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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) Diversity Fellows Program

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DIVERSITY FELLOWS PROGRAM

2011

To assist the development of a diverse and representative faculty, enhance the educational experience of our students, and better prepare UW- Milwaukee graduates for the increasingly diverse nation and interconnected global economy of the 21^st century, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has established the Diversity Fellows Program (DFP). The Diversity Fellows Program provides Fellows with the opportunity to gain teaching experience while becoming acquainted with UWM and Milwaukee. At the same time, the Program provides our faculty the ability to interact with and develop relationships with the Fellows. Fellows will have the option to teach one course during UWM’s Summer Session (May 29 – July 7 2011), or to engage in an intensive research experience. Fellowships may also be available for the 2011 academic year, depending on the needs of the respective departments. Applications for study in any field represented on campus are welcomed.

Founded in 1956, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a major urban university committed to academic excellence, is located in the commercial and industrial hub of Wisconsin. The campus is in a pleasant residential neighborhood on Milwaukee's northeast side, only a few blocks from Lake Michigan. UW-Milwaukee has a student enrollment of approximately 28,000 and is one of the two "doctoral cluster" campuses in the 13-campus University of Wisconsin System.

ELIGIBILITY: Either advanced or recently graduated underrepresented doctoral/terminal degree students with preference given to US citizens and permanent residents. Fellows receive a $6,000.00 stipend, university housing, and a travel allowance.

APPLICATION PROCESS: DEADLINE: November 15, 2010

Interested applicants should forward their letter of application, curriculum vitae, transcript, and three letters of recommendation to: See our website for application checklist:

Diversity-fellowsprogram@uwm.edu http://www4.uwm.edu/acad_aff/climate/dfp/index.cfm

Diversity Fellows Program

Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Climate

Chapman Hall 230B

P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201

Tel: 414-229-2721

Fax: 414 229-2481

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Fellowship Details
Stipend: $25,000, plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000
Tenure: one year beginning summer 2011
Completed applications must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) no later than 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, November 10, 2010.
Notifications will be sent in late March 2011.

ACLS invites applications for the fifth annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships. This is the first stage of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program, a significant new fellowship program providing support for young scholars. The first part of this program—the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships—makes possible a year of supported research and writing, to help students complete their dissertation. The second part of the program provides support for a year, following the completion of the doctorate, for new scholars to advance their research. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program.

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships are to assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences (1) in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. This program aims to encourage timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to
complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2012.

ACLS will award 65 Fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2011 for the 2011-2012 academic year. The Fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the Fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. The total award of up to $33,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. These Fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

be Ph.D. candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States. Applicants from other departments may be eligible if their project is in the humanities or related social sciences, and their principal dissertation supervisor holds an appointment in a humanities field or related social science field. (Students completing master’s degrees are not eligible, even if they are the terminal degree in the field.)
have all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation completed before beginning fellowship tenure.
be no more than six years in the degree program; awardees can hold this Fellowship no later than their seventh year. (2)
Application Requirements

Applications must be submitted online and must include:

Completed application form, including a statement of all university and external support received during graduate study: fellowships, teaching or research assistantships, tuition grants, and summer support.
Proposal (no more than five pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 11-point font), including a timeline for the expected completion of dissertation writing and defense.
Up to three additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials [optional]
Bibliography (no more than two pages)
Completed chapter of the dissertation (that is neither the introduction, nor the conclusion, nor the literature review) of not more than 25 double-spaced pages, in Times New Roman 11-point font, or a representative 25-page excerpt from a longer chapter. The chapter must be in English, though citations may be in other languages (with translations provided).
Two reference letters
A letter from the applicant’s institution (preferably from the applicant’s department chair or dean), including (1) a statement attesting to the viability of the proposed timeline for completion; (2) stipulation that, in the event of an award, the university will not charge the student tuition or fees beyond a limit of $5,000 and will provide for any additional costs, such as health insurance; and (3) a pledge that if an ACLS award is made, the university will not provide the applicant with any subsequent aid.
Criteria Used in Judging Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Applications

Scholars asked to review applications in this program are instructed to use the following three criteria:

The potential of the project to advance the field of study in which it is proposed and make an original and significant contribution to knowledge.
The quality of the proposal with regard to its methodology, scope, theoretical framework, and grounding in the relevant scholarly literature.
The feasibility of the project and the likelihood that the applicant will execute the work within the proposed timeframe.
The scholarly record and career trajectory of the applicant.

Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural history; classics; economics; film; geography; history; languages and literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; political science; psychology; religious studies; rhetoric, communication, and media studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, law and literature, political theory). Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group.

In special circumstances an applicant and his or her advisor may petition to have an application for an eighth-year fellowship considered. Such applicants must present a compelling case for eligibility.

American Association of University Women Fellowships

2010-10-08T12:40:00.000-07:00

The American Association of University Women is offering fellowships to both female students and faculty members. Below is information on the Postdoctoral Research Leave and Dissertation Fellowships in addition to Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants.

American Association of University Women
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship
Dissertation Fellowship
Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants
Deadline: November 15 (agency); November 8 (internal- faculty)
URL: http://www.aauw.org/learn/fellowships_grants/american.cfm

2011-2012 Academic Year
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $30,000
Dissertation Fellowship: $20,000
Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $6,000
Applications available: Aug. 1–Nov. 15, 2010
Application deadline*: Nov. 15, 2010
Fellowship year: July 1, 2011–June 30, 2012

* All supporting documents must also be received by this date. If an application deadline falls on a weekend or holiday, supporting documents must be received the next business day.

American Fellowships support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations or scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave from accredited institutions. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of scholarly excellence, the quality and originality of project design, and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research.

Candidates may apply for only one of the awards described below. Former recipients of these awards are not eligible to apply for additional American Fellowships or publication grants.

Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships offer one-year of support for women in tenure-track faculty positions in support of their earning tenure and further promotions. Candidates must have earned a doctoral degree by Nov. 15, 2010. Postdoctoral fellowships are available in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Limited additional funds may be available when matched by the fellow's institution.

Dissertation Fellowships are available to women who will complete their dissertation writing between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. Degree conferral must be between April 1 and September 15, 2012. To qualify, applicants must have completed all course work, passed all required preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposal or plan by Nov. 15,2010. Students holding any fellowship for writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW fellowship year are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering and math and also researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.
Apply now for a Dissertation Fellowship »

Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants fund women college and university faculty and independent researchers to prepare research for publication. The grants are intended for tenure-track, part-time, or temporary faculty or new or established scholars and researchers at universities. Time must be available for eight consecutive weeks of final writing, editing, and responding to issues raised in critical reviews. Funds cannot be used for undertaking research. Applicants must have received their doctorates by the application deadline. Scholars with strong publishing records should seek other funding.
Apply now for a Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grant »

Questions about applications must be directed to the Iowa City office. Please do not contact the AAUW office in Washington, D.C., or local branches for application information. Please call 319/337-1716 ext. 60, e-mail aauw@act.org, or write to the customer service center at

AAUW
Dept. 60
301 ACT Drive
Iowa City, IA 52243-4030

Request a Brochure
Order copies of the AAUW fellowships brochure that includes general descriptions for each fellowship program at http://www.act.org/aauw/brochurerequest.html

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

2010-10-08T12:39:00.001-07:00

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Deadline: November 8
URL: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_047959

FORD FOUNDATION DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS
For Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching

The 2011 Application Deadline is November 8, 2010

This year the program will award approximately 20 dissertation fellowships.
The dissertation fellowships provide one year of support for individuals
working to complete a dissertation leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree.

Dissertation fellowships will be awarded in a national competition
administered by the National Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford
Foundation. The awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of
the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are
committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university
level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are
well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of
all students.

Dissertation Eligibility

In addition to the general eligibility requirements, eligibility to apply
for a dissertation fellowship is limited to:

All citizens or nationals* of the United States regardless of race, national
origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation (must have
become a U.S. citizen by November 8, 2010),
Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree candidates studying in an eligible research-based
discipline at a U.S. educational institution, and
Individuals who have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field.
(The term ³national of the United States² designates a citizen of the United
States or a native resident of a possession of the United States. It does
not refer to a U.S. permanent resident who is a citizen of another country.)

Criteria for Selection

The following will be considered as positive factors in choosing successful
candidates:

Evidence of superior academic achievement
Degree of promise of continuing achievement as scholars and teachers
Capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs
of students from diverse backgrounds
Sustained personal engagement with communities that are underrepresented in
the academy and an ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and
scholarship at the college and university level
Likelihood of using the diversity of human experience as an educational
resource in teaching and scholarship
Membership in one or more of the following groups whose underrepresentation
in the American professoriate has been severe and longstanding:

Alaska Natives (Aleut, Eskimo or other Indigenous People of Alaska)
Black/African Americans
Mexican American/Chicanas/Chicanos
Native American Indians
Native Pacific Islanders (Hawaiian/Polynesian/Micronesian)
Puerto Ricans
Review panels may also look at additional factors such as the suitability of
the applicant's proposed institution and the likelihood that the applicant
will fully utilize 9 to 12 months of support prior to receiving the Ph.D. or
Sc.D.

Eligible Fields of Study

Awards will be made for study in research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs that
include the following major disciplines and related interdisciplinary
fields: American studies, anthropology, archaeology, art and theater
history, astronomy, chemistry, communications, computer science, earth
sciences, economics, education, engineering, ethnomusicology, geography,
history, international relations, language, life sciences, linguistics,
literature, mathematics, performance study, philosophy, physics, political
science, psychology, religion, sociology, urban planning, and women¹s
studies. Also eligible are interdisciplinary ethnic studies programs, such
as African American studies and Native American studies, and other
interdisciplinary programs, such as area studies, peace studies, and social
justice. The complete list of eligible fields of study supported at the
dissertation level of the fellowship program is available here: Dissertation
Fields (.pdf).

Individuals enrolled in the following practice-oriented programs will not be
supported: business, management, administration, occupational health,
nursing, consumer science, library and information science, speech
pathology, audiology, personnel, guidance, social work, social welfare,
public health, physical education, physical therapy, kinesiology,
rehabilitation science, educational administration and leadership, fine
arts, filmmaking, and performing arts. In addition, awards will not be made
for work leading to terminal master¹s degrees, the Ed.D. degree, the degrees
of Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) or Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), or
professional degrees in such areas as medicine, law, and public health, or
for study in joint degree programs such as the M.D./Ph.D., J.D./Ph.D., and
M.F.A./Ph.D.

Fellowship Institution

Fellowships are tenable at any fully accredited, nonprofit U.S. institution
of higher education offering a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree in the eligible fields
of study.

Verification of Doctoral Degree Candidacy

A valid National Academies Verification of Doctoral Degree Candidacy Form,
signed by the adviser or other authorized official, must be received by the
Fellowships Office of the National Academies by January 6, 2011 to confirm
that an applicant has advanced to doctoral candidacy.
Applicants should expect to complete the dissertation during the 2011-2012
academic year, but no later than fall 2012.

Stipend and Benefits

One-year stipend: $21,000
Expenses paid to attend one Conference of Ford Fellows
Access to Ford Fellow Regional Liaisons, a network of former Ford Fellows
who have volunteered to provide mentoring and support to current fellows.

Tenure

The tenure of a dissertation fellowship will be no less than 9 months and no
more than 12 months, with tenure beginning no earlier than June 1, 2011 and
no later than September 1, 2011.

