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SUMMARY:John Brande Trend: The Life of a Scholar Gypsy - Dame Margaret Ans
 tee 
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:MacColl Lecture by Dame Margaret Anstee to open conference at 
 Clare College on Remembering JB Trend: the quiet internationalist. \n\nThi
 s symposium\, the first event of which is the annual MacColl lecture of th
 e department\, celebrates the life and work of J B Trend\, the first Profe
 ssor of Spanish in Cambridge\, and a central figure in the history of Hisp
 anism. Trend was an unusual figure: he was shy\, but a clear enthusiast\, 
 and memorably gifted in inspiring enthusiasm  in others\; his first degree
  was in Natural Sciences\; his studies of modern Spanish culture and intel
 lectual life in the early 1920s are still a fundamental point of reference
 \; he moved into musicology in an unofficial manner while still a student\
 , later becoming a prime figure in Spanish musicology helping to bring it 
 into a wider international arena\;  he was central to the development of a
  tradition in British Hispanism that was wide-ranging in its interests\, a
 nd driven by similarly wide-ranging curiosity. There were important conseq
 uences of what he did and how he did it. Trend frequented Spain assiduousl
 y between his first degree and his appointment to the Chair. His contacts 
 there memorably included the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid\, in some
  ways an institution that could be considered as a version of CRASSH\, cro
 ssed with a University college or hall of residence (Trend referred to it 
 as ‘Oxford and Cambridge in Madrid’). The cultural openness of the Res
 idencia is mirrored by the cultural openness of Cambridge in these years. 
 Trend’s contacts contributed to a strong tradition of the reception of c
 ontemporary poets in Cambridge (Salinas\, Cernuda\, Dámaso Alonso\, Muño
 z Rojas among others)\, and other prime figures such as Unamuno. The comin
 g of the Civil War made Trend quietly significant in the reception of flee
 ing intellectuals.   The symposium will include papers on the varied activ
 ities and aspects of Trend\, and two concerts. \n\nFull details and online
  registration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2073/
LOCATION:Clare College
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