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

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.

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/

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

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:

• 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)

Please include an abstract (150-200 words) and a personal biography (120-150 words) with your submission.

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

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.

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

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

Internship with the Mexico Solidarity Network

Mexico Solidarity
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.

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.

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:

• 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?

Interested students are invited to submit 250-word abstracts by Friday, November 15, 2009 to Christopher Forth (cforth@ku.edu) and Marike Janzen (mjanzen@ku.edu).

http://www.hwc.ku.edu/MA_Humanities/

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.

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

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.edu oriverar@utk.edu>
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996

Georgina Wittingham
whitting@oswego.edu
State University of New York
Oswego, NY 13126-3599