Dear colleagues,
Could you please circulate this call for papers amongst postgraduate and early career researchers working on Caribbean studies?
Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Yairen
The Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies of University College Cork, with the support of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), has great pleasure in inviting you to the symposium:
‘Beyond Borders?
New Formulations in Hispanic and Lusophone Studies’
June 28 - 29, 2018
University College Cork
https://beyondbordersucc.wordpress.com
This symposium aims to offer postgraduate and early-career researchers the opportunity to gather in a formative space to transverse spatial, temporal, and linguistic borders and perspectives.
The current situation of the disciplines beneath the epithets ‘Hispanic’ and ‘Lusophone’, studies, although positively emphasises the common linguistic patrimony of diverse territories, also upholds and reproduces the isolation of the colonised spaces and becomes an artificial obstacle for horizontal communication and collaboration. In a world where this predominantly vertical epistemological framework reinforces the hegemony of the cultural production of the centres at the expense of the cultural diversity of the peripheries and the circulation of their ideas, it is imperative to cross spatial, temporal, linguistic and epistemic borders, not only to answer old questions, but to reformulate new ones and to redefine categories. Inspired by the concept of the circum-Atlantic world as understood by Joseph Roach (1996), and extending this perspective to other border areas, this event will focus on making visible the legacy of horizontal collaborations across territories and languages in the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds and beyond.
The symposium will enable exchanges with the keynote speakers Professor Janet Polasky from the University of New Hampshire, USA, and Dr Conrad James from the University of Birmingham, UK. Professor Janet Polasky is a specialist in Eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions, and comparative, urban, and women's history. Dr Conrad James’s research explores cultural production in terms of what it reveals concerning the significance of race thinking, the politics of movement, diaspora creativity, and the emergence of new world philosophies.
We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers across the range of disciplines, including but not confined to the following areas:
* Transnational horizontal collaboration and anti-colonialism
* Digital and/or intermedial explorations of horizontal collaboration
* Histories and representation of gender in literatures, visual cultures and politics
* Transgender and queer sexualities
* Questions of race and ethnicity in literary and visual cultures, and politics
* Narratives and/or histories of migrations
* Diasporas and/or borders subjects
* Hybridization, syncretism and/or transculturation
* Linguistic and/or cultural translations
* Ecocriticism: nature as cultural space
* Artistic and literary responses to circum-Atlantic exchanges
* New articulations of core and periphery
Please send abstracts (max. 200 words) and a brief biographical note to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Important Dates
Deadline for submission: March 30, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2018
Organising committee:
Yairen Jerez Columbié
Laura Linares Fernández
Craig Neville
Humberto Saldanha
We look forward to seeing you at ‘Beyond Borders? New Formulations in Hispanic and Lusophone Studies’
Sincerely,
Yairen Jerez Columbié
Yairen Jerez Columbie
Catalan Lector
Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
University College Cork
(021) 490 2133
Room: ORB 1.81
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
https://www.ucc.ie/en/splas/people/peopleinfo/yairenjerez/
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