A new teaching category at the Spanish University of Franco’s regime: the appearance on the scene of the senior lecturer

The Law of 17 July 1965 on the structure of university faculties and their teaching staff placed the figure of the university senior lecturer on stage. During the sixties, the gestation process, adoption and subsequent integration of the new figure in the academic pyramid did not escape controversy, leading to a complex phenomenon to which, however, non comprehensive studies have been devoted to reveal: how, when, why and under which conditions this teacher appeared in the Spanish University of Franco’s regime. This paper aims to provide an overview of the process of materialization of the senior lecturer, the legislative framework that definitely established this new educational category and the provisions that were in charge of regulating the processes to get tenure. Also, the first approved aggregate endowments and their distribution among universities, colleges and studies will be discussed. Finally, it was a first approach to the possible motivations that led to the creation of this new educational category in a university afflicted by serious problems waiting for a solution that had been delayed sine die. Asimismo, se analizarán las primeras dotaciones de agregados aprobadas y la distribución de las mismas por universidades, facultades y estudios. Para terminar, se realiza un primer acercamiento a las posibles motivaciones que condujeron a la creación de esta nueva figura docente en una universidad aquejada de graves problemas que esperaban a una solución que venía demorándose sine die.

Periferias urbanas: retrato del extrarradio barcelonés en las novelas de Javier Pérez Andújar

Javier Pérez Andújar, a través de su propia memoria, crea en Los príncipes valientes (2007) y Paseos con mi madre (2011) un retrato detallado del extrarradio barcelonés. En ambas novelas, el autor combina diferentes elementos: la memoria oral, la metaliteratura, la crónica y la cultura popular. De este modo narra la historia de tres generaciones ubicadas en las afueras de la ciudad. El presente artículo centra su análisis, basándose en una contextualización histórica, en la configuración del espacio y el estudio de las características morfológicas y sociales propias de los extrarradios. Con ello se pretende demostrar la significación histórica y social del extrarradio en la historia contemporánea de Barcelona.

The soundscape as time capsule: A creative project based on the sounds of the first train station of Cuenca

This article reflects on the changing environment through the passage of time and how certain technologies for a creative proposal allow the preservation and transmission of a significant part of that ephemeral heritage for future generations. The general purpose of this particular project is aimed to achieve the sound synthesis of a specific and representative cityscape as the old train station in Cuenca –located in the heart of the city– that could be preserved and reproduced as an unique document of a present time, ascertainable in the future: a memory that interpret sound as a time capsule. This soundscape was made to mark the arrival of the high speed train in 2010 to a brand new station in the outskirts of the city. Therefore, the goal of this research was focused on achieving a synthetic document that provided a sound memory capable of reflecting the significant social, cultural and logistical features, of what was until then the only railway communication symbol in the city of Cuenca from 1883 to the first decade of the 21st century.

The Rhetorical Construction of Corporate Logos

This research is set in the context of today’s societies, in which the corporate visual symbology of a business, corporation or institution constitutes an essential way to transmit its corporate image. Traditional discursive procedures can be discovered in the development of these signs. The rhetorical strategies developed by the great classical authors appear in the logo-symbols expressing the corporate values of today’s companies. Thus, rhetoric is emerging once again in the sense it had many centuries ago: A repertory of rules that, paradoxically, standardizes the deviations of language and whose control is synonymous with power. The main objective of this study is to substantiate the rhetorical construction of logos using as a model of analysis the classical process of creating discourse. This involves understanding logos as persuasive discourses addressed to a modern audience. Our findings show that the rhetorical paradigm can be considered as a creative model for the con­struction of an original logo consistent with a company’s image.

Some thoughts on Juan Antonio Ramírez´s iconologic-paranoid method for the study of Dali´s works

In 1990, Juan Antonio Ramírez made known his iconological paranoiac method to the academic world. It is a system devised to study Dalí´s work, born of happy matrimony between the catalonian artist´s critical paranoiac method and the first iconographic school of Warburg and Panofsky. What, at first sight, seemed to be an extravagant methodology with little academic credibility, turned out to be, by going forward in time, an effective research method when analyzing Dali´s initial works. It is no wonder that, at the beginning of XXI century, this hybridization between Dalí´s and Panofsky’s methods, were regarded as a strange and nonsensical idea. Nevertheless, twenty years after, blatant examples have been noted, which endorse the advantages of this new system for “iconographic” study. As usual, this new contribution by Juan Antonio Ramirez to art history methodology is called upon to have a successful future survival, in forthcoming generations. This article, attempts to analyze this method, inquiring into the validity, effectiveness and practical utility.

Inventing the Origin of Theatre History: The Modern Uses of Juba II's 'teatriké historia'

Historia de la Filosofía III-2 Siglo XIX-XX. SUA

Temario: Filosofía de la historia, individuo y libertad en Hegel, Kierkeggard, Nietszche, Sartre y Posmodernidad.

Programa Historia Literaria 1 (letras inglesas)

Programa correspondiente al primer semestre de la materia Historia Literaria 1 de la carrera de Letras Inglesas

Historia de la Filosofía III-2 De Hegel a nuestros días

Este documento contiene el programa de la materia y resúmenes de las clases del semestre de autores como Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Sartre y sobre temas como libertad, individuo, historia, progreso y posmodernidad.

Historia de la Filosofía III-2. Kant

Este documento contiene el resumen de las dos primeras clases sobre la filosofía de la historia de Kant y su vinculación con Hegel

Chiapas a través de los viajeros del siglo XVII: aspectos narrativos e historia descriptiva en Thomas Gage y Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa

Chiapas representó en el siglo XVII una región donde confluían los mitos, temores y fascinaciones de colonos y europeos. Al ser visitada por Thomas Gage en su travesía hacia Guatemala, es descrita en su Nuevo reconocimiento de las Indias Occidentales de modo muy distinto cuando el narrador, como es este caso, registra sus vivencias personales e, incluso, pasionales. Sólo la historiografía moderna podría explicarnos particulares pasajes en que el viajero es abordado súbitamente por una realidad que pasa desapercibida a otros viajeros con un programa muy claro de supervisión y registro de datos, como es el caso de Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa en su Descripción de la Nueva España. Si el historiógrafo describe puntualmente flora, fauna y geografía, el narrador huele, paladea y recorre con nosotros el laberinto de la tierra chiapaneca. El paisaje a través de la persona, con todos los cabos sueltos y apariciones inexplicables para quien se interna en lo desconocido, cobran, a la luz de investigaciones recientes acerca del contexto sociohistórico de Chiapas, un sentido cabal que no sólo nos ilustra, sino que nos interna y se nos interna.

La migración mexica: ¿invención o historia?

Se discute la relación entre mito e historia en las tradiciones históricas relativas a la migración de los mexicas de Aztlan a México-Tenochtitlan, buscando superar la dicotomía que intenta clasificar estos relatos en alguna de estas dos categorías.