SOBRE MÍ / ABOUT ME

Hugo Hortiguera es en la actualidad Adjunct Senior Lecturer en Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia). En esta institución se desempeñó como profesor de ELE desde 1993 hasta 2016. Es doctor en Estudios Hispanos por la Universidad de New South Wales (Sídney, Australia). Sus publicaciones abarcan las áreas de enseñanza de ELE, cultura popular hispanoamericana, estudios culturales y medios de comunicación. Ha publicado en revistas especializadas de EEUU, Australia, Argentina, Cuba, España, México, Argentina e Israel. Es autor de La literatura cambalachesca en la novelística de Osvaldo Soriano (2007) y editor (junto con la Dra. Carolina Rocha) del volumen colectivo Argentinean Cultural Production During the Neoliberal Years: 1989-2001 (2007). 

Hugo Hortiguera is currently Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Griffith University, Australia. He worked at this institution as a Lecturer in Spanish from 1993 until 2016. He was awarded his PhD from University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).  He specializes in the teaching of Spanish as a Second Language, Latin American popular culture, cultural studies, Argentine literature and media. His publications have appeared in Ciberletras, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Reflejos, the Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, among others, in Australia, USA, Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Israel. He is the author of La literature cambalachesca en la novelistica de Osvaldo Soriano (2007) and, along with Dr. Carolina Rocha, co-editor of Argentinean Cultural Production During the Neoliberal Years :1989-2001 (2007). 

Publications

Book published

• Argentinean Cultural Production During the Neoliberal Years (1989-2001). (In collaboration with Dr. Carolina Rocha from Illinois University). (Extent of my contribution: 50%). The Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston (NY), 2007.

• Literatura cambalachesca: la heterogeneidad discursiva en la narrativa de Osvaldo Soriano (The Hotchpotch Literature: Discoursive Heterogeneity in Osvaldo Soriano's Novels).  (Extent of my contribution: 100%). The Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston (NY), 2007. 

Book Chapters 

• (Contribution 50%). 2016. Hortiguera, Hugo (in collaboaration with Dr. Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne). “Violence and Fiesta: Images of Women and the Political Uses of Popular Culture under the Kirchner Administration”. Images of Women in the Hispanic Literature and Media. Teresa Fernández-Ulloa (Ed). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. UK, 2016. 188-209.

• (Contribution 50%. In coll. with Dr. Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne) 2013. “Basic instincts, violence and sex-driven creatures: New Argentine masculinity or old 'macho' culture?”. (In collaboration with Dr. Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne). Modern Argentine Masculinities. Carolina Rocha (Ed), Intellect. US: 261-278

• (Contribution 50%. In coll. with Dr. Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne). 2013. “Popular music and macho representation: the case of cumbia villera”. Modern Argentine Masculinities. Carolina Rocha (Ed), Intellect. US: 279-293

• (Contribution: 100%). 2010 “Imágenes argentinas alteradas. Lógicas del mercado y narraciones transmediáticas después del default” (“Distorted Argentine Imagery. Logic of the Market and Trans-mediatized Narrations after the Default”), Cruce de vías. Una mirada oceánica a la cultura hispánica (Cross roads: An Oceanic Glance at the Hispanic Culture), Dr. Rogelio Guedea (Ed.). Mexico: Aldus, 2010. 95-136.

• (Contribution: 100%). 2010 Foreword written for Favoretto, Mara. Alegoría e ironía bajo censura en la Argentina del Proceso (1976-1983) [Allegory and Irony under Censorship in the Argentine Dictatorship 1976-1983.] Lewiston (NY): The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. i-iv.

• (Contribution 50%. In coll. with Carolina Rocha). 2007 “Introduction”. Argentinean Cultural Production During the Neoliberal Years (1989-2001). Hugo Hortiguera & Carolina Rocha (eds). Lewiston (NY): The Edwin Mellen Press.1-20.

• (Contribution 100%). 2007 “News, Fiction and Marketing in a Time of Crisis. The Argentine Media and the Yabrán Case”. Argentinean Cultural Production During the Neoliberal Years (1989-2001). Hugo Hortiguera & Carolina Rocha (eds). Lewiston (NY): The Edwin Mellen Press.133-154.

• (Contribution 100%). 2004. “De la investigación periodística al ‘potin’. El relato documental argentino de fin de siglo”.The Space of Culture. Critical readings in Hispanic Studies. Stewart King & Jeff Browitt (eds). Delaware: University of Delaware Press: 118-141.

