Fragmentos del Celeste Imperio
Fragmentos del Celeste Imperio
ALTER member Siwen Ning has just published Fragmentos del Celeste Imperio. La representación de China y su imagen literaria en la España del siglo XIX (Iberoamericana, 2020). Based on Ning’s doctoral dissertation, the book traces[…]
New project by Rocío Ortuño
ALTER member Rocío Ortuño Casanova‘s project “Innovations in Methodologies and Syllabi: Digital Humanities and Philippine Literature” has been selected for a Erasmus+ K2 programme. Coordinating a research team from five European universities (UNED-Spain, Rey Juan[…]
Monograph in L’Espill
ALTER directors David Martínez-Robles and Carles Prado-Fonts have coordinated the monograph “La Xina del present, el món del futur” (China of the present, the world of the future” in the journal L’Espill, published by Universitat[…]
Guest post at Visualising China
The visual repository Historical Photographs of China (HPC), led by Prof. Robert Bickers at University of Bristol, has been an inspiration to many who take part in the academic interest for early photography from China.[…]
New project awarded to ALTER
ALTER has been awarded a grant by the Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation (Proyectos I+D+i 2019 – Modalidades “Retos Investigación” y “Generación de Conocimiento”) to develop the project “Taphonomies of Cross-Cultural Knowledge: Interactions between[…]
New publication by Ginés-Blasi
The latest piece by ALTER member Mònica Ginés-Blasi, “Exploiting Chinese Labour Emigration in Treaty Ports: The Role of Spanish Consulates in the ‘Coolie Trade’“, has recently been published as first view in International Review of[…]
Seminars by Margaret Hillenbrand
On May 9 and 10 prof. Margaret Hillenbrand (China Center, Oxford University) joined ALTER members in a series of seminars in which she presented her latest research projects. Hillenbrand discussed with member of ALTER the[…]
Seminars by Tom Mullaney
On March 12 and 13, Prof. Tom Mullaney visited UOC-Barcelona responding to the invitation by ALTER. On the 12th, Prof. Mullaney discussed with members of the group some of the ideas behind ALTER’s upcoming new[…]
New ALTER member
Researcher, curator and lecturer at UOC María Iñigo Clavo is a new member of ALTER. María’s research on coloniality, curating and museology, with a focus on Latin America and specillay Brazilian art, will contribute to[…]