Dr. Katerina Garcia

• Katerina Garcia, Singing the Memory of Sepharad: Traditional Sephardic Song and its Interpretation, Ethnomusicology Ireland , (5), 2017, p172 - 191Journal Article, 2017
• Katerina Garcia, Notas sobre la formación de palabras en el judeoespañol de Salónica, Romanistica Pragensia, (18), 2009, p65 - 80Journal Article, 2009
• Kon Sira, 'Kon Sira: Songs from the Sephardic Tradition', Katerina Garcia, Prague, Czech Republic, Good Day Records, 2013, -Music Production, 2013
• Al tyempo del kuechko dulse: History, Language and Identity in Enrique Saporta y Beja's account of Jewish life in Salonika in, editor(s)Bayó Belenguer S., Rooney N. , Pulling Together or Pulling Apart? Perspectives on Nationhood, Identity and Belonging in Europe, Peter Lang, 2019, pp119 - 146, [Katerina Garcia]Book Chapter, 2019
• Katerina Garcia, La alegría de Jako: A Judeo-Spanish song as reflection of linguistic and cultural syncretism, Studies in Arts and Humanities, 3, (2), 2017, p29 - 38Journal Article, 2017
• Katerina Garcia, Katerina Garcia, Salamander: Como la Rosa , Review of Como la Rosa, by Salamander , Yearbook for Traditional Music, 51, 2019, p294-295Review, 2019
• Katerina Garcia, Review of Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus and Sepharad and the The Tropes of Exceptionalism, by Ross Brann , Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2022Review, 2022
• Katerina García, "On the willows there we hung up our lyres: Reflections on the role of geography and existential space in the songs of the Irish and Sephardic diaspora", Proceedings of the International Colloquy in Ethnomusicology, From Folklore to World Music: Music and Space, Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 28-29 July 2020, edited by Krekovicova, E. and Uhlikova, L. , Municipal Culture Centre, Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 2020, pp117 - 146Conference Paper, 2020
• Katerina García, "Between the waves and the sea strand: Sacred and profane themes in a Sephardic wedding song" , Proceedings of the International Colloquy in Ethnomusicology, From Folklore to World Music: Music and Spirituality, Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 30-31 July 2019, edited by Pribylova, L. and Uhlikova, L. , 13, Municipal Culture Centre, Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 2019, pp117 - 138Conference Paper, 2019
• Katerina Garcia, Performance as Journey to Knowledge: The 'Cantiga I' by Martín Codax, From Folklore to World Music: New Ways to Old Music, 2023, p133 - 146Journal Article, 2023
• Katerina García, Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo. A visual poem by Jaro Waldeck, IV North American Symposium on Galician Studies, Lubbock, TX, (USA), 19-22 October 2023, 2023Oral Presentation, 2023
• Katerina García, 'A la nanita, nana', OWLET, Lullabies from the World, Ireland, Early Childhood Ireland, 2024, -Music Production, 2024, TARA - Full Text
• Katerina García, Hacia una nueva interpretación de la Cantiga I de Martín Codax, en el contexto del Camino na Sáile, Congreso Internacional de la Lengua, Literatura e Historia del Mar y de la Navegación, Madrid, 7 to 10 May 2024, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
• Katerina García, Acercamiento a un poema medieval desde la investigación artística: La Cantiga I de Martín Codax, XIV Congreso da Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos. Horizontes dos estudos galegos e/na Lusofonía, Braga, Portugal, 17 to 20 April 2024, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
• Katerina Garcia, "Judeo paněl tina - vznik a vývoj", [Judeo-Spanish - origins and evolution], Časopis pro Moderní Filologii [Revue for Modern Philology], 86, (1), 2004Journal Article, 2004
• Notas sobre el plano fónico de la variante judeoespañola de Tesalónica in, editor(s)Petr Čermák , Las lenguas románicas: su unidad y diversidad, Prague, Czech Republic, Charles University, Prague, 2005, [Katerina Garcia]Book Chapter, 2005
• , Notes on the retention of word-initial f- in the Judeo-Spanish of Thessaloniki, Selected Papers from the Fifteenth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies , The British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, University of London, 29-31 July 2008, edited by Hilary Pomeroy, Christopher J. Pountain and Elena Romero , (0902238760, 97809022), London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London., 2012Conference Paper, 2012

