Wake Forest University
Winston Salem, NC
April 9 - 10, 2010
Suggested Topics:
Poetry and society
Poetry and politics
Poetry of all Periods
Poetry and intertextuality
Bilingual poetry
Poetry and translation
Hispanic and Chicano poetry
Poetry and History
Chairs: Candelas Gala and Kathryn Mayers
Abstracts should be no more than a page and should include paper title, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes.
Proposals for panels/sessions should include title, a brief explanation of the session, the title of each presentation and the above information for each participant. (By attachment)
Participants may either present a paper or participate in one of the poetry readings. Participants in the poetry readings should send copy of their publications, and title of books published. (By mail)
Papers may be read (and abstracts submitted) in Spanish or English and sent to Candelas Gala at:
Candelas Gala
Wake Forest University
Department of Romance Languages
7566 Reynolda Station
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
email: galacs@wfu.edu
phone: (336)758-5485
Deadline for abstracts/samples of poetry: March 1, 2010.
Registration fee: $80 due upon acceptance. It includes Friday reception, Saturday breakfast, coffee breaks and banquet.
Website: http://www.wfu.edu/romancelanguages/poesia/
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Tinker Summer Field Research Grants 2010
The Center of Latin American Studies is pleased to announce a competition for field research money open to graduate students for summer research in Latin America, the Caribbean or the Iberian Peninsula. These awards are made possible through a grant from the Tinker Foundation. Awards can be used to cover approved travel expenses, including transportation and lodging. Research periods typically range from eight to twelve weeks. No grant will exceed US $2,500.00.
Pick up an application from the Center of Latin American Studies (320 Bailey Hall), or download from our website (www.ku.edu/~latamst). Completed applications and proposals must be submitted by February 1, 2010, 4 pm. Proposals will not be accepted without all application materials.
Eligibility: Master’s or doctoral students at KU whose course of study has a substantial focus on Latin America or Iberia.
Restrictions: Money is not available for jobs or internships, only independent research projects in the Spanish- or Portuguese- speaking countries of Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Application: Applicants are required to provide the following:
1. A research proposal of no more than five pages, describing the work to be undertaken and its professional significance, as well as the duration and itinerary of the project. It should also include the names of research centers with which you may be affiliated while conducting fieldwork, as well as any research contacts in the country. This proposal must be approved/signed by your faculty supervisor.
2. A brief curriculum vitae
3. Approval and letter of recommendation from a sponsoring faculty member who agrees to supervise the research
4. Two additional faculty letters of reference.
5. A copy of your graduate transcripts (unofficial is okay).
6. A detailed budget.
7. Proof of language competence sufficient to carry out the project (letter of evaluation from language instructor).
8. GRE, if available
A special Fellowship Committee of CLAS affiliated faculty will convene to decide award of grants. In making the awards, the Committee will decide what budget items can be funded, and by what amount. Announcements of awards will be made in mid-March.
Reporting: Awardees must report to the Fellowship Committee within sixty days of their return from the field. Receipts and cancelled tickets must be presented for all approved expenses.
The awardees will provide a report that includes itinerary, research results, account of expended funds, and proposed final stages of the project. Awardees may also be requested to present research results to students and faculty.
Contact the Center of Latin American Studies for more information (864-4213).
Pick up an application from the Center of Latin American Studies (320 Bailey Hall), or download from our website (www.ku.edu/~latamst). Completed applications and proposals must be submitted by February 1, 2010, 4 pm. Proposals will not be accepted without all application materials.
Eligibility: Master’s or doctoral students at KU whose course of study has a substantial focus on Latin America or Iberia.
Restrictions: Money is not available for jobs or internships, only independent research projects in the Spanish- or Portuguese- speaking countries of Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Application: Applicants are required to provide the following:
1. A research proposal of no more than five pages, describing the work to be undertaken and its professional significance, as well as the duration and itinerary of the project. It should also include the names of research centers with which you may be affiliated while conducting fieldwork, as well as any research contacts in the country. This proposal must be approved/signed by your faculty supervisor.
2. A brief curriculum vitae
3. Approval and letter of recommendation from a sponsoring faculty member who agrees to supervise the research
4. Two additional faculty letters of reference.
5. A copy of your graduate transcripts (unofficial is okay).
6. A detailed budget.
7. Proof of language competence sufficient to carry out the project (letter of evaluation from language instructor).
8. GRE, if available
A special Fellowship Committee of CLAS affiliated faculty will convene to decide award of grants. In making the awards, the Committee will decide what budget items can be funded, and by what amount. Announcements of awards will be made in mid-March.
Reporting: Awardees must report to the Fellowship Committee within sixty days of their return from the field. Receipts and cancelled tickets must be presented for all approved expenses.
The awardees will provide a report that includes itinerary, research results, account of expended funds, and proposed final stages of the project. Awardees may also be requested to present research results to students and faculty.
Contact the Center of Latin American Studies for more information (864-4213).
"Martyred Bodies and Religious Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"
The 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Colloquium hosted by the Medieval and Early Modern Institute (MEMI) at the University of Alberta.
February 26-27, 2010
Deadline for Submissions: January 3, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Todd Olson, Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Olson is currently working on a book entitled, Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics: Painting History After Iconoclasm.
The Medieval and Early Modern Institute at the University of Alberta invites proposals for individual papers for its graduate colloquium taking place on February 26-27, 2010 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Although we will accept papers on any theme related to the
Medieval or Early Modern period, we also encourage papers related to the themes of the conference: How was martyrdom performed and portrayed in the Medieval or Early Modern period, and what was its public impact? What role did martyrdom play in building and dividing religious communities?
Suggested topics include:
--public and private bodies
--political transgressions
--iconography
--religious schisms
--public and private devotional practices
--violence and the body
--gender and religion
--hermeneutics
--translations
--communities
--relics
--the performance of religion
Submissions on these and related topics are welcome from fields including, but not limited to, History, Classics, English and Literature, Religious Studies, Art History, Drama, Music, Architecture, and Cultural Studies.
Please send a one-page CV and abstracts of 300 words or fewer to mrea@ualberta.camrea@ualberta.ca>. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Funding may be available to subsidize travel to the conference; please indicate in your email if you would like to be considered.
February 26-27, 2010
Deadline for Submissions: January 3, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Todd Olson, Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Olson is currently working on a book entitled, Caravaggio's Pitiful Relics: Painting History After Iconoclasm.
The Medieval and Early Modern Institute at the University of Alberta invites proposals for individual papers for its graduate colloquium taking place on February 26-27, 2010 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Although we will accept papers on any theme related to the
Medieval or Early Modern period, we also encourage papers related to the themes of the conference: How was martyrdom performed and portrayed in the Medieval or Early Modern period, and what was its public impact? What role did martyrdom play in building and dividing religious communities?
Suggested topics include:
--public and private bodies
--political transgressions
--iconography
--religious schisms
--public and private devotional practices
--violence and the body
--gender and religion
--hermeneutics
--translations
--communities
--relics
--the performance of religion
Submissions on these and related topics are welcome from fields including, but not limited to, History, Classics, English and Literature, Religious Studies, Art History, Drama, Music, Architecture, and Cultural Studies.
Please send a one-page CV and abstracts of 300 words or fewer to mrea@ualberta.ca
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Love and Sight in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
The University of Toronto's Early Modern Studies Seminar (EMSS) seeks papers for its upcoming graduate conference, Love and Sight in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature, to be held April 22 and 23rd 2010.
This is an interdisciplinary conference welcoming papers from all fields of study.
Correlations between love and sight abound in the late medieval and early modern periods, but perhaps the most familiar relationship between the two is causative: that one sees before one loves, and one loves what one sees. Even causation between love and sight proves dynamic and capable of reversal, however, indicating that a wide range of relationships exist between love and sight - and between loving subject and beloved object - in these periods. Of course, correlations between love and sight extend beyond the immediate expression of erotic or romantic love. Love and sight play important roles in religious devotion, and the gods wreak havoc with both the sense and the emotion. Descriptions like blazon and ekphrasis work to convey sensory/emotional experience in language, and media like illustration, illumination, performance, film, etc. impact the viewer's experience of a text. Likewise, optics and humoral psychophysiology inform and historicize tropes of love and sight in provocative ways.
This conference is eager to explore how late medieval and early modern writers imagine and describe the relationships between love and sight, and we are very pleased to announce the plenary speakers for this conference will be Professor Suzanne Akbari (University of Toronto) and Professor Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College). Professor Akbari will speak on "The Geometry of Love" and Professor Rowe will give a paper entitled "Architectures of Shakespearean Desire: Virtual Globe Theaters from Hollar to Second Life."
Possible topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:
Apparitions, ghosts, projections and visitations
Blazon, ekphrasis and other description
Blindness
Dreams, illusions, hallucinations, visions, etc.
Film/new media adaptation
Humoralism
Icons, illustration, illumination, portraits, emblems, etc.
Language
Light/darkness
Optics
Performance
Perspective
Physiology
Religious devotion
Space/spatiality
Subject-/objectivity
Time/temporality
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words.
The submission deadline is Friday, January 15, 2010.
Please submit your proposals to:
emss.conference@gmail.com
This is an interdisciplinary conference welcoming papers from all fields of study.
Correlations between love and sight abound in the late medieval and early modern periods, but perhaps the most familiar relationship between the two is causative: that one sees before one loves, and one loves what one sees. Even causation between love and sight proves dynamic and capable of reversal, however, indicating that a wide range of relationships exist between love and sight - and between loving subject and beloved object - in these periods. Of course, correlations between love and sight extend beyond the immediate expression of erotic or romantic love. Love and sight play important roles in religious devotion, and the gods wreak havoc with both the sense and the emotion. Descriptions like blazon and ekphrasis work to convey sensory/emotional experience in language, and media like illustration, illumination, performance, film, etc. impact the viewer's experience of a text. Likewise, optics and humoral psychophysiology inform and historicize tropes of love and sight in provocative ways.
This conference is eager to explore how late medieval and early modern writers imagine and describe the relationships between love and sight, and we are very pleased to announce the plenary speakers for this conference will be Professor Suzanne Akbari (University of Toronto) and Professor Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College). Professor Akbari will speak on "The Geometry of Love" and Professor Rowe will give a paper entitled "Architectures of Shakespearean Desire: Virtual Globe Theaters from Hollar to Second Life."
Possible topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:
Apparitions, ghosts, projections and visitations
Blazon, ekphrasis and other description
Blindness
Dreams, illusions, hallucinations, visions, etc.
Film/new media adaptation
Humoralism
Icons, illustration, illumination, portraits, emblems, etc.
Language
Light/darkness
Optics
Performance
Perspective
Physiology
Religious devotion
Space/spatiality
Subject-/objectivity
Time/temporality
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words.
The submission deadline is Friday, January 15, 2010.
Please submit your proposals to:
emss.conference@gmail.com
Theatre Journal: Contemporary Women Playwrights
Theatre Journal
Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Contemporary Women Playwrights"
In her ground-breaking 1989 volume Making A Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre, Lynda Hart remarked, "The latter half of the twentieth century has seen an emergence of women playwrights in numbers equal to the entire history of their dramatic foremothers." In 2008, however, nearly twenty years after Hart’s volume signaled a kind of golden age of women’s theatre writing, playwrights Sarah Schulman and Julia Jordan convened a "standing-room-only" town hall meeting in New York City to discuss a bias in the subsidized New York theatre that has male writers being produced four times more than women. Clearly, despite the ground-swell of women’s writing for the theatre that Hart captured in 1989, what she called "the last bastion of male hegemony in the literary arts" has, in the early twenty-first century, not yet been dismantled. For this special issue, the editors invite essays that center on issues relating to women playwrights who have been active within the past twenty years and that explore such topics as: the politics, economics, and material conditions of production and reception as they pertain to women playwrights; concerns and techniques in playwriting by women; innovative theoretical frameworks and critical methods for articulating the political and aesthetic affiliations and interventions of women playwrights; and the impact of such historical developments as the critical turn to feminist performance in the 1990s, the move toward gender studies, the rise of queer theory, and the articulation of postcolonial criticism as they have affected academic and scholarly engagements with women playwrights.
Please send inquiries about this special issue to Penny Farfan, Coeditor, Theatre Journal (farfan@ucalgary.ca), and Lesley Ferris, Guest Coeditor (ferris.36@osu.edu).
Submissions should be e-mailed to Bob Kowkabany, Managing Editor, at doriclay@aol.com by April 15, 2010.