• (Contribution 100%) 2002. “Pasiones caníbales, escrituras vampíricas y cuerpos desplazados en Las piadosas de Federico Andahazi”. Hispanismo en la Argentina. En los portales del siglo XXI.Volume 3. César Quiroga Salcedo, Alicia Jiménez de Martín et al (eds.),San Juan (Argentina): Editorial de UNSJ: 231-242.

• (Contribution 100%) 2000. “Heterogeneidad, suma y adición: De escrituras, reescrituras y repetición en la novelística de Osvaldo Soriano”.Relecturas, reescrituras. Articulaciones discursivas. Daniel Altamiranda (ed). Buenos Aires: Mc.Graw Ediciones, 320-333. 

Refereed Journal Publications

• (Contribution 50%). (2020). In coll. with Dr. Mara Favoretto (University of Melbourne). "Politicians on Campaign: Cristina Fernández’s Visual and Discursive Strategies of Persuasion in the Parliamentary Elections of 2017".  Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 38: 52-74.

• (Contribution 100%). (2019) "¿Fidelidad o adulterio?: los nudos conflictivos de la transposición de 'Memorias de un wing derecho' (1985), de Roberto Fontanarrosa, en Metegol (2013), de Juan José Campanella", Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 25.3: 339-357. <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13260219.2019.1739822>.  

• (Contribution 50%). 2019. In coll. with Dr. Mara Favoretto (University of Melbourne). “La imagen política en la Argentina poskirchnerista: las formas persuasivas y los estereotipos visuales para la acción política". [The political image in post-Kirchnerist Argentina: persuasive forms and visual stereotypes for political action]. Estudios de lingüística del español 40: 235-266 <https://infoling.org/elies/40/elies40-11.pdf >. 

• (Contribution 100%). 2019. "El camino de Sísifo y la nostalgia reflexiva en el cine de Juan José Campanella"[The path of Sisyphus and the reflective nostalgia in the cinema of Juan José Campanella]. Dixit 31: 36-53. <https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/revistadixit/article/view/1820>. 

• (Contribution 50%).2018. In coll. with Dr. Mara Favoretto (University of Melbourne). "Más allá de la imagen: estereotipos y complicidades discursivas en los vídeos de ELE (Español como Lengua Extranjera)". Kimün. Revista inderdisciplinaria de formación docente 4.7: 5-32. <http://ppct.caicyt.gov.ar/index.php/kimun/article/view/13856/45454575759194>.

• (Contribution 100%). 2018. "Geografías imaginarias del Río de la Plata: Una lectura de Metegol (2013), de Juan José Campanella, y Anina (2013), de Alfredo Soderguit". Letras Hispanas 14: 23-42. 

• (Contribution 50%). 2016. In coll.with Adriana Díaz. “TELL-ING IT LIKE IT IS: Practical implications from a critical stance on technology-enhanced language learning”. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 22.1: 54-79

•  (Contribution 100%). 2015. “Neighbors in dissent / spaces in dispute: Questioning the new social (urban) space in The Man Next Door and The Final Frontier by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat”. JILAR. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 21, 3:  345-359

• (Contribution 100%). 2015. “Learning designs and spaces of interaction in teaching Spanish as a Second Language.” RedELE: Red electrónica de didáctica del español como lengua extranjera, 27: 1-37.

• (Contribution 40%). 2015. In coll. with Adriana Diaz and Marcia Espinoza Vera. “Quality Assurance and Foreign Languages - Reflecting on oral assessment practices in two University Spanish Language Programs in Australia” Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice 12, 3: 1-15.

• (Contribution 100%). 2010.“Trust, community and eclipse the other: A Reading of The Old Woman at the Back (2010) by Pablo Jose Meza and A Chinese Tale (2011), Sebastian Borensztein”. Letras hispanas. Revista de literatura y cultura 10, 2, 35-50.

• (Contribution 50%). 2014. In coll. with Adriana Diaz. “Extending the walls of the Spanish class: A (neuro)cognitive approach through technology.” MarcoEle 19, 1-30.

•  (Contribution: 100%). 2013.“Pensar las ciudades: Espacios intermediales/espacios interdictorios como escenarios ficcionales en El hombre de al lado (de Mariano Cohn y Gastón Duprat) y Medianeras (de Gustavo Taretto).” [Thinking the city: Forbidden and interstitial spaces as fictional situations in Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s The man next door and in Gustavo Taretto’s Sidewalls].’ Ciberletras. Journal of literary criticism and culture 31 (2013): 1-20.

