Lingüística, Literatura peninsular

alison.menezes@ucd.ie

Call for individual papersProposals are invited from Association members for individual papers (25-30 minutes) on any area of research relating to Spain, Portugal or Latin America. The conference organisers will attempt to group papers into coherent or logical sessions. An abstract for the proposed paper (150-200 words) should be sent to the Conference Secretary, marked 'AHGBI conference', by 1st October 2005.Call for panelsProposals are invited from Association members for panels (4 papers each of 25-30 minutes) on any area of research relating to Spain, Portugal or Latin America. The panel organiser should arrange for an abstract for each paper (150-200 words) to be sent to the Conference Secretary, marked 'AHGBI conference', by 1st October 2005. Each abstract should indicate clearly the Panel to which it belongs and the name of the panel organiser. The participation of non-members in panels should be agreed in consultation with the conference organisers before invitations are offered. Some money may be available to help cover the costs of an invited speaker. If the proposal is accepted, the panel organiser will be informed and will take on responsibility for organising a Chair for the session. The conference organisers will liaise with the organiser of the panel and it will be the panel organiser's responsibility to ensure that the members of the panel are kept informed of all details relating to the panel.The following panels have already been proposed: * Language (Dr Jaine Beswick, University of Southampton)* Medieval (Dr Barry Taylor, British Library)* Golden Age (Prof. Terry O'Reilly, University College, Cork)* Lusophone Studies (Dr Patricia Odber de Baubeta, University of Brimingham). Colleagues wishing to offer papers in any of these panels should contact the panel organiser indicated. Panels on any other subject or field will be considered, and these may be as narrowly-focussed or wide-ranging as the organiser considers appropriate (e.g., The works of Pérez Galdós, Latin-American History, Contemporary Spanish Cinema, etc.).Proposals for all individual papers and panels should be sent by e-mail, fax, or post to the Conference Secretary, marked 'AHGBI conference' by 1st October 2005.

Dialectología, Estudios culturales

christopher.perriam@manchester.ac.uk

Papers are invited on the above theme which has been chosen to respond to a growing interest in moving beyond the 'national' in conceptualising film studies in Luso-Hispanic and Latin American Film Studies. At the time of issue of this Call for Papers, Latin American Film Studies is arguably some steps ahead of its European sister disciplines in recording and thinking through transnational issues, especially as regards the South/North traffic of ideas, artists, and products; French and British Film Studies already have the trans-Atlantic firmly on their agendas; Spanish and Portuguese film production -like any others- is thoroughly co-dependent on transnational markets and systems of taste and circulation. By taking these precedents and givens into account, we hope to make of this conference an opportunity to resituate Spanish and Portuguese Film Studies on trans-Atlantic and European axes and to take forward and adapt pre-existing models coming out of Latin American Film Studies (again, by emphasizing the trans-Atlantic). Issues: - Questioning the national- Glocalised and globalised identities- Comercial and industrial contexts and changing formats- Intercultural communication in images Topics/materials:- The aesthetics and politics of co-productions: 1). Between Spain and Portugal and between Latin America and Europe2). Between Spain/Portugal and other European countries3). Between Spain/Portugal and Latin American countries4). Between Spain/Portugal and the USA- New meanings coming out of cross-border movements of personnel (actors, directors, cinematographers)- Translation tactics- Acting in a second/learned languageDeadline for abstracts of 200 words: Monday 31 October. Please send to Christopher Perriam [christopher.perriam@manchester.ac.uk].Further information:Rosemary LambethInstitute of Germanic & Romance StudiesSchool of Advanced Study, University of LondonSenate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HUTel: +44 20 7862 8677Fax: +44 20 7862 8672

