This year, 2023, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (BHS) celebrates its centenary. The Bulletin has been published continuously from Liverpool since its foundation by the then Gilmour Chair of Spanish Professor Edgar Allison Peers in 1923. The journal now publishes 10 issues per year.

An invitation for you to contribute

A variety of centenary celebrations have been held throughout 2023, and the culmination of these is this call for Centenary Papers. The Editors are inviting the submission of Centenary Papers that record and reflect on a range of topics within the broad field of Hispanic Studies. The format of these papers will be varied and flexible and can include, as well as standard journal articles, shorter articles, review notes, reflection pieces, or commentaries on a particular topic or trend. Papers are welcomed within any discipline or subject matter covered by the remit of the BHS. Moreover, given the legacy of Edgar Allison Peers, who was an ardent advocator of education as well as research, papers that focus on pedagogy or research-led teaching are also welcome.

Once accepted, papers would be published in a series of issues throughout 2024.

How to submit

If you are interested in submitting a Centenary Paper and would like to discuss it informally with the editors first, please contact: bhs@liverpool.ac.uk

Please submit your Centenary Paper by 31 January 2024 to the BHS’s submission site on ScholarOne: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-bhs

When selecting your manuscript type, please choose the ‘Centenary Paper’ option.

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“Since its inception in 1923 the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies has helped to define an academic discipline. The Centenary Papers are a distinctive opportunity to shape the beginning of a second century of scholarship in a journal which has made a remarkable contribution to its field”.

Anthony Cond, Chief Executive Officer at Liverpool University Press.

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Edgar Allison Peers Symposium November 2023

The annual Edgar Allison Peers Symposium is this year celebrating 100 Years of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Taking place on Friday 3rd November, this event promises a varied day of panel discussions and interactive sessions.

Events begin with a panel reflecting on the journal since its founding in 1923 to the present day which will be presented by the current General Editor of the BHS, Professor Claire Taylor; former General Editor of the BHS, Emeritus Professor Dorothy Severin; General Editor of the companion journal Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies, Professor Diana Cullell; and Chief Executive Officer of Liverpool University Press, Anthony Cond.

There will also be short papers by current and former research students reflecting on the legacy of Edgar Allison Peers; a presentation by Mujer Diáspora, a community group representing Colombian women in exile in the UK; a panel exploring new directions in Hispanic Studies; the Steve Rubenstein Annual Lecture: La Nueva Canción Chilena; discussion exploring ‘Future Directions in Hispanism: Twenty-First Century Hispanism in the Digital Age’; and a specialist librarian from Instituto Cervantes’s will deliver a talk entitled ‘What does the Cervantes Library offer to a Hispanist?’

Finally, symposium attendees will be invited to browse items from the Special Collections and Archives of the Sydney Jones Library, where items from the Robert Pring-Mill Collection, the Edgar Allison Peers Collection, and the Blanco White papers will be on display. 

Find out more and register to attend >

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