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Cercles, l’h\u00e0bitat protohist\u00f2ric de l’illa de Menorca<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nOctavio Torres, PhD and Amalia P\u00e9rez-Juez, PhD (coord.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis book explores the study of protohistoric domestic spaces in Menorca, focusing on the archaeological structures known as\u00a0<\/span><\/span>cercles<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>It stems from a scientific forum celebrated in 2022 and funded by the Consell Insular de Menorca which aimed at reassessing these structures beyond their typological definitions, addressing key questions such as their spatial organization, functions, external courtyards, urban groupings, chronology, and later reuse during Roman and Andalusian periods. The work emphasizes i<\/span>![\"\"](\"\/madrid\/files\/2025\/02\/portada-libro-amalia-4.png\")
nte<\/span>rdisciplinary methodologies at both micro- and macro-scales to deepen understanding, encourages scholarly debate to establish a coherent yet dynamic interpretation, and seeks to enhance the dissemination of research findings. Additionally, it supported the nomination of Talayotic Menorca as a UNESCO World Heritage site by fostering collaboration among archaeologists, policymakers, and the wider community.<\/p>\nCONFERENCE, Madrid’s Museo Arqueol\u00f3gico Nacional (MAN): Entre c\u00edrculos y rect\u00e1ngulos. El reciente descubrimiento de la reocupaci\u00f3n andalus\u00ed del yacimiento talay\u00f3tico de Torre d\u2019en Galm\u00e9s, Menorca: BU Madrid, Archeology Project in Menorca<\/a> — a success! Enhorabuena!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe official conquest of Menorca in 902\/903, on behalf of the Emir of C\u00f3rdoba, led to the arrival of Andalusi settlers on the island. This population continued to grow over the following centuries, influenced by political and military events in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa up to the 13th century.<\/em><\/p>\nThis project focuses on Torre d\u2019en Galm\u00e9s, one of Menorca\u2019s largest and best-studied Talayotic sites. Here, an Andalusi community built a small rural settlement (alquer\u00eda) over and among the Iron Age structures. The houses had rectangular rooms arranged around a central courtyard, each including a kitchen and pantry where hearths, millstones, and numerous storage, cooking, and serving vessels have been found. The buildings were coated in white plaster inside and out, and roofed with tiles. <\/em>One puzzle remains: why did the Andalusi settlers choose not to reuse the well-preserved post-Talayotic circular houses that could still have served as effective dwellings?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/madrid\/files\/2025\/11\/menorca-cartel-for-website-448x300.jpg\")
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Alberto Greco\u2019s\u00a0Vivo-Dito<\/i>, Lettrism, and the Prophecies of the Proper Name<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nFernando Herrero Matoses, PhD\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nThis chapter explores the legacy of Lettrism in the practices of Argentine artist Alberto Greco as a means of investigating the self-proclaimed prophetic narrative of neo-avant-garde artists in Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It examines how Greco\u2019s ephemeral public actions (Vivo-Dito) in the streets of Paris, Buenos Aires, or Madrid, in which he repeatedly proliferated his own name as both signature and work of art, opened up exploratory avenues in which the artistic self was both inscribed and dispossessed. This text builds on Andrew Hussey\u2019s interpretation of Isidore Isou\u2019s artistic practice as a field of poetic forces. It examines Isou\u2019s works as aesthetic and vital possibilities for perpetual exile while creating immersive universes. It further argues that although Isou\u2019s and Greco\u2019s artistic trajectories were different, they shared a common conception of the prophetic and messianic dimension of the artist as a proper name.<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\nPintar Peor (D’Apr\u00e9s Eduardo): Guerrero, Campano y Mart\u00edn del Pozo<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\nCurated by: Francisco Ramallo, PhD\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nPintar peor (D\u2019apre\u0300s Eduardo) <\/em>revolves around the personal, artistic, educational, and coincidental relationships between artists Jos\u00e9 Guerrero, Miguel \u00c1ngel Campano, and Eduardo Mart\u00edn del Pozo. The project showcases the outcomes of various encounters between them within the kaleidoscopic network of contemporary painting and its connections to previous generations.<\/p>\nBuilding on Mart\u00edn del Pozo\u2019s interest in the dialogue between painting and music\u2014particularly the compositions of Morton Feldman (whom Philip Guston described as a conversational partner who reminded him he wasn\u2019t crazy)\u2014the exhibition functions as a kind of fugue that disrupts linear chronology. The relationships between the works reveal developments, variations, re-exposures, successions, and artistic or biographical echoes among the protagonists.<\/p>\n
El Pa\u00eds: La pintura de Eduardo Mart\u00edn del Pozo toma el testigo<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/madrid\/files\/2025\/02\/fran-2-533x300.jpg\")
