Two University of Navarra graduates to teach Spanish literature and culture in India
The activity is part of the agreement of partnership between the GRISO and The English and Foreign Languages University of Hyderabad.
University of Navarra graduates Ignacio Arellano Torres, graduate in History, and Joaquín Zuleta, PhD student in Hispanic Literature, taught Spanish literature and culture at The English and Foreign Languages University of Hyderabad (India), a university with which the group de research Siglo de Oro (GRISO) of the School de Philosophy y Letras maintains a agreement de partnership. The young people led an intensive course in which, based on the commentary of essential literary texts, a synthesis of Spanish history and culture was offered. The activity was completed with a seminar on Chilean literature given by Joaquín Zuleta. "We have been surprised by the students' enormous interest in Spanish. In fact, our language is expanding all over India, and more and more universities have Spanish readers. The outlook for the coming years is undoubtedly one of great growth", the graduates assured.
Other GRISO agreements with Indian institutions
In recent years, research has also grown in this country in Hispanic subjects. Currently, one of the most important emerging Hispanisms is that of India. In this regard, the GRISO has agreements and agreements of partnership with several universities and institutions in the country, with which it has organized conferences or published books: University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi), K. J. Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskriti Peetham (Bombay), Xavier Centre of Historical Research (Goa), University of Pune and The Teresian Society (Pune), and now also The English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad). The next GRISO activity planned in India will take place in November: the "I congress Ibero-Asian Hispanists of the Golden Age and Hispanism in general", co-organized with the University of Delhi.