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Calls for Papers / Opportunities — Comments Off on CFP: Second International Congress On Historical Links Between Spain and the United States
11
Oct 15

CFP: Second International Congress On Historical Links Between Spain and the United States

The Second International Congress On Historical Links Between Spain and the United States

Past, Present, and Future

New York, New York

May 4-7, 2016

Deadline for abstracts: January 31st, 2016

From the conference organizers:

The study of the historical ties between North America and Spain is of vital importance for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Furthermore, the present and future of its inhabitants is marked and defined by economic and cultural ties. Current trends in globalization cannot be understood or analyzed outside the framework of these connections.

The City College of New York – Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Cervantes Institute of New York, and the Instituto Franklin of the Universidad de Alcala join for the second year in organizing this conference through this call for papers in different disciplines and areas of study with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to the historical links between Spain and North America. The primary aim of the conference is to provide a meeting place for academics and professionals with an interest in other disciplines related to this subject as well as to interact with other members within and outside their own disciplines in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Find out more about the conference, the submission process, and read the complete call for papers on the congress website.

Calls for Papers / LL Journal / Opportunities — Comments Off on CFP: LL Journal Volume 10, Number 2
10
Sep 15

CFP: LL Journal Volume 10, Number 2

The newest edition of the LL Journal will be coming out in December, 2015. Their call for papers is below. Keep up-to-date with the Journal by following them on Twitter and on Facebook.

Volumen 10 Número 2

CALL FOR PAPERS

FECHA LÍMITE DE RECEPCIÓN DE ENVÍOS: DOMINGO 4 DE OCTUBRE

LL Journal  los invita a colaborar en su nuevo número (diciembre 2015). Requerimos artículos sobre literatura, estudios culturales y de género, lingüística aplicada, lingüística teórica y sociolingüística, que se encuentren en estrecha relación con los mundos hispanos y luso- brasileños.

Todos los trabajos deberán respetar las orientaciones propuestas en las Directrices para autores (https://lljournal.commons.gc.cuny.edu/directrices-es/) y enviados al siguiente correo electrónico: lljournal.cuny@gmail.com.

Para mantener el anonimato durante el proceso de selección, se requiere indicar los datos personales en el cuerpo del correo electrónico y no en el archivo adjunto que contiene el artículo. Los autores seleccionados serán notificados en un plazo no mayor a cuatro semanas.

LL Journal es una publicación coordinada por las y los estudiantes del Programa Doctoral de Lenguas y Literaturas Hispánicas y Luso-Brasileñas. CUNY, The Graduate Center, Nueva York.

 

Calls for Papers / Opportunities — Comments Off on CFP: Encuentro Internacional de Poesía
04
Sep 15

CFP: Encuentro Internacional de Poesía

La poesía como lengua franca

El segundo Encuentro Internacional de Poesía

Deadline for Abstracts: February 7, 2016

Conference Dates: April 28-29, 2016

Conference Location: Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo, Brazil.

From the conference organizers:

Los días 18 y 19 de octubre de 2012 tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Filosofía, Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad de São Paulo el Primer Encuentro de Poesía Hispanoamericana “La poesía como lengua franca”, organizado por la disciplina de Literatura Hispanoamericana de dicha Facultad. Quisimos interrogarnos en ocasión del Encuentro por el carácter “franco” de la lengua poética, instalando la pregunta en la dialéctica entre la concepción de la poesía como un hecho verbal localizado en determinado idioma y la confianza en la transmisibilidad de su experiencia y en la incesante e interminable recreación de sus acontecimientos. Una confianza que, atentos a las diferencias y heterogeneidades de la lengua y de las poéticas, fundamentó la opción por la poesía hispanoamericana y/o por un recorte que privilegiase las tradiciones literarias nacionales. Los debates excedieron y ampliaron los alcances de nuestra propuesta. En esta segunda edición del evento aspiramos a que este diálogo se renueve. Sin pretender agotar otras perspectivas apuntamos a la reflexión sobre los siguientes temas:

