Invited Talks, Colloquia, Workshops, and Roundtable Discussions
18/10/2022 “Lorca’s theatre in the UK”, Hispanglia, Cervantes Institute Leeds/Manchester
13/05/2022 “Dos recientes unipersonales de Celestina en el Festival de Almería”, Ciclo Académico de las XXXVII Jornadas de Teatro del Siglo de Oro de Almería
18/05/2021 Public Lecture on “Celestina: un clásico en escena desde España”, Lecture Series “Celestina: representaciones visuales de un clásico”, Aula de Letras, University of Cantabria.
23/02/2021 “Between Poetry and Commitment. First performances of Lorca’s Theatre in the UK”, Department of Spanish Research Seminar, University of Oxford.
09/07/2020 “Research-Based Outreach: Some Examples. EStages.UK”, Modern Languages Outreach and Engagement, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford.
13/12/2019 “EStages.UK y la puesta en escena de La Celestina en Reino Unido y Argentina”, Instituto de Artes del Espectáculo, University of Buenos Aires.
29/11/2019 Plenary “La presencia de la performance y de las artes escénicas españolas en Reino Unido. El caso de la Ribot”, IV Congreso Internacional Performa. Nuevos Espacios/Nuevos Formatos en el Teatro Español Actual (Santiago de Compostela, from 27th to 29th November 2019), Grupo Performa / University of Santiago de Compostela.
Participations in Conferences, Colloquia and Workshops
06/09/2022 Bastianes, M. “A Poet of the People. The Arrival of Lorca onto British Stages” (inside the University of Leeds Panel: Transnational Receptions: Readers, Viewers, Spectators), 9th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature. Imagining Inclusive Communities in European Culture (Rome, 6-10 September 2021).
Public Engagement and Educational Outreach
2020 – 2021 Lorca’s theatre in the UK. Talks for teachers and A Level students from the state and private sectors, such as All Saint’s Academy (Cheltenham), Dean Close School (Cheltenham), The Grammar School (Leeds), Cheadle Hulme School, etc.
15/09/2020 “Theatre Censorship in Spain”, Civil Service Spanish Network, Department of Health and Social Care, UK Government.
11/09/2020 “García Lorca’s theatre”, The 1152 Club, Leeds Museums, Leeds City Council.
19/11/2019 “Maria Bastianes talks about Spanish theatre”, Love for the Words, FM Chapel.
12/10/2019 Roundtable discussion alongside the cast of Stupid People at the Cervantes Theatre.