27/04/26

Second Short Film Competition and Festival.

The Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Literature in Bangladesh launched its first initiative aimed at promoting audiovisual creativity and the use of Spanish through film in 2025: the Short Film Festival. The initiative was designed to provide students with a platform to express their ideas and creativity through filmmaking, while strengthening both their academic and artistic development.

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26/04/26

Vocal Recital by the Cantoría Vocal Ensemble.

On Thursday, 23 April 2026, to celebrate World Book Day, an occasion of particular significance in Spanish culture, the Inditex Chair organized a recital by Cantoría, a vocal ensemble from Murcia specializing in Renaissance and Baroque vocal music.

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25/01/26

Lecture by Professor Darío Villanueva.

On 18 January 2026, Professor Darío Villanueva, a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, visited the Inditex Chair’s headquarters in Dhaka. Students had the privilege of attending his lecture, entitled “Spanish Around the World,” in which he provided an overview of the varieties of Spanish spoken across the Spanish-speaking world.

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05/12/25

Seminar Bangladesh Today: Rebuilding the Future.

The seminar Bangladesh Today: Rebuilding the Future was held on 28 November 2025 at the Centre for Advanced Studies of the University of Santiago de Compostela, at the request of the Embassy of Bangladesh in Spain. The event was organized to mark the new chapter that began for Bangladesh following the October 2024 Revolution.

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20/11/25

Theatrical Performance: Las Nanas de Lorca.

As part of its commitment to promoting Spanish culture in Dhaka and bringing Spanish theatre to the students of the Inditex Chair, a theatrical performance by the Spanish theatre company Ultramarinos de Lucas was held on 13 November 2025.

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20/10/25

Flamenco Guitar Concert: Mercedes Luján.

On 13 October 2025, to mark Spain’s National Day, the Inditex Chair organized a flamenco guitar concert featuring guitarist Mercedes Luján, trumpeter Jessy Estévez, and percussionist Naim Real. The event was a great success, both in terms of attendance and the strong interest it generated among Dhaka’s community. The venue, with a seating capacity of nearly 500, was filled to capacity.

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19/05/25

8th Ibero-American Seminar.

The 8th Ibero-American Seminar, “The Situation of Spanish in China,” was held from February 17 to 20 of this year, 2025. The objective of this international seminar was to present in Bangladesh the vision, current situation, and widespread diffusion of the Spanish language in the People's Republic of China, as well as to depict the principal areas of philological research conducted by Chinese Hispanists and Spanish Sinologists.

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27/02/23

VI Ibero-American Seminar.

On the occasion of the VI Ibero-American Seminar, which took place on January 17 and 18, 2023, university professors and architects presented a series of conferences related to Literature, Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Dhaka, in which they spoke of the relationships between Literature and Painting, Architecture, public space and memory.

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26/02/23

Lecture by Mr. Jaime Siles.

On Wednesday, January 11, at 6:30 p.m., the Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture had the honor of receiving the prestigious poet and humanist, Jaime Siles, who gave a lecture entitled "The Evolution of Spanish Poetry in the Second Half of the 20th Century" before the students and professors of the University of Dhaka.

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26/02/23

The Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture has resumed in January academic, scientific and cultural activities at its premises at the University of Dhaka, after the interruption caused by the pandemic.

16/02/23

Exhibition "Dez anos en Daca".

On October 6th, 2022, the Ágora Civic Center hosted the exhibition, Ten Years in Dhaka, of Santiago Fernández Mosquera. The exhibition was inaugurated in the presence of M. Julio Abalde Alonso, Vice Chancellor of the Universidade da Coruña, Mrs. Eudoxia Neira Fernández, Second Deputy Mayor, Councilor for Equality, Social Welfare and Participation, the two Pro-Vice Chancellors for Internationalization from UDC and USC, Mrs. Pilar García de la Torre and Mrs. María José López Couso, as well as the Director of Inditex Chair of Lenguage and Culture in Dhaka, Mrs, María José Martínez López and, M. Santiago Fernández Mosquera, the photographer.

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09/08/22

Meeting with the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka.

On the 31th of July 2022, the director of the Inditex Chair, María José Martínez of the University of A Coruña, and the professor of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago Fernandez Mosquera and the coordinator of Inditex Chair, Amparo Porta, visited the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka, Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman. In the meeting they spoke about returning to the academic after pandemic and cultural activities to develop in the current university course and the Vice-Chancellor was presented with a copy of the book “Dez anos en Daca”. The book, published by the Inditex Chair, brings a selection of the photographs of Santiago Fernández Mosquera, over ten years since the creation of the Chair.

04/04/22

The 2021-2022 class schedules are now available.

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14/06/21

Exhibition "Ten Years in Dhaka" .

The exhibition "Ten Years in Dhaka" is the brainchild of Santiago Fernández Mosquera and his enthusiasm to get to know the country which has been home to the project Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Dhaka for the last ten years and of which he is the current director.

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18/02/20

Fifth Seminar on Ibero-American Studies: “Spanish Language and Culture in Great Britain: the example of Oxford University”.

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29/09/19

The 2019-2020 class schedules are now available.

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12/07/19

The President of the University of A Coruña welcomes the students of Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Dhaka.

04/12/18

The Vice-Chancellor of the Dhaka University, Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman welcomes a delegation of Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture.

16/10/18

The 2018-2019 class schedules are now available.

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04/07/18

The President of the University of A Coruña welcomes the students of the Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Dhaka.

June 25, 2018. The President o the University of A Coruña welcomes the students of the Inditex Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Dhaka.