MODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”

The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]

MODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”

The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]

Interactive workshop focusing on Nilson’s Specifications Grading. Presenters share best practices for specs grading in the classroom, using real examples. 250-word description of use of specs grading by 1 March 2017; Julie Ward (wardjulie@ou.edu) and Ashwini Ganeshan (ganeshan@ohio.edu).

Panel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016

Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[Read more]

Solitary Mexicans: Gaps in Contemporary Literary Historiography

Traditionally, the canon of Mexican literature has been studied by grouping authors into movements, generations, ideological “isms,” or schools. This is a common critical and historiographic procedure that always leaves some authors as not fitting neatly in some of the standard org…[Read more]

Material goods and built environments reflect and produce social meaning. This panel organized by the Mexican Forum, will explore the relationship between material culture and notions of authenticity, tradition and progress in Mexico. Papers on artifacts from pre-Hispanic times to the present, or literary and filmic representations of material…[Read more]

Materiality and Mexican Culture

Material culture—the production, possession, display, gifting and consumption of material goods and the built environment—plays an active role in the construction and reception of socially determined meanings. We measure core cultural values such as authenticity, tradition and progress in part through our rel…[Read more]

Note the expansion to include Spain after posting the cfp earlier this year.
Roundtable dialogue about Spanish and Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Spain or Latin America in response to local and regional lived…[Read more]

NeMLA 2015, Toronto
Roundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also…[Read more]

Roundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also highlight literature, film…[Read more]