Call for Papers
Special Issue on "Contemporary Women Playwrights"
In her ground-breaking 1989 volume Making A Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre, Lynda Hart remarked, "The latter half of the twentieth century has seen an emergence of women playwrights in numbers equal to the entire history of their dramatic foremothers." In 2008, however, nearly twenty years after Hart’s volume signaled a kind of golden age of women’s theatre writing, playwrights Sarah Schulman and Julia Jordan convened a "standing-room-only" town hall meeting in New York City to discuss a bias in the subsidized New York theatre that has male writers being produced four times more than women. Clearly, despite the ground-swell of women’s writing for the theatre that Hart captured in 1989, what she called "the last bastion of male hegemony in the literary arts" has, in the early twenty-first century, not yet been dismantled. For this special issue, the editors invite essays that center on issues relating to women playwrights who have been active within the past twenty years and that explore such topics as: the politics, economics, and material conditions of production and reception as they pertain to women playwrights; concerns and techniques in playwriting by women; innovative theoretical frameworks and critical methods for articulating the political and aesthetic affiliations and interventions of women playwrights; and the impact of such historical developments as the critical turn to feminist performance in the 1990s, the move toward gender studies, the rise of queer theory, and the articulation of postcolonial criticism as they have affected academic and scholarly engagements with women playwrights.
Please send inquiries about this special issue to Penny Farfan, Coeditor, Theatre Journal (farfan@ucalgary.ca), and Lesley Ferris, Guest Coeditor (ferris.36@osu.edu).
Submissions should be e-mailed to Bob Kowkabany, Managing Editor, at doriclay@aol.com by April 15, 2010.
2010 NEH Summer Seminar: Literary Pícaros and Pícaras and Their Travels in Early Modern Spain
June 20-July 18, 2010 (4 weeks)
Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami
Adrienne L. Martín, University of California - Davis
Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248093
Coral Gables, FL 33124-2074
305/284-5585
nehspainseminar@miami.edu
(Seminar locations in Spain: Madrid,
Salamanca, Toledo, Seville)
With its emphasis on the life story of a young rogue or pícaro, the picaresque novel remains today one of the most popular forms of fiction. The sixteenth-century Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes is credited as the first picaresque work, as its protagonist, the young Lazarillo, sets the tone for the wily ways in which pícaros (and pícaras) trick their masters and hilariously narrate a life of delinquency that, they insist, is not their fault, since they were born into poverty and needed, against all odds, to survive. As a new literary genre, one that reacted against the idealizing poetry and fiction of the time, the picaresque gives voice to the marginalized and the poor and brings a dose of “reality” to Renaissance prose. By doing so it offers an ideal means of studying both the literature and the history of early modern Spain. Because Spain’s diminishing imperial glory depended on maintaining armies at war and ruling distant colonies, the fun and humor of these novels barely manage to conceal a dark and somber side that reveals the sufferings of the country’s poor. While their slippery narrators tell their story in the first person and attempt to justify their delinquent actions, the authors of the narratives utilize their tales to criticize a corrupt and degraded society.
This is the tumultuous literary genre that we will study in situ while visiting the cities where pícaros plied their trade and learned to survive. Lazarillo was born on the outskirts of Salamanca, literally on the banks of the River Tormes. While the pícaro received his education through the school of hard knocks, students flocked to the University of Salamanca, the first university in Spain. Toledo, Lazarillo’s and his first master’s destination, was the seat of the Spanish empire. Cervantes’s Rinconete and Cortadillo, and Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache all shared experiences in the underworld of Seville, a port city that saw delinquency rise as the American fleets docked there, bringing treasures of gold bullion and silver from the New World to the Old. Pablos, Quevedo’s buscón prides himself on being from Segovia, which at the time had lost many of its workers to Madrid. Pablos and María de Zayas’ female pícaras traveled to Spain’s new capital, Madrid, in the hopes of bettering their condition, disguising themselves as wealthy nobles and hiding their lower-class origins in the city’s anonymity.
For more information, see the following website: http://www.as.miami.edu/personal/neh/
Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami
Adrienne L. Martín, University of California - Davis
Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248093
Coral Gables, FL 33124-2074
305/284-5585
nehspainseminar@miami.edu
(Seminar locations in Spain: Madrid,
Salamanca, Toledo, Seville)
With its emphasis on the life story of a young rogue or pícaro, the picaresque novel remains today one of the most popular forms of fiction. The sixteenth-century Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes is credited as the first picaresque work, as its protagonist, the young Lazarillo, sets the tone for the wily ways in which pícaros (and pícaras) trick their masters and hilariously narrate a life of delinquency that, they insist, is not their fault, since they were born into poverty and needed, against all odds, to survive. As a new literary genre, one that reacted against the idealizing poetry and fiction of the time, the picaresque gives voice to the marginalized and the poor and brings a dose of “reality” to Renaissance prose. By doing so it offers an ideal means of studying both the literature and the history of early modern Spain. Because Spain’s diminishing imperial glory depended on maintaining armies at war and ruling distant colonies, the fun and humor of these novels barely manage to conceal a dark and somber side that reveals the sufferings of the country’s poor. While their slippery narrators tell their story in the first person and attempt to justify their delinquent actions, the authors of the narratives utilize their tales to criticize a corrupt and degraded society.
This is the tumultuous literary genre that we will study in situ while visiting the cities where pícaros plied their trade and learned to survive. Lazarillo was born on the outskirts of Salamanca, literally on the banks of the River Tormes. While the pícaro received his education through the school of hard knocks, students flocked to the University of Salamanca, the first university in Spain. Toledo, Lazarillo’s and his first master’s destination, was the seat of the Spanish empire. Cervantes’s Rinconete and Cortadillo, and Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache all shared experiences in the underworld of Seville, a port city that saw delinquency rise as the American fleets docked there, bringing treasures of gold bullion and silver from the New World to the Old. Pablos, Quevedo’s buscón prides himself on being from Segovia, which at the time had lost many of its workers to Madrid. Pablos and María de Zayas’ female pícaras traveled to Spain’s new capital, Madrid, in the hopes of bettering their condition, disguising themselves as wealthy nobles and hiding their lower-class origins in the city’s anonymity.
For more information, see the following website: http://www.as.miami.edu/personal/neh/
Estudios trasatlánticos en la obra Carme Riera: voz, escritura e identidad
CALL for PAPERS
From
Catholic University of America
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Washington, DC
“Estudios trasatlánticos en la obra Carme Riera: voz, escritura e identidad”
March 19-20, 2010
Plenary Speaker:
Professor Carme Riera, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Keynote Speakers:
Professor María Luisa Cotoner, Universitat de Vic (Spain)
Professor Mario Santana, University of Chicago
Professor Susana Cavallo, John Felice Rome Center (Italy)
We are pleased to announce an international conference in honor of Carme Riera, one of Spain’s leading writers and literary critics. Riera has been awarded a number of prizes, among them the 1980 Prudenci Bertrana Prize for her novel Una primavera per a Domenico Guarini (A Springtime for Domenico Guarini), the 1989 Ramon Llull Prize for her Joc de miralls (A Play of Mirrors), the 1994 Josep Pla Prize for Dins el darrer blau (In the Last Blue), a historical novel which also received the Joan Crexells Prize,the Lletra d'Or Prize, the Ministry of Culture National Prize for Narrative and the Elio Vittorini Prize from the Syracuse Department of Tourism. Her novel La meitat de l'ànima (Half the Soul) was awarded the distinguished Sant Jordi Prize in 2003. In 2000, the Generalitat of Catalonia awarded her the Saint George Cross.
Her novels have been translated into many languages including Castilian, German, English, Dutch and Russian.
The conference welcomes proposals that study any of Carme Riera’s literary or analytical work. We also invite comparative case studies of the author with relation to the following topics:
• History and politics
• Translation
• Transnational studies
• Language and its social and political status
• The center and the periphery
• Gender and Sexuality
• Religious Studies
• Detective Fiction
• National Identity
• Autobiography
• Poetry, The Barcelona School and/or Generación de los 50
• Children’s Literature
Papers may be in Spanish, English or Catalan. Please provide the following by mail or email:
-A 200-word abstract in English, Spanish or Catalan
-A cover letter listing the following:
-Name (last, first), academic affiliation, title of the paper, telephone number,
address, e-mail address.
Reading time for papers is limited to 20 minutes.
Deadline for Abstracts: December 31st, 2009.
Please send submissions to: Urizar@cua.edu
From
Catholic University of America
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Washington, DC
“Estudios trasatlánticos en la obra Carme Riera: voz, escritura e identidad”
March 19-20, 2010
Plenary Speaker:
Professor Carme Riera, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Keynote Speakers:
Professor María Luisa Cotoner, Universitat de Vic (Spain)
Professor Mario Santana, University of Chicago
Professor Susana Cavallo, John Felice Rome Center (Italy)
We are pleased to announce an international conference in honor of Carme Riera, one of Spain’s leading writers and literary critics. Riera has been awarded a number of prizes, among them the 1980 Prudenci Bertrana Prize for her novel Una primavera per a Domenico Guarini (A Springtime for Domenico Guarini), the 1989 Ramon Llull Prize for her Joc de miralls (A Play of Mirrors), the 1994 Josep Pla Prize for Dins el darrer blau (In the Last Blue), a historical novel which also received the Joan Crexells Prize,the Lletra d'Or Prize, the Ministry of Culture National Prize for Narrative and the Elio Vittorini Prize from the Syracuse Department of Tourism. Her novel La meitat de l'ànima (Half the Soul) was awarded the distinguished Sant Jordi Prize in 2003. In 2000, the Generalitat of Catalonia awarded her the Saint George Cross.
Her novels have been translated into many languages including Castilian, German, English, Dutch and Russian.
The conference welcomes proposals that study any of Carme Riera’s literary or analytical work. We also invite comparative case studies of the author with relation to the following topics:
• History and politics
• Translation
• Transnational studies
• Language and its social and political status
• The center and the periphery
• Gender and Sexuality
• Religious Studies
• Detective Fiction
• National Identity
• Autobiography
• Poetry, The Barcelona School and/or Generación de los 50
• Children’s Literature
Papers may be in Spanish, English or Catalan. Please provide the following by mail or email:
-A 200-word abstract in English, Spanish or Catalan
-A cover letter listing the following:
-Name (last, first), academic affiliation, title of the paper, telephone number,
address, e-mail address.
Reading time for papers is limited to 20 minutes.
Deadline for Abstracts: December 31st, 2009.
Please send submissions to: Urizar@cua.edu
Revista Sin Frontera: Exilio, espacios y culturas
The graduate students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Florida invite you to participate in the fourth edition of Revista Sin Frontera. This year, the topic is exile, space, and cultures. To be displaced by force or by choice is to change and adapt a culture to a new space. The interactions and confrontations that this particular movement triggers may be manifested through any artistic representation: literature, music, art, architecture, performance, and many others.
The objective of this issue of Sin Frontera is to provide a forum for new dialogue and reflection on these manifestations and to observe the impact that exile, emigration, diaspora, or displacements may have on the individual and on collective consciousness. Papers will be accepted in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
To submit a paper, please follow these instructions:
All work should be sent via e-mail or post mail. If sent by mail, the work should be received in hard copy and a data CD. Please, use 8" x 11", double space, 1" margins and font 12 in all submissions, except for poetry.
You may send your work to:
Sin Frontera
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
170 Dauer Hall
P.O. Box 117405
Gainesville, FL 32611-7405
email: uf.sinfrontera@gmail.com
DEADLINE: 5PM, January 15, 2010
The objective of this issue of Sin Frontera is to provide a forum for new dialogue and reflection on these manifestations and to observe the impact that exile, emigration, diaspora, or displacements may have on the individual and on collective consciousness. Papers will be accepted in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
To submit a paper, please follow these instructions:
- Literature, linguistics, art, and culture papers (10-20 pages; MLA or APA Guidelines)
- Books, films or music reviews (3-5 pages)
- Poetry (1-3 poems; 1.5 space; 12-point font)
- Short Stories (1-10 pages)
- Drama (1-3 Acts)
- Art pieces (photos in .jpg format; including a title)
- Photography (.jpg format; including title)
All work should be sent via e-mail or post mail. If sent by mail, the work should be received in hard copy and a data CD. Please, use 8" x 11", double space, 1" margins and font 12 in all submissions, except for poetry.
You may send your work to:
Sin Frontera
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
170 Dauer Hall
P.O. Box 117405
Gainesville, FL 32611-7405
email: uf.sinfrontera@gmail.com
DEADLINE: 5PM, January 15, 2010
Sunday, November 22, 2009
GEMELA 2010: Making Connections
GEMELA 2010: Making Connections
CALL FOR PAPERS
GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre-1800) invites abstracts for it biennial conference to be hosted by Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley and UMass-Amherst, Massachussets, on September 23-25, 2010.
