Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that the Korean Language, Literature and Culture (LLC) Forum is now an official part of the Modern Languages Association (MLA).  Korean LLC Forum is the only East Asian LLC Forum within the MLA thus far, and we thank everyone’s support that made this possible (especially if you went to the MLA Commons on…[Read more]

TÍTULO DE LA CONFERENCIA:

CUERPO, MEMORIA Y TRAUMA

Viernes 6 de Marzo – Sábado 7 de Marzo, 2015

CONVOCATORIA

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M University

Women’s and Gender Studies Program – Texas A&M Unive…[Read more]

The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. ACS is a newly launched scholarly service at the HTRC offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to HTRC tools and services. By working together with scholars, we facilitate comp…[Read more]

Advertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film

This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer c…[Read more]

Salmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to further under…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Looking for participants for this LASA panel (MUST BE a current LASA member).

Session Title: From Beauty Pageants to Audiovisual Art: The portrayal of Precarious Bodies in Literature and Performance in the Dominican Republic

This panel examines how artistic and audiovisual representations of gendered and sexed bodies are…[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]