Lingüística descriptiva, Lingüística, Sociolingüística

Español Este simposio de lingüística hispánica en el Reino Unido tiene como propósito reunir a hispanistas que trabajan en las áreas de sociolingüística, pragmática y análisis de conversaciones e intenta reflejar el creciente interés que hay en el Reino Unido por estas áreas en estudios del español. Para mayor información sobre los programas de otros simposios relacionados (Surrey, 2002) y (Southampton, 2004), ver: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/Spanish/simposio.html (2002) http://www.lang.soton.ac.uk/symposium/ (2004) Habrá dos tipos de eventos principalmente: presentaciones de estudios de 30 minutos (incluyendo 10 minutos para discusión) y conferencias por parte de invitados especiales. Las lenguas del simposio serán español e inglés. Conferencistas plenarios confirmados: Prof. José Luis Blas Arroyo (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón - España) Dra Jane Freeland (Universidad de Southampton - Reino Unido) Prof. Isolda Carranza (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Argentina) Prof. Susan Berk-Seligson (Vanderbilt University, EEUU) Petición de trabajos Se invita a presentar resúmenes de un máximo de 300 palabras sobre trabajos de investigación teórica y/o empírica en las siguientes áreas: pragmática hispánica, sociolingüística (interaccional) y análisis de conversaciones. Se aceptarán también estudios contrastivos ya sea entre variedades del español o entre el español y otras lenguas, así como estudios en las áreas mencionadas con aplicación a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. Plazo de entrega de resúmenes: 1 de octubre de 2005. Forma de envío: Enviar una copia del resumen con afiliación por correo electrónico a m.m.stewart@strath.ac. Las ponencias seleccionadas serán publicadas. Aquellos interesados deberán entregar su artículo en la mesa de recepción del Simposio a su llegada. Más adelante se les informará el nombre de la editorial así como el formato a seguir.

sis-ees@soton.ac.uk;m.m.stewart@strath.ac.uk

EnglishThe goal of this Symposium is to bring together researchers working on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, conversation and discourse analysis, and reflect the growth of interest in these and related areas of Hispanic linguistics. To see the programmes for previous related symposia (Surrey, 2002) and Southampton, 2004), go to:www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/Spanish/simposio.html (2002)www.lang.soton.ac.uk/symposium/ (2004)There will be two types of presentation; short papers of approximately 30 minutes (including time for discussion); and plenary lectures by invited keynote speakers. The languages of the symposium will be Spanish and English.Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. José Luis Blas Arroyo (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón - Spain)Dr. Jane Freeland (Universidad de Southampton - UK) Prof. Isolda Carranza (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Argentina) Prof. Susan Berk-Seligson (Vanderbilt University - USA) Call for papersYou are invited to send abstracts (maximum 300 words). Methodologies used may range from the theoretical to the empirical and studies should be drawn from the following areas: Hispanic pragmatics, (interactional) sociolinguistics, discourse and conversation analysis. You may also submit contrastive studies, either between different varieties of Spanish or between Spanish and other languages, or studies in applied linguistics relating to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.Call Deadline: Saturday, October 1st, 2005.Procedure for submission: Send an electronic abstract stating your home institution to: m.m.stewart@strath.ac.uk. It is intended to publish selected papers. If you are interested, please submit a copy of your article to the reception desk of the symposium on arrival. The organisers will contact you in due course regarding potential publishers and format required.

Literatura del siglo XX, Literatura hispanoamericana

t.pitman@leeds.ac.uk

Guest speakers include the authors: Albalucía Ángel, Luisa Valenzuela, Elena Araújo, Cecilia Vicuña*, and Edmée Pardo. (*pending confirmation)In order to coincide with Albalucía Ángel's presence in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as writer in residence and her preparation of the book 'De vuelta del silencio', a collection of interviews with Latin American women writers spanning a period of twenty years, this symposium will reflect on the changes in Latin American women¿s writing over this period; changes in politics and poetics, subjects and contexts. A number of writers from Ángel's original cohort, together with more recently published authors will be talking about developments in their work and their relationship to a broader canon of Latin American women's writing.Submissions are invited from scholars of Latin American women's writing and feminist theory, either on the work of individual authors listed above, or theoretical studies of developments in Latin American women's writing over the last twenty years with particular relevance to the participating authors. Proposals from postgraduates are also welcome. A collection of papers presented at the symposium will be submitted to the Legenda (MHRA) series.Brief abstracts with title (200 words max.) for 20-minute papers should be sent by 15 April 2005 to Dr Thea Pitman, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. Alternatively, abstracts may be emailed to Dr Pitman at t.pitman@leeds.ac.uk (please mark your email subject line 'Latin American Women Writers, Then and Now').

