The "Jean Monnet Research Seminar" aims at exploring issues related to European integration and culture, both in intra-European terms and the wider world

The "Seminar in medieval Hispanic Studies" aims at giving ongoing support to the approach developed by the late Professor Alan Deyermond, namely, Hispanomedievalism as an integrative comparative approach to literatures in the Iberian peninsula.

And the "Enrique Moreno Báez Teaching Seminar" aims at discussing alternative approaches and developing new tools for the teaching of European literature.

Guest lecture by Todd Michelson-Ambelang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). "Sagas and Þættir in Iceland and the Collection of Terminology".

Guest lecture by Todd Michelson-Ambelang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). "Research Strategies: Conducting Research on World Literature".

Guest lecture by Prof. B. Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA). "A Pact with Books: Measuring the World with Literature".

Guest lecture by prof. Yamanaka Yuriko (National Museum of Ethonology, Japan). "From Alexander to Iskandar: Alexander Traditions in the Islamic World".

Guest lecture by Prof. Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina, USA). "Comparative Literature, World Literature, National Literature".