Latina/o Forum CFP’s

1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of writing. Send CV and 300 word abstract by 15 M…[Read more]

Please consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.

1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of…[Read more]

“25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage”

Special session proposed by the 19thc American LLC and the Chicana and Chicano LLC

Papers considering past contributions, archival silences, and future prospects of the Hispanic Recovery Project with interest on dissensus or dialogue with other currents in the long American 19th c…[Read more]

“Teaching Borderlands at 30”

As we commemorate the thirty-year anniversary of Anzaldúa’s Borderlands we invite papers that address how we teach this genre-blurring text. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Laura Halperin (lhalperi@email.unc.edu)

“La Raza y Gaza”

Papers engaging the political resonances of Palestine for Chican@s. Intersections in various texts, teaching, or other topics. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu)

“Liberty Crack’d”

What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).

Colleagues, for 2017 the theme for our guaranteed session is

“Questioning the Global Hispanophone”:
The Global Hispanophone offers both the potential for an expanded, destabilized Hispanism, and the limitations of being a pseudo-imperial category. Can a postnational, postimperial approach avoid this imperialist framework without undermining the…[Read more]

We welcome proposals on biographical/contextual relations; representations of women; intertextuality; trans-Atlantic/trans-American treatments; race, gender, class, and sexuality, etc.

Please send 250-word abstracts to Ivonne Garcia (garciai@kenyon.edu) and Charlene Avallone (avallone000@gmail.com) by March 15, 2016.

Call for Papers, non-guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum.

Speculative Latin@: Histories of the Future

Papers engaging speculative fiction by Latin@ authors: alternative archives; utopias/dystopias; futurity; disruption of nationhood, racial identity; historical violence; decolonial critiques. 300 word abstracts, CV, March…[Read more]

Please consider submitting an abstract for a panel on Latina/o Materialisms.

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of writing.

Send CV and 300 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Raúl Coronado (…[Read more]

The Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will be held at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.”

The conference organizers have decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for papers…[Read more]

The International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford…[Read more]

Deadline July 1, 2016

Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures invites submissions for our Spring 2017 issue, “The Politics of Language.” This issue will explore language as an instrument of power, identity, and politics from multiple disciplinary perspectives. We welcome submissions that, collectively, convey the linguistic dive…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Proposed Special Session

“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”

This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Bro…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Proposed Special Session: “Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”

This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Bro…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Proposed Special Session

“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”

This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Br…[Read more]

Organization:    Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Title of session:    Ecologies of Hawthorne
Submission requirements:    Send 250-word abstracts.
Deadline for submissions:    15 March 2016
Description:    Consider representations of space and place, land and landscape, the “natural” and “unnatural,” environmental “transgressions,” “dev…[Read more]

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