Description:
We invite abstracts on the topic of the conference and all areas of research related to Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Some possible topics may include:
• Transitional societies during and after Independence in the Hispanic world
• Transatlantic (des)encounters with(in) the new republics
• Religion, romanticism, and the emerging nation-State
• Republicanism and the search for cultural identity
• Location and affirmation of the lettered city
• Modernity, art, culture, and marginal society
• Discourses of nationalism, imperialism and (neo)colonialism
• Ideal, myth, and reflection on the Mexican Revolution
• Art and culture of the Mexican Revolution, now and then
• Gender and ethnic studies beyond the imagined community
• Colonial and post-colonial language studies
• Language variation and change in the Americas
• Discovering and recovering the Afro-Hispanic experience
• Border crossings: Symbolic and real
• Issues of language maintenance and language shift in the Hispanic world
• Regional becoming (tans)national: Cultural and linguistic challenges in the 21st Century
Proposal deadline:
October 1, 2009
Contact information:
Alejandro Cortazar (acorta1@lsu.edu), or Rafael Orozco (rorozc1@lsu.edu). For additional information you may visit our web site: www.forlang.lsu.edu/lchll
Additional information:
A selection of papers will be included in the following prospective publications:
-New Approaches to Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies
-New Approaches to Hispanic Linguistic and Cultural Studies