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: [email protected].

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.

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08
Sep 15

Funding: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program (DPDF)

The Graduate Center has recently partnered with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to provide up to eight Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships to GC students in the social sciences and the humanities.

Application deadline: October 15th, 2015

Application Workshop:
Professor Duncan Faherty (English, Director of the Early Research Initiative) will be leading a workshop with SSRC staff for prospective student fellowship applicants on September 11, 2015, from 11:00-12:00 in the President’s Conference Room (8201.02). If you would like to attend the workshop, email gcarchivalgrants [at] gmail [dot] com to RSVP by September 8, 2015.

From the Provost:

The DPDF Program is an interdisciplinary training program that helps early-stage doctoral students formulate their dissertation research proposals for external funding agencies. The DPDF provides students with up to $5,000 for pre-dissertation exploratory summer research, preceded and followed by intensive multi-day workshops where students participate in proposal critique and writing sessions. In the workshops, fellows work with faculty mentors and students from other disciplines and institutions, so as to introduce them to theories, literatures, methods, and intellectual traditions of disciplines outside of their own.

GC DPDF fellows will receive additional mentoring and support through workshops and training sessions at the GC. Additionally, 2016 GC DPDF fellows will have to demonstrate by February of 2017 that they have applied for at least one additional external fellowship award to support their dissertation research. More information about the program and eligibility can be found through the links below.

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/#eligibility

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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:

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

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

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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

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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30
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

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28
Aug 15

Funding: Teaching and Learning Center Fellowship

Teaching and Learning Center Fellowship

The CUNY Graduate Center’s newly-founded Teaching and Learning Center invites applications for a Teaching and Learning Center Fellow. This year’s GC TLC Fellows will support CUNY Graduate Center students who are teaching across CUNY by staffing office hours, developing research projects related to teaching and learning at CUNY, producing support materials and a web site for the Center, and planning public programs. This is a terrific opportunity to join a team of committed educators who are thinking through what a graduate-level teaching and learning center at the nation’s largest, urban, public university should look like.

GC TLC Fellows report to the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center. Ideal candidates will be experienced college teachers familiar with emerging pedagogical trends, and be deeply engaged with the City University of New York. Strong writing, technical, and presentational skills are required, as is current enrollment in a doctoral program at the Graduate Center.

Compensation and Benefits: total compensation for this fellowship is approximately $27,000. This funding will include a graduate assistant appointment that will carry eligibility to purchase the low-cost NYSHIP health insurance, a stipend, and in-state tuition remission for fellows who are within their first 10 registered semesters of study. Teaching and Learning Center Fellows will be required to work a total of 450 non-teaching hours during the academic year (two 15-week semesters). This position comes with the possibility of reappointment.

To apply: please send a statement of interest (no more than 1-2 pages), a CV, and the names of three references via email to Luke Waltzer, Director, Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, at [email protected]. Review of applications will begin on August 31, and the position will be filled as soon as possible after that date.

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15
May 15

Student Emir Cruz Directs and Stars in “Simón del desierto”

HLBLL student Emir Cruz directs and stars in “Simón del desierto,” a new play he also adapted from the Luis Buñuel film of the same name. The play is running for two weeks beginning Friday, May 15th, at the Broadway Blackbox Theater.

Read on to find out more about the play.

“Simón del desierto” es una obra teatral miscelánea inspirada en la película del mismo título realizada en México por el director vanguardista Luis Buñuel en 1965. Aparte de adaptar gran parte el controvertido film buñuelesco, en esta obra de carácter experimental el actor Emir Cruz llamativamente ha orquestado elementos de distintas fuentes tales como el monólogo dramático “Saint Simeon the Stylites” de Alfred Lord Tennyson publicado en 1842, fragmentos poéticos extraídos de textos del libanés Khalil Gibrán, música medieval tanto de la liturgia ortodoxa griega como de la católica romana, entre otros aditamentos que contribuyen a la creación de un universo paralelo en el que extrañamente se rompen las nociones del tiempo lineal y simultáneamente conviven el presente, el pasado y el futuro.

Simón, el personaje principal de esta pieza teatral, interpretado por el propio Emir Cruz, está inspirado en San Simeón el Estilita, un santo ermitaño que durante treinta y siete años vivió en lo alto de una columna en las afueras de la ciudad de Alepo, en Siria. En pos de convertirse en santo y entrar al Paraíso, Simeón se sometía a fuertes penitencias sobre su pilar: pasaba la mayor parte de su tiempo en oración y meditación, casi no comía, dormía poco y con frecuencia se torturaba físicamente flagelándose hasta el extremo. Según la tradición, el Estilita caía en éxtasis profundos similares a los que experimentaba San Francisco de Asís, tenía diálogos de tú a tú con Satanás, con la Virgen María y a veces conversaba con el mismo Dios. Considerándolo una celebridad medieval, campeón y digno representante del ideal de santidad de su época, muchas personas venían a verlo en busca de milagros de todo tipo y de aliento espiritual.

