During the morning of yesterday, January 24, 2023, the inauguration of the management team of the University Institute of Textual Analysis and Applications took place.

This act was presided over by the Rector of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lluís Serra Majem in the room on April 26 of the Institutional Headquarters of the ULPGC.

Full story: https://www.ulpgc.es/noticia/2023/01/24/toma-posesion-cargos-iatext

On January 23, 2023, the director of the IATEXT division, Group Research Committee on Atlantic Societies and Spaces, Josefina Domínguez Mujica, presented a report on The demographic challenge and territorial balance in the Canary Islands before a committee of the Canary Islands Parliament, which was very well received. It has been echoed by a large number of media outlets in the archipelago.

The full content of his presentation can be found in the video at this link: https: //www.parcan.es/video/jornada/38407/8691/ .

This is an activity to transfer knowledge to society, in which the Research Institute for Textual Analysis and Research is fully committed.

The contracted professor of Human Geography from the Department of Geography and member of IATEXT, Víctor Jiménez Barrado, has been recognized with a distinction from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Transfer of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as Outstanding Young Researcher of the year 2022, in the branch of Arts and Humanities.

The Institute is pleased with this distinction and congratulates you for it.

Víctor Jiménez Barrado, PhD in Geography, Extraordinary Award for Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate, has taught and researched at the University of Extremadura and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has had a well-known research activity after his PhD and joined the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the 2021-2022 academic year.

The University Institute for Textual Analysis and Applications (IATEXT) organizes together with the Spanish Association of Literary Studies Hispanic Americans, the Casa de Colón and the Complutense University the XV CONGRESS of the Spanish Association of Hispano-American Literary Studies.

The Congress will take place from September 19 to 22, 2023 at the Casa de Colón, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.