Literature" Literary Studies in Open Distance Learning, International Conference 7-9 April 2006, Crete (Greece)
López-Varela, "The role of education within the framework of information sciences and technologies ", I International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies (InSciT2006), Oct 25-28 2006 Merida, Spain
López-Varela "B-learning experiences at Universidad Complutense Madrid". Facultad de Sociología, Universidad Complutense Madrid.
Research Activities 2005
López-Varela Lecturer Digital Technologies II Jornada Innovación Educativa de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación . 14 June 2005
Research Activities 2004
López-Varela Lecturer Digital Technologies I Jornada Innovación Educativa de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación . 14 June 2004
López-Varela, A. "From Text to Hypertext: A Semiotic Approach" Signs of the World; Interculturality and Glogalization. 8th Congress International Association of Semiotic Studies Louis Panier and Bernard Lamizet, Université Lumière, Lyon 2. 7-12 July 2004 Proposals
López-Varela “Comparative Literature & Transliteratures”, Metamorphosis Structures of Cultural Transformations, ESSE Congress (European Federation of National Higher Educational Associations for the Study of English) Jürgen Schlaeger coor. 7-12 Sept. 2004 Zaragoza; Spain
Research Activities 2003
López-Varela "Intermediality, Cultural Studies and Semiotics", Hermeneia 26 June 2003.
López-Varela “Identities and Interculturalism", with Helene Rufat, Martín Rodrigo, Antón Luna, & Ernest Cañada Universidad Pompeu Fabra 27 June 2003.
López-Varela "Expatriación, diáspora e hibridación y la construcción del sujeto modernista en la obra de Joyce. ”, Actas Mesa Redonda Congreso AEDEAN 2003 Published in Editorial Ambos Mundos, 2004 ISBN: 84-7455-103-X
López-Varela "Experiencias en el aula con nuevas tecnologías". Summary publicshed in Campus Virtual UCM 1 & 2 Ana Fernández -Pampillón Editorial Complutense 2005