A Asociación Internacional de Estudos Galegos (AIEG) é unha organización internacional académica independente que traballa para o asentamento e a visibilidade dos estudos galegos en todas as disciplinas académicas no mundo.
Pasado o VIII Congreso Internacional de 2006 en Salvador da Bahia (Brasil), a AIEG conta xa coa traxectoria dun cuarto de século de promoción dos estudos galegos a nivel internacional desde a súa fundación en 1982. A partir do primeiro congreso de Maine (EUA) en 1985, percorreuse mundo en busca de intercambios con estudosas e estudosos de diversas disciplinas e que se ocupan da realidade galega ou da súa relación coa globalización: EUA, Gran Bretaña, Alemaña, Cuba, Cataluña, Brasil. Xunto cos Centros Galegos en diferentes universidades do mundo mailos respectivos lectorados, a AIEG contribuíu a fomentar e analizar, a través dos seus congresos trianuais e das súas actas, a presenza da cultura galega no mundo, especialmente no ámbito académico.
Porén, o oitavo congreso maila última asemblea deixaron claro que en adiante será preciso integrar máis disciplinas académicas, máis investigadoras e investigadores do estranxeiro, apostar máis pola transdiciplinariedade e desenvolver máis actividades entre os congresos. Por esta razón, a actual Xunta Directiva propuxo e iniciou a creación dunha Web multifuncional que aloxará, entre outros elementos, unha Revista Internacional de Estudos Galegos que se idea anual e transdisciplinar como tamén se proxecta ofrecer un servizo de aloxamento gratuíto a todas as revistas académicas que se ocupen de temáticas relacionadas con Galicia.
Estes son os principais e ambiciosos retos da AIEG para os vindeiros anos e que han culminar no verán do 2009 co IX Congreso Internacional da AIEG en Santiago de Compostela, organizado polas tres universidades galegas, o primeiro que se celebrará en Galicia. Será un acontecemento en busca dunha ampliación de perspectivas e posicións, xa que se realizará nun formato novo e procurará un equilibrio, na medida do posíbel, tocante á presenza de investigadoras e investigadores das ciencias, das tecnoloxías da información e das humanidades. Co apoio das universidades de A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela e Vigo habemos chamar para este IX Congreso especialistas de todo o mundo e de todas as áreas do saber, a debateren a situación do Dereito, da Economía, Política, Tecnoloxía da información, Tradución, Historia, Literatura e Lingüística galegas na era globalizada. E habemos de incitar, tamén, o compromiso de colegas de todo o mundo de participar nas actividades da AIEG no futuro.
A Xunta Directiva 2006-2009 convida todas as persoas interesadas para que nos contacten e, se o desexaren, que nos envíen as súas propostas de colaboración, ideas, preguntas ou, se for o caso, as solicitudes para se asociaren.
Un saúdo cordial, esperando polo voso contacto,
Burghard Baltrusch
(Presidente da AIEG)
The International Association for Galician Studies (AIEG) is an independent, international academic organisation whose objective is to consolidate and promote Galician Studies in all academic disciplines at a global level.
With the VIII International Conference held in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, in 2006, the AIEG completed a quarter century of its promotion of Galician Studies on an international scale since its foundation in 1982. Following the first conference in Maine in 1985, the AIEG has enabled international exchanges in the U.S.A, Gproreat Britain, Germany, Cuba, Catalonia and Brazil, with scholars from different fields of research and who analyse Galician reality and its relationship with globalisation. Together with the Centres for Galician Studies based in different universities around the world, and their lecturers in Galician Studies, the AIEG has contributed to the development and analysis of the presence of Galician culture internationally, especially in academic fora and through its triannual conferences and their proceedings.
The Association General Meeting at the eighth and most recent conference unanimously agreed upon the need to incorporate other academic disciplines and researchers from outside Galicia, as well as to emphasise further its multidisciplinary approach, and to promote more activities between conferences. On this basis, the current AIEG Executive Committee proposed and undertook the creation of a multifunctional website which will comprise, amongst other features, the Revista Internacional de Estudos Galegos, an annual multidisciplinary journal. The website will also serve as a free host to academic journals whose focus falls on Galician-related themes.
These are the principal and ambitious challenges that the AIEG seeks to fulfil over the coming years and which will culminate in 2009 with the IX AIEG International Conference in Santiago de Compostela, organised by the three Galician universities and the first triannual conference to be held in Galicia. As an event it will widen perspectives and positions through a new format and will seek to establish as much of a balance as possible between researchers from the fields of Science, Information Technology and the Humanities. With the support of the universities of Corunna, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo we invite specialists from across the world and from all areas of research to discuss the situation of Galician Law, Economics, Politics, Information Technology, Translation, History, Literature and Linguistics in the context of the globalised era at the forthcoming IX Conference. We also wish to encourage the participation of colleages around the world in future activities of the AIEG.
The Executive Committee of 2006-2009 therefore invites all students, scholars and researchers working on or interested in Galician Studies to contact the AIEG with proposals for collaboration, queries, ideas or applications for membership.
Very best wishes
Burghard Baltrusch
(AIEG President)