• (Contribution 50%). 2013. In collaboration with Dr. Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne). “La mirada estrábica: Visiones políticas de la masculinidad en la era K” [“The strabismic gaze: Political visions of masculinity in the Kirchner’s era”]. Journal Razón y palabra 83 (Mexico). 1-31. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2012. “Perverse Fascinations and Atrocious Acts: An Approach to The Secret in Their Eyes by Juan Jose Campanella”. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 30. 110-123. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2012.  “Después de la globalización. La destrucción de lo social en Las viudas de los jueves y Carancho” [“After globalization. Social Destruction in two Argentine films: Widows of Thursdays and Carancho”]. Letras hispanas. Revista de literatura y cultura 8, 1. 111-127. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2012. “‘They are a very festive people!’ El baile perpetuo: Comida, arte popular y baile en los videos de enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera” [“‘They are a very festive people!’ The perpetual dancing: food, popular art and dance in educational videos of Spanish as a Foreign Language”]. Razón y palabra 78, 1-28. <http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/varia/N78/2a%20parte/33_Hortiguera_V78.pdf>. 

• (Contribution: 50%). 2011. “Efecto eco. Espacio de producción y consumo cultural en la Argentina post-default” . [“Echo effect. Space of cultural production and consumption in a post-default Argentina”] Hipertexto. Online journal 14,  20-42. <http://www.utpa.edu/dept/modlang/hipertexto/docs/Hiper14HortigueraFavoretto.pdf>. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2010 “La sospecha endémica argentina. La epidemia del miedo y la producción de (des)confianza  en épocas de crisis sanitaria” [“The Argentine Endemic Suspicion: The Epidemic of Fear and the Production of (Mis)trust in Times of Health Crisis”]. Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico 16, 209-234. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2010 “Lógicas conspirativas. Desconfianzas mutuas e ideologías de la sospecha en la Argentina de la Presidenta Kirchner” ("Logic of Conspiracy. Mutual distrust and ideologies of suspicion in Argentina under President Cristina Kirchner". Journal: Delaware Review of Latin American Studies11, 2. <http://www.udel.edu/LAS/Vol11-2Hortiguera.html >. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2010 “Políticas del recuerdo y memorias de la política en El secreto de sus ojos de Juan José Campanella” (“Politics of memory and memories of politics in El secreto de sus ojos by Juan José Campanella”). Ciberletras. Journal of literary criticism and culture 24. <http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v24/hortiguera.html>. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2010 “Argentina violenta: Perfiles multimedia y cultura de la convergencia en tiempos de la globalización”. (“Violent Argentina: Multimedia Profiles and Convergence Culture in Times of Globalization”). Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6/7 <http://www.dissidences.org/6ArgentinaHortiguera.html>. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2008. “Los placeres del exceso: estéticas de lo excitable y lógica fuzzy en los medios argentinos de comunicación” (“The Pleasures of Excess: The Aesthetics of the Excitable and Fuzzy Logics in the Argentine Media”) JILAR. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research: 14, 2. 

•  (Contribution: 100%). 2007 “Fabulando el presente: La normalización de los discursos de desvío y el thriller folletinesco en  los medios argentinos de comunicación” (“Fabulations of the Present: Normalizing Discursive Deviations and the Feuilletonesque Thriller in the Argentine Media”). Ciberletras. Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture, 18 <http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v18/hortiguera.html>. 

• (Contribution: 100%). 2007. “La mirada argentina: ¿Desvíos o desvaríos de la prensa gráfica? El caso Página/12”. (“The Argentine Gaze: Detours or Deliriums of the Press? The Página/12 Case”). Ciberletras. Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture,16 <http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v16/hortiguera.html>. 

• (Contribution 100%). 2005. “Seduciendo desde la frontera: folletín, pasión y suspenso en el periodismo argentino del nuevo milenio” (“Seducing from the borders: feuilleton, passion and suspense in the Argentine Journalism of the New Millennium”). Antípodas. Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies 16. La Trobe University: 131-144. 

•  (Contribution 100%). 2005. “Productos mediáticos: El affair Belsunce y el suspenso permanente de la realidad” (“Mass Media Products: The Belsunce Affair and the Permanent Suspense of Reality”). Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico 11. Universidad Complutense de Madrid: 53-64. 

•  (Contribution 100%). 2005. “Imposturas de la ficción: Estética de la destrucción y placer de la incertidumbre en el discurso periodístico argentino del nuevo siglo” (“Impostures of Fiction: Aesthetics of Destruction and Pleasures of Uncertainty in the Argentine Media Discourse of the New Century”). Journal of Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 24. University of Arizona: 101-126. 

• (Contribution 75%) 2004. (In coll. with Andrew Munro). “Marcos de referencia para los niveles de dominio lingüístico del español como lengua extranjera en Australia”. Revista electrónica de didáctica. Español lengua extranjera, Vol O, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes de España, <http://www.mec.es/redele/revista/hortiguera.shtml>. 

