Literatura de los Siglos de Oro, Estudios culturales, Historia de España, Lingüística románica

szpiech@umich.edu

This conference will explore the nature of medieval exegesis as an interfaith discourse in all three traditions during the High and especially the Late Middle Ages (roughly from the 11th to the 15th Centuries), paying particular attention to the exegetical production of scholars in the Western Mediterranean. Seeking to move beyond the best-known and most obvious examples of interfaith exegesis, this conference seeks to explore the following questions: -Who was reading exegesis from other faith traditions?-In what contexts did exegetes collaborate across confessional divisions? -Was the interfaith discourse of medieval exegetes always a polemical discourse, or was there also a counter-tradition of "irenical" exegesis? -How did the practical and technical demands of reading foreign scriptures and commentaries affect exegetes' views and traditions? -In what way did exegetical practice "essentialize" or "de-essentialize" their practitioners? -How did individual exegetes working with foreign commentaries negotiate their relationship with the larger traditions to which they themselves belonged? -How did these issues manifest themselves in the physical practice of manuscript preparation and copying or in the subsequent impact and dissemination of such copies?Contact: Ryan SzpiechRomance Languages & Judaic StudiesUniversity of Michigan4108 MLB812 E. Washington St.Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275Tel. 734-647-2334 / Fax 734-764-8163Correo.: szpiech@umich.edu

Literatura peninsular

aronsosp@morris.umn.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Estudios culturales, Literatura de los Siglos de Oro

Vicente.LledoGuillem@hofstra.edu;kauffeld@macalester.edu)

Call for papers:As a crossroads of cultures, the Iberian Peninsula provides a fertile field for the study of the contact and interaction of peoples, cultures and languages. This session seeks to examine linguistic contacts in any region of Iberia during the middle ages. It includes the contact between any languages, be they Romance (e.g. Castilian, Aragonese, Mozarabic) or non-Romance (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Germanic). Any form of Latin and its “interaction” with any other language during the Middle Ages in the Iberian territory are also included here. Both synchronic and diachronic approaches to language contact are welcome. Emphasis may be on the written word and its literary manifestations, as well as on specific linguistic features (i.e. sound system, morphology, syntax, and lexicon). Ultimately, this session seeks to add the linguistic evidence to the increasingly productive field of intercultural exchanges in medieval Iberia. Any relationship between the medieval languages of the Iberian Peninsula and the languages of its overseas colonies during the sixteenth century is also welcome. Equally acceptable is the reception or reinterpretation of medieval Iberian languages (e.g. Astur-Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese, Judeo-Spanish) in post-medieval times.Abstract and Participant Information Form (available at the website)Contact:Vicente Lledó-Guillem (Vicente.LledoGuillem@hofstra.edu) or Cynthia Kauffeld (kauffeld@macalester.edu) Special Session: Translations of the Spanish Classic Celestina: Half a Millennium and Counting (send abstract directly to: Kathleen Kish [kkish@mail.sdsu.edu])Fecha límite de entrega de propuestas: 15 de septiembre de 2012.

Estudios culturales, Teoría de la literatura

En este congreso interesa entablar un diálogo alrededor de los conceptos de ruptura y transgresión en sus distintas acepciones, sea la discontinuidad, la disconformidad, la fractura, la fragmentación o el quiebre de preceptos en cualquiera de las categorías estéticas, genéricas, discursivas o culturales. Interesa también considerar la transgresión en su significado etimológico, como el acto de cruzar o traspasar, es decir, un enfoque en el movimiento de las personas, formas y paradigmas y en la manera de crear nuevas aproximaciones al texto crítico.Serán bienvenidos los trabajos los trabajos realizados desde una variedad de aproximaciones disciplinarias y perspectivas metodológicas sobre los siguientes temas:-La representación de lo tabú-La búsqueda de nuevos modelos literararios-La desestabilización de los cánones literarios-La figura del héroe, antihéroe o disidente-La hibridez, las fronteras y los encuentros con el otro-El transatlantismo y el transoceanismo-La estética de la modernidad y la posmodernidadEl comité organizador aceptará trabajos de estudiantes graduados en Español o en Inglés con una duración máxima de 20 minutos. Los trabajos deben abordar textos hispánicos de cualquier época o ámbito geocultural. Serán bienvenidas las propuestas relacionadas con las literaturas no castellanas en el mundo hispánico.Los interesados deberán enviar propuestas de un máximo de 250 palabras antes del 20 de junio de 2012 a: ingrid_tobar_thommel@brown.eduConferencia magistral a cargo de Vicente Luis Mora (Escritor, Doctor en Literatura Española Contemporánea, Director del Instituto Cervantes de Marrakech)

