Washington University in St. Louis
The conference’s Organizing Committee seeks proposals for individual presentations and panels on aspects of Hispanic literatures and cultures. Panels are encouraged, as are papers related to the conference theme: "The Past in the Present: Revolutions, Reactions, Transgressions." http://artsci.wustl.edu/~
Proposals of no more than 250 words may be written in Spanish or English and should be sent to machl@artsci.wustl.edu by March 22, 2010. Potential conference participants will be notified by May 8, 2010. Please indicate whether you will need projector and screen for your laptop.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
· Centennial and bicentennial celebrations
· Uses of history in the present
· Writing and war
· Rethinking identities
· Literature as resistance
· Communities in flight
· Comparative literary and cultural moments
· Hispanic literary studies in a new century, in a new decade
· Patriotism and the politics of culture
· Performing the national and the universal
· Studies in Hispanic theater, film and performance art
· New interdisciplinary connections and methods
Book Exhibit:
There will be an exhibit where books published by conference participants will be showcased and for sale. If you would like for your book to be included in the exhibit, please send the complete publication information with ISBN.