Evaluation and Selection of Fellows

Applications will be evaluated by panels of distinguished scholars selected
by the National Academies. The panels will use academic records, essays,
letters of recommendation, the proposed timetable and plan for completion of
the doctoral degree, the application itself, and other appropriate materials
as the basis for determining the extent to which candidates meet the
eligibility requirements and the selection criteria.

Conditions of the Fellowship

Dissertation fellows are expected to be engaged in a full-time program
leading to a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree in an eligible field of study. Those who
accept a dissertation fellowship must agree to the stipulations in the Terms
of Appointment for Ford Foundation Fellows that accompanies the award
letter. In addition, Ford Fellows must agree to participate in regular
updates of the Directory of Ford Fellows, as well as periodic surveys
designed to demonstrate the impact of this program.

For additional information:
Fellowships Office, Keck 576
National Research Council
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Tel: 202-334-2872
Fax: 202-334-3419
E-mail: infofell@nas.edu

International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

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International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) offers nine to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research outside of the United States. IDRF promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region but is also informed by interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives. Research topics may address all periods in history, but applicants should be alert to the broader implications of their research as it relates to contemporary issues and debates. Seventy-five fellowships are awarded annually. Fellowship amounts vary depending on the research plan, with a per-fellowship average of $18,750. The fellowship includes participation in an interdisciplinary workshop upon the completion of IDRF-funded research.

Eligibility

The program is open to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences -- regardless of citizenship -- enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. Applicants to the 2011 IDRF competition must complete all Ph.D. requirements except on-site research by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2011, whichever comes first.

The program invites proposals for empirical and site-specific dissertation research outside the United States. It will consider applications for dissertation research grounded in a single site, informed by broader cross-regional and interdisciplinary perspectives, as well as applications for multi-sited, comparative, and transregional research. Proposals that identify the U.S. as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals which focus predominantly or exclusively on the United States are not eligible. Proposals may cover all periods in history, but must address topics that have relevance to contemporary issues and debates.

Students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in public policy, public health, and education, may be eligible to apply if their research projects engage directly with broader theoretical and analytical issues in the humanities and social sciences. The program does not accept applications from Ph.D. programs in law, business, medicine, nursing or journalism. Students who will have undertaken nine or more months of funded dissertation research in one country by July 2011 are not eligible to apply to the IDRF to extend the research time in the same country. The IDRF program will not support study at home institutions, foreign universities, conference participation, short research trips abroad, or projects relying primarily on labwork. For more information on the 2011 IDRF competition, please visit this website:

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/idrf-fellowship/

Stop Day Colloquium: Spring 2010

2010-03-29T12:27:00.000-07:00

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 Friday, April 30 and should be sent to either Professors Rivera or Bayliss.

Summer Job Opportunity: KU Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy

2010-03-29T12:22:00.000-07:00

The KU Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy is a pre-college program that serves Kansas high school students from migrant farmwork backgrounds. Most of their students are Latino, many are bilingual, and some are beginning English language learners. The KU Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy needs residence hall staff for June 2010! Please help spread the word about this job opportunity with Latin American Studies students at the junior/senior/grad levels? Preference is given to bilingual (Spanish/English) applicants.

Who Are We?

The Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy (HHLA) is a 3-week residential program for 50 Kansas high school students from migrant farmwork backgrounds, held on the KU campus, June 6-27, 2010. The mission of HHLA is to empower and support migrant high school students through academic enrichment, leadership development, and college preparation.
For more information regarding the program, see www2.ku.edu/~hhla.

What Do RAs Do?

The HHLA Residence Hall Director and Residence Assistants (RAs) have primary responsibility for the overall physical and emotional safety and wellbeing of student participants throughout the Academy. They live in the residence halls with our HHLA student participants for the duration of the appointment: 24-hour residency, 5 days-a-week for three weeks. RAs also attend a 3-day staff orientation, June 2-4. RAs tutor, counsel, teach, supervise, and serve as positive role models.

Attached is a pdf flyer and here’s the link to the KU employment website: https://jobs.ku.edu.

Go to the Unclassified Professional Staff tab and refer to position # 206685.

Questions can be directed to Stacy Mendez by phone (785.864.7027) or email smendez@ku.edu.

Stansifer Fellowship Fund

2010-03-10T13:25:00.000-08:00

Latin American Studies is pleased to announce a competition for the Stansifer Fellowship Fund for 2010-2011. This fund was endowed by Professor Emeritus Charles Stansifer. The award is for the support of graduate students planning to complete a doctorate in the study of Middle America (defined as Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.)

Priority is to be given first to students of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, or Panama) second to Mexico, third to the Caribbean, and fourth to students of relations between the United States and any Middle American country.

Graduate students from any department in the College of Arts and Sciences are eligible. An interdisciplinary committee from Latin American Studies will decide the competition. The award will depend upon the interest from the endowment but will not exceed $5000 per year. A student may hold the fellowship in succeeding years, at the discretion of the committee.

Applications are due Tuesday, March 23 and should include a letter of interest, including why the candidate deserves to receive thefellowship, three letters of recommendations, and transcripts from graduate and undergraduate institutions.

Applications and nominations for the fellowships can be sent to Latin American Studies, 320 Bailey Hall.

GRASP Scholarly Presentation Award

2010-03-03T07:43:00.000-08:00

This year, with the funds that GRASP has earned from the Graduate Professional Association (GPA), we have decided to offer financial support for academic presentations to the graduate students in the department. There are enough funds to offer two awards of $50 each, which can be used for registration and/or travel expenses. These funds need to be allocated by the end of March, so the deadline for submissions is March 12, 2010.

We hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity!

Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature

2010-02-06T12:43:00.000-08:00

Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature | October 28-30, 2010
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/~machl/

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.