Sponsored by Mount Holyoke College, UMass-Amherst and GEMELA, the conference will focus on women's cultural production in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America. Papers or sessions that focus on making connections between geographical spaces, or between disciplines will be highly appreciated. We also welcome suggestions for discussion papers and/or workshops on theory, pedagogy, and other related topics. Papers may be delivered in Spanish or English.
The deadline for sending one-page abstracts is 15 April 2010. Graduate Students should send an abstract along with a full text (7-10 pages max.) Papers by graduate students will automatically be submitted to the Graduate Student Award Competition.
Please, see our webpage www.gemela.org for more information.
All presenters must pay 2010 membership ($30 for two years) and the conference registration fee ($100 faculty/$50 students) by June 1, 2010. Participants traveling from abroad can pay upon arrival at the conference, but need to confirm participation by June 1, 2010.
For membership and registration details, see: http://www.gemela.org/join.html
Please feel free to cross-post this announcement to other lists and forward to interested students and faculty.
CALL FOR PAPERS
GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre-1800) invites abstracts for it biennial conference to be hosted by Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley and UMass-Amherst, Massachussets, on September 23-25, 2010.
Sponsored by Mount Holyoke College, UMass-Amherst and GEMELA, the conference will focus on women's cultural production in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America. Papers or sessions that focus on making connections between geographical spaces, or between disciplines will be highly appreciated. We also welcome suggestions for discussion papers and/or workshops on theory, pedagogy, and other related topics. Papers may be delivered in Spanish or English.
The deadline for sending one-page abstracts is 15 April 2010. Graduate Students should send an abstract along with a full text (7-10 pages max.) Papers by graduate students will automatically be submitted to the Graduate Student Award Competition.
Please, see our webpage www.gemela.org for more information.
All presenters must pay 2010 membership ($30 for two years) and the conference registration fee ($100 faculty/$50 students) by June 1, 2010. Participants traveling from abroad can pay upon arrival at the conference, but need to confirm participation by June 1, 2010.
For membership and registration details, see: http://www.gemela.org/join.html
Please feel free to cross-post this announcement to other lists and forward to interested students and faculty.
CUNY Graduate Center Annual Students' Conference Call for Papers
The XV The Fifteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
April 09, 10 - 2010
Call for Papers
Fifteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
The students of the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York will hold the Fifteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference on April 9th - 10th, 2010. Submissions are invited on all periods of the languages and literatures of any of the Spanish-speaking and/ or Lusophone world. Papers may be presented in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Please send an abstract of not more than 250 words as an attachment via email to lljournal@gc.cuny.edu by February 7th, 2010. Please specify your name, phone number, e-mail, title of the presentation, academic affiliation, and if auto visual equipment will be needed in your e-mail body. Please note that reading time of papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Authors will be notified by February 15th, 2009 as to whether their papers have been accepted. A selection of papers will be published in the LL Journal, an online publication dedicated to the promotion of research related to the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian worlds.
For submission guidelines to the magazine, you may visit: http://lljournal.gc.cuny.edu.
You may also contact us at:
Fifteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
The Graduate School and University Center – CUNY
Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
Room 4116
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Fax: 212.817.1522
Email: lljournal@gc.cuny.edu
April 09, 10 - 2010
Call for Papers
Fifteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
The students of the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York will hold the Fifteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference on April 9th - 10th, 2010. Submissions are invited on all periods of the languages and literatures of any of the Spanish-speaking and/ or Lusophone world. Papers may be presented in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Please send an abstract of not more than 250 words as an attachment via email to lljournal@gc.cuny.edu by February 7th, 2010. Please specify your name, phone number, e-mail, title of the presentation, academic affiliation, and if auto visual equipment will be needed in your e-mail body. Please note that reading time of papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Authors will be notified by February 15th, 2009 as to whether their papers have been accepted. A selection of papers will be published in the LL Journal, an online publication dedicated to the promotion of research related to the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian worlds.
For submission guidelines to the magazine, you may visit: http://lljournal.gc.cuny.edu.
You may also contact us at:
Fifteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
The Graduate School and University Center – CUNY
Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
Room 4116
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Fax: 212.817.1522
Email: lljournal@gc.cuny.edu
OSEA Job Announcement: Program Assistant for 2010 Summer Field School
OSEA Job Announcement: Program Assistant for 2010 Summer Field School
OSEA Seeks 1 or 2 Program Assistants for 2010 Summer Field School. The number of assistants hired will depend upon final program enrollment and qualifications/experiences of applicants. We seek a highly motivated, mature, professional, with developed qualifications and/or experience in both office/clerical management and academic teaching/research. Work schedule includes pre-program activities during April and May, the program per se, and post program activities. The person must also have a flexible yet well defined personality that can adapt to different kinds of social contexts, cultural norms, personalities, and contingencies.
The selected person(s) fulfills one or more roles simultaneously: (A) Teaching and Research Assistant. (B) Instructor, if possible and according to expertise in areas such as conversational Spanish, ethnography, anthropology, or related cultural studies fields. (C) Student Liaison and Supervisor of Student Activities. (D) Financial/Program Administrator.
Time commitment: full time 40-55 hours a week, during the 8 weeks of the OSEA Field School Program plus 4 days prior to start date and 4 days post closing date. In addition, the assistant works approximately 4 weeks at quarter time in pre-program preparation. This may include preparation of course materials, guiding participants with pre-travel issues, and related pre-program activities. During the field school there is scheduled free time and a program break from work (expenses are out of pocket). Total time is approximately 9 weeks on site. There is post-program work of one week at half-time, which can be conducted off-site, to complete administrative responsibilities by September. Pay scale is dependent upon qualifications of applicant. Payment includes food and lodging while on-site, partial to full reimbursement of airfare, ground travel from airport to program site, and a monetary stipend. Benefits include option to take structured Maya language course (at introductory, intermediate, or advanced levels) and advising on Assistant's research and/or writing where relevant/desired. While the position is seasonal, there is the option for continued part-time work during the academic year 2010-11 and renewal of position for 2011.
To apply, send a cover letter that explains your interest in and motivations to work with OSEA and in Yucatán, vita/resume, and contact information for two professional references. The letter should include descriptions of any and all undergraduate or graduate research and travel experience, especially in Latin America and Mexico, disciplinary training to date, professional goals in short and long term. Please send an academic curriculum vitae and either a business resume or an addenda to the CV that details non-academic work experience, positions, and skills, including Spanish or other language proficiencies. Applicants with a minimum of anthropology background is desired but those with training in any related field of cultural-social studies and practical experience in office administration/secretarial, NGO management, community development, and/or art fields are encouraged to apply. Ability to teach or practical experience in teaching conversational Spanish at introductory levels is a welcome skill to highlight. In your cover letter please clarify what special skills, leadership, training, experience, or current projects that you bring to the Field School that would be a unique asset to the development of student participants and staff or that would contribute to the OSEA experience.
Applicants may be graduate students working toward a Masters or a Ph.D. or post-degree professionals with academic/research backgrounds. Applications can be submitted any time from posting until the position is filled or no later than December 15. Submit your materials directly to Quetzil Castañeda, OSEA, 2244 Martha Street, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Quetzil E. Castañeda
Founding Director, OSEA
Visiting Lecturer, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Indiana University Research Associate in Anthropology, Indiana University
quetzil@osea-cite.org
812.669.1369 office & voicemail
[52] 985.851.0384 Chichén Itzá office (seasonal)
Skype account: quetzil
www.osea-cite.org
OSEA Seeks 1 or 2 Program Assistants for 2010 Summer Field School. The number of assistants hired will depend upon final program enrollment and qualifications/experiences of applicants. We seek a highly motivated, mature, professional, with developed qualifications and/or experience in both office/clerical management and academic teaching/research. Work schedule includes pre-program activities during April and May, the program per se, and post program activities. The person must also have a flexible yet well defined personality that can adapt to different kinds of social contexts, cultural norms, personalities, and contingencies.
The selected person(s) fulfills one or more roles simultaneously: (A) Teaching and Research Assistant. (B) Instructor, if possible and according to expertise in areas such as conversational Spanish, ethnography, anthropology, or related cultural studies fields. (C) Student Liaison and Supervisor of Student Activities. (D) Financial/Program Administrator.
Time commitment: full time 40-55 hours a week, during the 8 weeks of the OSEA Field School Program plus 4 days prior to start date and 4 days post closing date. In addition, the assistant works approximately 4 weeks at quarter time in pre-program preparation. This may include preparation of course materials, guiding participants with pre-travel issues, and related pre-program activities. During the field school there is scheduled free time and a program break from work (expenses are out of pocket). Total time is approximately 9 weeks on site. There is post-program work of one week at half-time, which can be conducted off-site, to complete administrative responsibilities by September. Pay scale is dependent upon qualifications of applicant. Payment includes food and lodging while on-site, partial to full reimbursement of airfare, ground travel from airport to program site, and a monetary stipend. Benefits include option to take structured Maya language course (at introductory, intermediate, or advanced levels) and advising on Assistant's research and/or writing where relevant/desired. While the position is seasonal, there is the option for continued part-time work during the academic year 2010-11 and renewal of position for 2011.
To apply, send a cover letter that explains your interest in and motivations to work with OSEA and in Yucatán, vita/resume, and contact information for two professional references. The letter should include descriptions of any and all undergraduate or graduate research and travel experience, especially in Latin America and Mexico, disciplinary training to date, professional goals in short and long term. Please send an academic curriculum vitae and either a business resume or an addenda to the CV that details non-academic work experience, positions, and skills, including Spanish or other language proficiencies. Applicants with a minimum of anthropology background is desired but those with training in any related field of cultural-social studies and practical experience in office administration/secretarial, NGO management, community development, and/or art fields are encouraged to apply. Ability to teach or practical experience in teaching conversational Spanish at introductory levels is a welcome skill to highlight. In your cover letter please clarify what special skills, leadership, training, experience, or current projects that you bring to the Field School that would be a unique asset to the development of student participants and staff or that would contribute to the OSEA experience.
Applicants may be graduate students working toward a Masters or a Ph.D. or post-degree professionals with academic/research backgrounds. Applications can be submitted any time from posting until the position is filled or no later than December 15. Submit your materials directly to Quetzil Castañeda, OSEA, 2244 Martha Street, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Quetzil E. Castañeda
Founding Director, OSEA
Visiting Lecturer, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Indiana University Research Associate in Anthropology, Indiana University
quetzil@osea-cite.org
812.669.1369 office & voicemail
[52] 985.851.0384 Chichén Itzá office (seasonal)
Skype account: quetzil
www.osea-cite.org
Internship with the Mexico Solidarity Network
Mexico Solidarity
Network Internship
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Network Internship
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Intern with the Mexico Solidarity Network
The Mexico Solidarity Network has opening for an internship in our
Chicago office. The internship includes some of the following:
1. Organize and travel on a two-week speaking tour. Each tour features a member of a Mexican social movement, including indigenous rights movements, human rights, urban housing movements, campesino movements and community work in Ciudad Juarez. The intern will
schedule events at US universities and community-based groups, then travel on the tour as logistical coordinator, and speak at events on topics including the Mexico Solidarity Network and the history of the speaker.
2. Work in the Albany Park Autonomous Center. The Autonomous Center is located in one of Chicago's largely immigrant neighborhoods, where we work with the Latino Spanish-speaking population. Interns will work with community members to facilitate English classes, political workshops, video nights, fiestas and cultural events.
3. Work in the Alternative Economy program promoting distribution of artisanry produced by Zapatista women's cooperatives.
4. If the applicant has experience with web design, some of her/his work will be on the Mexico Solidarity Network web site.
The successful applicant has the following characteristics:
1. Fluency or near fluency in English and Spanish.
2. Ability to communicate across cultures.
3. Experience in community organizing and/or ESL classes.
4. Self-starter.
5. Minimum six month commitment.
This is a dynamic, fast-paced internship. Interns assume full responsibility for projects under their direction. The position does not include fundraising and very little administrative work. You won't be pushing papers or doing busy work. You will be part of a growing anti-capitalist community-based organization with a strong critique of neoliberalism. Interns are paid $500 per month plus housing, or $900 without housing.
Applicants can send resumes, a short writing sample, and dates of availability to MSN@MexicoSolidarity.org.
