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/
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Tinker Summer Field Research Grants 2010
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).
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"
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.camrea@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.
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
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Love and Sight in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
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
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
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.
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
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/
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
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
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
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