EL BICENTENARIO: RAZONES, INCERTIDUMBRES Y CONSECUENCIAS TRANSCONTINENTALES EN LA LITERATURA, LA LENGUA Y LA CULTURA

2010-01-23T12:53:00.000-08:00

EL BICENTENARIO: RAZONES, INCERTIDUMBRES Y CONSECUENCIAS TRANSCONTINENTALES EN LA LITERATURA, LA LENGUA Y LA CULTURA

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Santiago Juan Navarro-Florida International University
María Rita Plancarte Martínez-Universidad de Sonora, México

Con el fin de conmemorar el bicentenario de la(s) independencia(s) latinoamericana(s), El Simposio Anual de Estudiantes de Maestría y Doctorado de la Universidad Estatal de Arizona examinará y discutirá el estado de la literatura, la cultura, la lengua y el cine en ambos lados del Atlántico.

A pesar de dar preferencia a trabajos que traten sobre el tema de la independencia y sus ramificaciones, otros temas trasatlánticos serán igualmente considerados. La fecha límite para los trabajos es el 4 de febrero, 2010.

Las solicitudes para la creación de paneles y/o temas de discusión incluyen pero no se limitan a los siguientes tópicos:

-El Bicentenario: Modos de celebración/conmemoración de la independencia en tiempos (hiper)(pos)modernos/ postcoloniales transcontinentales, posicionamientos ideológicos.

-Exploraciones literarias y culturales del Otro, lo extraño y lo subalterno:
Colonialismo/postcolonialismo, racismo/xenofobia, discriminación/exclusión.

-Fronteras y entrecruzamientos (migratorios) en la lengua, la cultura y la literatura: Estudios literarios transcontinentales/transculturales, culturas y artes hibridas, estudios lingüísticos sobre diglosias/heteroglosias, hibridaciones culturales y lingüísticas, aprendizaje de segundas o más lenguas.

-(De)(Re)(Post)construcciones nacionales: Estudios y perspectivas acerca de las identidades nacionales, étnicas, lingüísticas y culturales, historia de la literatura/literatura de la historia antes, durante y después de la independencia.

-Textum/Discursus: Madejas y tejidos literarios, lingüísticos y culturales. Incluyen estudios de narratología, análisis semióticos, semánticos, sintácticos de textos y discursos, posiciones estructuralistas, post-estructuralistas y postmodernistas en la interpretación de textos y
discursos literarios independentistas.

-Thaumatropos/Filmosofía: Lenguajes de imágenes estáticas y en movimiento. Estudios de cine y fotografía y los acercamientos filmosóficos del cine y sus transformaciones transcontinentales para el nuevo milenio.

-Entre risas y llantos literarios: Estudios de lo cómico y lo trágico en la literatura antes, durante y después de la independencia.

-Exploraciones de lo bélico en la independencia: Exploraciones literarias de batallas y alzamientos independentistas, literaturas de las guerras de independencia, revoluciones en las Américas, construcciones de lo heroico.

-Lo hispano/latino/chicano/castellano en el poniente norteamericano: El liberalismo decimonónico entre el suroeste estadounidense y Latinoamérica. Rupturas y aproximaciones literarias y culturales del suroeste estadounidense con la geografía latinoamericana independentista.

- De la península a América y de América a la península: Las producciones culturales en el exilio y la política de la identidad, relaciones transatlánticas después de la independencia.

Ensayos:

Los ensayos podrán ser escritos en inglés o en español. La extensión del trabajo no debe exceder las 10 páginas a espacio doble, suficiente como para leerse en 20 minutos.

Resúmenes:

La fecha límite para la recepción de resúmenes será el 4 de febrero, 2010 y deben enviarse a 13conferenceASU@gmail.com. El resumen deberá redactarse en un máximo de 250 palabras y debe acompañarse con los siguientes datos: título de la ponencia, nombre del autor, dirección electrónica y postal, teléfono y un breve currículo. La fecha límite para la confirmación de
asistencia será el 8 de febrero, 2010 vía correo electrónico o en su defecto
correo postal.

Inscripción:

El costo de la inscripción al simposio será de $25. Y deberá cancelarse una vez confirmada la asistencia del ponente. Los asistentes al simposio no pagan.

Información:

Para mayor información sobre mas detalles de la conferencia, hoteles y atracciones en el área de Phoenix, visite nuestra página web a <http://webdev.uui.asu.edu/sdmu/mu/new/clubs/search.asp?clubid=1402>

http://spagrad.club.asu.edu/

2010-2011 Academic Year Fellowships: Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education

2010-01-03T11:28:00.000-08:00

2010-2011 Academic Year Fellowships for KU Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education

Fellowships are available for undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline who study an approved foreign language. All Fellowships are contingent on U.S. Department of Education funding. Undergraduate Academic Year FLAS Fellowships provide up to $10,000 for tuition and a $5,000 stipend for living expenses. Graduate Academic Year FLAS Fellowships provide full KU tuition (restrictions may apply) and a $15,000 stipend for living expenses. Summer 2010 FLAS Fellowships (undergraduate and graduate) provide up to $4,000 for summer tuition and a stipend of $2,500. Travel funds may be available for summer FLAS. All tuition amounts are limited to actual tuition charges. Fellowships are divided by language among the relevant KU area studies centers, each of which has its own set of requirements and deadlines.

Russia, East Europe, & Eurasia
Languages: Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Deadline for academic year ’10-’11 and Summer ’10 applications is February 12, 2010.
More information and applications are available by calling 785-864-4236, e-mailing crees@ku.edu, or viewing www.crees.ku.edu.

Africa
Languages: Amharic, Wolof, Hausa, Arabic, KiSwahili.
Deadline for academic year ’10-’11 and Summer ’10 applications is February 1, 2010.
More information and applications are available by calling 785-864-3745,
e-mailing kasc@ku.edu, or viewing www.kasc.ku.edu

East Asia
Languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Uyghur.
Deadline for academic year ’10-’11 and Summer ’10 applications is February 16, 2010.
More information and applications are available by calling 785-864-3849, e-mailing ceas@ku.edu, or viewing www.ceas.ku.edu/academics/flas.shtml.

