Dear Members and Friends,

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for our annual Borges Lecture. The 29th Borges Lecture will be delivered by Argentine scholar, Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán.

Annual Borges Lecture
A Life with Borges
Wednesday 4th November (6.30pm – 8.30pm)
Argentine Residence, 49 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8QZ.We are delighted to announce that Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán will deliver the 29th Borges Lecture next month. The Borges Lecture is a flagship event of the Anglo Argentine Society, launched in 1983 with a keynote address delivered in person by the renowned Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges himself.Limited Spaces – Register Now!To reserve your place, please complete the Google Form here and make your donation via our website here. Please submit one registration form per guest.The suggested donation is £20 per person for members and £25 per person for non-members, which helps cover the cost of the wine and empanadas. Any additional donations in support of the Society’s work and chosen charities are warmly welcome.

When making your donation, please use Borges26 + your surname as the payment reference.

About Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán

Dr Patricia Novillo Corvalán is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury. She is the author of Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation (Routledge, 2011) and Modernism and Latin America: Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange (Routledge, 2018). She has also published numerous articles, chapters and edited volumes on writers including Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, Juan Filloy, Gabriela Mistral and Roberto Bolaño.

Her work has also engaged with the growing field of the Medical Humanities, and her edited collection, Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine (2015), was a pioneering contribution to this emerging field. In 2025, she published an article in Romance Studies exploring cultural and artistic representations of the 1871 epidemic of yellow fever in Buenos Aires.

Her public engagement includes appearances on BBC programmes including Woman’s Hour and The Forum on the BBC World Service, where she took part in a programme on Jorge Luis Borges alongside Professors Evelyn Fishburn and Edwin Williamson.

Best wishes,

Fátima Nollén-Reardon
Chairwoman
The Anglo-Argentine Society
Reg. charity 208002