The ULPGC has echoed the tenth anniversary of the University Institute of Textual Analysis and Applications and has published a news item to better publicize the Institute and all the achievements of these 10 years.

The IATEXT is the only research institute dedicated to Digital Humanities in the Canary Islands, and in this first decade its 89 assigned researchers have signed a scientific production of more of 2,300 publications.

Last Saturday, February 3, the inauguration of the exhibition took place. Neither stupid nor crazy! Singular women in the surroundings of Negrín that will remain open until June 20. IATEXT researchers Candelaria González Rodríguez and María Luisa Monteiro Quintana, members of the Documentary Heritage and Bibliometrics Division, have participated in this exhibition as curators.

The exhibition that has required research work on documentary collections deposited in the Juan Negrín Foundation Archive and that has been possible thanks to the collaboration with the Juan Negrín Chair attached to IATEXT. She approaches 17 women: writers, politicians, scientists, journalists, thinkers, artists, civil servants, activists and even militia members who had a professional, political or friendship relationship with the Canarian socialist.

The Canaria Scientific and Technological Park Foundation of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has opened the deadline for the Call to hire a project technician (TCP3 – MECES3) for the project European RE-PLACE.

The contract will be 37.5 hours per week, with exclusive dedication to the project being essential. 

The gross monthly remuneration will amount to €1,591.49/month

The work center will be in the facilities of the Obelisco University Campus. Calle Pérez del Toro, 1. 35003, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 

A six-month trial period will be established during which the employment relationship may be terminated at the request of either party. Situations of temporary disability, maternity, and adoption or foster care, which affect the worker during the trial period, will interrupt its calculation. 

IATEXT researchers Juan Manuel Santana Pérez and Nira Santana Montañez, members of the Documentation, Heritage Division and Historia Atlántica, have participated with a chapter titled "Men of the sea and women of the land. The fear of losing one's husband in the Canary Islands during the Old Regime" in the book Homes of the Seas. The family in maritime Spain, 16th-19th centuries, published in Ediciones TREA and edited by Francisco García González (UCLM) and Pablo Ortega del Cerro (UCA).

You can consult the following link the index of the work and the introduction.