• (Contribution100%) 2003. “De la investigación periodística al potin: El relato documental argentino de fin de siglo”. Ciberletras. Revista de estudios literarios 9, <www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v09/hortiguera.htm>. 

• (Contribution 100%) 2003. “El folletín delictuoso argentino: discurso periodístico y géneros populares en los umbrales del nuevo milenio”.  Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 4.2, <http://www.udel.edu/LASP/Vol4-2Hortiguera.html>. 

• (Contribution 100%) 2002. “Entre palabras: partes privadas, silencios y cuerpos ocultos en la narrativa argentina de los '90. El caso Federico Andahazi”. Ciberletras. Revista de estudios literarios 6: <http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v06/hortiguera.html>..

• (Contribution 100%) 2001. “De inclusiones, ambigüedades y paradojas. Historia y ficción en A sus plantas rendido un león”, REFLEJOS. Revista del Departamento de Estudios Españoles y Latinoamericanos, Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén, 9: 15-25. 

• (Contribution 100%) 2001. “Consumiendo cuerpos (textuales): De cómo Polidori conoció al vampiro”. Second International Symposium, Center of Narratology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 13-15 June, 2001. in CD. Proceedings. Conference paper refereed.

• (Contribution 100%) 2000. “Desarticulación y anarquía: multiplicidad del espacio (para)textual en Una sombra ya pronto serás de Osvaldo Soriano”, Hispanic Culture Review 6/1-2; 59-78. 

• (Contribution 100%) 2000. “De antropofagias y logofagias literarias en la literatura argentina”, Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, University of Delaware. USA <http://www.udel.edu/LASP/Vol1-2Hortiguera.html>. 

• (Contribution 100%) 1999. “Cambalache y (para)literatura en la Argentina de los 90: El ojo de la patria de Osvaldo Soriano”, Dactylus 18, University of Texas: 123-153 .

• (Contribution 50%) 1999. (In coll. with S. Eisenchlas) “Beyond the Classroom: The Target Language Community as a Resource for Teaching and Learning”, Babel 34/3: 16-20. 

• (Contribution 50%) 1997. (In coll. with S. Eisenchlas). “Más allá de la clase: la comunidad hispana como recurso pedagógico en la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera.” Proceedings of the V Simposio Internacional de Comunicación Social (22-24 January, Santiago de Cuba). Holanda: Universidad de Twente: 237-244. Proceedings. Conference paper refereed.

Reviews 

• (Contribution 100%) 2010. "Women and Print Culture in Post-Independence Buenos Aires, by Iona Macintyre, Woodbridge, UK, Tamesis, 2010, ISBN 978-18-5566-196-7". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 16, 2. 176-178.

•  (Contribution 100%) 2009. “Estela Valverde, ed. A Universal Argentine. Jorge Luis Borges. English Literature and Other Inquisitions.” Sydney: Southern Highlands Press, 2009, 146p. ISBN 978-0-646-52610-2. Hispamérica. Revista de literatura. 39, 116.  128-129.  

•  Contribution: 100%). 2009 “Yvette Sánchez and Roland Spiller, eds. Poéticas del fracaso. Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen, 274 pp. ISBN 978-3-8233-6464-1.” Published in Ciberletras. Journal of Literary Criticism and Cultures-, 22. <http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v22/hortiguera.html>.

•  (Contribution: 100%) 2008. “Claxton, Robert Howard. From Parsifal to Perón. Early Radio in Argentina, 1920-1944. Gainesville: Florida. UP of Florida, 2007. 223 pp.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 42, 2008, 18-20 (Sección Bibliográfica). 

• (Contribution: 100%) 2007. “Lloyd Hughes Davies, Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography: Biography and Fiction. Cardiff, University of Wales, 2007.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 13:2, 99-103. 

• (Contribution: 100%) 2007. “Rossiello, Leonardo. Gente rara. Montevideo: Ediciones Torres del vigía, 2006, 159 páginas.  Hontanar digitial. <http://www.cervantespublishing.com/Hontanar/2007/Hontanar_junio_2007.pdf> 

• (Contribution 100%). 2007. “Alario Bataller, Salvador. La conciencia de la bestia. Edición del autor), 1999, 143 páginas. ”Hontanar digital <http://cervantespublishing.com/Hontanar/2007/Hontanar_marzo_2007.pdf>.

• (Contribution 100%) 2006. “Valverde, Estela. Perfumes letales y banquetes eróticos: Los mundos de Teresa Porzecanski. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, 2005, 198 páginas. ISBN: 9974-559-67-7.” Ciberletras. Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture, Vol. 16, <http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v15/hortiguera.html>.

