Professor Carmen Morán, a member of the MASKS team, delivered a keynote lecture at the prestigious University of Granada on the occasion of the celebration of their patron saint, Saint Isidore of Seville. The event took place on April 24 in the García Lorca Hall.
Our colleague gave the conference "The Soul of the Celebration: Reflections on Humanity, Celebration, and Contemporary Culture," in the presence of the Dean, Ana Gallego Cuiñas. She approached the subject in an innovative way, focusing on the concept of celebration from various fields of knowledge, such as art, music, philosophy, anthropology, literature, culture, and history, among others.
Under the motto The Festival of Letters, these days of celebration will allow each discipline of the faculty to offer unique perspectives on what a celebration is, its social functions, symbolic meanings, political implications, and artistic and cultural representations. From Nietzsche's concept of the Dionysian, to Clifford Geertz's reflections on social rituals, Bakhtin’s carnival, and the studies on festivals by Jacques Le Goff and Carlo Ginzburg, along with Goya’s paintings, the novels of Fitzgerald and García Márquez, and popular songs, among others — all of these contribute to an understanding of a phenomenon that explores the dynamics between identity, alterity, and community, the very essence that defines the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the UGR.
