Dr. Ricard Mamblona, a professor at the UIC's Faculty of Communication Sciences, spoke at the 19th Congress of the German Association of Hispanists, held at the Universität Münster (Germany) on Thursday, 21 March 2013. He gave the lecture «Journeys of Personal Identification in Contemporary Documentaries: Remarks on the Personal and the Public in Self-Referential Cinema».
This edition of the congress was centred on the idea of “Building Bridges Through Hispanic Studies” and its programme aimed to shine the spotlight on the unique position occupied by interdisciplinary research within the field of philology.
Specifically, the mission was to forge and uncover new links between Hispanic studies and other areas of research. This involved building bridges within the subdisciplines that make up the field of Hispanic studies and with other branches of knowledge such as history, art, politics and the natural sciences. The congress served as a showcase for a variety of lines of enquiry that can be applied to Hispanic studies, whether driven by interdisciplinarity or by a synchronic or diachronic approach.
Speaking as part of the section “From Knowledge to Experience: New Documentary Forms in Spain and Latin America”, Mamblona probed into the role played by personal identification in contemporary documentaries and offered a series of insights on the synergies between the personal and the public in self-referential cinema.