• (Contribution 100%) 2006. “Ostrov, Andrea. El género al bies. Cuerpo, género y escritura en cinco narradoras latinoamericanas. Alción, Córdoba (Argentina) 2004 ISBN 950-9402-323-6.” Hontanar digital <http://www.cervantespublishing.com/Hontanar/2006/Hontanar_Nov_06.pdf>.

Other publications

• 2013. “De turismo hemos venido” [We have come to do some sightseeing]. (Short story) Hontanar Digital, 174. Sydney. Cervantes Publishing, 4-5. <http://www.cervantespublishing.com/Hontanar/2013/Hontanar_septiembre_2013.pdf>. 

• 2011. ¡Nadie sabe el tiempo que durará este mito! [No one knows how long this myth is gonna last!]. Hontanar Digitial  <http://www.cervantespublishing.com/Hontanar/2011/Hontanar_octubre_2011.pdf>. 

• 2008. “Imágenes mexicanas: ‘Cómprame señor, cómprame un poquito’”. Hontanar Digitial <http://www.cervantespublishing.com/Hontanar/2007/Hontanar_octubre_2008.pdf>: 3-4.  

Conference papers and seminar presentations

2024

•  “¿Qué es? ¿Cómo es? ¿Dónde está? ¿Cómo está?: An explanation of the uses of SER and ESTAR through visualization” XV Symposium of Teachers of Spanish in Queensland. Organized by The Modern Language Teachers' Association of Queensland. Griffith University. South Bank Campus. 25th of  October.

2023

•  “Stative Verbs in Perfective and Imperfective Predicates.” Webinar for Teachers of Spanish as a Second Language (Australia and South Pacific). Organized by the Education Office, Embassy of Spain, Canberra, May 4, 2023. Canberra, 4th of May.

2021

• “Visual introduction to aspectual verb periphrases.” XIV Symposium of Teachers of Spanish in Queensland. Organized by The Modern Language Teachers' Association of Queensland. University of Queensland. 21 October.

2018

• "The folkloric and homogeneous vision of Hispanics portrayed on contrived videos used in the teaching of SFL (Spanish as a Foreign Language)". Oxford Education Research Symposium. Harris Manchester College. University of Oxford. 5-7 Dic.

• “Más allá de la imagen. Complicidades discursivas en ELE" [ILAS]. Wally Thompson Iberian & Latin American Studies Research Series. La Trobe University City Campus, 360 Collins St City, 25 de Mayo.

2017

• “Pedagogical grammar, animation and mental schemes",  XI SYMPOSIUM OF TEACHERS OF SPANISH IN QUEENSLAND. Organized by MLTAQ Spanish Network. School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies. Gordon Greenwood Bldg. University of Queensland. Brisbane,  13 Oct. 

2016

• ”Spanish as a Second Language and Visual Teaching Method: Pedagogical designs for the development of grammatical awareness”. STANZA IMMERSION WEEKEND. Organized by Spanish Teachers’ Association. New Zealand Aotearoa (STANZA). Kawai Purapura Retreat Centre, Auckland (NZ). 4th & 5th March.

•  “Verbal world and visual grammar in SSL (Spanish as a Second Language)” IX SYMPOSIUM OF TEACHERS OF SPANISH IN QUEENSLAND. Organized by MLTAQ Spanish Network. School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies. Gordon Greenwood Bldg. University of Queensland. Brisbane. 15th April. 

•  “Cinema and cultural imagination: Film form and experience of the present”. Conference Theme: Transforming legacies  2016 AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia)  Conference. Massey University. Auckland, New Zealand, 3-6, July. 

• Organized and coordinated (in coll. with Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne) the panel ““Reinventing Argentina: contemporary political, social and cultural spaces” for the 2016 AILASA Conference. Auckland, New Zealand, 3-6, July 2016.

• “Adaptaciones, transposiciones y relatos ejemplares: Una aproximación a ‘Metegol’ (2013), de Juan José Campanella”. Conference: Celebrating Latin American Studies at La Trobe University. La Trobe University. Melbourne. Australia. 2-3 December, 2016.

• Organized and coordinated (in coll. with Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne) the panel “Diálogos interdisciplinarios sobre cultura, sociedad, música, y educación en Argentina”. Conference: Celebrating Latin American Studies at La Trobe University. La Trobe University. Melbourne. Australia. 2-3 December, 2016.

• Organized and coordinated (in coll. with Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne) the panel “Eyes and Ears Wide Open: Cheeky textualities on the Hispanic Worlds”. 7th Biennial  CELAO Conference (Latin American Studies Council of Asia and Oceania).Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington. New Zealand. 7-9 December 2016.  

