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CFP: LL Journal Vol. 10, No. 1

CONVOCATORIA LL Journal

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!

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Feb 15

CLACLS Summer Research Travel Fellowships

From CLACLS:

The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies (CLACLS) is accepting proposals for the 2015 Summer Research Travel Fellowships. CLACLS will award fellowships of up to $1,000 (partial awards will also be granted) to full-time students currently enrolled in one of the Doctoral programs at the Graduate Center who are interested in travelling to Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain or Portugal to conduct research during the Summer 2015.

Eligible expenses will include travel and accommodation costs incurred to examine archival and other primary source material and/or to interview relevant informants. Partial awards to cover the eligible expenses may be made. Expenses attendant to travel to scholarly conferences, classes, or seminars are not eligible for support.

All applications must be submitted as ONE SINGLE DOCUMENT (Word or PDF) to CLACLSFellowships@gmail.com with the subject heading “[LAST NAME] 2015 Travel Fellowship Application”. Application materials should be ordered as follows:

A single cover page stating the applicant’s full name, email address, home address, GC program, field of study, and title of the research proposal
A one-page description of the research project with at least some mention of the proposed trip’s relevance (12pt font, Times New Roman, 1” Margins, Single Spaced)
A one-page budget proposal (as detailed as possible)
Curriculum Vitae (no more than two pages)
A copy of the applicant’s Graduate Center transcript (an unofficial copy from GC Banner is fine)

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until April 8^th, 2015 at 5pm

Decisions will go out May 4^th, 2015 by 5pm

For more information, contact CLACLS at 212.817.8438

Information regarding former winners can be found on the CLACLS website at http://clacls.gc.cuny.edu

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15
Dec 14

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

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:

Colonial & Post Colonial Studies. Coordinator: Juan Carlos Mercado.
Education and Cultural Links. Coordinator: Lorenzo Delgado.
Foreign Policy. Coordinator: Rosa Pardo.
Science & Technology. Coordinator: Santiago López.
Economics & Global firms. Coordinator: Julio Tascón & Misael Arturo López-Zapico.
Military Relations. Coordinator: Federico Aznar.

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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

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15
Nov 14

CFP: Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos,

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos

The student journal of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky

Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2015

Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos, the peer-reviewed, graduate student journal of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, invites submissions for their 2015 issue. The issue will be titled “Negotiating Identities and Otherness: Race in Spain and Latin America.” To read the current issue and to submit a paper, please visit their website: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/naeh/.

Email nomenclaturauk@gmail.com with any questions.

View the complete call for papers here

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11
Nov 14

CFP: VII Coloquio Internacional de Historia Literaria

“La prensa en el devenir literario”

VII Coloquio Internacional de Historia Literaria

Fecha: 9 y 10 de abril de 2015

Lugar: Lima, Perú

Fecha límite de enviar propuestas: 24 de noviembre de 2014

Más información en: http://ihlc.udea.edu.co http://www.celacp.org

De los organizadores:

En cumplimiento de sus objetivos académicos, el Grupo de Investigación Colombia: tradiciones de la palabra ha llevado a cabo seis coloquios sobre historia de la literatura colombiana desde su fundación en 2007. En los últimos eventos las convocatorias han sido ampliadas al ámbito de los estudios sobre el fenómeno literario a nivel internacional, en respuesta a la necesidad de conocer los procesos y avances de los colegas investigadores de otras latitudes y en otros contextos. Estos encuentros se han caracterizado por la asistencia de un nutrido número de investigadores tanto colombianos como extranjeros, entre quienes destacamos autoridades como Susana Zaneti (†), Ana Pizarro, Raymond L. Williams, Renán Silva, Mary Berg, Hélène Pouliquen, N’Bare M ́Gom, Luciano Ramírez, Alfredo Laverde, entre otros. En asocio con el Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, el grupo de investigación Colombia: tradiciones de la palabra invita, a la ciudad de Lima (Perú), a continuar la reflexión iniciada en 2011 en torno a las diversas formas que la prensa ha adoptado en la formación y transformación cultural de las sociedades, tanto como receptáculo de ideas, textos, imágenes y discusiones, como protagonista misma de tales transformaciones. El evento está abierto al estudio concienzudo de las publicaciones periódicas literarias y a la reflexión sobre fenómenos literarios en la prensa en general, desde el enfoque de todas las disciplinas de las ciencias sociales y humanas. Proponemos presentar disertaciones que contribuyan a la discusión de los siguientes temas:

Procesos literarios en la prensa nacional y regional
Prensa, canon y géneros literarios
Historia de la crítica, historia de la traducción e historia de la lectura en la prensa
Estudios comparativos de prensa (diversas naciones, diversos tiempos)
La imagen, la caricatura y la publicidad en la prensa literaria
Acercamientos teóricos y metodológicos para el estudio de la prensa
Intelectuales, ideas e ideologías en la prensa
Partidos políticos, grupos sociales y cofradías literarias en la prensa
Autores/editores, imprentas, librerías, gabinetes de lectura, tertulias y similares

Informes: Grupo de investigación Colombia: tradiciones de la palabra.Email: historialiteraria@gmail.com

Características de la ponencia: La lectura de la ponencia no debe sobrepasar los veinte (20) minutos, lo cual corresponde, aproximadamente, a un texto de ocho (8) páginas tamaño carta, interlineado doble, fuente Arial 11, márgenes de tres (3) centímetros a cada lado. Enviar la propuesta al email: historialiteraria@gmail.com

Importante

El aporte económico de los ponentes provenientes de los países de América Latina es de US$ 40.00 y de US$ 60.00 para los de otros países.
Entrada libre para asistentes; no se certificará asistencia, a menos que sea solicitada de manera explícita.
Se reciben propuestas de mesas, máximo de cuatro ponencias.
Se reciben propuestas de otras líneas temáticas.

El evento contará con mesa permanente de venta de publicaciones.

Escriba, pregunte, proponga, contáctenos

historialiteraria@gmail.com, difusion@celacp.org

Organizan y convocan

Grupo de Investigación

Colombia: tradiciones de la palabra

Universidad de Antioquia Medellín, Colombia

Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar Lima, Perú

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Nov 14

CFP: Purdue School of Languages and Cultures 15th Annual Graduate Symposium

“Mind, Body, and (Con)Text: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Linguistics”

Purdue School of Languages and Cultures 15th Annual Graduate Symposium

Dates: March 6-7, 2015

Location: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Deadline for proposals: December 14th, 2014

Keynote speakers: Mark Bruhn (Regis College), William Croft (University of New Mexico)

$100 travel grants are available (see more information below).

From the conference organizers:

With varying degrees of success, we relate to others, as humans and readers, not only through language, but also through embodied experience of a shared world. We come into contact with people in our environment and with characters on a page. What are the mechanisms and the limits of this oral or written language? Our own bodies are the best tools for understanding others, and our senses join our implicit knowledge of the context to construct an idea of other human minds. Additionally, our embodied experience is key to understanding ourselves: our pasts, our present identities, and our plans for the near and distant future. How does language express or structure this experience? How does this experience evolve or stagnate in accordance with or despite changes in time and space? In what ways do our bodies of the present inform our memories, our readings of texts, and, in the case of the author, the writing process?

To shed more light on the subject, research in literature, linguistics, and science converge. This year, the Purdue SLC Graduate Student Symposium (March 6-7) would like to call presenters from these and related fields to join the dialogue. Papers should address one or more of the following topics:

– Learning about the human mind or brain through literature and/or language

– New interpretations of literature through applications of findings in cognitive science

– The relevance or limitations of fMRI and other methods in literature and linguistic studies

– Theory of Mind

– Conceptual Blending

– Challenges and support for Descartes’s “cogito ergo sum”

– “The self” in body and mind; consciousness in literature

– The embodied experience of myths, religion, and faith in language and literature

– Memory and the five (six?) senses

– Animal minds

– Implications of space and time in constructing the self and the other

Abstracts submissions, 250 words, Times New Roman 12, Double Spaced, should be sent to slcsymposiumpurdue@gmail.com by December 14, 2014. Panels are also welcome. In your e-mail submission please specify the presenter’s name, institution of affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number. Please do not include any identifying information on the abstract itself. In a separate attachment, you may also submit a short form CV (1 page). Up to two travel grants in the amount of $100 will be awarded to students with excellent proposals who do not have all expenses covered by their university. No additional application is necessary. You will be informed of the committee’s decision after January 16, 2015.

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Nov 14

CFP: V Congreso Internacional “Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, las Américas y Puerto Rico.”

V Congreso Internacional

“Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, las Américas y Puerto Rico.”

Encuentro hispánico en homenaje a Ana Lydia Vega.