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\nEspacio y Tiempo: La Alquer\u00eda Andalus\u00ed entre el yacimiento de Torre d’en Galm\u00e9s, Menorca<\/strong>![\"\"](\"\/madrid\/files\/2025\/02\/photo-amalia-article-467x300.png\")
<\/strong><\/h4>\nAmalia P\u00e9rez-Juez, Alexander J. Smith, Kathleen M. Forste, Helena Kirchner, Guillem Alcolea, Emma Wagner<\/strong><\/p>\nMedieval archaeology in Spain continues to undergo conceptual and terminological revisions, with ideas constantly discussed, rejected, revisited, or nuanced, depending on the historiographical and political moment. This has resulted in different ideological shifts influencing the representation of these historical moments. The project that we present in this article aims to highlight this somewhat erratic trend in which invisible or even rejected historical periods acquire value thanks to a systematic investigation based not simply on popular ideas in the 21st century, but above all on archaeological evidence that challenges written sources and existing bibliography.<\/p>\n
This article summarizes the Menorca Archaeological Project\u2019s work on a medieval farm settlement at the site of Torre d\u2019en Galm\u00e9s, Menorca, and how Andalusian occupation of Talayotic sites responded to models of functional adaptation, cultural tradition, social, and religious regulations, economic needs, and domestic norms. Despite its enormous impact on the landscape, this particular historical period (902-1287 AD) suffered a damnatio memoriae, which lasted from the Christian conquest until the end of the 20th century (P\u00e9rez-Juez and Sintes, 2022). With this research we hope to recover a historical era that was allowed, intentionally or not, to fall into cultural and scientific oblivion.<\/p>\n
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A First Look at Language Contributions: 20 Years of Study Abroad in Spain and France<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nFrontiers: The <\/span>Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad<\/span><\/p>\nCristina P\u00e9rez Calleja, Julia Carnine<\/strong><\/p>\nIn a unique learning <\/span>context, language<\/span>–<\/span>positive environments outside the <\/span>classroom, not enclosed instruction on U.S. campuses, education abroad foreign <\/span>language instructors develop distinct teaching practices. Education abroad <\/span>researchers have accounted for informal learning o<\/span>pportunities, yet few have <\/span>attended to onsite language instruction. This article is a novel attempt to build <\/span>understanding of transatlantic foreign language space with interviews (N = 14) of <\/span>seasoned instructors (+20 years) of French and Spanish. Both are <\/span>commonly <\/span>taught foreign languages, with France and Spain being top education abroad <\/span>destinations and offering a \u2018state of the art\u2019 view. Focusing on past training (U.S. <\/span>or EU), innovations, intergenerational challenges, and complexities in <\/span>assessment, we e<\/span>stablish a basis for future research. We find that while U.S. <\/span>degree<\/span>–<\/span>holders are more familiar with U.S. grading, it <\/span>remains solely an <\/span>institutional practice. Furthermore, enlisting foreign language instructor input, <\/span>U.S. institutions may improve training, <\/span>co<\/span>–<\/span>creating pedagogical guidelines with <\/span>this qualified group.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHow Foreign Accents Subconsciously Shape the Way We Interact<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\nThe Conversation<\/p>\n
Luca Bazzi, Alice Foucart, Susanne Brouwer<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/madrid\/files\/2025\/03\/luca-article-pic.png\")
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Imagine that you invite a friend, a non-native speaker of your own language, round for dinner. While cooking, you get distracted and the food ends up burnt to a crisp. Once the smoke detector stops shrieking, your friend might crack a joke to puncture the tension, something along the lines of \u201cWow! I didn\u2019t know you were such an good cook!\u201d Among native speakers, the irony of the comment would be obvious, as is the intended response \u2013 ideally you say \u201cYes, I\u2019m the best!\u201d, then everybody laughs and you order takeaway. However, with a non-native speaker the irony of such a comment might get lost. Your friend\u2019s lighthearted joke might come off as mean, and it could cause awkwardness or even offence.<\/p>\n
This scenario illustrates a deep cognitive and social truth: foreign accents can have a big impact on the way we interpret meaning. In our increasingly globalised world, foreign accents are an inevitable part of communication, but studies suggest they can create barriers, not just in comprehension but also in perception of the speaker and social interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Congratulations on your retirement, Carlos Vela! Thank you for 30 years with us at BU Madrid. Te deseamos lo mejor! Cercles, l’h\u00e0bitat protohist\u00f2ric de l’illa de Menorca Octavio Torres, PhD and Amalia P\u00e9rez-Juez, PhD (coord.) This book explores the study of protohistoric domestic spaces in Menorca, focusing on the archaeological structures known as\u00a0cercles.\u00a0It stems from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2304,"featured_media":0,"parent":26653,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25626"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26243,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25626\/revisions\/26243"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