2015

• “Are you flipping your PD? Spanish language teachers’ professional standards and competences in flipped learning environments.” All Languages Teachers Professional development Event. Griffith University.South Bank Campus.20-21 Feb.

• Hortiguera, Hugo and Adriana Diaz. “TELL-ING IT LIKE IT IS: Practical implications from a critical stance on technology-enhanced language learning.” LCNAU 2015 National Colloquium Tertiary Language and Culture programs: Directions in Research, Teaching and Policy. 25 - 27 November. Hosted by the Department of International Studies: Languages and Cultures. Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University. Australia.

• “Beyond the classroom walls: Learning designs in Spanish as a Second Language (SSL/ELE)”. Spanish Language teacher’s Conference. Organized by the NSW Department of Education. Rydges Hotel. Sydney. 23rd October.

•  “Towards a flipped classroom in Spanish.” School of Languages and Linguistics: Learning and Teaching PD Session 2015: Innovative Practices. Organized by the School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University. Brisbane, Australia. 5th November. 

2014

• Organized and coordinated (in coll. with Mara Favoretto, University of Melbourne) the panel “Building dissent: Stories of rupture in the Southern Cone” in the 2014 AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia) Conference: Voicing Dissent. 2nd – 4th July, 2014. Sydney. Australia.

• “Neighbors in dissent / spaces in dispute: Questioning the new social (urban) space in The Man Next Door and The Final Frontier by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat”. 2014 AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia) Conference:  Voicing Dissent. 2nd – 4th July, 2014. Sydney. Australia.

• Hortiguera, Hugo (in coll. with Dr. Mara Favoretto). “Violencia y fiesta: Imágenes de la mujer y los usos políticos de la cultura popular bajo la administración kirchnerista” [Violence and Fiesta: Images of women and the political uses of popular culture under the Kirchner administration”] Fourth International Symposium on Ideology, Politics and Demands in Spanish Language, Literature and Film. "Images of Women in Hispanic Literature and Media" California State University, Bakersfield / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / Universidad de Veracruz, México. 20-22 March.

2013

•  “La fiesta eterna: Narrativas culturales sobre Hispanoamérica en los vídeos de español como lengua extranjera” [The eternal fiesta: cultural narratives about Latin American in videos of Spanish as a second language] III Congreso  CIENCIAS, TECNOLOGÍAS Y CULTURAS Quehacer interdisciplinario, calidad académica, redes internacionales [III Congress SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURES. Interdisciplinary Activities, Academic Quality, International Networks] Universidad de Santiago-Chile, 7-10 January.

• “Hacia un nuevo Aleph: Paradigmas de PowerPoint® como interfaz digital  para el aprendizaje significativo de lenguas en el siglo XXI.” [Towards a new Aleph: Paradigms of PowerPoint as digital interface for meaningful learning of languages ​​in the twenty-first century] Workshop on Technology Laboratorio de idiomas. University of Buenos Aires. Argentina. January 16.

•  “Rethinking Assessment practices in the BULA Spanish Language Programmes”. BULA Forum II.  Griffith University. South Bank.15 Feb. 

• “Standards and practices supporting strategic changes in LAL’s overall approach to oral assessment and consensus moderation processes.” (in coll. with Adriana Diaz). Presentation at the School of Languages and Linguistics (LAL) Professional Learning & Planning - Griffith University, Nathan. 4 June.

• “Perverse silence: Tensions and twists with memory in The secret of their Eyes by Juan José Campanella”.7th Conference of European Council of Social Research on Latin America), Memoria, presente y porvenir en América Latina, [Memory, present and future in Latin America]. Universidad Fernando Pessoa. 12-17 June. Porto, Portugal. 

• “Masculinidades hegemónicas: Cultura popular y políticas culturales en la era Kirchner”. [Hegemonic Masculinity: Popular Culture and Cultural Policies in Kirchner Era”] The Spanish and Latin American Studies Seminar Series (University of Queensland). Brisbane. Australia. 27 Sept.,2013

• “Using PowerPoint to Enhance Languages Teaching and Learning” (In coll. with Adriana Diaz). GU-MLTAQ Language Teachers Forum. Griffith University: Brisbane. Australia. 16th of October.

