2011 CFP: Spanish/Portuguese

Cultural Studies and Film: “Affects and Spaces in Latin American Cinema, Performance and Literature”; “Constructing ‘Brazilian-ness’ through Cinematic Manipulations”; “Experimentation in Latin American Film”

Pedagogy: “Getting to Advanced Low: Preparation for the Oral Proficiency Interview”; “(Re)Teaching the Spanish Classics: Integrating Technology, the Web, and Film”

Spanish/Portuguese: “Eighteenth Century Portuguese Language and Culture”

Transnational Literatures: “Music Contingencies in Narrated Americas.”; “Narrated Objects: Literature and Material Culture in the Americas”

Women’s and Gender Studies: “The Power of Marginal Spaces in the Works of Carmen Martin Gaite”

2001-2011: Terror and Trauma on the Post-9/11 Spanish Stage: This session seeks papers on early twenty-first-century Spanish Peninsular theatre that illustrate how contemporary Spanish playwrights have appropriated terror and trauma (gender violence, political oppression, the examination of past offences [civil war], terrorist attacks, etc) as technique, topic, setting, performative topos, or for other aspects of staging. Submit papers to Eileen Doll, Loyola University New Orleans, edoll@loyno.edu.
Anti-Hero and Victims in the Spanish Theatre of the 21st Century: This session aims to foment discussion of some constructions of the neoliberal anti-hero and/or victims in the Spanish theatre since the end of the millennium until today. It would be of great interest to learn what is an anti-hero these days, how Spanish theatre is dealing with global issues, is violence part of the new order? What is the link between failure and anti-hero? Rossana Fialdini, McGill University, rossana.fialdinizambrano@mcgill.ca
Behind the Lens: Immigration and Globalization in Spanish Contemporary Film: This panel invites papers that analyze, discuss, and interrogate the active role that men and women film directors play in the cinematic portrayal of the immigrants and their stories of displacement and integration, and how the representation of these marginalized voices negotiate their own identities in the public and private space, or there is also a space in-between? Please, send inquiries or 250-500 word abstracts in English or Spanish to Javier Venturi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.E-mail address: oihcconip@gmail.com.
Body and the Politics of Resistance in the 21st century Latin American Narrative (Roundtable): This roundtable seeks papers on the texts that represent the body as a modality of resistance in Latin America and Brazil. It will examine the ways in which a body as a text can be altered by space, time, class, race, and gender. The topics of this roundtable include, but are not limited to: sexuality, violence, memory, trauma, cosmetic and gender reassignment surgery, sex tourism, among others. Papers on texts from the Hispanic Caribbean particularly welcome. Send 250-300 word abstracts English/Spanish to Elena Valdez geny_el@yahoo.com.
Center and Periphery: Representing Spanishness in Contemporary Literature: This panel seeks to explore, through different lenses, the fragmentation and renegotiation of Spanish cultural and political identity in tension with its peripheral “nations.” Papers that explore representations of Spanishness within the dialectics of center and periphery (including language debates and cultural practices) that emerged as openly plural concepts in post-Franco Spain are welcomed. Send papers to Eugenia Romero, Ohio State University, romero.25@osu.edu.
Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Spanish and British Drama: This panel seeks papers on Spanish Golden Age and Elizabethan drama from a comparativist approach through a variety of perspectives such as literary, performative, social and historical in order to enrich and fill the gaps of a parallel and a merging dramatic tradition. Papers can be in either English or Spanish. Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Esther Fernandez, Sarah Lawrence College, efernandez@slc.edu.
Critical Discourses: Early Modern Spanish Literary Women: This session will consider research on works by women writers, or the literary representation of women, in varied literary genres of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, that explore: cultural identification vs. personal identity; critical discourses that support/subvert established literary authority and dominant discourses. Please submit electronically a 500 word abstract/paper, contact information, and a brief biographical statement to: jcammara@aol.com. Joan Cammarata, Modern Languages, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York 10471.
Crossing Borders and Performing Gender on the Spanish-Speaking Stage: Sponsored by Feministas Unidas. The 21st Century has seen increased globalization and marketplace demands cause human migration to skyrocket, increasingly fueling shifts in the identities of Spanish-speaking women. This panel seeks to question how the staging of female migration in Spanish-language theatre acts to inform the evolution of feminine/ feminist/ lesbian/ femme/ and butch identities. Please send 250-300 word abstracts in the form of an attachment to: Maria DiFrancesco, mdifrancesco@ithaca.edu
Cyberspace and Literature in Latin America: What Does The Future Entail?: What is the future of literature in Latin America vis-à-vis the imminent advancement of cyberspace options as the main media for contemporary readers/viewers? Published writers increasingly have created blogs and other forms of presence on the Internet –what does the future may entail for literature? Will cyberspace become a new art form per se? Will literature, as we know it, disappear? Send 250 words abstract to Hilda Chacón (hchacon6@naz.edu)
