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).
Friday, September 25, 2009
Animals and Animality Across the Humanities and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, June 26-27, 2010, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Keynote: Carol Adams
The emergent field of animal and animality studies is rapidly being articulated across scholarly boundaries. We invite graduate students to enter this growing conversation and approach the topic from perspectives reflecting the broad (inter)disciplinarity of this field. Discussions will use critical animal studies as a conceptual lens in order to investigate issues including the boundaries between self and Other, agency and biological drive, and reason and non-reason; the codes that permeate our conceptions of non-human animals; and the implications of troubling and/or making porous the human/animal divide. Is understanding human beings as embodied subjects ontologically bound to our relationship to non-human animals? In what ways is animal wellbeing crucially implicated in how we think ourselves into and against animals? As part of these discussions, we welcome investigations into the ways that (as Val Plumwood contends) animals, nature, and racial, colonial, and gendered Others function, now and historically, as overlapping sites of difference. We also invite considerations of the relationship between the conceptual economy that posits animality as an exploitable trope and forms of Othering that render animals as salable things. In approaching these topics, we encourage participants to consider how animal and animality studies has impacted other theoretical lenses, including critical race theory and feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical/environmental studies, as well as the attendant politics of our disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the field.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
• Thinking with animals / intro-species boundary disruption
• Becoming animals and biocentric ethics
• The boundary between domestic and wild, sentiment and terror
• Making animals 'matter' and the role of affect
• Animal poetry and ecopoetics
• Animals and the nation in the nineteenth century and beyond
• Animals and spectacle (both alive and dead)
• Urban and wild animals and the politics of space
• Animal geographies and environmental histories
• Animals and transnational ecologies
• Speciesm and racism
• Animals and desire / animality and sexuality
• Vegetarianism and the politics of meat
• Animals in language / symbolic animals
• The discourses and iconography of animals in various cultural forms
• The uses of animals in war and torture
• Animal studies now and its future directions
Proposals may reflect traditional and innovative formats, including papers, panels, roundtables, and community dialogues, as well as creative submissions. Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words, along with your name, department, affiliation, and e-mail address to jaime.j.s.denike@queensu.ca. For creative submissions, send 30 lines of poetry or a 300 word excerpt. For information about our call for artistic submissions for our connected Just Act Natural art exhibit, please e-mail visser.lisa@gmail.com .
The deadline for submissions is October 1st, 2009.
Keynote: Carol Adams
The emergent field of animal and animality studies is rapidly being articulated across scholarly boundaries. We invite graduate students to enter this growing conversation and approach the topic from perspectives reflecting the broad (inter)disciplinarity of this field. Discussions will use critical animal studies as a conceptual lens in order to investigate issues including the boundaries between self and Other, agency and biological drive, and reason and non-reason; the codes that permeate our conceptions of non-human animals; and the implications of troubling and/or making porous the human/animal divide. Is understanding human beings as embodied subjects ontologically bound to our relationship to non-human animals? In what ways is animal wellbeing crucially implicated in how we think ourselves into and against animals? As part of these discussions, we welcome investigations into the ways that (as Val Plumwood contends) animals, nature, and racial, colonial, and gendered Others function, now and historically, as overlapping sites of difference. We also invite considerations of the relationship between the conceptual economy that posits animality as an exploitable trope and forms of Othering that render animals as salable things. In approaching these topics, we encourage participants to consider how animal and animality studies has impacted other theoretical lenses, including critical race theory and feminist, postcolonial, and ecocritical/environmental studies, as well as the attendant politics of our disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the field.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
• Thinking with animals / intro-species boundary disruption
• Becoming animals and biocentric ethics
• The boundary between domestic and wild, sentiment and terror
• Making animals 'matter' and the role of affect
• Animal poetry and ecopoetics
• Animals and the nation in the nineteenth century and beyond
• Animals and spectacle (both alive and dead)
• Urban and wild animals and the politics of space
• Animal geographies and environmental histories
• Animals and transnational ecologies
• Speciesm and racism
• Animals and desire / animality and sexuality
• Vegetarianism and the politics of meat
• Animals in language / symbolic animals
• The discourses and iconography of animals in various cultural forms
• The uses of animals in war and torture
• Animal studies now and its future directions
Proposals may reflect traditional and innovative formats, including papers, panels, roundtables, and community dialogues, as well as creative submissions. Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words, along with your name, department, affiliation, and e-mail address to jaime.j.s.denike@queensu.ca. For creative submissions, send 30 lines of poetry or a 300 word excerpt. For information about our call for artistic submissions for our connected Just Act Natural art exhibit, please e-mail visser.lisa@gmail.com .
The deadline for submissions is October 1st, 2009.
“Post/Imperial Encounters between Spain and Portugal and East Asia”
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.
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.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Global Crises: Cultural Responses - Lucero, UC Berkeley
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.
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
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.
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.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literature - MACHL
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).
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).
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
FHIS Conference
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.
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.
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