The Mexico Solidarity Network has opening for an internship in our
Chicago office. The internship includes some of the following:
1. Organize and travel on a two-week speaking tour. Each tour features a member of a Mexican social movement, including indigenous rights movements, human rights, urban housing movements, campesino movements and community work in Ciudad Juarez. The intern will
schedule events at US universities and community-based groups, then travel on the tour as logistical coordinator, and speak at events on topics including the Mexico Solidarity Network and the history of the speaker.
2. Work in the Albany Park Autonomous Center. The Autonomous Center is located in one of Chicago's largely immigrant neighborhoods, where we work with the Latino Spanish-speaking population. Interns will work with community members to facilitate English classes, political workshops, video nights, fiestas and cultural events.
3. Work in the Alternative Economy program promoting distribution of artisanry produced by Zapatista women's cooperatives.
4. If the applicant has experience with web design, some of her/his work will be on the Mexico Solidarity Network web site.
The successful applicant has the following characteristics:
1. Fluency or near fluency in English and Spanish.
2. Ability to communicate across cultures.
3. Experience in community organizing and/or ESL classes.
4. Self-starter.
5. Minimum six month commitment.
This is a dynamic, fast-paced internship. Interns assume full responsibility for projects under their direction. The position does not include fundraising and very little administrative work. You won't be pushing papers or doing busy work. You will be part of a growing anti-capitalist community-based organization with a strong critique of neoliberalism. Interns are paid $500 per month plus housing, or $900 without housing.
Applicants can send resumes, a short writing sample, and dates of availability to MSN@MexicoSolidarity.org.
Saints in the City: (Re)Discoursing the Religious in the 21st Century
12th Annual Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California Santa Barbara
CALL FOR PAPERS
Saints in the City: (Re)Discoursing the Religious in the 21st Century
April 10th, 2010
This conference aims to consider, explore, and analyze the reciprocal relationship between religious discourse in the 21st Century and pop/urban culture. The reconstruction or reconstruction of religiosity and the role of religion is apparent in literary, cultural, and linguistic production, especially in urban spaces, where popular and mass expressions are influenced by and affect new ways of presenting the ‘holy’. Interdisciplinary papers are most welcomed.
The conference is open but not limited to:
Representation of Religion in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Cultures; Religion, Sexuality, and Gender; Pop Art and Religion; The Holy and the City; Religion and Fanaticism; Urban Shrines; Mass Media and Religion; Contemporary Representations of Religion; 21st Century Literature and Religion; Religion and the Physical; Translation Studies; Fine Arts; Theology; Parody and Paraphrase; Social Theory; 21st Century Musical Expression.
We also welcome sociocultural and/or applied linguistics approaches exploring the role of language in the topics mentioned above.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Orlando Grossegesse, University of Minho, Portugal
Professor Antonio Rubial, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
The 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics will be hosted by the Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This conference is organized by graduate students in order to give other graduate students an opportunity to share their current work and areas of research. We invite and encourage all submissions from interdisciplinary perspectives written in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, or English.
Abstract information:
Please submit a 250 words abstract by January 15th, 2009. The abstract should include the title of the paper and no personal information. On a separate page please include the following: title of your presentation, name, e-mail address, institution, and phone numbers. Submissions of panels (not to exceed three papers) are encouraged. Reading time of the presentation should not exceed 15 to 20 minutes in order to allow sufficient time for discussion. Registration fee for all participants is 25 dollars (or 30 dollars for on-site attendance registration).
Submission: Abstracts may be sent to the graduate student conference selection committee via email or post mail:
ucsbgradconference@yahoo.com
Attention: Audrey Lopez (Grad Student Conference)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Phelps Hall
Santa Barbara, CA,93106-4150.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California Santa Barbara
CALL FOR PAPERS
Saints in the City: (Re)Discoursing the Religious in the 21st Century
April 10th, 2010
This conference aims to consider, explore, and analyze the reciprocal relationship between religious discourse in the 21st Century and pop/urban culture. The reconstruction or reconstruction of religiosity and the role of religion is apparent in literary, cultural, and linguistic production, especially in urban spaces, where popular and mass expressions are influenced by and affect new ways of presenting the ‘holy’. Interdisciplinary papers are most welcomed.
The conference is open but not limited to:
Representation of Religion in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Cultures; Religion, Sexuality, and Gender; Pop Art and Religion; The Holy and the City; Religion and Fanaticism; Urban Shrines; Mass Media and Religion; Contemporary Representations of Religion; 21st Century Literature and Religion; Religion and the Physical; Translation Studies; Fine Arts; Theology; Parody and Paraphrase; Social Theory; 21st Century Musical Expression.
We also welcome sociocultural and/or applied linguistics approaches exploring the role of language in the topics mentioned above.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Orlando Grossegesse, University of Minho, Portugal
Professor Antonio Rubial, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
The 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics will be hosted by the Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This conference is organized by graduate students in order to give other graduate students an opportunity to share their current work and areas of research. We invite and encourage all submissions from interdisciplinary perspectives written in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, or English.
Abstract information:
Please submit a 250 words abstract by January 15th, 2009. The abstract should include the title of the paper and no personal information. On a separate page please include the following: title of your presentation, name, e-mail address, institution, and phone numbers. Submissions of panels (not to exceed three papers) are encouraged. Reading time of the presentation should not exceed 15 to 20 minutes in order to allow sufficient time for discussion. Registration fee for all participants is 25 dollars (or 30 dollars for on-site attendance registration).
Submission: Abstracts may be sent to the graduate student conference selection committee via email or post mail:
ucsbgradconference@yahoo.com
Attention: Audrey Lopez (Grad Student Conference)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Phelps Hall
Santa Barbara, CA,93106-4150.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Downward Spirals?: Thinking about Crisis across the Disciplines
Mid-America Humanities Conference
Downward Spirals?: Thinking about Crisis across the Disciplines
A forum for interdisciplinary student research
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
While the experience of uncertainty is common in the modern world, the first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed events that have contributed to a growing sense of crisis: 9/11 and the ensuing "global war on terror"; the Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing phenomenon of climate change; and, most recently the collapse of global economic markets. In this context it is useful to critically reflect on the social, political, and cultural implication of "crisis" and "catastrophe."
We invite proposals from undergraduate and graduate students engaged in humanistic inquiry in humanities, social sciences, and arts fields for papers addressing the theme or problem of crisis in historical and/or contemporary contexts. Relevant questions for consideration include, but are not limited to:
http://www.hwc.ku.edu/MA_Humanities/
Downward Spirals?: Thinking about Crisis across the Disciplines
A forum for interdisciplinary student research
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
While the experience of uncertainty is common in the modern world, the first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed events that have contributed to a growing sense of crisis: 9/11 and the ensuing "global war on terror"; the Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing phenomenon of climate change; and, most recently the collapse of global economic markets. In this context it is useful to critically reflect on the social, political, and cultural implication of "crisis" and "catastrophe."
We invite proposals from undergraduate and graduate students engaged in humanistic inquiry in humanities, social sciences, and arts fields for papers addressing the theme or problem of crisis in historical and/or contemporary contexts. Relevant questions for consideration include, but are not limited to:
- What are the contextual factors that determine whether an event is interpreted as a "crisis" or as "normal"?
- In particular crises, what is the relationship between danger and opportunity?
- In what ways do new cultural forms and media emerge as responses to crises and catastrophes?
- What is the relationship between crisis and transformation more generally?
- How do trends in human migration and the proliferation of media bring about crises of identity?
- What kinds of shifts in gender, race, class or other identities accompany large and small-scale crises?
http://www.hwc.ku.edu/MA_Humanities/
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Cumbre 2010: Movilidad Humana, las Promesas del Desarrollo y Participación Política
Los invitamos a que envíen una breve propuesta, ya sea tipo monografía o presentación sobre trabajo comunitario, para participar en nuestra cuarta Cumbre Latina/Latinomericana de las Planicies. El tema de este año es: "Movilidad Humana, las Promesas del Desarrollo y Participación Política."
La fecha límite para introducir las propuestas es muy pronto: 12 de Diciembre de este año, 2009.
Encontrarán la invitación desplegada en el correo electrónico que les acabo de mandar así como en un archivo PDF con instrucciones sobre cómo elaborar y enviar las propuestas junto con una explicación de lo que significa el tema del congreso.
Si tienen alguna pregunta no duden en llamarnos al teléfono de OLLAS: 402-554-3835 o para mayor información visiten la página de nuestra conferencia:
http://www.unomaha.edu/ollas/cumbre.php
Dependiendo del financiamiento, esperan tener interpretación simultánea (español-ingés) en muchas de las sesiones de la conferencia.
Los que organizan la conferencia quieren agradecer el patrocinio anticipado de muchas organizaciones e invitan a sus socios comunitarios y académicos a ser co-invitantes de la conferencia. La conferencia es GRATIS para la comunidad como expresión de nuestra misión dedicada a abrir espacios de aprendizaje e involucramiento con la comunidad mas allá de las
fronteras de nuestra universidad, UNO.
Cumbre 2010 incluye un taller de formación de líderes y organizaciones, tanto locales como transnacionales, dentro del tema de la conferencia y con un segundo objetivo de preparar un pequeño número de participantes [dependiendo de fondos y espacio] para el foro social
de migración y desarrollo que se llevará a cabo en Quito, Ecuador.
Los facilitadores provienen de América Latina y de Estados Unidos. El espacio para el taller es limitado y más adelante se envían una invitación y ficha de inscripción.
Estén alerta al anuncio de dos concursos para jóvenes, uno de fotografía y otro de poesía y ensayo, que están lanzando como complemento a la conferencia.
La fecha límite para introducir las propuestas es muy pronto: 12 de Diciembre de este año, 2009.
Encontrarán la invitación desplegada en el correo electrónico que les acabo de mandar así como en un archivo PDF con instrucciones sobre cómo elaborar y enviar las propuestas junto con una explicación de lo que significa el tema del congreso.
Si tienen alguna pregunta no duden en llamarnos al teléfono de OLLAS: 402-554-3835 o para mayor información visiten la página de nuestra conferencia:
http://www.unomaha.edu/ollas/
Dependiendo del financiamiento, esperan tener interpretación simultánea (español-ingés) en muchas de las sesiones de la conferencia.
Los que organizan la conferencia quieren agradecer el patrocinio anticipado de muchas organizaciones e invitan a sus socios comunitarios y académicos a ser co-invitantes de la conferencia. La conferencia es GRATIS para la comunidad como expresión de nuestra misión dedicada a abrir espacios de aprendizaje e involucramiento con la comunidad mas allá de las
fronteras de nuestra universidad, UNO.
Cumbre 2010 incluye un taller de formación de líderes y organizaciones, tanto locales como transnacionales, dentro del tema de la conferencia y con un segundo objetivo de preparar un pequeño número de participantes [dependiendo de fondos y espacio] para el foro social
de migración y desarrollo que se llevará a cabo en Quito, Ecuador.
Los facilitadores provienen de América Latina y de Estados Unidos. El espacio para el taller es limitado y más adelante se envían una invitación y ficha de inscripción.
Estén alerta al anuncio de dos concursos para jóvenes, uno de fotografía y otro de poesía y ensayo, que están lanzando como complemento a la conferencia.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños: El Caribe múltiple y el bicentenario de las independencias hispanoamericanas continentales
II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños
2nd. International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS)
Deuxième Conférence Internationale des Études sur les Caraïbes
“El Caribe múltiple y el bicentenario de las independencias hispanoamericanas continentales”
Universidad de Cartagena.
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Marzo 15 – 19, 2010.
Comunicación No. 2:
Conferencistas invitados:
Raphaël Confiant
(Martinica)
Miembro del movimiento criollista, del Grupo de Estudios e Investigación sobre el Espacio Creolófono (GEREC) y profesor en Université des Antilles Guyane. Autor de Eloge de la créolité (1989), con Jean Bernabé y Patrick Chamoiseau; Lettres créoles: tracées antillaises et continentales de la littérature… (1991), también con Chamoiseau, Dictionnaire créole martiniquais-français (2007), entre otros libros. Algunas de sus novelas más recientes son: Adèle et la pacotilleuse (2005), Case à Chine (2007) y Hôtel du bon plaisir (2009). Es uno de los intelectuales caribeños más influyentes de nuestros días.
Enrique Saínz
(Cuba)
Miembro de Número de la Academia Cubana de la Lengua. Autor entre otros de los libros: Silvestre de Balboa y la literatura cubana (1982), La literatura cubana de 1700 a 1790 (1983), La obra poética de Cintio Vitier (1998), La poesía de Virgilio Piñera: ensayo de aproximación (2001), Ensayos en el tiempo (2008) y de Ensayos inconclusos (2009). Colaboró en la elaboración del Diccionario de la literatura cubana (1980-1984) y la Historia de la literatura cubana (2002-2009). Uno de los más prolíficos y connotados ensayistas residentes en la Isla.