Displaced Communities: How do displaced subjects imagine community? This panel welcomes papers on cultural expressions from Latin America addressing this question. Possible topics could include: the effects of differences within people and places; the politics of memory and human rights; the potentiality of alternative forms of citizenship to articulate unassimilated otherness; and the (re)imagination of dynamic communities in various “elsewheres.” Please send a 250-word abstract to Esteban Loustaunau (eloustaunau@assumption.edu) and Lauren Shaw (lshaw@elmira.edu).
Eighteenth Century Portuguese Language and Culture: This panel seeks papers which examine the various options related with Portuguese Language and Culture, especially with the appearance of the printed press in the fifteenth century until the emergence of the Academies in the eighteenth century. Submit proposal to José Machado or Fernando Moreira, Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, jleonmachado@gmail.com or fmoreira@utad.pt
El español como lengua extranjera: Problemas en el proceso de adquisición: This panel invites researchers in the field of sla to present their work on the acquisition of spanish as a second language. We examine how adult learners acquire spanish as a second language, in an institutional context, taking into consideration some very important factors in this acquisition process such as the learner´s mother tongue, interlanguage, language transfer, universal principles, etc. Send abstracts to Konstantina Bekiou at bekiouk@mail.montclair.edu
Espana y America Latina: de un lado a otro del mar en las polemicas del siglo XX: El intento de esta sección es de reunir, como en un mosaico, los debates y las polémicas literarias que nacen, explotan y mueren el curso del siglo XX, considerando a autores, a críticos, a estudiosos del continente europeo al mundo hispanoamericano. Se considerarán estudios de un lado a otro del océano y sobretodo críticas destacadas menos conocidas y estudiadas o que involucran países y autores menos considerados.Enviar un abstract de 250 palabras a acalarot@kean.edu
Ficcion, Intriga y Fantasma. Novela historica vs narrativa testimonial: This panel will examine the fiction of Javier Marias and Arturo Perez-Reverte. The topics of the panel include, but are not limited to: novels, short stories, and articles. Please submit 250-500 word abstracts(preferably MSWord or PDF attachments)to Pablo Pintado-Casas, Kean University, NJ; pcasas@kean.edu
The Genre of the Self Portrait in Hispanic Poetry: This panel will study the genre of the self-portrait in Hispanic literature. Is the genre a form of autobiography, auto-“mythography”, or a mask? What relationship is there between the empirical “I” of the poet and the enunciating or represented subject of the text? Is the genre employed differently by male and female writers and in different centuries? How does the development of the genre in Hispanic poetry compare to that of other literatures? Please submit a 250-500 word abstract in English or Spanish to marlene.gottlieb@manhattan.edu
Giving Testimony to Transnational Migrations: Gender and Witnessing in Hispanic: This panel seeks papers dealing with the migrant woman’s experience within Hispanic contexts: the transatlantic movement of Iberian and Ibero-American women and migratory movements to and from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. How do literature and film bear witness to the crossing of national, linguistic, gendered and sexual borders? How are the lives and experiences of these women constructed in literary and visual representations? Please send 250 word abstracts and brief biographical statements to Danny Barreto, dmbarret@ic.sunysb.edu
Imagining Communities: Cuban Women Poets of the Diaspora: This panel examines the poetry of Cuban women of the diaspora. In addition to an exploration of displacement and its poetic rendition, this panel also considers issues of identity, memory, language, spatial representations as well as diverse expressions of sensuality. Please send abstracts to Elena M. Martinez (Elena.Martinez@baruch.cuny.edu) by Sept. 15, 2010.
The Intellectual as a Public Figure in 20th Century Latin America: This panel seeks papers on Latin American intellectuals of the 20th century. Topics of the panel include, but are not limited to, the following: transnational networks in which intellectuals participated; how they establish themselves and shape practices in their cultural and literary fields; relationship between intellectuals and minorities; redefinitions of the concept of the intellectual throughout the past century. Please send 250-400-word abstracts and brief biographical statements to Cristóbal Cardemil (crisfcar@gmail.com).
Issues on Ecology in Latin American Literature and Culture: This panel seeks papers on Latin American literature or culture, of any historical period, with a focus on society and nature interrelations, the re-thinking of the human/non-human dichotomy, or the development of a sense of place/planet in colonial, postcolonial, or migratory contexts. It is particularly interested in representations, ideas, or discourses of nature in light of environmental discourses and issues, global or local, that have been raised at least since the late 1960s. 300-500 word abstracts to jmarcone@spanport.rutgers.edu