• Presentation of the project “Beyond ‘islands of innovation’ in hybrid language learning: Developing a community of practice through the BULA French and Spanish language programs”. Workshop. 12th December. Griffith University. South Bank Campus 

2012

•  “Rezagos de la globalización. Restos de lo social en Las viudas de los jueves (2009) de Marcelo Piñeyro y Carancho (2010) de Pablo Trapero” [“Remnants of Globalization. Remains of the social in Las viudas de los jueves (2009) by Marcelo Piñeiro and Carancho (2010) by Pablo Trapero”]. 54 International Congress of Americanists. “Building dialogues in the Americas.”Vienna, Austria, July 15-20, 

• “'El silencio no va con tus niños': Representaciones discursivas de los mundos hispanos en los vídeos de ELE." ["'Silence does not go with your children': Discursive Representations of Hispanic worlds in videos of Spanish as a Second Language."] Research Seminar Series. Spanish Seminar Series, School of Languages. University of Queensland. Brisbane. Australia. 31 August.

• “PowerPoint as a digital interface in the Spanish language classroom”. In coll with Dr. Adriana Diaz. Fifth Symposium of Teachers of Spanish in Queensland. The Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Queensland. University of  Queensland. Brisbane. Australia. 2-3 Nov.

2011

• “Visiones de una destrucción mitológica. La ciudad como “no lugar” en el nuevo cine argentino”. [“Visions of a mythological destruction. The city as a "non-place" in the New Argentine Cinema”] Spanish Seminar Series, School of Languages. University of Queensland. Brisbane. Australia. 23 Sept. 

•  “Perverse agonies of memory: An approach to ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ by Juan José Campanella” – Research Seminar Series. School of Languages and Linguistics.Griffith University. Brisbane. Australia. 20 Oct. 

•  “Los ordenadores están en las aulas. ¿Y ahora qué?” [“Computers are in the classroom. So what now?"] Fourth Symposium of Teachers of Spanish in Queensland. The Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Queensland. University of  Queensland. Brisbane. Australia. 18 Nov.

2010

• “Perverse fascinations and atrocious acts: An approach to El secreto de sus ojos by Juan José Campanella  Argentine Culture Symposium: Celebrating of the Bicentenary of the Argentine Independence Revolution, organized by School of Music (Parkville), Faculty of the VCA and Music in collaboration with School of Languages and Linguistics. The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, 29 May. 

•  “Lógicas de la (in)visibilidad. Desconfianzas mútuas e ideologías de la sospecha en la Argentina de la Presidenta Kirchner” (“Logic of (in)visibility. Mutual distrust and ideologies of suspicion under Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner”). IX Biennial Association of Iberian & Latin American Studies of Australasia Conference. Independence! Two Centuries of Struggle. Manning Clark Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 7-9 July 2010. 

•  “The perpetual agony. Notes on The Secret in their Eyes by Juan José Campanella”. Spanish Seminar Series, School of Languages. University of Queensland. Friday 10 September.

2009

• “Los encantos de Sherezade: Lógica fuzzy en  los medios argentinos de comunicación” (“Sherezade’s Charms: Fuzzy Logic in the Argentine Mass Media”). The XXVIII International Congress. Rethinking Inequalities. LASA 2009 (Latin American Studies Association. USA). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, – 11-14 June.

• “El exotismo mutante: Narrativas mediáticas argentinas en tiempos de incertidumbre” (“The Mutant Exoticism: Argentine ‘Mediatized’ Narratives in Times of Uncertainty”). The 53rd International Congress of Americanists (53° Congreso Internacional de Americanistas). Los Pueblos Americanos. Cambios y Continuidades: La Construcción de lo Propio en un Mundo Globalizado.  Mexico City, Mexico, 19-24 July.

• “El capital del miedo: Textualidades argentinas en tiempos de crisis” (“The Capital of Fear: Argentine Textualities in Times of Crisis”). Spanish Seminar Series. University of Queensland. School of Languages. Friday 9 October. Room 215, Gordon Greenwood Building (32). 

•  “Perverse fascinations and atrocious acts: An approach to El secreto de sus ojos by Juan José Campanella.” Argentine Culture Symposium: Celebrating of the Bicentenary of the Argentine Independence Revolution, organized by School of Music (Parkville), Faculty of the VCA and Music in collaboration with School of Languages and Linguistics. The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, 29 May.

2008

•  “Los placers del exceso: Estéticas de  lo excitable y lógica fuzzy en los medios argentinos de comunicación”. “The Popular in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.” VIII Biennial International Conference of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia. Monash University. Melbourne. 2-4 July 2008.

• Workshop on Natural Approach and Total Physical Response. Seminar for third year Applied Linguistics Students. School of Languages and Linguistics. Griffith University. Brisbane. Australia. 28 August. 

2006

• “La mirada argentina: ¿Desvíos o desvaríos de la prensa gráfica? El caso Página/12”. “Hyperworld: Language, Culture and History”. VII International Conference of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia. University of Technology. Sydney. Australia. 27-29 Sept.