Judeoespañol

Hilarypomeroy@aol.com

The British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies is an international scholarly forum for university teachers and researchers working in Judeo-Spanish Studies, and welcomes papers from both eminent scholars and those beginning their doctoral studies. Our emphasis is on Judeo-Spanish Language and Judeo-Spanish Literature.We invite abstracts for the coming conference which will be returning to Queen Mary University of London in London's East End (Mile End Road London E1). You may like to note that it will follow on from the Medieval Hispanic Research Colloquium, 29 June to 30 June 2006 (information from: j.l.whetnall@ qmul.ac uk).Queen Mary is a most appropriate venue for the conference as 2006 marks the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Resettlement of Jews in England and many of the Sephardic Jews who immigrated to England settled in this area. The programme will include a visit to the Sephardic synagogue of Bevis Marks, the oldest functioning synagogue in England.Papers, which may be read in Judeo-Spanish, Spanish, or English, should not have been presented or published elsewhere and should not exceed twenty minutes in length. Would you please send your abstract (maximum 200 words) as an attachment to:Hilarypomeroy@aol.comYou should supply the following information on the sheet containing your abstract:- Title (Professor, Dr., etc)- Full name- Home address- University/Academic affiliation- Home telephone number, work telephone number- Fax number- E-mail addressThe closing date for submitting abstracts is 31 December 2005. The selection committee will inform you of its choice shortly thereafter.Accommodation.We have reserved single bedrooms on campus in a building opened in 2004. Each room has a desk, a fridge, and an en-suite shower room. Rooms are arranged in groups of six, with a communal kitchen where you can make tea or coffee.It would be very helpful if you would indicate whether you would like to stay on campus by e-mailing Sizen Yiacoup (sizen.yiacoup@kcl.ac.uk).Conference CommitteeDr. Hilary Pomeroy, University College London (Chair)Professor Michael Alpert, Kings College LondonMrs. Annette Benaim, School of Oriental and African Studies LondonProfessor Ralph Penny, Queen Mary University of LondonMiss Sizen Yiacoup, Kings College London

Lingüística, Lingüística descriptiva

clip-admin@kcl.ac.uk

We welcome submissions that discuss any aspect of the interface between languages, literature, cultural heritage and Information Technology. Suitable topics for proposals might include:- Literary and Linguistic research including - Multilinguism and Multiculturalism - Education and Training - Humanities Computing as a field Submission typesPapers:Abstract submissions should be of 500-1000 words. The duration of each paper will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion and questions. Submissions are peer-reviewed. Posters/Demonstrations:These will consist of poster presentations or demonstrations of software and will also be peer-reviewed. They will typically be appropriate for those seeking to demonstrate current projects and other work in progress. Proposals for posters/software demonstrations should be submitted as short abstracts of no more than 250 words. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference in a central area to ensure maximum opportunity for feedback/discussion with other delegates. Poster prize:A prize will be awarded for the best poster. Language of submission. Submissions may be in Spanish, Italian, German, French or English. Language of presentation. Presentations may be given in the language of the accepted abstract. If the language is not English we strongly recommend the use of slides in English to facilitate comprehension. If the language is English, we strongly recommend the use of slides in one of the other languages named above. Important datesThe deadline for submissions is 23 December 2005 .

Literatura de los Siglos de Oro

b.bollig@wmin.ac.uk

Spain and the Americas.A series of guest lectures organised by the Spanish Section of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages.Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, by Pablo Picasso. «Don Quixote has arguably been the most successful commercial product ever marketed, including Marilyn Monroe, Jesus Christ, Danone yoghourt, and Muhammad Ali. It is a book from which novelists from the mid-C18 to postmodernism keep drawing inspiration. And yet it is now a very old book, product of a culture quite alien in its world view from our own. How is this possible? How is this compatible with its status as a monument of world literature? What has worked uniquely for Don Quixote, and failed to work for Hamlet, the Odyssey, or The Divine Comedy?».Tuesday 22 November 2005The Boardroom, First Floor309 Regent StreetLondon W1B 2UW18'00 hrs.Prof. Anthony Close, now retired, was formerly Reader in Spanish at the University of Cambridge. He is author of (amongst other things) three books on Cervantes and Don Quixote and is President of the Asociación Internacional del Siglo de Oro.Lectures in this series are free and open to all students, staff and guests of the university. Non-members of the University of Westminster please contact:Dr Celia Szusterman E-mail: c.szusterman@wmin.ac.uk Phone: +44 20 7911 5800 Ext. 2031

