Eurocall Computer Mediated Communication SIG: Workshop Universidad de Leon López-Varela "Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation: Research Program" 23-25 Abril 2009 

López-Varela    "Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature"       American Comparative Literature Association,    Global Languages, Local Cultures" Harvard University,   March 26-29, 2009, 

López-Varela  "Multimodal Metaphor and Digital Literature"   AEDEAN Workshop    "Metaphor, Metonymy and Multimodality"     University of  Amsterdam   June -3-5,  2009

López-Varela  & Mariana Net  Course Organizers Summer Programme  Real & Virtual Cities para el International Summer School for Semiotic Studies: Pan European Culture Heritage in the Global World. International Semiotic Institute. Imatra, Finland, June 5 - 9, 2009

López-Varela   "Summer School in Semiotics EFSS" 2009 "Sociosemiotics III: Analysis of Cultures-Cultures of Analysis" Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies. 5-15 Septiembre 2009. New Bulgarian University, Sozopol.

López-Varela   "The Study of  Co-operation and Collaboration between Media and Art Forms"   Forum for Intermedial Studies: Intermediality -  Linneaus University, Sweden Sept. 15-17, 2009

López-Varela "Intermedial Semiotics and  Intersubjective Approaches"    Semio  X Conference      22-26 Sept  2009, À Coruña, Spain      International Semiotics Association