Alfonso Múnera Cavadía
(Colombia)
Fundador de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, director del Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe y Vicerrector de Investigaciones de la Universidad de Cartagena. Ha dirigido durante 16 años el Seminario Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Autor de El fracaso de la nación: región, clase y raza en el Caribe Colombiano: 1717 -1810 (1998) y Fronteras imaginadas: La construcción de las razas y de la geografía en el siglo XIX colombiano (2005). Su obra historiográfica ha contribuido a transformar la visión del Caribe como parte de la nación colombiana.
Entidades patrocinadoras:
Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina
Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales
www.areandina.edu.co
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Departamento de Literatura
www.javeriana.edu.co
Universidad de Cartagena
Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe
www.unicartagena.edu.co
University of Texas Pan American
Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures
www.utpa.edu/dept/modlang
République Française
Ambassade de France à Bogota
www.ambafrance-co.org/
La II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños tendrá lugar entre el 15 y el 19 de marzo de 2010 en Cartagena de Indias, en la región del Caribe colombiano. El tema central enfatiza pero no limita temáticamente el carácter interdisciplinario de la conferencia. Se sugieren adicionalmente las siguientes temáticas:
Producción teórico-crítica desde el Caribe.
Integración regional caribeña y con América Latina.
Estudios sobre arte, incluyendo música y pintura.
Estudios culturales y literarios: una perspectiva transnacional caribeña.
Estudios transatlánticos: Caribe/Europa/África.
Dinámicas articuladoras entre el Caribe, el Pacífico y Brasil.
Dinámicas socioculturales andino/caribeñas en Colombia.
Raza, género y subalternidad epistemológica.
Educación superior y pedagogías caribeñas ante la globalización.
Diásporas caribeñas.
Sostenibilidad ambiental y cultural del mar Caribe.
Se aceptará sólo una propuesta de ponencia o panel por cada autor, ya sea en español, inglés o francés. Los paneles estarán compuestos de hasta 4 ponencias. Ninguna presentación podrá sobrepasar los veinte minutos, este límite será rigurosamente cumplido por los presentadores y los moderadores de secciones. Por favor enviar un resumen de máximo 200 palabras en un archivo adjunto (Word) a: hrromero@panam.edu (en inglés o francés) y a figueroa@javeriana.edu.co (en español) hasta el 15 de noviembre de 2009.
Para actualizaciones e información sobre hoteles, aeropuertos e inscripciones consultar las páginas del evento:
http://www.areandina.edu.co/portal/medios/documentos/pdf/convocatoriacaribe.pdf
http://www.utpa.edu/Dept/modlang/Conference/iccs.htm
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Para más información, por favor contactar a:
Kevin Sedeño Guillén
Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina
Bogotá, D. C., Calle 71 No. 13-21.
Telf.: (57-1) 346 6600, ext. 161. Fax. (57-1) 313 1076.
E-mail: kesedeno@areandina.edu.co
2nd. International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS)
Deuxième Conférence Internationale des Études sur les Caraïbes
“El Caribe múltiple y el bicentenario de las independencias hispanoamericanas continentales”
Universidad de Cartagena.
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Marzo 15 – 19, 2010.
Comunicación No. 2:
Conferencistas invitados:
Raphaël Confiant
(Martinica)
Miembro del movimiento criollista, del Grupo de Estudios e Investigación sobre el Espacio Creolófono (GEREC) y profesor en Université des Antilles Guyane. Autor de Eloge de la créolité (1989), con Jean Bernabé y Patrick Chamoiseau; Lettres créoles: tracées antillaises et continentales de la littérature… (1991), también con Chamoiseau, Dictionnaire créole martiniquais-français (2007), entre otros libros. Algunas de sus novelas más recientes son: Adèle et la pacotilleuse (2005), Case à Chine (2007) y Hôtel du bon plaisir (2009). Es uno de los intelectuales caribeños más influyentes de nuestros días.
Enrique Saínz
(Cuba)
Miembro de Número de la Academia Cubana de la Lengua. Autor entre otros de los libros: Silvestre de Balboa y la literatura cubana (1982), La literatura cubana de 1700 a 1790 (1983), La obra poética de Cintio Vitier (1998), La poesía de Virgilio Piñera: ensayo de aproximación (2001), Ensayos en el tiempo (2008) y de Ensayos inconclusos (2009). Colaboró en la elaboración del Diccionario de la literatura cubana (1980-1984) y la Historia de la literatura cubana (2002-2009). Uno de los más prolíficos y connotados ensayistas residentes en la Isla.
Alfonso Múnera Cavadía
(Colombia)
Fundador de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, director del Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe y Vicerrector de Investigaciones de la Universidad de Cartagena. Ha dirigido durante 16 años el Seminario Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Autor de El fracaso de la nación: región, clase y raza en el Caribe Colombiano: 1717 -1810 (1998) y Fronteras imaginadas: La construcción de las razas y de la geografía en el siglo XIX colombiano (2005). Su obra historiográfica ha contribuido a transformar la visión del Caribe como parte de la nación colombiana.
Entidades patrocinadoras:
Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina
Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales
www.areandina.edu.co
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Departamento de Literatura
www.javeriana.edu.co
Universidad de Cartagena
Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe
www.unicartagena.edu.co
University of Texas Pan American
Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures
www.utpa.edu/dept/modlang
République Française
Ambassade de France à Bogota
www.ambafrance-co.org/
La II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños tendrá lugar entre el 15 y el 19 de marzo de 2010 en Cartagena de Indias, en la región del Caribe colombiano. El tema central enfatiza pero no limita temáticamente el carácter interdisciplinario de la conferencia. Se sugieren adicionalmente las siguientes temáticas:
Producción teórico-crítica desde el Caribe.
Integración regional caribeña y con América Latina.
Estudios sobre arte, incluyendo música y pintura.
Estudios culturales y literarios: una perspectiva transnacional caribeña.
Estudios transatlánticos: Caribe/Europa/África.
Dinámicas articuladoras entre el Caribe, el Pacífico y Brasil.
Dinámicas socioculturales andino/caribeñas en Colombia.
Raza, género y subalternidad epistemológica.
Educación superior y pedagogías caribeñas ante la globalización.
Diásporas caribeñas.
Sostenibilidad ambiental y cultural del mar Caribe.
Se aceptará sólo una propuesta de ponencia o panel por cada autor, ya sea en español, inglés o francés. Los paneles estarán compuestos de hasta 4 ponencias. Ninguna presentación podrá sobrepasar los veinte minutos, este límite será rigurosamente cumplido por los presentadores y los moderadores de secciones. Por favor enviar un resumen de máximo 200 palabras en un archivo adjunto (Word) a: hrromero@panam.edu (en inglés o francés) y a figueroa@javeriana.edu.co (en español) hasta el 15 de noviembre de 2009.
Para actualizaciones e información sobre hoteles, aeropuertos e inscripciones consultar las páginas del evento:
http://www.areandina.edu.co/portal/medios/documentos/pdf/convocatoriacaribe.pdf
http://www.utpa.edu/Dept/modlang/Conference/iccs.htm
________________________________________
Para más información, por favor contactar a:
Kevin Sedeño Guillén
Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina
Bogotá, D. C., Calle 71 No. 13-21.
Telf.: (57-1) 346 6600, ext. 161. Fax. (57-1) 313 1076.
E-mail: kesedeno@areandina.edu.co
Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía y Teatro 2010
Ernesto Cardenal
y
Rodolfo Santana Salas
en las
Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía y Teatro 2010
Puebla, México
Las XVIII Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro Latinoamericana, que se realizarán en Puebla, México, del 6 al 9 de julio del 2010, anuncian que su sesión de homenaje será dedicada al dramaturgo Rodolfo Santana Salas (Venezuela, 1943), quien estará presente en el acto académico en su honor.
Asimismo, las V Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía Latinoamericana que tendrá lugar en la misma ciudad de Puebla, entre el 12 y 15 de julio del 2010, informan que su sesión de honor será dedicada al poeta Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua, 1925), quien estará presente para recibir
el homenaje académico.
Los organizadores de las Jornadas, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, y el Centro Cultural Espacio 1900, de la Ciudad de Puebla, invitan a investigadores y críticos a participar en las conferencias con temas de su preferencia. Para información sobre las jornadas, viaje y alojamiento, pueden visitar el sitio
www.jornadasmexico.com <http://www.jornadasmexico.com/ > .
El extracto de la ponencia debe ser enviada (incluyendo direcciones de teléfono y correo electrónico) antes del 30 de abril del 2010 a cualquiera de las siguientes direcciones:
Óscar Rivera-Rodas
oriverar@utk.eduoriverar@utk.edu>
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Georgina Wittingham
whitting@oswego.edu
State University of New York
Oswego, NY 13126-3599
y
Rodolfo Santana Salas
en las
Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía y Teatro 2010
Puebla, México
Las XVIII Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro Latinoamericana, que se realizarán en Puebla, México, del 6 al 9 de julio del 2010, anuncian que su sesión de homenaje será dedicada al dramaturgo Rodolfo Santana Salas (Venezuela, 1943), quien estará presente en el acto académico en su honor.
Asimismo, las V Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía Latinoamericana que tendrá lugar en la misma ciudad de Puebla, entre el 12 y 15 de julio del 2010, informan que su sesión de honor será dedicada al poeta Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua, 1925), quien estará presente para recibir
el homenaje académico.
Los organizadores de las Jornadas, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, y el Centro Cultural Espacio 1900, de la Ciudad de Puebla, invitan a investigadores y críticos a participar en las conferencias con temas de su preferencia. Para información sobre las jornadas, viaje y alojamiento, pueden visitar el sitio
www.jornadasmexico.com <http://www.jornadasmexico.
El extracto de la ponencia debe ser enviada (incluyendo direcciones de teléfono y correo electrónico) antes del 30 de abril del 2010 a cualquiera de las siguientes direcciones:
Óscar Rivera-Rodas
oriverar@utk.edu
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Georgina Wittingham
whitting@oswego.edu
State University of New York
Oswego, NY 13126-3599
Friday, October 30, 2009
The Renaissance Arts of Science and Nature
The Renaissance Arts of Science and Nature
A Two Day Conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 19-20, 2010
Keynote Speakers:
Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University)
Carla Mazzio (SUNY Buffalo)
The Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the
University of Michigan, is requesting submissions for its conference
on the arts of science and nature in early modern culture, to be held
February 19-20, 2010.
Broadly conceived, this conference intends to investigate the
relationship between the arts and sciences in the early modern period.
In contrast to modern disciplinary practices, which tend to
distinguish between – if not divorce – humanistic practice from
scientific endeavor, extant works from the early modern period reveal
a complicated, potentially constitutive relationship between these two
fields of intellectual inquiry, evinced by the term “natural
philosophy”. How might cross-disciplinary thinking – modern and early
modern – inform our understanding of the early modern period? We seek
submissions that address these issues or which respond to any of the
following questions:
To what extent did the arts and natural sciences/philosophies depend
upon one another during the early modern period? How were these
“disciplines” delineated from – and/or defined in relation to – one
another? How can we, as modern scholars, approach and consider
potential dialogues between these disciplines? In what forms did such
exchange(s) take place? What factors enabled the distinction between
the arts and the sciences? How did scientific praxes – including but
not limited to alchemy, humoral medicine, anatomy, mathematics,
geometry, optics, or astronomy – inform early modern culture? How did
such praxes appear within, influence, inform or challenge the fields
of literature, visual art, music, or architecture? How did the
relationship of sciences to the arts inform the orders of nature, the
taxonomies in which humans and animals were placed in relation to one
another? In what ways did craft or artisanal practice enable a merging
of science and art? How might contemporary scientific practice and
knowledge inform our understanding of the arts in the early modern
period?
This conference is co-sponsored by the Early Modern Colloquium, the
Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and the Departments of
English and Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of
Michigan. We therefore welcome submissions from these disciplines and
a wide range of others, including history, art history, musicology,
theater history, philosophy, and anthropology. Priority will be given
to graduate students.
200-250 word proposals should be sent to Andrew Bozio
(bozio@umich.edu) by December 1, 2009.
A Two Day Conference held by the Early Modern Colloquium
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
February 19-20, 2010
Keynote Speakers:
Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University)
Carla Mazzio (SUNY Buffalo)
The Early Modern Colloquium, a graduate interdisciplinary group at the
University of Michigan, is requesting submissions for its conference
on the arts of science and nature in early modern culture, to be held
February 19-20, 2010.
