The 17th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics will be hosted by the Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. This colloquium is organized by graduate students in order to give other graduate students an opportunity to share their current work and research interests.
This conference seeks to explore how new changes in cartographic and geographic understanding in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world are creating new opportunities and challenges for scholars. As some critics have argued, thinkers must move away from the national and communitarian concepts that emerged as consequences of national projects in the 19th century. With this as a starting point, we encourage a pluralistic investigation of cartography, geography and spatio-political representations through personal, domestic, and affective mappings that deviate from traditional urban, national, and topographic conceptions. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Migratory identities, patterns and global capital • Cosmopolitanism and representation of urban slums • Agency and memory in a post-terror era • Movements of international crime within geographic realities • Genre hibridity and media • Abjection and politics of queer spaces • Spanish post-nationalism Peninsular subjectivities • Borderlands
Public and private sphere frontiers • New understandings in Colonial Latin American Literature • Narcotrafficking and literary spaces • Femicide and the geography of violence
Furthermore, we also welcome theoretical or applied linguistic approaches (syntax • semantics • phonetics • phonology • psycho/neurolinguistics • discourse • sociolinguistics) exploring the effects of language in the previous or related topics.
Papers in English, Portuguese and Spanish will be considered. Reading time of final papers is limited to 15 minutes (8 double-spaced pages). The organizing committee encourages submissions of panels (not to exceed three papers) organized around a specific topic, author or work. Please submit electronically an abstract of approximately 250 words by July 15th, 2008 to 17coloquioUT@gmail.com Do not include any personal information on the abstract. Instead, on a separate page please include the following: title of presentation, name of participant, affiliation, address, telephone and e-mail. The general registration fee for all presenters is $30 (or a $40 on-site attendance registration).
