Monday, December 15, 2008

Language and Space / Lenguaje y espacio

http://oege.weebly.com/coloquio.html

Welcome

The Spanish Graduate Student Organization (OEGE) of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida invites you to participate in an Interdisciplinary Colloquium that will explore cultural and linguistic productions.

This conference welcomes papers in the field of Latin American, Peninsular and U.S. Latino Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures.


Call for Papers
2009


The graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida cordially invite submissions for their 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures. The colloquium will bring together graduate students and professors from a wide variety of disciplines whose work explores the concepts of "Language & Space: Lenguaje y espacio".

Open to all relevant topics, with thematic emphasis on the following: Language Contact; Transmutations of Art; Cities and Spaces; Literary and Film Space; Globalization; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Race and Ethnic Relations; The Other / The "Outsider"; Biculturalism; Second Language Acquisition; Picturing Women's Voices and Silences; Code-Switching; Memory; Language Change and Variation; Syncretism / Hybridism; New Technologies and Literary Communication; Language and Gender; Migration; and Exile and Diasporas.

The colloquium will feature three outstanding Keynote speakers:

Nydia Flores-Ferrán
Linguistics
Rutgers Univeristy

Elena Gascón-Vera
Spanish Literature and Culture
Wellesley College

Milagros Peña
Latin American Studies
University of Florida


Please send your one-page, single-spaced abstract attached as a Word documento to coloquiouf@gmail.com by January 11, 2009. Specify in the subject line whether your abstract is intended for Linguistics, Literature, or Culture Studies. With your submission, please make sure you include: the title of your paper, your name, institutional affiliation, and email address. The selection committee will respond to proposals as soon as possible. Papers being read will have a limit of 20 minutes. There is a donation fee of $30.

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