This book explores the study of protohistoric domestic spaces in Menorca, focusing on the archaeological structures known as\u00a0<\/span><\/span>cercles<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>It stems from a scientific forum celebrated in 2022 and funded by the Consell Insular de Menorca which aimed at reassessing these structures beyond their typological definitions, addressing key questions such as their spatial organization, functions, external courtyards, urban groupings, chronology, and later reuse during Roman and Andalusian periods. The work emphasizes i<\/span> CONFERENCE, Madrid’s Museo Arqueol\u00f3gico Nacional (MAN): Entre c\u00edrculos y rect\u00e1ngulos. El reciente descubrimiento de la reocupaci\u00f3n andalus\u00ed del yacimiento talay\u00f3tico de Torre d\u2019en Galm\u00e9s, Menorca: BU Madrid, Archeology Project in Menorca<\/a> — a success! Enhorabuena!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The official conquest of Menorca in 902\/903, on behalf of the Emir of C\u00f3rdoba, led to the arrival of Andalusi settlers on the island. This population continued to grow over the following centuries, influenced by political and military events in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa up to the 13th century.<\/em><\/p>\n This project focuses on Torre d\u2019en Galm\u00e9s, one of Menorca\u2019s largest and best-studied Talayotic sites. Here, an Andalusi community built a small rural settlement (alquer\u00eda) over and among the Iron Age structures. The houses had rectangular rooms arranged around a central courtyard, each including a kitchen and pantry where hearths, millstones, and numerous storage, cooking, and serving vessels have been found. The buildings were coated in white plaster inside and out, and roofed with tiles. <\/em>One puzzle remains: why did the Andalusi settlers choose not to reuse the well-preserved post-Talayotic circular houses that could still have served as effective dwellings?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Fernando Herrero Matoses, PhD\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This chapter explores the legacy of Lettrism in the practices of Argentine artist Alberto Greco as a means of investigating the self-proclaimed prophetic narrative of neo-avant-garde artists in Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It examines how Greco\u2019s ephemeral public actions (Vivo-Dito) in the streets of Paris, Buenos Aires, or Madrid, in which he repeatedly proliferated his own name as both signature and work of art, opened up exploratory avenues in which the artistic self was both inscribed and dispossessed. This text builds on Andrew Hussey\u2019s interpretation of Isidore Isou\u2019s artistic practice as a field of poetic forces. It examines Isou\u2019s works as aesthetic and vital possibilities for perpetual exile while creating immersive universes. It further argues that although Isou\u2019s and Greco\u2019s artistic trajectories were different, they shared a common conception of the prophetic and messianic dimension of the artist as a proper name.<\/span><\/p>\n Curated by: Francisco Ramallo, PhD\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Pintar peor (D\u2019apre\u0300s Eduardo) <\/em>revolves around the personal, artistic, educational, and coincidental relationships between artists Jos\u00e9 Guerrero, Miguel \u00c1ngel Campano, and Eduardo Mart\u00edn del Pozo. The project showcases the outcomes of various encounters between them within the kaleidoscopic network of contemporary painting and its connections to previous generations.<\/p>\n Building on Mart\u00edn del Pozo\u2019s interest in the dialogue between painting and music\u2014particularly the compositions of Morton Feldman (whom Philip Guston described as a conversational partner who reminded him he wasn\u2019t crazy)\u2014the exhibition functions as a kind of fugue that disrupts linear chronology. The relationships between the works reveal developments, variations, re-exposures, successions, and artistic or biographical echoes among the protagonists.<\/p>\n El Pa\u00eds: La pintura de Eduardo Mart\u00edn del Pozo toma el testigo<\/a><\/p>\n Amalia P\u00e9rez-Juez, Alexander J. Smith, Kathleen M. Forste, Helena Kirchner, Guillem Alcolea, Emma Wagner<\/strong><\/p>\n Medieval archaeology in Spain continues to undergo conceptual and terminological revisions, with ideas constantly discussed, rejected, revisited, or nuanced, depending on the historiographical and political moment. This has resulted in different ideological shifts influencing the representation of these historical moments. The project that we present in this article aims to highlight this somewhat erratic trend in which invisible or even rejected historical periods acquire value thanks to a systematic investigation based not simply on popular ideas in the 21st century, but above all on archaeological evidence that challenges written sources and existing bibliography.