DIGITAL DUENDE

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Symposium Dates: December 3-4, 2025
Location: Hybrid (Stanford University/Online)
Organized by: FAI and Stanford University’s Flamenco Cardenal
Deadline for proposals has closed.

EVENT SCHEDULE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

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At Stanford University and Online

Join us for the inaugural Digital Duende, a two-day bilingual (English and Spanish) and hybrid (virtual and in-person) symposium that will explore the dynamic intersection of flamenco and technology. This symposium examines how emerging technologies have influenced and continue to influence the creation, preservation, performance, and dissemination of flamenco throughout the art form’s history. The event, which will be held on December 3-4, 2025, will bring together an international group of artists, digital practitioners, and scholars around this year’s theme, transmisión flamenca. 

In Spanish, transmisión refers, among other things, to how information is passed on and emotion is conveyed. The word also strikes at the heart of the cultural, ethical, and practical questions underlying digital approaches to flamenco. What are the pedagogical, cultural, and historical implications of teaching and learning flamenco through recordings and videos? How is the capacity to convey deep emotion – a capacity that is highly valued in flamenco culture – mediated by technology? How and when does technology make flamenco more and less accessible? What are the ethics of digitizing an art form that for centuries has survived through oral tradition?

For inquiries about the symposium, please contact Symposium Chairs: Tania Arabelle Flores at taniaf@stanford.edu AND Dr. Sara Arribas Colmenar at sara.arribascolmenar@cnu.edu

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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

Sara Arribas Colmenar, PhD (she/ella/ela)
Lecturer of Spanish
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Christopher Newport University

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Tania Arabelle Flores , PhD Candidate (she/ella/ela)
Iberian & Latin American Cultures | Stanford University
DARE Doctoral Fellow, 2024-2026
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