Literatura de los Siglos de Oro, Estudios culturales, Historia de España

2) Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile II: Sufi and Jewish Influence and Responses (panel discussion, with author’s participation) Rethinking Christian spirituality from within Iberia, however, not only calls for reconsidering the devotional art and texts in relation to Christian theology, but also calls for greater attention to Spain’s multiconfessional circumstances. Robinson suggests that the elevation of Christ and Mary as glorious rather than suffering was intrinsically related to the pluri-religious contexts of medieval Iberia; images of Christ and Mary were not meant for private Christian meditation alone, but for the conversion of the religious ‘other.’ Not only does the conversion context shift any assessment of images, but Robinson is the first to propose direct influence from Sufi devotional practices such as dhikr chant on Christian spirituality. Her argument thus addresses a long-problematic gap between the popularity of 13th century Muslim mystical texts and their apparent influence on sixteenth century Christian writers such as John of the Cross by discerning the parallels between late medieval Muslim and Christian devotion on the peninsula. Participants in this panel discussion are invited to propose papers concerning the ways in which fifteenth century Jewish and/or Muslim devotion influenced or responded to a Castilian Passion spirituality that emphasized divinity rather than humanity, or that use Robinson’s model as a basis for reconsidering other types of relationships and exchanges between the different faiths in late medieval Iberia. A paper proposal comprises a one-page abstract and a completed Participant Information Form available at website, deadline: September 15, 2013. Please send all questions and proposals to jboon@email.unc.edu.

jboon@email.unc.edu.

Cynthia Robinson’s 2013 publication, _Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries_ (Penn State Press), is being hailed as a “frame-breaking” work that radically challenges current assumptions that Castilian Christianity paralleled European trends before 1492.ASPHS plans to convene one session of papers and one panel discussion to allow scholars to begin the work of rethinking late medieval Iberian spirituality in light of the new methods and conclusions that Robinson proposes.1) Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile I: Christ and Mary Divinized (session of papers)Robinson’s work is the first of its kind to draw together a wide range of cultic images and spiritual texts from across Iberia and across religious distinctions, and her analysis reveals that late medieval Castilians focused their devotions on Christ’s divinity and Mary’s divine qualities rather than on Christ’s painful suffering. Robinson locates this ‘Castilian particularity’ in the influence of the Catalan Eiximenis’ Vita Christi rather than extra-peninsular texts such as Pseudo-Bonaventure’s Meditaciones Vitae Christi, a forceful argument that requires scholars of Castilian spirituality to rethink the panorama of Christian devotion within the contours of the peninsula instead of gesturing to broader European movements. This session seeks papers that take up Robinson’s call to integrate the study of art history with the study of devotional texts, or that address the influence of peninsular devotion to Mary on the development of a unique Castilian Passion spirituality, or that consider the shift in Passion spirituality post 1492 once interest in Christ’s suffering is newly introduced to Castile.

