Diego Jose Abad, dean of the Institute of Arts and Sciences, represented Far Eastern University (FEU) in being recognized for its collaborative proposal to promote the study of the history of Spain and its role in the different corners of the world.
The university is among others, which proposed “Más allá de las noticias: la literatura en la prensa filipina en español” (Beyond the news: literature in the Philippine Spanish-language press). The proposal is from Université Paris Nanterre / CRIIA – Unité de recherche Etudes Romanes, UNED, and with researchers from Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico), Western Washington University (USA), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), University of Amsterdam, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain), Université Clermont Auvergne – CNRS (France), and Hunter College (USA).
Two other proposals shared the €15,000 prize from the contest (II Certamen de Seminarios de Hispanismo Internacional): “La construcción de la negritud” (The construction of blackness), of the University of Oxford and the Autonomous University of Barcelona; and “La difusión internacional de los libros de caballerías castellanos” (The international dissemination of books of Castilian chivalry from the University of Alicante and with researchers from Brown University, Università di Verona, Université Lumière-Lyon II, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, University of Granada, and Cornell University.
A jury made up of the Scientific Committee of the Permanent Observatory of Hispanism was responsible for selecting, from among all the proposals received, the three.
The International Hispanism Seminars, organized by the Duques de Soria Foundation and promoted by the Castilla y León Foundation within the framework of the collaboration agreement signed by both institutions last January took place from July 3 to July 5 at the Convento de la Merced in Soria.