• Katerina Garcia, 'No ay en lashon a-kodesh estas palavras': Language and Memory in two Judeo-Spanish novels , Hispanic Studies Research Seminar , University College Cork, 5 March , 2016, Department of Hispanic Studies, UCCInvited Talk
• Katerina Garcia, The language of the Sephardic Diaspora through a fictional lens: Enrique Saporta y Beja's novelistic account of Jewish life in Salonika , Annual AGHBI Conference, University of Oxford, 25-27 March 2013, 2013Conference Paper
• Katerina Garcia, Sefarad a jeho odrazy v současné interpretaci tradiční sefardské písně [Reflections of Sepharad in the contemporary interpretation of traditional Sephardic song] , Mezinárodní kolokvium zaměřené na lidovou, folkovou, entnickou hudbu a world music [International colloquium on traditional, folk, ethnic and world music], Namest nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, 25-26 July 2017, 2017Conference Paper
• Katerina Garcia, Singing the Memory of Sepharad: Traditional Sephardic Song and its Interpretation, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin., 27-28th Feb 2016, 2016Conference Paper
• Katerina García, Izabella Goldstein, 'On the Fringes of Disapora: The Songs of the Unwanted', Players Theatre, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, 2019, -Music Production
• Katerina García, '"From Toledo to Salonika: A Mediterranean Journey"', Pearse Museum, Dublin 16, Office of Public Works, 2019, -Music Production
• Katerina García, Liam Ó Maonlaí, '"Live from Marlay House"', EFACIS Conference, Prague 2021, Dublin, EFACIS, 2021, -Music Production
• Katerina García, "Sephardic Song and the Middle Ages", "Atelier Franco-Irlandais", Trinity Long Room Hub, 29 March 2022, 2022Invited Talk
• Katerina Garcia, Presentation of the project "Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo", irish Itinerary 2023 (EFACIS): Elements of Aesthetics in Constructing Form and Identity, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, 14th-15th March 2023, 2023Oral Presentation
• Jaro Waldeck, Katerina García, Liam Ó Maonlaí, 'Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo', 2023, -Film production
• Katerina Garcia, Judeo-Spanish, Semana de cultura española en la Universidad Palacky de Olomouc, Rep. Checa, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 12/05, 2004, Department of Hispanic Studies, Palacky University, OlomoucInvited Talk
• Katerina Garcia, Field research within the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, Conference of Hispanists of the Czech Republic, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 13/09/2005, 2005Conference Paper
• Katerina Garcia, Future Perspectives for Judeo-Spanish in Thessaloniki and Perspectives for its Revitalisation, Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, University of Sheffield, UK, 26/03, 2008Conference Paper
• Katerina Garcia, Sephardic Thessaloniki: Five centuries of Judeo-Spanish Language and Culture, research Seminar of the Department of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies, UCD, UCD, Dublin, 04/03, 2008, Department of Hispanic and Lusophone StudiesInvited Talk
• Katerina Garcia, Diachronic change in the Judeo-Spanish linguistic variety of Thessaloniki, 15th British Conference oj Judeo-Spanish Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London, 29-31/07, 2008Conference Paper

My principal area of academic expertise is Linguistics of Judeo-Spanish, the linguistic variety spoken within (mainly) the Sephardic diaspora of the Balkan Peninsula and the Eastern Mediterranean. In recent years, I have expanded the focus of my research to incorporate the broader historical and socio-cultural realities inherent to Judeo-Spanish language use, with particular attention to the novel En torno de la Torre blanca by Sephardic author Enrique Saporta y Beja (Paris, 1982), set in the Sephardic Jewish community of Salonika at the turn of the 19/20th centuries, one of the most important Sephardic memory narratives. My research of this text currently focuses on the traditional song lyrics reproduced by the author to represent the life-cycle celebrations of the Jewish Community of Salonika. I highlight the role of secular song as not only cultural artefact of celebration and commemoration, but ultimately as a place of memory and expression of the Sephardic community's diasporic identity. I am particularly interested in representations of Sepharad as a cultural and historical construct in contemporary modes of song interpretation. More broadly, I am interested in exploring the roles of music and song as spaces for the expression of individual and collective identity and memory. To this effect, I have embarked on a cross-disciplinary project with renowned Irish singer and multi-instrumentalist Liam Ó Maonlaí. This project, supported by the 2023 FAHSS Bursary Award, is entitled Cantiga I : Tonnta Farraigí Vigo, and explores the possibilities of interpretation of the Galician "cantigas d'amigo" by trovador Martín Codax (13th c) in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-media context. The project has led to outcomes in the form of presentations at international conferences, a paper and two upcoming publications. All the above mentioned research themes converge in my ongoing project centered on song and its relationship with memory and identity construction.

• PhD Scholarship, Charles University, Prague 2002
• Katerina Krausova Prize for best M.A. Dissertation in Hispanic Studies 2002

• International Council for Traditional Music Ireland present
• Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland present

• Judeo-Spanish, Jewish Languages Exhibition Launch. Discussion Round Table 4 September 2016
• Literature Ireland, Translations reviewer 2019 to present
• Performance at Insituto Cervantes, Culture Night 20 September 2019
• Lingua + Musica: A Celebration of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity. European Day of Languages 2013 17 October 2013
• Judeo-Spanish proficiency assessment in Ireland (Spanish Nationality for Sephardim under Law 12/2015) 2016
• Judeo-Spanish, the language of the Sephardim in the Balkans. The Jewish Museum in Prague, Public Lecture. 14 April 2012
• Launch of Cyphers 78: A Celebration of Poetry from the Hispanic World. Instituto Cervantes, Dublin 17 November 2014
• "Variación diatópica y functional del judeoespañol". Master Universitario Internacional de Lengua Española y Lingüística, Universidad de Oviedo. Postgraduate seminar in Judeo-Spanish Linguistics. 13-15 March 2017
• AlterNative, An International Journal for Indigenous Peoples (Sage Journals). A Journal or the M"ori Centre for Research Excellence (NZ) - external peer reviewer 2023
• Ireland and the Spanish Republic Conference. Performance as part of public lecture by Dr Soledad Fox Maura 19 October 2016
• A Musical Voyage. LexIcon Dún Laoghaire. Recital. 16 May 2017
• Sephardic song recital. Department of Hispanic Studies, University College Cork 5 March 2016
• Cuileann Beo, Gaelscoil Lios na nÓg. Member of cultural committee
• Review board member : Romanistica Pragensia (Journal in Romance Philology), Charles University Press. 2015 - present
• John Moriarty Festival. Musical performance as part of a lecture series. 21-23 June 2024
• "A Musical Tapestry" Curation and performance for Mother Tongues Festival 2022. (Repertoire selected and commented with emphasis on multilingualism.) 26 February 2022
• Bulletin of Spanish Studies - external peer reviewer
• Czech School Dublin. Cultural and Linguistic advisor, Children's choir leader.