Spanish Society

The CIOL Spanish Society typically meets in Madrid and is "very keen to ensure that the group is a dynamic and attractive place for practising linguists".

To this end, a busy schedule of meetings has brought its members the following:

• "The Life and Works of Robert Louis Stevenson" by Marjory Hutchinson de Medina (lecturer in Scottish Literature at St Louis University, Madrid)
• A New Year's Lunch
• A talk on the Arab Spring, by former British Ambassador in Kuwait and Oman, Stuart Laing, at the Cambridge University Association of Madrid
• "Medicines – what’s the deal?" with independent health and environmental journalist Miguel Jara and Francisco Almodóvar, a lawyer specialised in healthcare
• Translation workshop on Vargas Llosa's comedic novel "Pantaleon y las Visitadoras"
• "One Man's History of 20th century England through Prose and Poetry" by actor, voice-over artist and former university lecturer Jim Trainor
• "Coaching – how does it work?" by HR Consultant and Executive Trainer Eric Laurent Bertschy
• Summer Lunch at the French Institute, Madrid

CIOL members can join the society free of charge by contacting spanishsociety@ciol.org.uk.

Friends of the Spanish Society (fellow linguists who are not CIOL members) may subscribe to the society through a local fee of €30.00 per year. Invitations are managed locally by group secretary, available through the email address above.