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.

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.

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).

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.

Language and Space / Lenguaje y espacio

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

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

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.”