The Center for Global & International Studies
Languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hebrew, Hindi, Mongolian, Persian (Farsi), Turkish, Uyghur
Deadline for academic year ’10-’11 applications is April 1, 2010.
More information and applications are available by calling 785-864-1120, e-mailing cgis@ku.edu, or viewing http://global.ku.edu/students/fellowgrants.shtml

Latin America
Languages: Portuguese, Kaqchikel Maya, Quichua, Spanish (advanced graduate level only), and Haitian Creole
Deadline for academic year ’10 –’11 applications is February 1, 2010.
More information and applications are available by calling 785-864-4213, emailing latamst@ku.edu, or at www.ku.edu/~latamst

Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico: Research Paper Series and Reference Works Series

2010-01-01T11:12:00.000-08:00

University of New Mexico • Latin American and Iberian Institute

The Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico is soliciting submissions by faculty and graduate students for publication in the LAII’s peer-reviewed, electronic Research Paper Series and Reference Works Series.

The Research Paper Series provides a venue for the publication of academic research. Relevant disciplines include Anthropology, Art History, Economics, Education, Gender, Cultural Studies, Geography, Health Sciences, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Natural Sciences, Political Science, Sociology, and related fields. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged. Submissions should focus on Latin America and/or Iberia (Spain and Portugal). Papers may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. It is recommended that papers have a length of 5,000-8,750 words, including notes and bibliography.

The Reference Works Series is a forum for bibliographies, book reviews, interviews, archival indices, catalogs, and other important material that is not suitable for publication as a research paper. Submissions should focus on Latin America and/or Iberia (Spain and Portugal). Papers may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Submission length is variable but should be appropriate to the content and purpose of the subject.

Please refer to the submission guidelines at http://laii.unm.edu/resources/publications/paper-series/.

A full-text archive of previously published titles in the Research Paper Series and Reference Works Series is available online at http://laii.unm.edu/resources/publications/papers/.

Deadline for submissions is February 26, 2010

For questions or further information, contact:
Keira Philipp-Schnurer
E-mail (preferred): committees@laii.unm.edu
Latin American and Iberian Institute
Phone: (505) 277-7049
MSC0 1690
Fax: (505) 277-5989
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-000

Wake Forest University: Conference on Spanish and Hispanic American Poetry

2009-12-29T10:48:00.000-08:00

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/

Tinker Summer Field Research Grants 2010

2009-12-06T11:59:00.000-08:00

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).

"Martyred Bodies and Religious Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"

2009-12-06T11:49:00.000-08:00

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.ca mrea@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.

Love and Sight in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

2009-11-24T12:33:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-24T11:20:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-24T10:39:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-24T10:36:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-24T07:59:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-22T13:41:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-22T13:31:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-22T13:13:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-22T13:09:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-22T13:06:00.001-08:00

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

2009-11-12T07:43:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-05T07:34:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-04T21:28:00.000-08:00

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

________________________________________

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

2009-11-04T21:22:00.000-08:00

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

The Renaissance Arts of Science and Nature

2009-10-30T13:30:00.000-07:00

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.

American Comparative Literature Association 2010: New Orleans

2009-10-30T13:07:00.000-07:00

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.

Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS)

2009-10-27T10:56:00.000-07:00

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/

Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, March 4-6, 2010

2009-10-27T10:52:00.000-07:00

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.org abstracts@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.org gradsubmissions@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.

The Limits of Performance

2009-10-16T14:00:00.001-07:00

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.

Re-Imagining the Americas: (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora

2009-10-16T13:58:00.000-07:00

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).

From Border Building to Border Hopping: The Shifting Nature of the Text

2009-10-08T13:27:00.000-07:00

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.

Newberry Renaissance Center Graduate Student Conference

2009-10-06T07:34:00.000-07:00

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

Stop Day Colloquium

2009-10-02T19:27:00.000-07:00

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.

Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

2009-09-25T10:18:00.000-07:00

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.

The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation

2009-09-25T10:15:00.000-07:00

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).

Animals and Animality Across the Humanities and Social Sciences

2009-09-25T10:12:00.000-07:00

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.

“Post/Imperial Encounters between Spain and Portugal and East Asia”

2009-09-25T10:10:00.000-07:00

41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-11, 2010
Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure

With the recent mode of Trans-Atlantic studies in the fields of Hispanic, Lusophone and Latin American studies, much attention has been paid to cultural exchanges between Spain and Portugal and the Americas. This research has greatly enriched understandings of the complexities of this contentious relationship through the cross-disciplinary study of myriad cultural productions, yet it remains largely premised on an image of Spanish and Portuguese identities defined by the conquest and colonization of America. What remains barely discernable in these discussions, are the contours of the “modern” empire and post-imperial discourses that marked the two nations as they entered the 20th century. Considerably less scholarly work has examined texts that reflect on Iberian colonial and imperial endeavors, or that represent the experiences of post-imperial travelers in East Asia during this time. However, fiction and non-fiction narratives of colonial adventures and political resistance, missionary travails, and travel through Japan, China, Korea, Philippines, to mention just a few examples, provide a rich and largely unexplored counterpoint and complement to current understandings of Spain and Portugal post-imperial nations. This seminar will examine Spain and Portugal’s colonial and post/imperial encounters with East Asia as registered in writings in Spanish and Portuguese by peninsular and post/colonial authors from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Please send 250 word abstracts in Spanish, Portuguese or English to David George at dgeorge@bates.edu and Timothy Gaster at gaster@uchicago.edu.

