Global Literary Studies Research Lab is pleased to invite you to the Seminar: «What is a Book Fair? Conceptual Approaches and Methodological Tools», given by Fernando García Naharro, “Ramón y Cajal” Research Fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
The seminar —in the framework of the Translating Diversity: Institutional Agents and Literary Translation Policy-Making in Iberoamerica (2001-2022) project— will be held, in hybrid format, on Monday, May 26 at 15:00 pm (CEST) in Room C1.13 of the Interdisciplinary R&I Hub (Building C).
Venue
Hub Interdisciplinari de Recerca i Innovació (Edifici C - Sala C1.13)
Rambla del Poblenou, 154
08018 Barcelona
Espanya
When
26/05/2025 15.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Global Literary Studies Research Lab
Program
Abstract
This presentation evaluates how the current interest in exploring book fairs has developed, placing recent scholarship in relation to consecrated works in the field, whilst also looking forward to those paths the future research may take. A perfect setting for discussing the challenges of my own research project: to put forward a socio-anthropological approach for studying book fairs and their social actors in the growth of the so-called Global Market.
(*García Naharro has shared 2 texts that will be discussed in the seminar. If you wish to participate in this discussion, please contact GlobaLS’ predoctoral researcher, Olivia Magaña Andaluz at omaganan7@uoc.edu or GlobaLS’ coordinator Diana Roig-Sanz at dsanzr@uoc.edu, for these)
Fernando García Naharro
“Ramón y Cajal” Research Fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). His main research interests include History of the Book and Media, Memory Studies, Science, and Technology Studies and Semiotics. He is the author of several scholarly monographs, such as Editando ciencia y técnica durante el franquismo. Una historia cultural de la editorial Gustavo Gili (1939–1966) (PUZ, 2019) and Palabras, actores, objetos y lugares. El CSIC y la demarcación de la ciencia en la España franquista (1939-1966) (CSIC, 2022). He is co-Principal Investigator of the Research Project “Diplomacia lingüística. La lengua española y la proyección internacional de España: Del Centro de Estudios Históricos al Instituto Cervantes, 1910-1991” (DIPLIN), PID2023-149545OA-I00 (MCIU, Spain).