Call for Papers
2010
The graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Florida cordially invite submissions for their 5th Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures on February 25 – 27, 2010. The colloquium will bring together graduate students and professors from a wide variety of disciplines whose work explores the concepts of "Worlds in Contact".
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, immigration, and exile and diasporas.
The colloquium will have the distinction of featuring three outstanding keynote speakers:
Rena Torres Cacoullos
Spanish Linguistics
Penn State University
Shifra Armon
Spanish Literature and Culture
University of Florida
Philip Williams
Latin American Studies
University of Florida
Please send your one-page, single-spaced abstract attached as a Word document to [email protected] by January 7, 2010. Specify in the subject line whether your abstract is intended for Linguistics, Literature, or Cultural 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. All presentations will have a 20-minute limit. A $30 donation will be greatly appreciated.
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, immigration, and exile and diasporas.
The colloquium will have the distinction of featuring three outstanding keynote speakers:
Rena Torres Cacoullos
Spanish Linguistics
Penn State University
Shifra Armon
Spanish Literature and Culture
University of Florida
Philip Williams
Latin American Studies
University of Florida
Please send your one-page, single-spaced abstract attached as a Word document to [email protected] by January 7, 2010. Specify in the subject line whether your abstract is intended for Linguistics, Literature, or Cultural 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. All presentations will have a 20-minute limit. A $30 donation will be greatly appreciated.