  1. Diseños de geografías poéticas. Imaginarios de lenguas y territorios entre fronteras interamericanas: etnopoesía y descolonización del paradigma oralidad/escritura.
  2. Mecanismos de legitimación de la poesía: recepción, traducción y lectura de poesía hispanoamericana en Brasil y de poesía brasileña en el ámbito hispanoamericano.
  3. Los poetas como lectores de poesía: desdoblamientos críticos y ensayísticos.
  4. Cuerpo, voz, espectacularización y performance en la poesía contemporánea.
  5. Configuraciones de nuevas poéticas: poesía y filosofía, poesía y ficción, poesía y experiencia, poesía y memoria, poesía y archivo.
  6. Hacia una nueva temporalidad en la producción y circulación de poesía: jóvenes poetas y nuevas tecnologías, editoriales cartoneras, “saraus” y redes sociales.
  7. Formas narrativas de la poesía: qué y cómo cuenta la poesía.
  8. Poesía y tecnología: poéticas digitales y experimentales contemporáneas.
  9. Interacciones continentales: escuelas y movimientos poéticos en América Latina, Europa y Estados Unidos.

More information about the conference can be found on their website.

Calls for Papers / Opportunities — Comments Off on CFP: Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature 2016 Conference
02
Sep 15

CFP: Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature 2016 Conference

Urban (De)Coloniality and Literature

The Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University

Deadline for Abstracts: December 1, 2015

Conference Dates: March 3, 2016

Conference Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey

Keynote Speaker: José David Saldívar, Stanford University

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From the conference organizers:

The biennial graduate student conference at the Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature seeks to relate the theoretical production of decolonial thought with other critical discourses in the global academy. The conference invites participants to think about (de)coloniality beyond the geographical limit of the Americas, the temporal constraint of modernity, and the monolingualism of hegemonic languages and dominant disciplinary frameworks. The conference aims to address the following questions, among others: What knowledges do Ethnic Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Area Studies outside of Latin American and Caribbean Studies bring to Decolonial Studies? How does literature, especially fiction, and visual arts become a resource for decoloniality? How does (de)coloniality question the meaning and method of comparativity? In which ways does decolonial thought illuminate global configurations of urban life and culture?

Graduate students interested in presenting their research at Urban (De)Coloniality and Literature are asked to submit an abstract of 300 words or less addressing the conference theme.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

*    Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality.
*    Dialogues across African, Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian Studies.
*    Global Urbanism, the Coloniality of the City, and De-Westernization.
*    Gentrification, Racial Segregation, and the Prison-Industrial Complex.
*    Feminist and Queer approaches to (De)Coloniality.
*    Genres of the Human in Theory and Literature.
*    Religion and Empire in the Modern/Colonial World.
*    (De)Coloniality and World Literature, Cinema and other Media.
*    Bridging Comparative Literature, Comparative Philosophy, and Comparative Political Theory.

The deadline for paper proposals is 11:59 PM on December 1st, 2015. Please e-mail all proposals to Conference Co-Chair Rafael Vizcaino (Rafael.Vizcaino [at] rutgers [dot] edu), with “Submission: CL Graduate Conference 2016” as the subject of the e-mail. All submissions should include the title of the paper, the abstract, and the name, affiliation, and contact information of the author.

More information about the conference can be found on their website.

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Calls for Papers / Opportunities — Comments Off on CFP: Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages Conference
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Aug 15

CFP: Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages Conference

Intersections: Technology and Literatures, Cultures and Languages

Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at Stanford University

Deadline for Abstracts: September 4, 2015

Conference Dates:November 6-7, 2015

Conference Location:Palo Alto, California

Stanford CFP

 

Calls for Papers / LL Journal / Opportunities — Comments Off on CFP: LL Journal Vol. 10, No. 1
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Feb 15

CFP: LL Journal Vol. 10, No. 1

CONVOCATORIA LL Journal

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Volumen 10 Número 1

Fecha límite: viernes, 13 de marzo

Sobre el Journal: LL Journal publica trabajos sobre literatura, estudios culturales y de género; y sobre lingüística aplicada, lingüística teórica y sociolingüística, relacionados con los mundos hispanos y luso-brasileros.

En este número se abre una sección de poesía y narrativa.

Cómo enviar sus textos: Todos los trabajos deberán respetar las orientaciones propuestas en las Directrices para autores (https://lljournal.commons.gc.cuny.edu/directrices-es/).

