At the end of February, professors Elisa Sartor and Matteo De Beni were guests at the Universidad de Oriente, Julio Antonio Mella campus in Santiago de Cuba (Cuba) for an academic exchange.
On Tuesday, 20 February, Prof. Sartor delivered a lecture titled “Diccionarios históricos: del papel al entorno digital” (Historical Dictionaries: From Paper to the Digital Environment), while the following day, Prof. De Beni conducted the seminar “Estructura y fuentes del Nuevo diccionario histórico de la lengua española: estudios de casos” (Structure and Sources of the New Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language: Case Studies). Both events saw active participation from the faculty of the Master’s in Language and Discourse Studies and the PhD in Linguistic and Literary Sciences (UO, Cuba), as well as students from the Letters and Spanish-Literature degree programs, researchers from the Faculty of Humanities, and professors from the Faculty of Foreign Languages.
The professors also had the opportunity to visit the university’s Centro de Lingüística Aplicada (Center for Applied Linguistics) in Santiago de Cuba.