Broadly conceived, this conference intends to investigate the
relationship between the arts and sciences in the early modern period.
In contrast to modern disciplinary practices, which tend to
distinguish between – if not divorce – humanistic practice from
scientific endeavor, extant works from the early modern period reveal
a complicated, potentially constitutive relationship between these two
fields of intellectual inquiry, evinced by the term “natural
philosophy”. How might cross-disciplinary thinking – modern and early
modern – inform our understanding of the early modern period? We seek
submissions that address these issues or which respond to any of the
following questions:
To what extent did the arts and natural sciences/philosophies depend
upon one another during the early modern period? How were these
“disciplines” delineated from – and/or defined in relation to – one
another? How can we, as modern scholars, approach and consider
potential dialogues between these disciplines? In what forms did such
exchange(s) take place? What factors enabled the distinction between
the arts and the sciences? How did scientific praxes – including but
not limited to alchemy, humoral medicine, anatomy, mathematics,
geometry, optics, or astronomy – inform early modern culture? How did
such praxes appear within, influence, inform or challenge the fields
of literature, visual art, music, or architecture? How did the
relationship of sciences to the arts inform the orders of nature, the
taxonomies in which humans and animals were placed in relation to one
another? In what ways did craft or artisanal practice enable a merging
of science and art? How might contemporary scientific practice and
knowledge inform our understanding of the arts in the early modern
period?
This conference is co-sponsored by the Early Modern Colloquium, the
Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and the Departments of
English and Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of
Michigan. We therefore welcome submissions from these disciplines and
a wide range of others, including history, art history, musicology,
theater history, philosophy, and anthropology. Priority will be given
to graduate students.
200-250 word proposals should be sent to Andrew Bozio
(bozio@umich.edu) by December 1, 2009.
American Comparative Literature Association 2010: New Orleans
The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) will be hosting its 2010 meeting in New Orleans. For more information, please visit the following url: www.acla.org.
The program committee has approved and posted on their website almost all of the seminar proposals. The last few will have been posted by the end of the week. While the program committee will design additional seminars to accommodate submissions which are not
placed in these seminars, the currently posted seminars will give you an excellent idea for the scope and nature of the conference.
The individual paper submission deadline is *Monday 13 November*
(anytime up to 9 p.m. West Coast time will be fine).
Presenters are invited to look at the full listing of seminars and to check out the descriptions that sound most promising for them to participate in. When you then send in a paper proposal, you’ll find a drop-down menu from which to choose the seminar you’d like to have your proposal considered for. If you are among those who have already sent in a paper proposal without a specific seminar specified, you are welcome to look at the list and send us an email (at info@acla.org) to ask for your proposal to be sent to the seminar you’re most interested in joining.
If you know the organizer of your seminar of choice, and even if the organizer has invited you to participate, you should still send in your paper proposal via the “submit a paper proposal” form on the ACLA website, so that your information gets into our database.
If you don’t specify a seminar for your proposal, the conference committee will evaluate it and find the best venue to place each accepted paper. As past committees have done, new seminars will be formed as needed to provide good homes for papers that don’t seem likely to fit well in an already-proposed seminar.
The program committee has approved and posted on their website almost all of the seminar proposals. The last few will have been posted by the end of the week. While the program committee will design additional seminars to accommodate submissions which are not
placed in these seminars, the currently posted seminars will give you an excellent idea for the scope and nature of the conference.
The individual paper submission deadline is *Monday 13 November*
(anytime up to 9 p.m. West Coast time will be fine).
Presenters are invited to look at the full listing of seminars and to check out the descriptions that sound most promising for them to participate in. When you then send in a paper proposal, you’ll find a drop-down menu from which to choose the seminar you’d like to have your proposal considered for. If you are among those who have already sent in a paper proposal without a specific seminar specified, you are welcome to look at the list and send us an email (at info@acla.org) to ask for your proposal to be sent to the seminar you’re most interested in joining.
If you know the organizer of your seminar of choice, and even if the organizer has invited you to participate, you should still send in your paper proposal via the “submit a paper proposal” form on the ACLA website, so that your information gets into our database.
If you don’t specify a seminar for your proposal, the conference committee will evaluate it and find the best venue to place each accepted paper. As past committees have done, new seminars will be formed as needed to provide good homes for papers that don’t seem likely to fit well in an already-proposed seminar.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS)
CALL FOR PAPERS
41st annual meeting
Ottawa, Canada, April 15-18, 2010
The ASPHS welcomes paper submissions addressing any aspect of the history of Spain or Portugal or their influences in the wider world. Proposals for full-sessions are welcomed. The organizers encourage you to consider proposing bi-national, trans-national and interdisciplinary panels. This year, the organizers want to pay a special homage to the Iberian liberal legacy. The meeting will also serve as a discussion and agenda-setting forum in the field of Lusophone history. Proposals for papers and panels in any area of Lusophone historical studies are strongly invited. For more information, contact Ivana Elbl.
Please send your proposals (maximum one-page long), to Ivana Elbl (ielbl@trentu.ca) and Antonio Cazorla (acazorla@trentu.ca).
The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2009
For more information, please consult the following web page: http://www.asphs.net/
41st annual meeting
Ottawa, Canada, April 15-18, 2010
The ASPHS welcomes paper submissions addressing any aspect of the history of Spain or Portugal or their influences in the wider world. Proposals for full-sessions are welcomed. The organizers encourage you to consider proposing bi-national, trans-national and interdisciplinary panels. This year, the organizers want to pay a special homage to the Iberian liberal legacy. The meeting will also serve as a discussion and agenda-setting forum in the field of Lusophone history. Proposals for papers and panels in any area of Lusophone historical studies are strongly invited. For more information, contact Ivana Elbl.
Please send your proposals (maximum one-page long), to Ivana Elbl (ielbl@trentu.ca) and Antonio Cazorla (acazorla@trentu.ca).
The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2009
For more information, please consult the following web page: http://www.asphs.net/
Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 4-6, 2010
Second Call for Papers
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 4-6, 2010
The 2010 AHCT Golden Age Theater Symposium will take place March 4-6, 2010 in El Paso, Texas. These dates coincide with the 2010 Siglo de Oro Theater Festival at the Chamizal National Memorial. Sessions will begin Thursday morning, March 4, and end Saturday afternoon, March 6, 2010.
Call for Papers: The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater particularly encourages studies on all aspects of performance of Siglo de Oro dramatic texts, though proposals for papers or special sessions at the annual symposium on other topics related to Spanish Golden Age theater are welcome. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and may be delivered in Spanish or English. Those submitting proposals should include in their proposal any special equipment needs that they may have, including overhead projectors, computer projectors, screens, and VCR and DVD players and monitors. As in previous years, those planning on using Power Point for their presentations should bring their own laptops.
College and university faculty are asked to send paper titles with one-page abstracts and/or proposals for special sessions to the following e-mail address: abstracts@comedias.orgabstracts@comedias.org%20> .They should be submitted as attachments in Word. The deadline for receipt of all submissions is December 1, 2009.
Graduate students who are interested in participating in the conference are asked to submit completed papers of approximately ten pages, rather than abstracts. This stipulation applies to all students, including those who have been invited to be members of panels, whether organized by faculty members or others. Papers should be sent as an e-mail attachment in Word to: gradsubmissions@comedias.orggradsubmissions@comedias.org> . Graduate students whose papers are accepted for presentation will be considered for the AHCT Everett W. Hesse Travel Support Grant. Please note that:
1) These instructions are somewhat different from those previously announced.
2) The deadline for the submission of completed papers is November 1, 2009.
Events of Particular Interest at the 2010 Symposium: The Donald T. Dietz Keynote Address at next year's symposium will be given by Laurence Boswell, former Associate Director of both the Gate Theatre in London and of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also directed extensively in the West End and on Broadway. In recent years Mr. Boswell has gained renown as the pre-eminent director of Spanish Golden Age plays in English, and he also enjoys wide recognition as a translator. His production of Fuente Ovejuna was one of the highlights of the 2009 season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada.
Mr. Boswell will also participate in a second plenary session during the conference, a conversation with David Johnston, the distinguished translator, whose version of The Dog in the Manger was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004 and again by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C. during the winter of 2009, and whose witty and insightful address dealing with the translation of the plays of Lope de Vega scored a great hit with attendees of the 2009 AHCT symposium. Both sessions should be highlights of the upcoming conference.
Hotel Reservations: The Symposium will take place at the Camino Real Hotel in El Paso, Texas. Hotel reservations may be made by phone at 1-800-769-4300 or 1-915-534-3099, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm (MST). The deadline for the conference room rate is February 2, 2010. Participants must mention the AHCT conference and request the group rate of $90 for a single or double room, or $109 for a triple room, or $124 for a quadruple room. Rollaway beds may be requested for an additional charge of $15 per night. All rates are subject to a 15.5% tax. The group rate applies Tuesday, March 2, 2010 to Saturday, March 6, 2010.
AHCT Conference Registration: You must be a member of the AHCT to register for the conference. Current membership dues are $40 (or $70 for two years) for faculty and $30 (or $50 for two years) for retired members and students. The registration fee for the conference for all faculty attendees, as well as for graduate students who are reading papers or participating in a special session, is $105. A late fee of $25 is assessed if registration is paid after February 8, 2010. Registration includes conference attendance, the annual banquet of the AHCT, transportation to and from the Chamizal National Memorial every evening for the Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, and refreshments in the Hospitality Room after the theater performances. (Note: a special registration rate of $30 applies to students who do not present papers or attend the banquet. An additional $15, payable at the time of registration, purchases tickets for the banquet.)
The easiest way to pay dues and/or to register for the upcoming conference is online at the new AHCT echapters website for Association members. Please go to the following link: http://www.ahct.echapters.com <http://www.ahct.echapters.com/ > . <https://webmail.usma.army.mil/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ahct.echapters.com./ >
Conference Up-Dates: For additional information about the conference, please contact the AHCT Conference Director, Professor Angel Sánchez, Arizona State University, Department of Languages and Literatures, PO Box 870202, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0202. TEL: 480-965-4576 (office) or 480-786-4633 (home). E-mail: Angel.Sanchez@asu.edu. Further details regarding the conference and the Siglo de Oro Drama Fesetival will appear on the Comedia bulletin board, in the Winter Newsletter, and on the AHCT webpages, as they become available.
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 4-6, 2010
The 2010 AHCT Golden Age Theater Symposium will take place March 4-6, 2010 in El Paso, Texas. These dates coincide with the 2010 Siglo de Oro Theater Festival at the Chamizal National Memorial. Sessions will begin Thursday morning, March 4, and end Saturday afternoon, March 6, 2010.
Call for Papers: The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater particularly encourages studies on all aspects of performance of Siglo de Oro dramatic texts, though proposals for papers or special sessions at the annual symposium on other topics related to Spanish Golden Age theater are welcome. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and may be delivered in Spanish or English. Those submitting proposals should include in their proposal any special equipment needs that they may have, including overhead projectors, computer projectors, screens, and VCR and DVD players and monitors. As in previous years, those planning on using Power Point for their presentations should bring their own laptops.
College and university faculty are asked to send paper titles with one-page abstracts and/or proposals for special sessions to the following e-mail address: abstracts@comedias.org
Graduate students who are interested in participating in the conference are asked to submit completed papers of approximately ten pages, rather than abstracts. This stipulation applies to all students, including those who have been invited to be members of panels, whether organized by faculty members or others. Papers should be sent as an e-mail attachment in Word to: gradsubmissions@comedias.org
1) These instructions are somewhat different from those previously announced.
2) The deadline for the submission of completed papers is November 1, 2009.
Events of Particular Interest at the 2010 Symposium: The Donald T. Dietz Keynote Address at next year's symposium will be given by Laurence Boswell, former Associate Director of both the Gate Theatre in London and of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also directed extensively in the West End and on Broadway. In recent years Mr. Boswell has gained renown as the pre-eminent director of Spanish Golden Age plays in English, and he also enjoys wide recognition as a translator. His production of Fuente Ovejuna was one of the highlights of the 2009 season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada.
Mr. Boswell will also participate in a second plenary session during the conference, a conversation with David Johnston, the distinguished translator, whose version of The Dog in the Manger was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004 and again by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C. during the winter of 2009, and whose witty and insightful address dealing with the translation of the plays of Lope de Vega scored a great hit with attendees of the 2009 AHCT symposium. Both sessions should be highlights of the upcoming conference.
