CALL FOR PAPERS

15th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society

Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona

June 29-30 and July 1st, 2015

CATALAN STUDIES AS GLOBAL CRITICAL PRACTICE(S):

TRANSFERENCES, TRANSFORMATIONS, TRANSITIONS, TRANSLATIONS

You are invited to submit paper abstracts or panel proposals on any topic…[Read more]

I am planning to prepare a course that would serve as an introduction to Iberian Studies.  If any of you has taught a similar course, or has ideas about how to teach it, and is willing to share, I would appreciate it.  Since I am more familiar with modern/contemporary culture, my plan is to design a course based on materials from that period (…[Read more]

ABOUT THE SERIES

The Latin American Gender and Sexualities series is a timely addition to current scholarship on

gender and sexuality. In the last decade, a number of Latin American governments are showing

openness to new kinds of sexualities through public policy. The study of gender and sexuality also

developed during that time to examine…[Read more]

Call for Papers

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 23-25, 2015

Modern Bodies: Corporeality in Spanish Silver Age Literature and Culture

The advent of modernity and the processes of modernization in early twentieth-century Spain, during the so-called Silver Age (1900-1936), radically changed existing representations of the human body. …[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]

Thank you, Edgar. I understand your comment about the irrelevance of this manifestoes. I also understand that Despite the fact that we are not talking about a nation-making process, Ramon Cotarelo’s statements are an act of civicism where one citizen defends the rights of other citizens. That kind of civic attitude is precisely what the Vargas…[Read more]

Here is the link to the Una España Federal para una Europa Federal manifesto launched yesterday  for those interested in tracing the coincidences and divergences between national and transnational contemporary discourses around Iberia.

http://file02.lavanguardia.com/2014/07/16/54411154592-url.pdf

Aunque supongo que ya lo habrán visto todos, aquí va el enlace al manifiesto firmado por Vargas Llosa y otros en contra del dialogo entre Rajoy y Mas.

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The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]

Regarding the Good Life topic I proposed in my previous post, please note that you may e-mail me your abstracts at laura_savu@yahoo.com by Aug. 15. Thank you!

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]