Doctor from the ULPGC and member of IATEXT, Victoria Domínguez Rodríguez ha  recently published in The Conversation: “Traditional American Medicine: A Linguistic and Ethnological Treasure”.

In this article Domínguez bases his article on AMERLEX-Database , “an online database open to the public whose main objective is to systematically gather the Amerindian voices and voices from Spain (Hispanisms) present in Spanish and English works of the 16th and 17th centuries.” Currently, this database has 558 words corresponding to the lexical field “plants and flora”, of which 105 have a description of their therapeutic usefulness or pharmaceutical form.

The Doctor and member of the University Institute of Textual Analysis and Applications, Carmen Márquez Montes, teaches two university extension courses "Theatre as a resource in teaching" and "Analysis of literary texts in Spanish" which is taught online.

Doctor and member of IATEXT, Carmen Marquez Montes will participate on October 4 in the new session of the Lecture Series "Women in Latin America. Studies and perspectives", under the theme «The boom Ibero-American literary: why are they women writers? »

This initiative is organized by CHAM, within the scope of the Permanent Seminar on Iberian and Ibero-American Studies, with the support of the OEI Portugal.

The session will begin at 2:00 p.m., watch it online (bit.ly/46a714m) or in person at NOVA FCSH — Edifício A Sala A210.

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