Born in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bologna, CONFLUENZE is a journal of Ibero-American studies. CONFLUENZE adopts a multidisciplinary perspective based on the encounter of and dialogue among different disciplinary approaches, taking into account the different cultures of the Ibero-American worlds. Confluenze aims to contribute to advancing the Ibero-American mutual and reciprocal understanding through the production and broad dissemination of research papers in and around the fields of social sciences and humanities from a multidisciplinary point of view. The journal focuses on the Ibero-American region but welcomes contributions from neighbouring areas such as the Caribbean, North-America and Europe.