Dedicado a la Imagen y la Palabra

Fechas: 18, 19 y 20 de marzo de 2015

Lugar: Universidad de Puerto Rico, Arecibo

Fecha límite de enviar resúmenes: 30 de noviembre de 2014

Homenajeadas, plenaristas y estudiosos invitados:

Ana Lydia Vega, PUERTO RICO

Alejandro Zambra, CHILE

Leopoldo Brizuela, ARGENTINA

Jorge Perugorría, CUBA

Chus Gutiérrez, ESPAÑA

Lina Meruane, CHILE

Los interesados en someter un trabajo para leerse en el Congreso lo pueden escribir y presentar en español, inglés o portugués. Se deberá enviar un resumen completo de una página para un texto de 8 cuartillas a doble espacio, 20 minutos de ponencia, acompañado de un currículum vitae abreviado en o antes del 30 de noviembre de 2014. Los interesados en crear una sesión especial deberán informarnos del título de la mesa, nombre y dirección de los participantes. Favor de remitir la información pedida a la siguiente dirección:

Emma I. Domenech Flores

CoPresidenta Comité Timón

Universidad de Puerto Rico

PO Box 4010

Arecibo,Puerto Rico 00614

Fax (787) 880-2245, 880-6277

congresointernacional.arecibo@upr.edu

emma.domenech@upr.edu (787) 815-0000, ext. 3751, 3760

Se puede encontrar más información aquí

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01
Nov 14

The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship

The Graduate Center’s Internal Deadline is Monday, January 5, 2014, 5pm. Students who wish to be considered must submit a completed application (along with supporting materials) to Rachel Sponzo in the Office of the Provost (Room 8113). Students should submit the application and supporting documents in hard copy (single-sided, no staples), along with sealed copies of reference letters and transcripts. The applications will be reviewed by the Graduate Center to determine which three will be forwarded to the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund for the national competition.

If you have questions, please contact Rachel Sponzo (rsponzo@gc.cuny.edu; 212-817-7282).

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS

Fellowships are available to students who are currently enrolled in and pursuing a graduate degree at a designated institution of higher learning located in the United States of America. Undergraduate students are no longer qualified candidates.
The program of study being pursued by the candidate may include any recognized field of study in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences (including law, medicine, engineering, architecture or other formal professional training). The selection committee has a strong preference for supporting scholarly endeavors.
The candidate must have received a baccalaureate degree at the time of application and have an outstanding undergraduate record.
The candidate must demonstrate a need for financial assistance.
The candidate must be a citizen of the United States of America.
The candidate may be of any national descent or background.

The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund was established by the Will of Dolores Zohrab Liebmann and is administered by JPMorgan, Trustee. Mrs. Liebmann was the daughter of a prominent Armenian intellectual, writer and statesman and was married to one of the owners of a successful American business. She supported students and educational and charitable organizations during her lifetime. Mrs. Liebmann’s primary concern, as expressed in her Will, was to attract and support students with outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in their chosen fields of study. The trustees welcome applications from students of all national origins who are United States citizens.

DZL Conditions 2015-2016

DZL Printed Application 2015-2016

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Nov 14

CFP: HLBLL’s 20th Annual Graduate Student Conference

Relocating Identities, Theories, and Languages

Dates: April 24-25, 2015

Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016)

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Idelber Avelar (Tulane University), Dr. Jonathan Rosa (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2015

From problems of authorship or interpretation in translation to the adaptation of a literary text, linguistic encounters in dynamic social and cultural contexts, migratory and geographical displacement and the reterritorialization of identity, and even innovative theoretical analyses of conventional or canonical objects of study: in all these cases (which are relevant to our academic discussions) the theme of “relocation” is paramount. In the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages program at the City University of New York we consider it an opportune moment to rethink and reflect on these issues that not only open new theoretical doors but also revive and recontextualize older polemics.

It is this active and ever-changing context that surrounds our program’s twentieth annual Students’ Congress, which will present and debate situations in which movement, contact, change, or negotiation are crucial. Since linguistic and cultural encounters are illustrative of the majority of social and political problems today, we must employ our methodological tools of analysis to try to understand the mechanisms of relocation at play.

Possible areas of investigation:

-Translation and paratranslation studies

-Intermediality: Audio/Visual/Textual

-Narratives of exile, migration, and return

-Politics of the canon

-Postmemory and narratives of the second generation

-Languages and identities

-Ideologies of language

-Redefinitions of linguistic paradigms

-New theoretical approaches

-Transatlantic studies

-Genre literature and its porosity and intersections.

We invite abstracts (250 words) on topics related to these areas of research and others that may relate tangentially, as well as a list of five key words. Please email abstracts by January 31, 2015, to: congreso.hlbll.gc.cuny@gmail.com

#HLBLL20th

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