Deadline: September 30, 2009

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

Please note that the session is in “seminar” format which means that the 5-10 participants will complete and circulate their papers of no more than 20 pages in length prior to the convention. Instead of reading papers, participants give a brief presentation of 5-10 minutes of their work, with the session focused on structured exchange between the participants. Respondents may be invited by the chair.

The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the complete Call for Papers for the 2010 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org.

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

Travel to Canada now requires a passport for U.S. citizens. Please get your passport application in early.

Global Crises: Cultural Responses - Lucero, UC Berkeley

2009-08-11T21:15:00.000-07:00

Global Crises: Cultural Responses
Lucero Volume 20, Spring 2010

Rupture and Representation
Reconfiguring the North-South Dialogue
Engaging with Otherness
Questioning and Constructing Identities
Local vs. Global, Particular vs. Universal
Historical Divisions
Challenging Theory
Transgressing Borders
Queer Responses
Texts and Contexts
Images and Sounds
Frontiers and Fronteras
Liminality and Marginality
Rethinking Gender and Sexuality
Scholarship, Academy, and Community

The forthcoming 20th issue of Lucero, the journal published by the graduate students of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley, seeks to explore the repercussions and implications of global crises. Over the past months, various events have shaken social, political, and economic spheres. Talk of "the crisis" in news reports and daily conversations usually refers to these current events, yet the notion of crisis can be understood in a broader sense. By crisis, we refer not only to global economic breakdown, but also to a variety of cultural, historical, social, and theoretical problems, ranging from the crisis of representation to the role of academia in society. Given the recent economic downturn, the role of the university and, in particular, of the humanities has entered a situation of crisis. Institutions, scholars, and students are questioning academic priorities and the role of the humanities in the world. With the rise of cultural studies and the questioning of the canon in recent years, Spanish and Portuguese as a discipline is in a particular moment of crisis and renovation.

These crises, whether economic, sociopolitical, academic, or disciplinary, impact the creation and analysis of culture. How does cultural production respond to "crisis" in the broad sense of the term? How do these various crises show up in cultural and critical realms? The editorial staff of the 20th edition of Lucero welcomes submissions using interdisciplinary approaches that explore the connection between crisis and culture. Topics could include, but are not limited to the above mentioned themes.

Lucero seeks original manuscripts of 15-25 pages in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Please submit an electronic copy of the manuscript as a Microsoft Word attachment to lucerosubmissions@gmail.com. The document should be in 12-point, Times New Roman font, and double spaced. For other formatting questions, please consult the MLA Style Manual. Submissions will undergo double-blind review. The manuscript should not contain identifying information. Please include a separate cover sheet with the title of the article and the author's name, email address, and institutional affiliation.

Mission Statement:
Lucero is an academic journal dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship on the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds, with special emphasis on literary and cultural studies. Through its published selections and thematic focus, this journal attempts to reconsider our notions of Hispanic, Peninsular, Latin American, and Lusophone studies, urging for increasingly interdisciplinary and comparative studies. Published annually by the graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley, each issues features scholarly articles, interviews, and book reviews.

Views and Visions: Perspectives in Iberian and Latin American Literatures - Tulane University

2009-08-11T20:28:00.000-07:00

The Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana

October 9-10, 2009

Views and Visions: Perspectives in Iberian and Latin American Literatures

The Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Association at Tulane University welcomes papers or panels in English, Spanish, or Portuguese that explore concepts of views and visions, which include but are not limited to the following: unusual or unreliable perspectives and points of view; texts that accompany images; visual spectacles and dramatic performances; texts that deal with sight, blindness, or distorted vision; writings about mystic visions, ecstasies, or dreams. The organizing committee seeks papers from all theoretical approaches pertinent to the studies of Peninsular, Transatlantic, and Latin American Literatures.

Keynote Speaker:
Rolena Adorno, Yale University
"The Inca Speaks English: The Comentarios reales First Appearance Outside Spanish, 1625"

Please send abstracts of 250 words for papers and panels in Microsoft Word format to viewsandvisions09@gmail.com. Please include your name, phone number, title, and institutional affiliation in your email. Individual presentations may be up to 20 minutes in length (7-8 pages, typed, double-spaced).

The deadline for abstract submissions is September 22, 2009.

Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literature - MACHL

2009-01-16T16:57:00.000-08:00

Friday–Sunday • November 6–8, 2009
University of Kansas, Kansas Union
Lawrence, Kan.

Hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas

Conference Theme:
Race, Religion, and Resistance

Keynote Speakers Include:
Vincent Barletta (Stanford University) &
Magali Carrera (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)

The Organizing Committee seeks proposals for individual presentations and special sessions on any aspect of the literatures of Spain or Spanish America, written in Spanish or English. Panels or individual proposals related to the conference theme are especially encouraged.

Send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute presentations by April 15, 2009 to:
MACHL, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Kansas
2650 Wescoe Hall, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045
Email: MACHL2009@ku.edu

To submit a panel proposal, please e-mail MACHL2009@ku.edu
The committee will respond to proposals by May 15, 2009.
Conference fees:
Early registration by August 31
$100
Regular registration after August 31
$120
Graduate students
$85

Registration and Accommodation information will be provided on the Conference Web site: http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/programs/machl
For more information, please contact Prof. Margot Versteeg (Versteeg@ku.edu).

The annual Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures is a joint undertaking of the universities of Colorado (Boulder), Kansas (Lawrence), Missouri (Columbia), Nebraska (Lincoln), Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee), and Washington University (St. Louis).

FHIS Conference

2009-01-14T17:15:00.000-08:00

Call for papers for the third bi-annual

FHIS Conference
For Graduate Students
In French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Literature and Linguistics

Circulations

October 2-3, 2009
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Keynote Speaker
Dr. Angela Cozea
University of Toronto

The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia is pleased to present

The Third Bi-Annual Graduate Student Conference:

Circulations
October 2-3, 2009

The term circulation suggests constant movement. It refers to the passing of information from place to place, person to person or text to text. In language and literature we find not linear movement but rather circulations, implying interdependence and reciprocity. What are circulations in literary and linguistic studies? The transfer of ideas? The traffic of texts? The creation of communities of information? The crossing of physical and metaphorical borders?

