First Seminar on Educational Innovation in the Teaching of Spanish and Spanish Literature at Secondary Level. March 18th 2017.

The Educational Innovation Group in Humanities at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, working within the Project for Educational Innovation called Espacios y Contextos (Space and Context) is holding, in collaboration with the IATEXT, the First Seminar on Educational Innovation in the Teaching of Spanish and Spanish Literature at Secondary Level on March 18th 2017.

This seminar aims to create a space for exchange between young and veteran teachers of secondary school in order to foster creativity and energy in aspiring secondary school teachers. Both groups are essential to make the most out of the creativity and energy of young people so it can be appropriately executed and channeled, taking into consideration the experience of veteran teachers in the field of secondary education.

The Institute in Text Analysis and Applications (IATEXT) leads a Network of Excellence financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO)

The Division of Research, Heritage and Atlantic History at the IATEXT has been granted financing by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness for the purpose of revitalizing a “Network of Excellence” within the National Programme for Fostering Excellence in Scientific and Technical Research, also financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.

Dr. Miguel Suárez Bosa, a tenured professor working at the Division of Research, Heritage and Atlantic History, will lead the Network for Excellence as Head Researcher. The Network is called "La Gobernanza de los Puertos Atlánticos, siglos XIV-XXI" (“The Governance of Atlantic Harbors from the 14th to the 21st Century” (HAR2016-81812-REDT)), and it belongs to the category of Thematic Networks, where more than a hundred researchers from both Spanish and foreign universities participate.

Introduction to the Management of Digital Humanities Projects

The Institute in Text Analysis and Applications (IATEXT), in partnership with the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) and the École Nomal Supérieur (ENS) at the FrenchNational Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), has held the course Introduction to the Management of Digital Humanities Projects. Drawing up a Corpus: from Preparation to Dissemination through Digitalization, Structuring and Document Preservation.

The course was organized by researcher Verónica C. Trujillo-González from the Division of Linguistic Variation and Linguistic Change, and ITEM research engineer Richard Walter. It took place at the IATEXT facilities on January 19th and 20th, and it was given by Richard Walter through videoconference from Paris.

A work co-edited by Pilar Domínguez Prats, awarded by the American Oral History Association

The American Oral History Association (OHA) has granted the Book of the Year Award 2016 to Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation: Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain, which was coedited by Rina Benmayor, María Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and Pilar Dominguez Prats, member of the Division of Documentation, Heritage and Atlantic History at the IATEXT.

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