Dear colleagues, here’s a link to a self-archived author’s postprint (Open Access) version of my contribution to the recently published The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies (eds. Javier Múñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, and Manuel Delgado).

For purposes of academic publication, please cite publisher’s version of record: Wacks, David A. “An Inter…[Read more]

La corónica Commons

 If you would like to submit a Call for Papers or announce an upcoming conference on La corónica Commons (http://lcc.ku.edu/calendar/ ), please send the information to the Site Administrator(s) (lcc@ku.edu) or contact the Managing Editor (ijrivera@ku.edu).

 On La corónica Commons, we invite collaboration to advance Ibero-m…[Read more]

Abstracts available for <s>#</s><b>MLA18</b> session, “New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies”, now available at LcCommons

<div>This panel explores Sephardic cultural expressions on the intimate connection between cities and literature. How does Sephardic culture inform spatial organization? How does spatial organization inform Sephardic culture?</div>
<div>Please, email 200 word proposals to campoycu@oakland.edu by March 24.</div>

What would you assign in English to give 100-level gen ed students a broad yet critical (think Howard Zinn’s People’s History)  overview of medieval Iberian cultural history? I have good material for Latin America and Modern Spain, but nothing for premodernity (or whatever you want to call it). Thanks! David

CFP

2018 MLA Convention

Collaborative Session: GEMELA and Colonial Latin American Forum

As is known, misogynist scholarly and ecclesiastical practices challenged women’s cultural

production in seventeenth-century New Spain. Nevertheless, inconsistencies and insecurities

weakened gendered discourses, and women found ways to make their voices h…[Read more]

This special session seeks contributions that rethink the picaresque tradition from a colonial and post-colonial perspective.  Following the 2018 presidential theme, #States of Insecurity, papers may explore the journey of the precarious and vulnerable figure of the pícaro from Spain to Spanish America, and study how the picaresque is received, a…[Read more]

Sessions organized by Medieval Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the 2018 MLA Convention.

Location:  New York City, NY
Date:  4-7 January 2018

New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies

Papers on new works, new methodologies or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture.
Submit title and a…[Read more]

Sessions organized by Medieval Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the 2018 MLA Convention.

Location:  New York City, NY
Date:  4-7 January 2018

<h4>New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies</h4>

Papers on new works, new methodologies or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture.
Submit title a…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”.  See short and long CFP below.

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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2017.

We hope to see you there!

Colonial Latin American Studies

<span data-term=”goog_370016640″>Thursday, 5 January</span>, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin A…[Read more]