Estudios culturales, Literatura hispanoamericana

adl1@cam.ac.uk;jac46@cam.ac.uk

Esta conferencia se basa en una amplia construcción y desarrollo del mestizaje, explorando los diversos significados del concepto, en materias tales como pertenencia étnica, religión, política, literatura, arte y música. Una perspectiva está centrada en la penetración y la reconstrucción de las fronteras: prácticas culturales cotidianas cuando se plantea la conciencia propia de los orígenes (por ejemplo en la religión colonial), problemas referentes a la reivindicación de la tradición que parece dar nueva vida al mestizaje, incluso cuando se procura evitarlo, a la incorporación de influencias transnacionales en la religión, la música y el arte latinoamericanos: kitsch como una de las probables contribuciones distintivas de América Latina a configuraciones estilísticas dentro de un nivel global, y a la dialéctica de la cultura erudita y popular, con todo lo que conlleva de influencias e ironía, transformando la mezcla misma en un elemento válido de creatividad artística.Otra perspectiva, de ninguna manera conflictiva con la primera, insiste más en disyuntivas y en el fortalecimiento de viejas y nuevas fronteras, así como en los mecanismos de exclusión en los mercados de trabajo y en el ordenamiento de los espacios públicos.Aquellas personas que quieran enviar sus trabajos o participal en la conferencia, pueden contactar con Julie Coimbra en la siguiente dirección de correo electrónico: jac46@cam.ac.uk

Estudios culturales, Historia de América, Dialectología

c.m.james.1@bham.ac.uk

El objetivo de esta conferencia es reevaluar la posición dominante y al mismo tiempo conflictiva que el discurso de la nación ha ocupado en la historia y la producción cultural del caribe hispanohablante. Simultáneamente, deseamos explorar los distintos modos de interpretación de la cultura hispano-caribeña que van más allá del concepto de nación. Temáticas- Literatura del Caribe hispanohablante - Cine en el Caribe hispanohablante - Literatura latino-caribeña en los Estados Unidos - Literatura y emigración - El ensayo en el Caribe hispanohablante - Literatura y cine de la diáspora hispano-caribeña - Nueva York - Nuevos modos de relacionarse con Europa y sus pueblos - Género y nacionalismo - Sexualidades - Nuevas aproximaciones a la raza en el Caribe - Culturas hispano-caribeñas / culturas anglo-caribeñas /culturas franco-caribeñas: análisis comparativos - Haití y su relación con el Caribe hispanohablante - Música y cultura popular en el caribe hispanohablante - Cultura política en el Caribe hispanohablante. Si desean ofrecer una propuesta fuera de plazo, los organizadores les invitan a dirigir su comunicación a la dirección del congreso.

Catalán, Gallego, Historia de América, Historia de España, Vasco

La Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies (ACIS) celebra este congreso del 6 al 8 de septiembre de 2005 en la Universidad West of England (Bristol, Reino Unido).

@paisley.ac.uk

You are invited to suggest any speakers who you think would be willing to offer a paper, bearing in mind, however, that ACIS does not normally offer either a fee or expenses for speakers.Papers will be allocated a maximum of 35 minutes on the programme, in order to leave time for discussion and debate. If you wish to offer a paper, please refer to the Guidelines for Papers. Please send, preferably by e-mail, a provisional title and short description of content (approx 100 words) by 30 April 2005 to:Carmen DomínguezLanguages (School of Media, Language and Music)University of PaisleyPaisley PA1 2BE, SCOTLAND (UK)Tel. no. +44 (0)141 848 3869Fax: +44 (0)141 848 3533e-mail: carmen.dominguez@paisley.ac.ukThe Constitution briefly describes the general aims of the Association as the promotion of ¿the study of the social, economic and political affairs of the Iberian area together with its languages¿. Following on from this broad description we could further define our areas of activity in terms of geographical limits and historical period:1. Geographical limits: Spain and Portugal and their dependent territories. International relations involving either country are included.2. Historical period: approximately the past 100 years, from the late nineteenth century to the present. This is not meant to exclude reference to an earlier time where appropriate.3. Language: the Spanish and Portuguese languages, especially contemporary usage; the minority languages of the Iberian Peninsula, especially in their social and political context.