The aim of this conference is to explore the concept of circulations in a multilingual, interdisciplinary context. Students currently enrolled in a graduate program in the fields of linguistic and literary studies in French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese are invited to submit abstracts for consideration. Proposals may address, but are not restricted to, the following topics:

• circulation of texts and ideas
• subscriptions and rebellions
• transition from the avant-texte to the text
• reception, translation and interpretation
• linguistic influence and contact
• quotes or misquotes
• readings and misreadings

• inheritance or heredity
• traffic, bridges, highways
• literature of travel, migration or exile
• intertextuality and intratextuality
• time and space
• recurrence of motifs
• reflections or distortions

Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (8-10 pages MLA style) and may be in French, Spanish or English. There will be a registration fee of $20 per person.

Please send a 250-word abstract in French, Spanish or English, in electronic format with your name, affiliation and contact information (including e-mail), either as an attachment in Rich Text format or in the body of your e-mail to fhis.grad.conference.2009@gmail.com by April 15th, 2009.

Language and Space / Lenguaje y espacio

2008-12-15T14:05:00.000-08:00

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

Welcome

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

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

Call for Papers
2009

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

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

The colloquium will feature three outstanding Keynote speakers:

Nydia Flores-Ferrán
Linguistics
Rutgers Univeristy

Elena Gascón-Vera
Spanish Literature and Culture
Wellesley College

Milagros Peña
Latin American Studies
University of Florida

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

Stop Day Colloquium - University of Kansas Department of Spanish and Portuguese

2008-12-06T08:49:00.001-08:00

Stop Day Colloquium

A GRASP y los miembros de la facultad nos complace anunciar el primer congreso del Departamento para nuestros estudiantes graduados. Esperamos que haya bastante interés en participar en el congreso que podamos planear uno por semestre o año. Abajo se puede leer el anuncio original. Recuerden que la fecha límite para las propuestas es el 3 de diciembre.

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. We hope to make the colloquium a regular event in the future, but first we need to gauge the interest of the department's graduate students in participating in this new initiative. 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, this event is meant to foster this important aspect of professional development. Feel free to contact your GRASP representatives (graspku@gmail.com), Professor Rivera (ijrivera@ku.edu) or Professor Bayliss (rbayliss@ku.edu) for further information. Proposals are due by Wednesday, December 3.

(Re)Writing History: Text as Monument to Memory - University of North Carolina

2008-12-06T08:24:00.000-08:00

15th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures

(Re)Writing History: Text as Monument to Memory

Papers or panels on all aspects of literature in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and Comparative Literature will be considered. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Deadline for submission of abstracts is December 20, 2008.

Abstracts are limited to 250 words and may be submitted online only. For abstract submissions, last year’s program, and further information, visit our website at: http://ccrl.colloquia.com and see the "Submit a Proposal" link in the top left corner of this page for further instructions.

Exceptional papers by both graduate students and professors will be considered for publication in Romance Notes.
Inquiries:
• Spanish: María del Carmen Caña Jiménez, canajime@email.unc.edu
• French: Robert Sapp, rsapp@email.unc.edu
• Italian: Cale LaSalata, lasalata@email.unc.edu
• Portuguese: Contact any of the above

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Esther Bendahan
She is a Jewish Spanish writer. She has published several novels such as Soñar con Hispania in 2000, Deshojando alcachofas in 2005 and Déjalo, ya volveremos in 2006. She received the “Premio Tigre” in 2007 for her last novel La Cara de Marte published that same year. She has also published short stories in different newspapers such as “La Razón” (2005),“Progresa-Prensa regional” (2006), “Cinco Días” (2006) and magazines such as “Revista Ñ” (2006). Esther Bendahan is also the director of the cultural radio program “Casa Sefarad-Israel” and director and host of the Spanish TV program “Shalom”. She has worked at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. She is currently working on writing the script for a documentary on the relationship between exile and memory; and a program on Sephardic culture in Istanbul.

Régine Robin
She is Professor Emerita at l'Université du Québec à Montréal. She was a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard in 1988, visiting professor at l'École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales de Paris in 1989 and in the Department of Sociology at NYU in 1991, a member of L’UER at l’Université de Paris III in 1995, visiting scholar at the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard in 2003. She was awarded the Prix du Gouverneur général from Canada in 1987 for her work Le Réalisme socialiste:une esthétique impossible (Paris, Payot, 1986), the “Prix Jacques-Rousseau” from the French-Canadian Association for the advancement of science, “le Prix Spirale” for her work Le Golem de l’écriture in 1999 as well as “Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal”, for her book Berlin Chantiers in 2001. She has recently published La Mémoire Saturée (Stock 2003). She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

Robert Viscusi
He has published the novel Astoria (Guernica, 1995; American Book Award, 1996), the long poem An Oration Upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus (VIA Folios, 1993), a poetry collection entitled A New Geography of Time (Guernica, 2004), a critical history entitled Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (SUNY Press, 2006), and numerous essays on Italian American literature and culture. Viscusi is Broeklundian Professor and executive officer of the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College, where he teaches American and Italian American literature. He is president of the Italian American writers association and has held fellowships from the NEH and the Calandra Italian American institute. Among his awards are the “Pietro Di Donato” and “John Fante Award” of the New York State Order Sons of Italy (2006) and the “Premio Speciale per la Critica of the Fondazione Giuseppe Acerbi” (Castel Goffredo Mantovano, 2008).