Hotel Reservations: The Symposium will take place at the Camino Real Hotel in El Paso, Texas. Hotel reservations may be made by phone at 1-800-769-4300 or 1-915-534-3099, Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm (MST). The deadline for the conference room rate is February 2, 2010. Participants must mention the AHCT conference and request the group rate of $90 for a single or double room, or $109 for a triple room, or $124 for a quadruple room. Rollaway beds may be requested for an additional charge of $15 per night. All rates are subject to a 15.5% tax. The group rate applies Tuesday, March 2, 2010 to Saturday, March 6, 2010.
AHCT Conference Registration: You must be a member of the AHCT to register for the conference. Current membership dues are $40 (or $70 for two years) for faculty and $30 (or $50 for two years) for retired members and students. The registration fee for the conference for all faculty attendees, as well as for graduate students who are reading papers or participating in a special session, is $105. A late fee of $25 is assessed if registration is paid after February 8, 2010. Registration includes conference attendance, the annual banquet of the AHCT, transportation to and from the Chamizal National Memorial every evening for the Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, and refreshments in the Hospitality Room after the theater performances. (Note: a special registration rate of $30 applies to students who do not present papers or attend the banquet. An additional $15, payable at the time of registration, purchases tickets for the banquet.)
The easiest way to pay dues and/or to register for the upcoming conference is online at the new AHCT echapters website for Association members. Please go to the following link: http://www.ahct.echapters.com <http://www.ahct.echapters.
Conference Up-Dates: For additional information about the conference, please contact the AHCT Conference Director, Professor Angel Sánchez, Arizona State University, Department of Languages and Literatures, PO Box 870202, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0202. TEL: 480-965-4576 (office) or 480-786-4633 (home). E-mail: Angel.Sanchez@asu.edu. Further details regarding the conference and the Siglo de Oro Drama Fesetival will appear on the Comedia bulletin board, in the Winter Newsletter, and on the AHCT webpages, as they become available.
Friday, October 16, 2009
The Limits of Performance
Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium
Villanova University
Villanova, PA
Conference Theme:
The Limits of Performance
Keynote Speaker: Richard Schechner
January 12, 2010
The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is seeking abstracts for papers for its fourth annual gathering of theatre scholars and practitioners. This year’s PTRS seeks to highlight the work of new scholars in the area of Performance Studies and Theatre. The symposium offers the opportunity to present work in progress and to share ideas with other researchers.
The PTRS is pleased to announce that the 2010 Keynote Speaker will be the renowned theatre artist and scholar Richard Schechner. As the influential founder of the Performance Studies Department at NYU, Schechner is also a theorist whose work has transformed the study and practice of theater production.
The theme for the 2010 PTRS invites papers that consider performance in its broadest definition. Topics may include queries into changing paradigms of performance, site specific theatre practices, theatre and theory, the performance of the everyday, gender and performance, race and performance, the economy of theatre, and politics and performance.
We are proud to announce that this year’s symposium will launch an accompanying journal. Participants in the conference are eligible for publication consideration. This journal will include established scholars but seeks to create publishing opportunities for new scholars and practitioners in the area of theatre and performance studies.
Abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted to Dr. David Cregan at david.cregan@villanova.edu.
A series of panels will begin at 10am followed by Richard Schechner’s keynote address at 3pm.
The deadline for submission is December 1, 2009.
Villanova University
Villanova, PA
Conference Theme:
The Limits of Performance
Keynote Speaker: Richard Schechner
January 12, 2010
The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is seeking abstracts for papers for its fourth annual gathering of theatre scholars and practitioners. This year’s PTRS seeks to highlight the work of new scholars in the area of Performance Studies and Theatre. The symposium offers the opportunity to present work in progress and to share ideas with other researchers.
The PTRS is pleased to announce that the 2010 Keynote Speaker will be the renowned theatre artist and scholar Richard Schechner. As the influential founder of the Performance Studies Department at NYU, Schechner is also a theorist whose work has transformed the study and practice of theater production.
The theme for the 2010 PTRS invites papers that consider performance in its broadest definition. Topics may include queries into changing paradigms of performance, site specific theatre practices, theatre and theory, the performance of the everyday, gender and performance, race and performance, the economy of theatre, and politics and performance.
We are proud to announce that this year’s symposium will launch an accompanying journal. Participants in the conference are eligible for publication consideration. This journal will include established scholars but seeks to create publishing opportunities for new scholars and practitioners in the area of theatre and performance studies.
Abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted to Dr. David Cregan at david.cregan@villanova.edu.
A series of panels will begin at 10am followed by Richard Schechner’s keynote address at 3pm.
The deadline for submission is December 1, 2009.
Re-Imagining the Americas: (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
Call for Papers
Re-Imagining the Americas: (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
An interdisciplinary conference on Latin America and the Caribbean and their Diasporas in the twenty-first century.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Syracuse University
Sponsored by Syracuse University’s PLACA (Program on Latin America and the Caribbean) and LLAS (Latino-Latin American Studies) and by Cornell University’s LASP (Latin American Studies Program) and LSP (Latino Studies Program).
Syracuse and Cornell Universities invite participation of faculty and students to share their research on the (Latin) Americas, including the Spanish and non-Spanish speaking Caribbean, and Brazil, especially as it relates to the notions of migration, immigration, transnationalism, or diaspora. Through images, practices, or texts in history, politics, economics, anthropology, geography, literature, art, or performance, among others, the Americas and the Caribbean have been defined and circumscribed since pre-colonial times. This conference hopes to re-imagine the Americas in the face of twenty-first century research and the discourse of globalization. Papers may be presented in any language spoken in the Americas. Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, approximately eight pages, double spaced, in 12-point font.
Cornell will host a pre-conference event and a performance by their Hispanic theater troupe, Teatrotaller. Saturday will feature a full day of intellectual and social activities at Syracuse University, including scholarly presentations, performances by both universities’ Latino/Latin American student dance groups, and an interdisciplinary keynote panel. A film series on each campus and the Bartell lecture at Cornell by former Brazilian president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, will lead up to the culminating activities.
Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
• Diasporic ethnicities and identities
• Narco trafficking
• Immigration policies and practices
• Political expulsions, los desterrados, or los desaparecidos
• Violence and agency in the Americas
• Transcultural production
• Political systems and (in)stability
• NGOs or IGOs
• Education and Schooling in Transnational Contexts
• Popular Culture, Music, Art, Literature, Film, or Media studies
• Religion, Ethics, or Morality
• Human Rights
• Gender
• Marginalization
• Border identities
Deadline for Abstracts: January 11, 2010. Submit electronically an abstract of 250 words or less to Gail Bulman, gabulman@syr.edu . For more information, contact Lori Klivak (laklivak@syr.edu ) or Marti Dense (mfd1@cornell.edu).
Re-Imagining the Americas: (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
An interdisciplinary conference on Latin America and the Caribbean and their Diasporas in the twenty-first century.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Syracuse University
Sponsored by Syracuse University’s PLACA (Program on Latin America and the Caribbean) and LLAS (Latino-Latin American Studies) and by Cornell University’s LASP (Latin American Studies Program) and LSP (Latino Studies Program).
Syracuse and Cornell Universities invite participation of faculty and students to share their research on the (Latin) Americas, including the Spanish and non-Spanish speaking Caribbean, and Brazil, especially as it relates to the notions of migration, immigration, transnationalism, or diaspora. Through images, practices, or texts in history, politics, economics, anthropology, geography, literature, art, or performance, among others, the Americas and the Caribbean have been defined and circumscribed since pre-colonial times. This conference hopes to re-imagine the Americas in the face of twenty-first century research and the discourse of globalization. Papers may be presented in any language spoken in the Americas. Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, approximately eight pages, double spaced, in 12-point font.
Cornell will host a pre-conference event and a performance by their Hispanic theater troupe, Teatrotaller. Saturday will feature a full day of intellectual and social activities at Syracuse University, including scholarly presentations, performances by both universities’ Latino/Latin American student dance groups, and an interdisciplinary keynote panel. A film series on each campus and the Bartell lecture at Cornell by former Brazilian president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, will lead up to the culminating activities.
Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
• Diasporic ethnicities and identities
• Narco trafficking
• Immigration policies and practices
• Political expulsions, los desterrados, or los desaparecidos
• Violence and agency in the Americas
• Transcultural production
• Political systems and (in)stability
• NGOs or IGOs
• Education and Schooling in Transnational Contexts
• Popular Culture, Music, Art, Literature, Film, or Media studies
• Religion, Ethics, or Morality
• Human Rights
• Gender
• Marginalization
• Border identities
Deadline for Abstracts: January 11, 2010. Submit electronically an abstract of 250 words or less to Gail Bulman, gabulman@syr.edu
Thursday, October 8, 2009
From Border Building to Border Hopping: The Shifting Nature of the Text
16th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 25-27, 2010
From Border Building to Border Hopping: The Shifting Nature of the Text
Artistic production carries with it an inherent quality of crossing
borders, given that the artist must cross from a public face to an insular,
creative self at each moment of creation. This conference is dedicated to
analyzing the various aspects of borders as seen in artistic creation -
authors and characters crossing geographic borders, sexual and gender
boundaries; transgressing the norms allowed by a given political regime;
bending or breaking traditional boundaries of genre and medium; rejecting
the High Culture / Low Culture dichotomy; the dispersion of texts
themselves across boundaries geographic, political, temporal and more.
At the same time, presenters may consider the parallel and opposing
phenomenon of Border Building – including the role of artistic production
in nation-building and in the construction of borders of identity, as well
as the (re)definition of academic disciplines – and how such construction
is carried out by artists and academics.
Keynote speakers for the 2010 Carolina Conference are Réda Bensmaïa
(Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature), Teresa Fiore
(Professor of Italian Studies) and José Manuel Prieto (Novelist, Professor
of Spanish-American Literature). There will also be an Invited Reading by
author Manuel Muñoz.
Abstracts must be submitted by December 18, 2009. Abstracts are limited to
250 words and must be submitted online at: ccrl.unc.edu
Papers or panels on all aspects of literature and film in French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, and Comparative Literature will be considered.
Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Individual presentations
should be limited to 20 minutes.
Exceptional papers by both graduate students and professors will be
considered for publication in Romance Notes.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 25-27, 2010
From Border Building to Border Hopping: The Shifting Nature of the Text
Artistic production carries with it an inherent quality of crossing
borders, given that the artist must cross from a public face to an insular,
creative self at each moment of creation. This conference is dedicated to
analyzing the various aspects of borders as seen in artistic creation -
authors and characters crossing geographic borders, sexual and gender
boundaries; transgressing the norms allowed by a given political regime;
bending or breaking traditional boundaries of genre and medium; rejecting
the High Culture / Low Culture dichotomy; the dispersion of texts
themselves across boundaries geographic, political, temporal and more.
At the same time, presenters may consider the parallel and opposing
phenomenon of Border Building – including the role of artistic production
in nation-building and in the construction of borders of identity, as well
as the (re)definition of academic disciplines – and how such construction
is carried out by artists and academics.
Keynote speakers for the 2010 Carolina Conference are Réda Bensmaïa
(Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature), Teresa Fiore
(Professor of Italian Studies) and José Manuel Prieto (Novelist, Professor
of Spanish-American Literature). There will also be an Invited Reading by
author Manuel Muñoz.
Abstracts must be submitted by December 18, 2009. Abstracts are limited to
250 words and must be submitted online at: ccrl.unc.edu
Papers or panels on all aspects of literature and film in French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, and Comparative Literature will be considered.
Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Individual presentations
should be limited to 20 minutes.
Exceptional papers by both graduate students and professors will be
considered for publication in Romance Notes.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Newberry Renaissance Center Graduate Student Conference
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
28th Annual Graduate Student Conference
CFP Deadline: October 15, 2009
Conference Dates: Thursday, January 21 b ! ! d by the University of Illinois at Chicago), and a staged reading of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.
Call for Papers
We invite abstracts for 15-20 minute papers from master's or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative
literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Please submit a curriculum vitae and an abstract of up to 300 words to renaissance@newberry.org.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend. See
www.newberry.org/renaissance for more information.
Printable PDF poster:
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/CallForPapers2010.pdf
28th Annual Graduate Student Conference
CFP Deadline: October 15, 2009
Conference Dates: Thursday, January 21 b ! ! d by the University of Illinois at Chicago), and a staged reading of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.
Call for Papers
We invite abstracts for 15-20 minute papers from master's or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative
literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Please submit a curriculum vitae and an abstract of up to 300 words to renaissance@newberry.org.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend. See
www.newberry.org/renaissance for more information.
