This panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories.  The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]

This panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric  perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]

Please consider sending an abstract for the upcoming Medieval Iberian Forum and Special Session Panels for the 2017 MLA Conference in Philadelphia.

New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies
Papers on new works, new methodologies, or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture(s). Title and abstract of approximately 250 – 500…[Read more]

Deadline for the “The Venice Ghetto and the future of memory in a digital age” conference proposals has been extended: https://liminalspacesandthejewishimagination.wordpress.com

Details: The conference will convene in Venice, Italy on June 28th, 2016. Approximately twelve early career scholars will be selected. Participants will be expected to at…[Read more]

Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographies

This panel seeks papers on colonial ethnographic discourse in the context of Spanish imperialism. Numerous colonial texts engage in the description and interpretation of indigenous cultures, dealing with the complexities of transferring i…[Read more]

Dear Members,

The Forum for Colonial Latin American Literatures cordially wishes to invite you to the following events at MLA 2016. We hope to see you all very soon!

Best wishes,

Nicolás Wey Gómez

Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers

Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 209, JW Marriott

Happy Hour, Colonial Latin American Lit…[Read more]

“Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take”

The Sephardic Forum program in Austin Jan. 8, 8:30-9:45 a.m.

Presiding:

Jane Mushabac, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

“Sephardic Origins and the Quest for Identity in Post-Occupation France,

Patrick Modiano’s Novels as a Case Study.”

Ruth Malka, McGill University

“‘And She…[Read more]

Dear MLA Sephardic Forum Members,

I am grateful for the opportunity to seek a position on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee. As you may know, voting ends on 10 December. I wanted to share a bit about myself and my interests for those of you who have yet to cast a vote. I am also adding some information about an upcoming summer workshop…[Read more]

“Circulating Spanish and European Texts in Colonial Latin America,” Angelica Duran, Purdue University.

I seek to nuance our understanding and appreciation the history of textual presence of both Iberian-Spanish canonical literature specifically and also European canonical literature more generally in Colonial Latin America. In the first hal…[Read more]

CFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures

We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla…[Read more]

<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
<div>We are pleased to invite papers for a seminar we have proposed for the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, March 17-20, at Harvard University. The link to our seminar is http://www.acla.org/seminar/narrating-sepharad-today and you can also read the text below. We welcome abstracts thr…[Read more]

Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu

Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa

The use and interest…[Read more]

The Sephardic Forum seeks proposals that explore the work of a Sephardic novelist, writing in any language, and the risks he or she has taken to further creative or sociopolitical goals.

Please email 1-page abstracts by 15 March 2015
to Jane Mushabac (jmushabac@citytech.cuny.edu)

SESSIONS: FORUM OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES

Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers

 Chair: Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky

Engaging with the presidential theme for MLA 2016, “Literature and Its Publics,” this panel focuses on the material history of the production of texts – in both manuscript and printed forms – an…[Read more]

The Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures would like to invite you to join us for our annual Colonial Happy Hour at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
Colonial Happy Hour
Bellagio Wine Bar
Friday, January 9, 5 pm – 7 pm

Bellagio Wine Bar is located in the Convention Centre. More information may be found at the webs…[Read more]

The Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures has sponsored the following panels at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:

228. Connecting Spanish and Portuguese Empires 

Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 3, VCC East

428. The Enlightenment in the Colonies

Saturday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 17, VCC East

739. Indigenous Texts a…[Read more]