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The Annual
Pérez Galdós Lecture
The Annual Pérez
Galdós Lecture, endowed by the Spanish Embassy, celebrates the
work of Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spain's greatest
novelist after Cervantes, and one of the masters of European realism.
In
the thirty novels which form the core of his achievement, Galdós
bears unique witness to the public and private life of Madrid in the years
when it began to be a great modern city. Thrustful, yet accident-prone,
shaped by powerful impersonal forces, yet full of intensely human passages
of life, Galdós's Madrid is still our kind of city. As one of his
finest critics wrote, "he makes us see more clearly when we look around
us".
The Spanish Embassy and the
University of Sheffield share the hope that the Pérez Galdós
Lecture will make that experience available to a widening circle of readers.
The
First Annual Pérez Galdós Lecture (1997): Pérez
Galdós: The Illusion of Life itself by the Rt Hon Roy Hattersley
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The Second
Annual Pérez Galdós Lecture (1998): Slice of Life or
Autonomous Creation? Galdós's Novels within the Realist Tradition
by Professor Geoffrey Ribbans (Brown University, USA)
The Third
Annual Pérez Galdós Lecture (1999): Sentimental Genetics:
The Birth of the Intimate Human Sphere in Narrative (Miau) by Professor
Germán Gullón (University of Amsterdam)
The Fourth
Annual Pérez Galdós Lecture (2001): Gifts in the Work
of Galdós by Professor Rodolfo Cardona (Boston University)
The
Fifth Annual Pérez Galdós Lecture (2002): Galdós:
Our Contemporary by Professor James Whiston (Trinity College, Dublin)
The
Sixth Perez Galdos Lecture (2003): Galdosian Odysseys by
Professor Diane Urey (Illinois State University)
The Seventh Pérez
Galdós Lecture (2004): "What is the Stars?" Galdós
and the Measures of Mankind by Emeritus Professor Nicholas G. Round:
The
Eighth Pérez Galdós Lecture: Cervantes in Galdós
by Professor Francisco Caudet (Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid)
The
Ninth Pérez Galdós Lecture: Galdós and Myth
by Professor Eamonn Rodgers (University of Strathclyde)
The
Tenth Pérez Galdós Lecture: Galdós as Traveller
and Travel Writer by Professor Peter Bly (Queen's University, Canada)
The
2011 (Eleventh) Pérez Galdós Lecture: Galdós and Spanish
Cinema by Dr Sally Faulkner (University of Exeter)
The
2012 (Twelfth) Pérez Galdós Lecture: Galdós and 1812 by Dr Stephen Roberts (University of Nottingham) (in .pdf format)
The
2013 (Thirteenth) Pérez Galdós Lecture: by Professor Elisa Martí-Lopez (Northwestern University, USA)
The
2014 (Fourteenth) Pérez Galdós Lecture: by Dr Kirsty Hooper (University of Warwick)
The
2015 (Fifteenth) Pérez Galdós Lecture: by Dr Michael Stannard (University of Exeter)
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