Printable PDF poster:
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/CallForPapers2010.pdf
Friday, October 2, 2009
Stop Day Colloquium
Department of Spanish & Portuguese Stop Day Colloquium
Call for Participants
Are you preparing to make a conference presentation and want to practice your delivery with a friendly audience? Are you considering submitting a paper for a conference and seeking constructive feedback on your work? Do you want to have the professional experience of presenting your work to a scholarly audience without incurring the costs of conference travel?
GRASP and the department's faculty invite you to submit a brief description and title (no more than 100 words) to participate in the Stop Day Colloquium, an informal forum for sharing your work with your colleagues and professors. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes (normally the equivalent of 9-10 pages of double-spaced text), the standard allotment for conference presentations. Whether you're exploring the experience of reading a paper to an academic audience for the first time or looking to polish your skills before your next conference performance, the colloquium is meant to foster this important aspect of professional development. Feel free to contact your GRASP representatives, Professor Bayliss (rbayliss@ku.edu) or Professor Rivera (ijrivera@ku.edu) for further information. Proposals are due by Tuesday, December 1 and should be sent to either Professors Rivera or Bayliss.
Call for Participants
Are you preparing to make a conference presentation and want to practice your delivery with a friendly audience? Are you considering submitting a paper for a conference and seeking constructive feedback on your work? Do you want to have the professional experience of presenting your work to a scholarly audience without incurring the costs of conference travel?
GRASP and the department's faculty invite you to submit a brief description and title (no more than 100 words) to participate in the Stop Day Colloquium, an informal forum for sharing your work with your colleagues and professors. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes (normally the equivalent of 9-10 pages of double-spaced text), the standard allotment for conference presentations. Whether you're exploring the experience of reading a paper to an academic audience for the first time or looking to polish your skills before your next conference performance, the colloquium is meant to foster this important aspect of professional development. Feel free to contact your GRASP representatives, Professor Bayliss (rbayliss@ku.edu) or Professor Rivera (ijrivera@ku.edu) for further information. Proposals are due by Tuesday, December 1 and should be sent to either Professors Rivera or Bayliss.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
The 28th Annual
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
January 21-23, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
Keynote Speaker: Jean Howard, Columbia University
Keynote address sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago
Organized and run by graduate students, this conference provides a premier opportunity for maturing scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across the field of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies. Participants find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources. Selected papers will be published in a peer-edited online conference proceedings.
In celebration of the Center’s thirtieth anniversary, this year’s conference is expanded to three days and will include nine panels with up to thirty-six student papers, a keynote address by eminent scholar Jean Howard, and a staged reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.
Call for Papers: Deadline October 15th, 2009
We invite abstracts for 15-20 minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Please submit a curriculum vitae and an abstract of up to 300 words to renaissance@newberry.org.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend. See www.newberry.org/renaissance for more information.
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
January 21-23, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
Keynote Speaker: Jean Howard, Columbia University
Keynote address sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago
Organized and run by graduate students, this conference provides a premier opportunity for maturing scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across the field of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies. Participants find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources. Selected papers will be published in a peer-edited online conference proceedings.
In celebration of the Center’s thirtieth anniversary, this year’s conference is expanded to three days and will include nine panels with up to thirty-six student papers, a keynote address by eminent scholar Jean Howard, and a staged reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago.
Call for Papers: Deadline October 15th, 2009
We invite abstracts for 15-20 minute papers from master’s or Ph.D. students on any medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topic. We encourage submissions from disciplines as varied as the literature of any language, history, classics, art history, music, comparative literature, theater arts, philosophy, religious studies, transatlantic studies, disability studies, and manuscript studies. Please submit a curriculum vitae and an abstract of up to 300 words to renaissance@newberry.org.
Priority is given to students from member institutions of the Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, who may be eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to attend. See www.newberry.org/renaissance for more information.
The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation
Department of Comparative Literature
The Graduate Center - City University of New York
Call for Papers
Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference:
The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation
February 25th-26th, 2010
Pain has always occupied a problematic space in any discipline investigating the human condition. The question of how to manage the unmediated experience of pain in the face of the social and ethical imperative to communicate it has spawned countless theories of and approaches to pain itself and its representation. This conference seeks to foster dialogue between a broad range of approaches to pain and suffering, including medical-scientific investigations of the neurological processes involved in the experience of pain, socio-historical analyses of the connection between individual pain and collective trauma and literary/linguistic inquiries into the possibilities and limitations of a poetics of pain. Theorists and thinkers will include, among others, Jean Amery, Elaine Scarry, Sade, Sacher-Masoch, Deleuze, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Ballard, Mirbeau and Kafka.
How can the ineffable sensation of physical torment be conveyed by its sufferer, or acknowledged by the other? How is individual suffering converted into collective experience? How, in turn, is an individual’s experience of pain socially determined? How do the varying discourses of pain bring the sufferer into contact with the world and break down the barriers between self and other? What are the conceptual mechanisms that guide our understanding of this physiological experience?
We invite papers from all disciplines approaching the subject from a variety of critical perspectives that explore the ways in which pain is articulated, narrativized, framed, interpreted, subjectivized, and imbued with meaning.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
• Torture, War
• Illness Narratives
• Medical and Diagnostic Language of Pain
• Sadomasochism - from Rousseau and de Sade to LGBT “Leather Scenes”
• Biopolitics
• Animality and Humanism
• Martyrdom and Religious Representations of Suffering
• Theaters of Cruelty
• Politicization of Pain and Collective Accounts of Past Suffering
• Violence and Politics
• Survivor Memoirs
• Victims of Crime and Assault
• Trauma and Testimony
• Physical Suffering in Light of the Cartesian Mind/Body Problem
• Religious and Secular Theodicies
• Victimhood, Voice and Agency
• Desire, pain and subjectivity.
• Technologies of Punishment
• Bioethics
Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by October 10th to painconference@gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional and departmental affiliation. We also welcome panel proposals (3-4 papers).
The Graduate Center - City University of New York
Call for Papers
Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference:
The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation
February 25th-26th, 2010
Pain has always occupied a problematic space in any discipline investigating the human condition. The question of how to manage the unmediated experience of pain in the face of the social and ethical imperative to communicate it has spawned countless theories of and approaches to pain itself and its representation. This conference seeks to foster dialogue between a broad range of approaches to pain and suffering, including medical-scientific investigations of the neurological processes involved in the experience of pain, socio-historical analyses of the connection between individual pain and collective trauma and literary/linguistic inquiries into the possibilities and limitations of a poetics of pain. Theorists and thinkers will include, among others, Jean Amery, Elaine Scarry, Sade, Sacher-Masoch, Deleuze, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Ballard, Mirbeau and Kafka.
How can the ineffable sensation of physical torment be conveyed by its sufferer, or acknowledged by the other? How is individual suffering converted into collective experience? How, in turn, is an individual’s experience of pain socially determined? How do the varying discourses of pain bring the sufferer into contact with the world and break down the barriers between self and other? What are the conceptual mechanisms that guide our understanding of this physiological experience?
We invite papers from all disciplines approaching the subject from a variety of critical perspectives that explore the ways in which pain is articulated, narrativized, framed, interpreted, subjectivized, and imbued with meaning.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
• Torture, War
• Illness Narratives
• Medical and Diagnostic Language of Pain
• Sadomasochism - from Rousseau and de Sade to LGBT “Leather Scenes”
• Biopolitics
• Animality and Humanism
• Martyrdom and Religious Representations of Suffering
• Theaters of Cruelty
• Politicization of Pain and Collective Accounts of Past Suffering
• Violence and Politics
• Survivor Memoirs
• Victims of Crime and Assault
• Trauma and Testimony
• Physical Suffering in Light of the Cartesian Mind/Body Problem
• Religious and Secular Theodicies
• Victimhood, Voice and Agency
• Desire, pain and subjectivity.
• Technologies of Punishment
• Bioethics
Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by October 10th to painconference@gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional and departmental affiliation. We also welcome panel proposals (3-4 papers).
Animals and Animality Across the Humanities and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, June 26-27, 2010, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Keynote: Carol Adams
The emergent field of animal and animality studies is rapidly being articulated across scholarly boundaries. We invite graduate students to enter this growing conversation and approach the topic from perspectives reflecting the broad (inter)disciplinarity of this field. Discussions will use critical animal studies as a conceptual lens in order to investigate issues including the boundaries between self and Other, agency and biological drive, and reason and non-reason; the codes that permeate our conceptions of non-human animals; and the implications of troubling and/or making porous the human/animal divide. Is understanding human beings as embodied subjects ontologically bound to our relationship to non-human animals? In what ways is animal wellbeing crucially implicated in how we think ourselves into and against animals? As part of these discussions, we welcome investigations into the ways that (as Val Plumwood contends) animals, nature, and racial, colonial, and gendered Others function, now and historically, as overlapping sites of difference. We also invite considerations of the relationship between the conceptual economy that posits animality as an exploitable trope and forms of Othering that render animals as salable things. In approaching these topics, we encourage participants to consider how animal and animality studies has impacted other theoretical lenses, including critical race theory and feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical/environmental studies, as well as the attendant politics of our disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the field.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
• Thinking with animals / intro-species boundary disruption
• Becoming animals and biocentric ethics
• The boundary between domestic and wild, sentiment and terror
• Making animals 'matter' and the role of affect
• Animal poetry and ecopoetics
• Animals and the nation in the nineteenth century and beyond
• Animals and spectacle (both alive and dead)
• Urban and wild animals and the politics of space
• Animal geographies and environmental histories
• Animals and transnational ecologies
• Speciesm and racism
• Animals and desire / animality and sexuality
• Vegetarianism and the politics of meat
• Animals in language / symbolic animals
• The discourses and iconography of animals in various cultural forms
• The uses of animals in war and torture
• Animal studies now and its future directions
Proposals may reflect traditional and innovative formats, including papers, panels, roundtables, and community dialogues, as well as creative submissions. Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words, along with your name, department, affiliation, and e-mail address to jaime.j.s.denike@queensu.ca. For creative submissions, send 30 lines of poetry or a 300 word excerpt. For information about our call for artistic submissions for our connected Just Act Natural art exhibit, please e-mail visser.lisa@gmail.com .
The deadline for submissions is October 1st, 2009.
Keynote: Carol Adams
The emergent field of animal and animality studies is rapidly being articulated across scholarly boundaries. We invite graduate students to enter this growing conversation and approach the topic from perspectives reflecting the broad (inter)disciplinarity of this field. Discussions will use critical animal studies as a conceptual lens in order to investigate issues including the boundaries between self and Other, agency and biological drive, and reason and non-reason; the codes that permeate our conceptions of non-human animals; and the implications of troubling and/or making porous the human/animal divide. Is understanding human beings as embodied subjects ontologically bound to our relationship to non-human animals? In what ways is animal wellbeing crucially implicated in how we think ourselves into and against animals? As part of these discussions, we welcome investigations into the ways that (as Val Plumwood contends) animals, nature, and racial, colonial, and gendered Others function, now and historically, as overlapping sites of difference. We also invite considerations of the relationship between the conceptual economy that posits animality as an exploitable trope and forms of Othering that render animals as salable things. In approaching these topics, we encourage participants to consider how animal and animality studies has impacted other theoretical lenses, including critical race theory and feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical/environmental studies, as well as the attendant politics of our disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the field.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
• Thinking with animals / intro-species boundary disruption
• Becoming animals and biocentric ethics
• The boundary between domestic and wild, sentiment and terror
• Making animals 'matter' and the role of affect
• Animal poetry and ecopoetics
• Animals and the nation in the nineteenth century and beyond
• Animals and spectacle (both alive and dead)
• Urban and wild animals and the politics of space
• Animal geographies and environmental histories
• Animals and transnational ecologies
• Speciesm and racism
• Animals and desire / animality and sexuality
• Vegetarianism and the politics of meat
• Animals in language / symbolic animals
• The discourses and iconography of animals in various cultural forms
• The uses of animals in war and torture
• Animal studies now and its future directions
Proposals may reflect traditional and innovative formats, including papers, panels, roundtables, and community dialogues, as well as creative submissions. Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words, along with your name, department, affiliation, and e-mail address to jaime.j.s.denike@queensu.ca. For creative submissions, send 30 lines of poetry or a 300 word excerpt. For information about our call for artistic submissions for our connected Just Act Natural art exhibit, please e-mail visser.lisa@gmail.com .
The deadline for submissions is October 1st, 2009.
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