Literatura peninsular, Dialectología

Andrés Lema-Hincapié Assistant Professor University of Colorado Denver Modern Languages Campus Box 178, P.O. Box 173364 Denver, Colorado 80204 (303) 556-3443 Conxita Domènech Assistant Professor University of Wyoming Modern and Classical Languages 1000 East University Avenue Laramie, Wyoming 82071 (307) 766-4149

venturaponsconference@ucdenver.edu

Call for Papers: The University of Colorado Denver is now accepting abstracts in English, Catalan, or Spanish for the upcoming International Conference "Ventura Pons: The Unconventional Gaze of Catalan Cinema" to be held October 4-6, 2012. Papers are welcome from any theoretical perspective and may examine any aspect of Ventura Pons' films. In addition to the distinguished presence of the Catalan film director Ventura Pons, this conference will include the participation of Professor Esteve Riambau (Director of Catalonian Film Archives) and Professor Joan Ramon Resina (Director of the Stanford Iberian Studies Program). Professors Riambau and Resina are two of the most renowned scholars in Catalan culture. Find the official call for papers attached. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 15, 2012. A selection of papers will be published in a collective volumeContact the directors by email at:andres.lema-hincapie@ucdenver.edu; cdomenec@uwyo.edu "Ventura Pons: The Unconventional Gaze of Catalan Cinema"University of Colorado DenverDenver, Colorado 80204

Literatura de los Siglos de Oro

Literatura hispanoamericana

amlc2015@gmail.com

ContactoWilson, GabrielleCorreo e.: amlc2015@gmail.com

Estudios culturales

coloquiouf@gmail.com

El coloquio se encuentra abierto a todos los temas relacionados con los estudios hispánicos, especialmente aquellos que se centren en los siguientes temas:1) Lenguas en contacto;2) Transmutaciones en el arte;3) Ciudades y espacios espacio literario y cinematográfico;4) La globalización, bilingüismo y multiculturalismo;5) Relaciones raciales y étnicas;6) El otro y el marginado;7) Biculturalismo;8) Adquisición de segundas lenguas;9) Visualización de las voces y silencios femeninos;10) Alternancia de lenguas, memoria, variación y cambio lingüístico;11) Sincretismo / hibridismo, tecnología nueva y comunicación literaria;12) Lengua y género, la inmigración, y el exilio y la diáspora. Aquellos investigadores interesados pueden enviar un resumen de una página con espacio simple a la dirección electrónica coloquiouf@gmail.com antes del 7 de enero de 2010.En el resumen será necesario incluir: título del trabajo, nombre, afiliación institucional y correo electrónico. Las presentaciones tendrán un límite de 20 minutos. Contacto:Delano Lamy5th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Florida 170 Dauer Hall Gainesville, FL 32611-7405 Teléfono: +1 352 392 2016Fax: +1 352 392 5679 Correo electrónico: coloquiouf@gmail.com

Lingüística románica, Literatura de los Siglos de Oro, Estudios de género

This conference thus invites new work on a variety of topics, including the birth of romance out of historical prose and its supposed death in the early modern period; on the generic fluidity of romance, particularly its relationship to chronicles, hagiography, and fabliaux; on the relationship between the romance and visual art or architectural space; on the romance book as object and objects inscribed / decorated with romance motifs; on the place of romance in the development of new musical genres and theatrical performances; on the status of romance in cultural geographies that conceptualize notions of normativity and otherness; and on its role in the discovery of new worlds (literal and figurative) and the obliteration of old ones. Although papers on individual romances are welcome, we particularly encourage work that positions itself more broadly, that uses one or more texts, as well as very different source material (archival, documentary, historical and art historical), to rethink the place of romance in medieval culture as well as in our modern understanding of the Middle Ages. Registration: Online registration available in January 2012.

medievals@fordham.edu

Romances were the most popular, most influential, most wide-ranging form of fiction in the high and late Middle Ages. While this popularity has ensured a great deal of modern critical attention, particularly to individual romances, it has not necessarily meant that the place of romance in the Middle Ages has been understood adequately. That is, as scholars outside of the field of literary studies -historians, art historians, musicologists- have begun to look at romances, those inside continue to treat this genre largely in terms of its literary merit. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to re-conceptualize romance more broadly, not only as a topic of interest for scholars of particular medieval vernacular texts, but as a kind of tool, a bearer of a set of assumptions, a cultural category available to medieval authors, artists, composers, and patrons.