Special Spotlight Presentation:

Gioconda Belli
Born in Managua, Nicaragua, Gioconda Belli, known for her sensual poems that celebrate the feminine, continues the poetic tradition of her country. Taking stance against the Somoza regime, her poetry adopts an insurgent tone. After the “Sandinista” revolution, Belli explores her own narrative writings with the 1988 novel La mujer habitada which has been translated into more than eleven languages. Her narrative work includes Sofía de los Presagios (1990), Waslala (1996), the children’s book El Taller de las Mariposas (1994) and the autobiographical El país bajo mi piel (2001), and El pergamino de la seducción (2005). Her most recent novel, El infinito en la palma de la mano (2008) won the “Premio Biblioteca Breve de la Editorial Seix Barral” in Spain. Her poetic work includes Sobre la grama (1972), Línea de fuego (1978) Truenos y arco iris (1982) De la costilla de Eva (1987), Apogeo (1994), Mi íntima multitud (2003) y Fuego soy apartado y espada puesta lejos (2007). Belli won the “Premio Mariano Fiallos Gil de la UNAN” in 1972, the “Premio Casa de las Américas” in 1978, the “Premio Anna Seghers” in 2003, the “Premio Generación del 27” in Spain for her book of poems Mi íntima multitud, in 2007 she won the “Premio Internacional de Poesía Ciudad de Melilla.”

Microcosms and Macrocosms: Inner and Outer Spaces in Texts - University of Miami

2008-12-06T08:22:00.000-08:00

Microcosms and Macrocosms:

Inner and Outer Spaces in Texts

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Jean Michael Dash (New York University) and Dr. Marc Brudzinski (University of Miami)

Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund

University of Miami, Coral Gables

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

March 27th-28th, 2009

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami and the Program of Latin American and Caribbean Studies are pleased to announce its Spring Graduate Conference (March 27th -28th, 2009) to engage in a dialogue on the significance, meaning, and consequences of spatial tropes in "texts". We will accept proposals on any world texts. Papers must be written in French, Spanish, or English.

Among the themes of interest are the following:

* Trans-national boundaries
* Cosmopolitan/urban vs. rural spaces
* Memory as a historiographical space
* Use of space in comics, films, television, and theater
* Digital and virtual spaces (Internet, video games, and archives)
* Literary spaces: Avant-garde vs. Traditional literature
* Migration/crossing borders
* Spaces of exile/ Asylum (home away from home)
* Psychological spaces (dreams and the unconscious)
* Spaces of belonging
* Real/Fantastic spaces
* Identity and the creation of intimate/personal space
* Space within nationalist discourse
* Queer space (s)
* Gendered space (s)
* Space within postcolonial discourse
* Mapping or charting spaces
* Artistic spaces (visual and plastic arts)

Proposals should include a 250-word abstract and title, as well as the author’s name, address, and institutional affiliation. Please submit abstracts via email to: mllconference2008@gmail.com by January 26th, 2009. Acceptance of proposals will be notified via e-mail by February 10th, 2009. Each conference attendee is required to pay a registration fee of $40.00.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Jean Michael Dash:
Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis. Research Interests: Francophone/Caribbean Literature; literary theory; translation French to English. Selected Works: Culture and Customs of Haiti (Greenwood Press, 2001), Libete: A Haiti Anthology, Ed. with Charles Arthur (Latin American Bureau, 1999), The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (University Press of Virginia, 1998), Haiti and the United States (MacMillan, 1997), Edouard Glissant (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Literature and Ideology in Haiti: 1915-1961 (MacMillan, 1981), Jacques Stephen Alexis (Black Images, 1975).

Dr. Marc Brudzinski:
Assistant Professor Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean Literature. Research Interests: Current research interests concern theories of the Caribbean culture and literary imaginations of networks of communication within and beyond the nation. Interests also include postcolonial theories of space and the relationship between lived space and literary sensibility in the Caribbean. He is currently finishing a manuscript on the literary and cultural dimensions of secrecy in the French and Spanish Caribbean from the 19th to through the 20th centuries. Publications: Sargasso, Small Axe, and Nepantla. He has also contributed to the edited volume Post Colonial Politics of Identity (Rodopi 2009). His book, Island Secrets, is forthcoming from Lexington Books.

Reflections on Optimism - University of Maryland

2008-12-06T08:11:00.000-08:00

The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures University of Maryland, College Park Announces The Seventh Annual SLLC Graduate Student Forum
Reflections on Optimism

March 26-27, 2009

“Although the world is not perfect, it is yet the best that is possible.” Centuries have passed since Leibniz made this much-debated statement, but the discourse on optimism and its role in our daily lives remains as relevant. Academic fields from literature to psychology, from the visual arts to applied linguistics have examined the effects of optimism on the Self. Political scientists have analyzed the consequences of trust and optimism on foreign and domestic policy. Yet the value of a literary work with an optimistic outlook is often questioned, and a jaded worldview has become a trademark of intellectualism. The questions surrounding the function and character of optimism seem especially pressing during times of rapid change, upheaval, and crisis. What role does optimism play in the world today? What role does it have in contemporary global cultural production? How have various cultures perceived and represented optimism across the centuries? To what extent can optimism deceive, motivate, placate, desensitize? What is optimism?

With these and other questions in mind, the graduate students of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland cordially invite the submission of papers that offer new reflections on optimism.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:
o Crisis and Optimism
o Utopia, Dystopia, Escapism, and Elsewhere
o Staging Hope, Staging Despair
o Free Will vs. Determinism
o The Language of Optimism
o Motivation in Education
o Rebirth, Reconstruction, Resilience, and Healing
o Globalism and Identity
o Gender and Sexuality
o Faith and Doubt

Abstracts are encouraged from all fields and all papers should be in English. Please submit a 250 word abstract by December 20, 2008 to:

SLLC Graduate Student Forum
Sllc2009.umd@gmail.com
University of Maryland
SLLC, 3215 Jiménez Hall, College Park, MD 20742