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| 1 | 13-Jan-10 | 2010 EARLY MODERN IMAGE AND TEXT SOCIETY CONFERENCE CFP:
COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS: CULTURAL ACCUMULATION AND DISSEMINATION IN THE EARLY MODERN HISPANIC WORLD
OCT 14-16, 2010, U OF S. CAROLINA BEAUFORT
The Early Modern Image and Text Society (EMIT) invites abstracts for its 4th biannual conference, “Collections and Recollections: Cultural Accumulation and Dissemination in the Early Modern Hispanic World,” at the U of S Carolina Beaufort (Hilton Head Gateway Campus) on Oct 14-16, 2010. An interdisciplinary organization, EMIT strongly encourages papers that deal with the open concept of “collections” and “recollections” in the early modern Hispanic world, and with the unique relationships between visual images and literary texts. Submit via email (1) a 1-page abstract (considered anonymously) and (2) a contact information page (name, institution, email phone number, paper title) to B.J. Nelson (nelsonbe@uscb.edu) by March 15, 2010.
Consult www.emitsociety.com for more info. | -- |
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| 2 | 3-Sep-09 | 2010 AHCT Golden Age Theater Symposium March 4-6 (El Paso, Texas). All aspects of performance of Siglo de Oro dramatic texts, though proposals for papers or special sessions at the annual symposium on other topics related to Spanish Golden Age theater are welcome. College and university faculty are asked to send paper titles with one-page abstracts and/or proposals for special sessions (submitted as Word attachments) to: abstracts@comedias.org. Deadline is December 1, 2009.
Graduate students must submit a hard copy of completed papers of approximately ten pages. Submissions should also include a separate sheet with title of paper, author's name and postal and e-mail address. Papers themselves must remain anonymous. Send student papers to: Professor Christopher Weimer, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 309 Gundersen Bldg., Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078.
More information at
http://www.comedias.org/conferences/2010/Conference%20Main%202010.htm
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| 3 | 13-Aug-09 | Dominant Discourses, guarded voices: Religion and Society in Spain and its Empire 14th-16th Centuries
October 21-22, 2010
Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, North Carolina)
Topics: Expulsion of Minorities, Religious Heterodoxy and dissent, Mysticism, Illuminism, Conversos,
moriscos, crypto-Jews, Cultural authority, Christian humanism, Women’s Religiosity, The Inquisition, The Index of banned books, The Catholic Reformation, Translations of the Bible, The Council of Trent, Religious life.
Keynote Speakers: M Mercedes Carrión, Emory University; David Nirenberg, University of Chicago; Cynthia Robinson, Cornell University
Organizers: Jane W. Albrecht (albrecht@wfu.edu) and Sol Miguel-Prendes (solmp@wfu.edu)
Deadline for electronic submission of 300-word abstracts: March 15, 2010
Graduate students, please send completed papers
*Selected talks will be invited to be developed into papers to be published in a thematic cluster in La corónica
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| 4 | 13-Aug-09 | Women in the IBERO-AMERICAN ATLANTIC (1500-1800)
Feb 18-20, 2010
The Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) at the College of Charleston calls for papers on Women in the Iberian and Latin American Atlantic World. The conference will take place in
Charleston, South Carolina, from Feb. 18 to 20, 2010. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes papers on Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American history, literature, cultural production, etc.
Logistics: The 3 keynote speakers will each give a plenary talk. 5 or 6 additional panels of select participants. Symposium open to professors of literature, history, political science, anthropology, and sociology.
Roundtable discussion format.
Please submit one-page proposals in English and one-page c.v. to
Dr. Sarah E. Owens, Dept. of Hispanic Studies as an attachment to owenss@cofc.edu by September 1, 2009. For more info. on the CLAW program visit www.cofc.edu/atlanticworld/
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| 5 | 2-Aug-09 | ‘Spanish Golden Age Drama in Translation and Performance’
Merton College, Oxford: 18-19 March, 2010.
We invite proposals for individual papers of 30 minutes in length, on any subject within the field of translating and performing Spanish Golden Age drama. Of particular interest will be papers featuring performance aspects such as music (translating/writing lyrics as well as music), acting, directing, movement and choreography, and design. Practitioners from a wide variety of theatrical backgrounds as well as scholars are encouraged to submit proposals. Send proposals of 500 words or less (email or Word attachments) no later than 30 September 2009 to Kathleen.Jeffs@new.ox.ac.uk. Please include the title of the proposed paper, along with your name, title and institutional affiliation if appropriate. If you wish to submit a proposal in hard copy, please send it to Dr. Kathleen Jeffs, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, OX1 2JF.(www.outofthewings.org) | -- |
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| 6 | 2-Aug-09 | NEMLA:
41st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association
April 7-11, 2010, Hilton Bonaventure, Montreal, Quebec
Hosted by McGill University
Call for Abstracts: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Performance
How do studies of performances and performance elements of Spanish Golden Age drama inform or revise a critical discourse that has been established and dominated by philological studies of written texts? This panel seeks analyses of performances or performance aspects of Spanish Golden Age drama. Theoretical papers concerning approaches to analyzing performances of Spanish Golden Age drama are also welcome. Please send 250-500 word abstracts in English or Spanish by Sept. 30, 2009, to christopher.gascon@cortland.edu. For convention updates and information on membership/registration, go to .
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