Long Life Movida Madrileña! (Roundtable): If you’ve ever asked yourself “¿qué-harías-tú-en-un-ataque-preventivo-de-la-URSS?” or looked in the mirror and said to yourself “soy-feliz-y-no-pienso-nunca-en-nadie-más-que-en-mí”, this session may interest you. If you are among those “enamorados de la moda juvenil” and dream of being “un bote de Colón y salir en la televisión”, then surely “La bola de cristal” was the soundtrack of your childhood for a long time. In that case, send us your 15-minute therapeutic presentation of any aspect of La Movida Madrileña to hfontanet@rider.edu
Manifestations of Madness and Love in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Literature: Esta sesión busca analizar las distintas maneras en que los escritores españoles de los siglos XIX y XX representan en sus obras temas tan universales como la locura y el amor. En concreto, serán de especial interés aquellos trabajos en los que se explore la intersección de la locura y/o el amor con aspectos de la identidad, la familia, la religión, la política y/o la economía. Todos los interesados en participar deben enviar su resumen de 250-350 palabras a Marta Manrique Gómez: mmanriquegomez@middlebury.edu
Paradigmas de sexualidad en la escritura (re)escritura de los cuentos de hadas: Como expresión de valores culturales, los cuentos se modificaron con el tiempo. En el Siglo XVII perdieron su contenido sexual al representarse a las mujeres como seres pasivos. Durante la mitad del siglo XX, las escritoras desacreditan estas construcciones para reclamar su derecho a manejar su sexualidad. Analizaremos los paradigmas de sexualidad tanto en los cuentos tradicionales como en su re-escritura a la luz de los cambios sociales en Latinoamérica y España. Abstracts to spahra@macewan.ca.EXTENDED TO 10/10
The Performative City: Contemporary Spanish Urban Culture: This panel aims to develop a conversation at the crossroads of studies concerning urban space, cultural geography, performance, and identity in contemporary Spain. We invite proposals on topics such as gender, sexuality, nationalism, immigration, public space and politics, cyberspace, etc. Proposals may address documentary and narrative film, architecture, theater, social movements, and literature. Presentations should be in either Spanish or English. Submit 200-350 word abstracts by e-mail to Molly Palmer mlpal@rci.rutgers.edu.
Publics, Markets and the Early Fashioning of a Picaresque Genre: Panel explores role of publics, markets and writers in the early fashioning of a ‘picaresque genre.’Issues included: growing interest in picaresque figures in early modern literary and cultural material; role of intermediary agents (book editors, publishers, panegyrists, censors, etc) in shaping picaresque genre; surge in interest in prose fiction and increasing awareness among writers and cultural mediators of a marketplace for cultural goods. Approaches beyond Spain welcome. Felipe Ruan, Brock University, fruan@brocku.ca.EXTENDED TO 10/10
Reflections on Lusophone Literatures and Cultures: This is a Spanish and Portuguese Board Sponsored session highlighting topics that address any aspect or region of the Portuguese-speaking world. Inter-disciplinary topics that discuss the diversity of Lusophone literatures and cultures are encouraged but not mandatory. Please submit 250-300 word proposals to Cristina Santos at csantos@brocku.ca.
Trauma and Memory in literature and film of Latin America: This panel will explore the connections between trauma/ memory and literature/ film in Latin America where the results of the dictatorships were disappeared citizens and traumatized populations. Papers may explore the politics of remembrance, emblematic memory, private vs. collective memory, and the ways in which a country can recover from collective PTSD, within a specific geographical context or from a comparative, cross-cultural perspective. Please send 250 word abstract in Spanish or English to Adriana Rosman-Askot, arosman@tcnj.edu
Vertientes de la litertura fantastica en Hispanoamerica (Seminar): Este seminario les invita a presentar para su consideración ensayos en español o inglés sobre la literatura fantástica femenina en cualquiera de sus modalidades. Se acepta todo acercamiento crítico-teórico conectado con lo fantástico. Favor de enviar su resumen de 250 palabras a mara_garcia@byu.edu y vsauneroward@nmhu.edu
Women Writing Spanish American Revolution(s): The Women Writing Latin American Revolution(s) Panel endeavours to focus on those areas of the Americas which experienced revolutionary movements since the 1950s. Women have lived a social shift from traditional roles, reflected in the writing of women authors which articulates a feminine penetration of both the literary and political spheres. Submissions by/about women writers from all geographic areas of the Americas are welcomed. Please send a 300 word abstract and biography to Sophie Lavoie (Univ. of New Brunswick) at: lavoie@unb.ca.
Women, Love, and Eroticism in Latin American Poetry: This panel will explore the image of the beloved women and the woman in love in the twentieth-century Latin American poetry, creating a dialogue about poets’ depictions of women that poets have attempted in Latin American societies, within the context of love and eroticism. Comparative approaches in Spanish/English/Portuguese are suitable, but non-comparative studies would also be considered. Send abstracts (200-300 words) to María Cristina Campos Fuentes: camposcristina@hotmail.com EXTENDED TO OCT. 10/10

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