Dr Katharine Murphy

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Conference Organisation

  • 5-16 March 2007 Co-organiser for the ‘Symposium for the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain' event, Hispanic Studies Unit, University of Exeter. The Symposium took place over 2 weeks, with a number of internal and visiting speakers, including Dr Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh) and Almudena Asenjo (Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero, Madrid).

Conference Papers Given (since 2001)

  • ‘Defining the Artist in Camino de perfección and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'. April 2003. University of Glasgow. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) Conference
  • ‘Spanish Connections: Painting in the Novels of Pío Baroja'. September 2003. Romance Studies Colloquium: ‘Habitat', Gregynog, Powys
  • ‘ "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know": Portraits of Spanish Malaise'. July 2007. Institute of European Cultural Identity Studies, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews. International Conference: Europe and its Others.
  • ‘ "The horror! The horror!" From Eroticism to Monstrosity in Rosa Chacel's Memorias de Leticia Valle'. April 2010. King's College London. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) Conference
  •  ‘At the Crossroads in 1900: Symbolism and the Female Psyche in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez’      March 2011. Visiting speaker, Hispanic Studies Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh
  • ‘At the Crossroads in 1900: From Naturalism to the Unconscious in Blasco Ibáñez’s Entre naranjos and Baroja’s La casa de Aizgorri’. April 2011. University of Nottingham. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) Conference
  • ‘Female Subjectivity and the New Woman in Pío Baroja’s El árbol de la ciencia and El mundo es ansí’. November 2011. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS) Conference