Conferenze e presentazioni

With great satisfaction, on February 15th, various partners from the European MASKS project participated in the official presentation during the XII Mask Biennial - MASCARTE. Prof. Pilar Panero (University of […]

The Museo do Pobo Galego opened the exhibition MASKS. Alas y Viento Collection. Nacho Rovira II yesterday, Thursday, 29 January. This exhibition invites visitors to approach the world of masks […]

The 9th Meeting of Historic Ensembles (Urueña, Valladolid), held from October 22–24, 2025, and organized by theNetwork of Historic Ensembles of Castilla y León and the Urueña City Council at […]

The paper “Nostalgia for the Animal in Contemporary Hispanic Literature” is the result of collaboration between the Antropolit Project (Project PID2023-147092OB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, EU) and MASKS. […]

The Erasmus+ Project Unveiling the Arts and Works behind the MASKS, led by the University of Valladolid, has reached its halfway point and held its mid-term review in Bragança on […]

Under the theme ‘Polyphonies. The cultural diversity of the territory’, this edition will explore the richness of cultural diversity in rural areas from multiple perspectives. An open and plural approach […]

The 14th edition of the International Gathering of Anthropological Masks, held on Sunday 1 June 2025 in Tricarico, Basilicata (Italy), combined spectacle and reflection. In the villetta comunale, the talk […]

The Fondazione Ignazio Buttitta is organizing this event in the Sala delle Capriate of the Steri Monumental Complex (Università degli Studi di Palermo) and at the Museo internazionale delle marionette […]

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 […]

“Masks, ancestral rituals, and the path to recognition” is the title of the round table featuring Georgiana Vlahbei (National Museum of the Romanian Peasant), M.ª Pilar Panero (University of Valladolid), […]

The exhibition, which opened on Thursday, March 13, at El Viejo Cárcel, is organized by AECT Duero-Douro, the Municipal Chamber of Torre de Moncorvo, the Iberian Mask Academy, and the […]

On Saturday 1st March 2025, the Sala Marino in Teana (PZ) hosted the Round Table ‘Tradition and innovation of contemporary Lucanian masks: the Teana Carnival’, organised by the Pro Loco […]

The exhibition, organised by the Chair of Studies on Tradition of the UVa, is part of the European project ‘Unveiling the Arts and Works behind the MASKS’.  The private collection […]

On Friday 3 January, the round table ‘Tradition and innovation of Lucanian masks and masking practices in the contemporary world: the Cucibocca of Montescaglioso’ was held in the Chapter House […]

Museum of the University of Valladolid (MUVa) 12 December 2024-21 February 2025 This exhibition of 38 masks from the private collection of the Catalan Nacho Rovira ‘Alas y Viento’ (Wings […]

Two members of MASKS give lectures at the invitation of the University of Extremadura and the Diputación de Cáceres on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Ritos y rituales de invierno […]

The 20th edition of the The Romanian Association of Ethnological Sciences (ASER) Annual National Conference: The Dynamics of Tradition: Cultural Realities and Theoretical Reflections. Panel: Masks Unveiled: An Examination of […]

The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant invites you on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at 6:00 PM, to Sala Media, for a new edition of Conferințele de la Șosea. Hands. […]

The conference, held on November 6-7, 2024, at the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, organized by PhD. Ileana Benga and PhD. Bogdan Neagota, brought together experts to explore masks and carnivalesque […]

Our masks are part of the 5th Conference on Local Studies organised by the IEZ ‘Florián de Ocampo’. On Saturday 9th November the Institute of Zamoran Studies ‘Florián de Ocampo’ […]

The first day of exaltation of the masks integrated in the Federation of Masquerade Associations of the Province of Zamora (MascaraZA) was held in San Vicente de la Cabeza, a […]

‘Carnival: the rite behind the mask’ is the name of the activity organised on 18 October by the City Council of Murcia in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology […]

MASKS is presented at the seminar ‘A vida é un carnaval’ held at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Campus de Lugo) ‘Recycling culture. An aesthetic journey through the mask’ […]

The values of masquerades are part of the theme of the International Colloquium on Creative Processes and Pro-Equity Discursive Strategies held at the UAM Unidad Xochimilco (Mexico) from 29 to […]

Our main researcher, Pilar Panero, participates in one of the summer courses of the University of Almeria with two conferences on masquerades The course ‘Heritage as a vector of change […]

MASKS viene presentato alle “Jornadas dos Encontros de Rituais Ancestrais” di Bemposta (Mogadouro, Portogallo) durante una delle più importanti sfilate di maschere della penisola iberica, organizzata dall'AETC Duero-Douro. Il 24 […]

La Fondazione Ignazio Buttitta (Palermo), l'Associazione per la Salvaguardia delle Tradizioni Popolari - Museo Internazionale delle Marionette Antonio Pasqualino (Palermo) e il Centro Internazionale di Ricerche e Studi sulle Maschere […]