En su nueva propuesta teatral Cruz ha creado un mundo ficticio en el que no sólo se parodia la religiosidad extrema que caracteriza a Simón, el ermita protagonista de la obra, sino que también pone en relieve realidades universales que transcienden el tiempo tales como la dicotomía entre el ser y parecer, la complejidad de la relaciones humanas, el declive de los valores en una sociedad en crisis y la “cultura del espectáculo”, un fenómeno o síndrome del que muchas personas padecen hoy día.

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18
Apr 15

HLBLL’s 20th Annual Student Conference is April 24th and 25th

Relocating Identities, Theories, and Languages

The 20th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the PhD Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages

#HLBLL20th

HLBLL’s 20th Annual Graduate Student Conference is Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th, 2015.

The Graduate Center, CUNY.
365 Fifth Ave.
NYC, NY 10016

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Idelber Avelar (Tulane University) “Brazilian transitional justice, indigenous struggles, and the Amazon” (Friday, April 24, Segal Theater, 6pm)

Dr. Jonathan Rosa (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Languages and Identities Beyond Borders” (Saturday, April 25th, Room 5414, 2:45pm)

View the complete conference program here.

The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages Annual Student Conference is celebrating 20 years of excellence in graduate student scholarly work.

Many thanks to the conference organizing team for their dedication in creating an extraordinary 20th year:
José Chavarry
Ulises Gonzales
Luis Henao Uribe
Kristina Jacobs
Inés Vañó García
Sara Cordón
John Flanagan

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14
Apr 15

Professor Oswaldo Zavala Wins the 2015 LASA Mexico Humanities Essay Prize

Congratulations to Professor Oswaldo Zavala (College of Staten Island & The Graduate Center)!

Oswaldo-Zavala

Professor Zavala won the 2015 LASA Mexico Humanities Essay Prize for his essay “Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Drug War: The Critical Limits of Narconarratives” published in Duke University Press’s Comparative Literature journal.

This LASA Mexico Prize is awarded yearly to an outstanding scholarly contribution to the study of Mexico in the fields of the humanities written by a member of Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association.

The entire text of Professor Zavala’s award-winning essay can be read here.

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11
Apr 15

Fall 2015 Course Listings

FALL 2015 – COURSE LISTINGS

THREE-CREDITS

SPAN 70100 – El español como objeto de interés histórico
GC: Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. del Valle

SPAN 70200 – Hispanic Critical & Cultural Theory
GC: Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Zavala

SPAN 70500 – Spanish Syntax
GC: Tuesday, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Otheguy
(cross-listed with LING 79100)

SPAN 87000 – Neo-Baroque Continuities & Ruptures in Cuban & Mexican Literatures
GC: Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Riobó

SPAN 87100 – In-Between Worlds & Tradition: Rereading the “Crónicas de Indias”
GC: Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Chang-Rodríguez

SPAN 87200 – The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar and Guillermo del Toro
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Smith

SPAN 87300 – Políticas de la Lengua y Culturas de Transición en España (1975-2015)
GC: Friday, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. José del Valle & Prof. Germán Labrador

SPAN 87400 – Asaltos a la biblioteca: Scenes of Reading in Latin America
GC: Monday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Degiovanni

ONE-CREDIT MINI-SEMINARS

SPAN 87200 – Reflexiones en torno a una piedra
GC: Monday, 10/5/2015 – Thursday, 10/8/2015, 1:30-4:00 p.m.,
Rm. 4116.18, 1 credit, Prof. Bernardo Atxaga (Atxaga Chair)

SPAN 87200 – Economia política, estructura de la comunicación y sociolingüistica del Catalán
GC: Monday, 9/28/2015, 1:30 – 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, 9/29/2015, 11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m., Wednesday, 9/30/2015 & Thursday, 10/1/2015, 1:30-4:00 p.m.
Rm. 4116.18, 1 credit, Prof. Toni Molla (Rodoreda Chair)

SEE ALSO

SPAN 88800 – Dissertation Workshop
GC: Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 0 credit, Prof. Degiovanni

PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures The Graduate Center, CUNY