Envíen sus textos al correo electrónico del Journal: lljournal.cuny@gmail.com. Para mantener el anonimato, se incluirán los datos personales en el cuerpo del email, mientras que el trabajo adjunto no estará firmado y carecerá de cualquier indicación de autoría. Si desean, pueden adjuntar imágenes.

Más información en la página web del LL Journal.
¡Anímense a enviar sus textos!

Calls for Papers — Comments Off on CFP: 20th Annual Fraker Conference at University of Michigan
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Dec 14

CFP: 20th Annual Fraker Conference at University of Michigan

What Do Social Movements Do?

20th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference

Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan

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Deadline for Abstracts: February 2nd, 2015

Conference Dates: March 13-14th, 2015

Conference Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

From the conference organizers:

Social movements refashion the nature of the human bond with the purpose of disrupting or preserving a given order. The last world financial crisis triggered major changes within social structures and a surge in social movements. These movements include the occupiers on Wall Street and the Tea Party in the United States, 15-M and Podemos in Spain, the Geração à rasca in Portugal, student movements in Chile, Mexico and other Latin American countries, the Arab Spring, the Front National in France, or the Movimento Cinque Stelle in Italy. More recently, incidents in Ferguson, New York, and Guerrero, Mexico have brought citizens into the streets to protest state complicity in violence. The key role these and other groups play in current politics urges us to reflect on the ways they do or undo social organization today and how they have worked in the past.

Considering the plethora of aims, expectations, and strategies devised by social movements throughout history, we would like to open the following questions to discussion: What do social movements do? How do social movements work? What is their scope? Did social movements work the same way in the past as they do today? How do they modify traditional politics? What is the importance of group leaders in relation to horizontal politics? How do they communicate? Who speaks? Who listens? Ultimately, how do social movements work to remake the human bond?

Keynote speakers, Professor John Holloway (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico) and Professor Joan Copjec (Brown University), will present recent work examining contemporary social movements. To complement these lectures, we have invited representatives from various movements within the United States to participate in a roundtable discussion during the conference and arranged an exhibition of visual art produced by social movements and art-activist collectives internationally.

We solicit presentations that explain the many possible trajectories that social movements trace as represented in literature, film, music, performance and/or relevant socio-historical and cultural phenomena.

Submission Instructions: presentations of 20 minutes may be given in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. We welcome papers that deal with Francophone, Latino-Hispanic, Lusophone, or Italian cultures, as well as those that address communities outside these linguistic, geographical, and disciplinary designations. We also welcome essays that study any historical period, from the Middle Ages to the present. Please send a 250-300 word abstract and refer questions to the Organizing Committee Email at: fraker2015@gmail.com.

Full call for papers here: Cfp_Fraker_2015

Calls for Papers / Opportunities — Comments Off on CFP: First International Conference on the Historical Links Between USA and Spain
15
Dec 14

CFP: First International Conference on the Historical Links Between USA and Spain

Links USA Spain Conference

Deadline for Abstracts: Extended to January 15th, 2015

Conference Dates: April 9-11, 2015

Conference Location: Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

From the conference organizers:

The study of the historical links between USA and Spain is of vital importance for the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Furthermore, the present and future of these two countries is marked and determined by unbreakable cultural and economic ties. The current globalizing trends cannot be understood or analyzed outside of the framework of these connections.The City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Instituto Franklin of the Universidad de Alcalá seek papers from a broad range of disciplines and areas of study with a special emphasis in interdisciplinary approaches to the historical links between USA and Spain.

