Call for Papers: International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, Edinburgh, July 2019.
CFP: Deviation, Dissension, Defiance: Protesting in the Hispanic Enlightenment
This panel seeks papers that explore the theme of identities that originate in protest in the Hispanic eighteenth century. We welcome proposals that look at how…[Read more]

The International Congress on the Enlightenment is the quadrennial meeting of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) and the world’s largest meeting of specialists on all aspects of the eighteenth century. Recent ISECS congresses have been held in Los Angeles (2003), Montpellier (2007), Graz (2011), and Rotterdam (…[Read more]

CFP Special Session MLA 2019: Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern Spain

In the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the p…[Read more]

CFP: MLA 2019
Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern Spain

In the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the pueblo?” by exp…[Read more]

Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas Call for Papers, MLA Chicago 2019
Mapping Nature and Modernity in Benito Pérez Galdós

Throughout the nineteenth century, Spain’s fraught path to modernity undoubtedly transformed the human relationship with the environment, changes that in turn elicited various responses from the country’s diverse popula…[Read more]

MLA 2019 Session: Expanding Colonial Geographies

This panel aims to re-conceptualize traditional colonial geographies in the Spanish speaking world by considering the transactions between Colonial Latin America and the Global Hispanophone world. How did colonial commercial and knowledge networks between Latin America and the Global Hispanophone…[Read more]

MLA 2019 Session: Textual Transactions in the Global Hispanophone

As the nexus of seemingly highly disparate groups, Global Hispanophone studies explore the paradox of a separation that unifies. This paradox is reflected in texts that navigate separations such as those between countries, languages, generations, interior frontiers, and colonial…[Read more]

MLA 2019 (guaranteed) Session: Teaching the Global Hispanophone
(Roundtable)

Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: for instance, curricula structured according to mid-twentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; issues of language; or difficulties in securing copies of texts. How have you met these…[Read more]

Extended deadline for the Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association.

Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA)

In line with the theme proposed for the 44th annual meeting of the African Literature Association in 2018, “The Environments of African Literature”, the Lus…[Read more]