2005

• “Espacios de frontera y seudo-información: El melodrama delictuoso en el periodismo argentino contemporáneo”. 2005 Conference of SLAS, Society for Latin American Studies. University of Derby. Derby. UK. 8-10 April. Conference paper refereed.

• “(Con)fabulaciones mediáticas: la prensa argentina y el folletín policial”. 4th Annual Hispanic Studies Symposium: Gender, Crime and Violence in the Hispanic World. Monash University. Melbourne. Australia,13 May. 

• “Noticias deseadas, ficciones de mercado y amenazas continuas en el periodismo argentino. El caso Yabrán”. 1st Congress of Latin American Studies Council of Asia and Oceania (CELAO). La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 14-16 July. Conference paper refereed.

2004

• “Seduciendo desde la frontera: folletín, pasión y suspenso en el periodismo argentino del nuevo milenio”. Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia. VI International Conference. Flinders University. Adelaide. Australia. 7-9 July. Conference paper refereed.

• “Towards a Spanish Proficiency Ratings Scale in Australia” (in coll. with Mr. Andrew Munro). Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia. VI International Conference. Flinders University. Adelaide. Australia. 7-9 July. Conference paper refereed.

2003

• “Disolviendo fronteras genéricas: producción y desvío del periodismo argentino en los umbrales del siglo XXI”. Second Annual Hispanic Studies Symposum: (De)constructing Deviance in Hispanic Cultures. Monash University. Melbourne. Australia. 24 April. 

• “Framework of Reference for Spanish as a Second Language”. Laboratorio de idiomas. University of Buenos Aires. Argentina. 4 July. 

• “Towards a Common Framework of Reference for Spanish as a Second Language in Australia”. Spanish Program. School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies. University of Queensland. Brisbane. Australia. 19 September. 

2002

• “De la investigación periodística al potin: el relato documental argentino de fin de siglo”. First Annual Hispanic Studies Symposum: (Re)visons and (In)versions: Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies. Monash University. Melbourne. Australia. 1st of February. 

• “Spanish Proficiency Evaluation Ratings”. Research Symposium on Languages, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. School of Languages and Linguistics. Griffith University..Brisbane. Australia. 6 November. 

2001

• “Teaching Spanish in Australia”. Invited by the School of Languages. Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. University of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 7 June. 

• “New Resources for Learning Spanish”. Invited by the Department of Languages. Faculty of Humanities. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina Santa María de los Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 11 June. 

2000

• Workshop on Natural Approach and Total Physical Response. Seminar for third year Applied Linguistics Students. School of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Griffith University. Brisbane. Australia. May. 

1999

• “Beyond the Classroom: The Target Language Community as Resource for Teaching and Learning”, seminar organized by the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Griffith University. Brisbane. Australia. May. 

• Workshop on Natural Approach and Total Physical Response. Seminar for third year Applied Linguistics Students. School of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Griffith University. Brisbane. Australia. May. 

• “De escrituras, reescrituras y repetición en la novelística de Osvaldo Soriano”, 4th. International Conference of Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia. La Trobe University. Melbourne. Australia. 8-10 July. 

• “Heterogeneidad, suma y adición: De escrituras, reescrituras y repetición en la novelística de Osvaldo Soriano”, 3rd. International Conference of Argentine Literature and Comparative Studies. University of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 28-30 July.

• “Literatura cambalachesca: la heterogeneidad discursiva en la novelística contemporánea argentina”. Conference: Cambalache: Balance cultural de un siglo en las Américas. Universidad de La Habana. Havana, Cuba. 14-18 December.

1997

• “Más allá de la clase: la comunidad hispana como recurso pedagógico del español como lengua extranjera” (in coll. with Susana Eisenchlas. Extent of my contribution: 50%), V Simposio Internacional de Comunicación Social, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. 22-24 January. Conference paper refereed.

• “Cambalache, desarticulación y anarquía: multiplicidad del espacio paratextual en Una sombra ya pronto serás de Osvaldo Soriano”, 3rd Conference of Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia. University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand. 9-12 July. Conference paper refereed 

• “Más allá de la clase: la comunidad hispana como recurso pedagógico del español como lengua extranjera” (in coll.with Susana Eisenchlas. Extent of my contribution: 50%), 3rd Conference of Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia. University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand. 9-12 July. Conference paper refereed.

1996

• “La inversión paródica en Cuarteles de invierno de Osvaldo Soriano.” Research Seminars in Spanish. Department of Romance Languages. University of Queensland. Brisbane. Australia. June.