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:
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Dec 14
CFP: First International Conference on the Historical Links Between USA and Spain
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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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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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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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Nov 14
Our 20th Annual Conference Keynote Speakers
Relocating Identities, Theories, and Languages
The keynote speakers for our 20th annual conference are Dr. Jonathan Rosa (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and Dr. Idelber Avelar (Tulane University).
Dr. Jonathan Rosa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At UMass he holds affiliations with the Language, Literacy, and Culture Concentration in the College of Education and the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Studies. Dr. Rosa’s research theorizes the co-naturalization of language and race as a way of apprehending modes of societal exclusion and inclusion across institutional domains. Specifically, he analyzes the interplay between linguistic discrimination, racial marginalization, and educational inequality in urban contexts. He collaborate with local communities to track these phenomena and develop tools for understanding and eradicating the forms of disparity to which they correspond. His community-based approach to research, teaching, and service reflects a vision of scholarship as a platform for imagining and enacting more just societies. Dr. Rosa received his B.A. in Linguistics and Education from Swarthmore College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Idelber Avelar is a Full Professor specialized in contemporary Latin American fiction, literary theory, and Cultural Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1996 and joined Tulane in 1999. His latest books are Figuras da Violência: Ensaios sobre Ética, Narrativa e Música Popular (UFMG, 2011) and, coedited with Christopher Dunn, Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship (Duke UP, 2011). He is also the author of The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (Palgrave, 2004) and The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (Duke UP, 1999), winner of the MLA Kovacs prize and translated into Spanish and Portuguese. He has also published over 60 articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes, and over 100 position pieces in Latin American print and electronic media. He was the winner of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry essay contest on Machado de Assis and has been the recipient of Rockefeller, Hewlett, and Ford Foundation grants. He has been a guest lecturer in 15 countries and dozens of US institutions of higher learning, including Yale, Brown, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, NYU, Berkeley, Columbia, and the Universities of Michigan, Pittsburgh, Illinois, North Carolina, Texas, and New Mexico, among others. He is currently working on a book on masculinity in Latin American literature, for which he was awarded an ACLS fellowship in 2011.
Dr. Avelar will present “Brazilian transitional justice, indigenous struggles, and the Amazon” on Friday, April 24 and Dr. Rosa will present “Languages and Identities Beyond Borders” on Saturday, April 25.
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Nov 14
HLBLL Alumna and Current Student Published in New Book
This month a recent alumna and current student of the GC’s Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages Program were published in a new book: El Atlántico como frontera: Mediaciones culturales entre Cuba y España (Editorial Verbum), edited by Damaris Puñales Alpízar.
Current student Walfrido Dorta published “Negociaciones en el devocionario: Juan Ramón Jiménez y los origenistas” and recent alumna Mabel Cuesta‘s contribution is titled “El vaso Mare Altanticum o algunas estrategias para desmantelar la neocolonialización en la narrativa de Mylene Fernández Pintado.”
Congratulations to both of you. HLBLL is so proud of your hard work and accomplishments!
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Nov 14
Fernando Degiovanni Presents in Buenos Aires
On Friday, November 14th, Professor Fernando Degiovanni presented Una patria literaria, the first volume of Historia crítica de la literatura argentina at the Museo Casa de Ricardo Rojas in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Read about the presentation here.
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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 [email protected] with any questions.
View the complete call for papers here
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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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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
[email protected], [email protected]
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 [email protected] 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
[email protected] (787) 815-0000, ext. 3751, 3760
Se puede encontrar más información aquí
