“Siempre hay tiempo para Santa Marta”– former Spanish student at Aston, Gagan...
I graduated from Aston University back in 2013 with a combined honours degree in Mathematics and Spanish. I stayed at Aston to complete a Masters in Mathematics but always knew that as soon as this was...
View ArticleWORLD POETRY DAY, 21 MARCH 2016
TODAY IS WORLD POETRY DAY AND SPANISH AT ASTON would like to share with all of you one of the first feminist poems in the Western world. The poem is by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th Century...
View ArticleOur student Amy Hares shares her time in Valencia during Las Fallas
TRAVEL · SPAIN fallas and blighty (from: https://newcountriesnewdreams.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/fallas-and-blighty/) April 7, 2016amyhares Saludos desde Inglaterra! It’s been a little while, but I’m...
View ArticleSummer is around the corner…
Summer is around the corner and the Spanish Section is currently wrapping up the academic year. It has been a year full of activities, hard work and recognition. Although we are very sad to have to say...
View ArticleOur Spanish Student Lauren Sharp on her Chilean Experience!
Summarizing the last 4 months is a very hard task! Like every part of life there have been tremendous ups and demoralizing downs (I’d be lying if I said everything was always amazing…nothing is...
View ArticleSammy Holyman on life in the Spanish capital
Hola! I’m Sammy, and I spent my year abroad as an English Language Assistant in Spain I lived in Boadilla del Monte, an affluent suburb of Madrid. I found a house with a lovely Spanish family, which...
View ArticleOur very own Dr Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla’s new book ‘El testimonio en la...
An in-depth analysis of Cuban author’s Reinaldo Arenas’s Pentagony. Last month Dr Panichelli-Batalla, Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies and Head of Spanish here at Aston, released her...
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Talk by Spanish writer Isaac Rosa: “Contar(nos) qué (nos) pasa”
The School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, and Instituto Cervantes are delighted to invite you to the talk of Spanish writer Isaac Rosa (Seville, 1974). Rosa is one of the most...
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II Workshop ‘Narrating the Crisis: New Discursive Paradigms in Spanish...
21 February 2017 Cadbury Room (NX17) Aston University, Birmingham 10.30 – 10.45 Reception 10.45 – 11.00 Welcome Raquel Medina (Spanish), Uwe Schutte (CLaRA) 11.00 – 13.00 Presentations followed by Q...
View ArticleAston University Language Day!
This coming Wednesday 22nd November we will be hosting our annual Language Day! If you are a year 12 or 13 student and are thinking of a degree in Modern Languages (French, Spanish, German and beyond),...
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