<\/p>\n This article summarizes the Menorca Archaeological Project\u2019s work on a medieval farm settlement at the site of Torre d\u2019en Galm\u00e9s, Menorca, and how Andalusian occupation of Talayotic sites responded to models of functional adaptation, cultural tradition, social, and religious regulations, economic needs, and domestic norms. Despite its enormous impact on the landscape, this particular historical period (902-1287 AD) suffered a damnatio memoriae, which lasted from the Christian conquest until the end of the 20th century (P\u00e9rez-Juez and Sintes, 2022). With this research we hope to recover a historical era that was allowed, intentionally or not, to fall into cultural and scientific oblivion.<\/p>\n Frontiers: The <\/span>Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad<\/span><\/p>\n Cristina P\u00e9rez Calleja, Julia Carnine<\/strong><\/p>\n In a unique learning <\/span>context, language<\/span>–<\/span>positive environments outside the <\/span>classroom, not enclosed instruction on U.S. campuses, education abroad foreign <\/span>language instructors develop distinct teaching practices. Education abroad <\/span>researchers have accounted for informal learning o<\/span>pportunities, yet few have <\/span>attended to onsite language instruction. This article is a novel attempt to build <\/span>understanding of transatlantic foreign language space with interviews (N = 14) of <\/span>seasoned instructors (+20 years) of French and Spanish. Both are <\/span>commonly <\/span>taught foreign languages, with France and Spain being top education abroad <\/span>destinations and offering a \u2018state of the art\u2019 view. Focusing on past training (U.S. <\/span>or EU), innovations, intergenerational challenges, and complexities in <\/span>assessment, we e<\/span>stablish a basis for future research. We find that while U.S. <\/span>degree<\/span>–<\/span>holders are more familiar with U.S. grading, it <\/span>remains solely an <\/span>institutional practice. Furthermore, enlisting foreign language instructor input, <\/span>U.S. institutions may improve training, <\/span>co<\/span>–<\/span>creating pedagogical guidelines with <\/span>this qualified group.<\/span><\/p>\n The Conversation<\/p>\n Luca Bazzi, Alice Foucart, Susanne Brouwer<\/strong><\/p>\n Imagine that you invite a friend, a non-native speaker of your own language, round for dinner. While cooking, you get distracted and the food ends up burnt to a crisp. Once the smoke detector stops shrieking, your friend might crack a joke to puncture the tension, something along the lines of \u201cWow! I didn\u2019t know you were such an good cook!\u201d Among native speakers, the irony of the comment would be obvious, as is the intended response \u2013 ideally you say \u201cYes, I\u2019m the best!\u201d, then everybody laughs and you order takeaway. However, with a non-native speaker the irony of such a comment might get lost. Your friend\u2019s lighthearted joke might come off as mean, and it could cause awkwardness or even offence.<\/p>\n This scenario illustrates a deep cognitive and social truth: foreign accents can have a big impact on the way we interpret meaning. In our increasingly globalised world, foreign accents are an inevitable part of communication, but studies suggest they can create barriers, not just in comprehension but also in perception of the speaker and social interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations on your retirement, Carlos Vela! Thank you for 30 years with us at BU Madrid. Te deseamos lo mejor! Cercles, l’h\u00e0bitat protohist\u00f2ric de l’illa de Menorca Octavio Torres, PhD and Amalia P\u00e9rez-Juez, PhD (coord.) This book explores the study of protohistoric domestic spaces in Menorca, focusing on the archaeological structures known as\u00a0cercles.\u00a0It stems from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2304,"featured_media":0,"parent":26653,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25626"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26243,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25626\/revisions\/26243"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/madrid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}nte<\/span>rdisciplinary methodologies at both micro- and macro-scales to deepen understanding, encourages scholarly debate to establish a coherent yet dynamic interpretation, and seeks to enhance the dissemination of research findings. Additionally, it supported the nomination of Talayotic Menorca as a UNESCO World Heritage site by fostering collaboration among archaeologists, policymakers, and the wider community.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nAlberto Greco\u2019s\u00a0Vivo-Dito<\/i>, Lettrism, and the Prophecies of the Proper Name<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\nPintar Peor (D’Apr\u00e9s Eduardo): Guerrero, Campano y Mart\u00edn del Pozo<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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\nEspacio y Tiempo: La Alquer\u00eda Andalus\u00ed entre el yacimiento de Torre d’en Galm\u00e9s, Menorca<\/strong>
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\nA First Look at Language Contributions: 20 Years of Study Abroad in Spain and France<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nHow Foreign Accents Subconsciously Shape the Way We Interact<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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