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.