The main goal of the conference is to provide a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to these topics, to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The conference will be organized in sections with different section coordinators. Papers on the following topics will be prioritized:

  1. Colonial & Post Colonial Studies. Coordinator: Juan Carlos Mercado.
  2. Education and Cultural Links. Coordinator: Lorenzo Delgado.
  3. Foreign Policy. Coordinator: Rosa Pardo.
  4. Science & Technology. Coordinator: Santiago López.
  5. Economics & Global firms. Coordinator: Julio Tascón & Misael Arturo López-Zapico.
  6. Military Relations. Coordinator: Federico Aznar.
Calls for Papers / Opportunities — Comments Off on CFP: University of Arizona’s 25th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium
15
Dec 14

CFP: University of Arizona’s 25th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium

“Memory, Resistance, and Social Communication past to present”

Deadline for Submissions: January 13, 2015

Conference Dates: February 26, 27, and 28, 2015

Conference Location: University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Anthony Geist (University of Washington), Dr. José Camacho (Rutgers University)

From the Symposium Committee:

The Symposium Committee is pleased to invite all interested graduate students, scholars and professionals to submit abstracts and panel proposals for the 25th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture. This year the Symposium Committee is honored to welcome Dr. Anthony Geist from the University of Washington and Dr. Jose Camacho from Rutgers University as keynote speakers.

As we explore memory, resistance, and social communication from various perspectives and disciplines, the Symposium Committee encourages the submission of papers and panels on a variety of topics and disciplines that explore language, literature, linguistics, protest, and culture. Submissions from the fields of literatures and cultures, linguistics, the digital humanities, and pedagogy are invited from all periods and areas of Iberian, Spanish-American, Latin American, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The committee will also consider panel proposals for sessions organized around a specific topic. Short-films and creative pieces, including digital works, authored by the presenters themselves are also welcome. Papers may be presented in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Paper Proposals: Please submit an abstract of approximately 250 words in English, Spanish, or Portuguese via email as an attachment to dspsymposium@gmail.com by January 13, 2015.

Panel Proposals: Please submit a description of the panel focus in 100 words or less, in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, as well as an abstract from the individual panel participants via email as an attachment to dspsymposium@gmail.com by January 13, 2015. Panels should have 3-5 participants.

In the body of the email, please specify your name, phone number, e-mail, title of the presentation, academic affiliation, and if audiovisual equipment will be needed for your presentation. Reading time of final papers is limited to 20 minutes (6-8 double-spaced pages). No papers will be read in absentia.

Acceptance will be confirmed no later than January 23, 2014. Registration is $30 and must be paid on-site. In addition, we encourage you to visit our website for more information: http://symposium.spanish.arizona.edu

Calls for Papers — Comments Off on CFP: UMass Amherst English Graduate Organization
29
Nov 14

CFP: UMass Amherst English Graduate Organization

“Bodies That Sell: Commodification and Cultural Marketplaces “

The Annual Conference of the English Graduate Organization at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Deadline for submissions: January 20th, 2015

Conference Date: Saturday, April 4th, 2015

 

View the complete call for papers here CFP UMass Amherst Interdisciplinary Grad Conference 2015

From the conference organizers:

For our 7th annual interdisciplinary conference, the English Graduate Organization at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst invites submissions that examine the ways in which cultural marketplaces construct, produce, erase, value/devalue bodies.

Some questions we are interested in include:

  • What kinds of bodies do various cultural marketplaces produce and value?
  • In what ways do marketplaces commoditize bodies?
  • How do they allow certain bodies to become more visible than others?
  • How, and to what extent, can bodies resist the conditioning forces of various marketplaces, even as they exist within them?
  • How, and to what extent, does the cultural capital of various bodies depend on varied dynamics of circulation and representation?
  • How do cultural texts (films, books, documentaries, etc.) objectify certain kinds of bodies (black, “third world,” feminine) and so on?
  • In what ways do cultural representation of certain bodies shape our understanding of concepts such as: ”normativity,” “gender,” “disability,” “nation,” ”race,” “freedom,” and “justice”?
  • What methodologies would be effective in helping us to reveal the ways in which forces of various cultural marketplaces construct bodies?

We accept three kinds of submissions:

  • Individual papers/projects: please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words. Include your name, paper title, institution, and email address.
  • Panels: please submit a 1000 word proposal for an entire panel of presentations (3-4 presenters). Included in this proposal should be abstracts of 200-300 words for all presentations, title of the panel, and information for each presenter (name, paper title, institution, and email address). If you are forming your own panel, you have the option of providing your own chair.
  • Performances and creative presentations/panels: we welcome submissions of creative works, including creative writing, visual art, and dramatic performance. Please include a brief description of your project, as well as your name, project title, institution, and email address
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