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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:35:42
From: Tripp Strawbridge [straw055 at umn.edu]
Subject: Shifting Landscapes: The 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota

 
Full Title: Shifting Landscapes: The 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota 

Date: 31-Mar-2017 - 01-Apr-2017
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA 
Contact Person: Tripp Strawbridge
Meeting Email: spptconf at umn.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of
Minnesota is proud to announce its fourth annual Graduate Student Conference. 
The theme for this year's conference is ''Shifting Landscapes,'' and we seek
interest from a wide range of interests in Spanish and Lusophone linguistics
and literature.  Please see the call for papers for this conference, below.  

Additionally, we are pleased to announce our two keynote speakers for the
conference: Ricardo Otheguy (City University of New York) and Jorge Duany
(Florida International Institute).


Call for Papersː

Landscapes are assemblages of people(s), the natural world, and cities that
guide disparate disciplinary methodologies: from literary criticism to
geologic surveys.  Whether material, metaphysical, ideological, linguistic, or
utopian, landscape often evokes a ''seer,'' oriented by the gaze that
constructs it, and so too is it a scene of contact, rupture, and complex,
interwoven fabrics of human and environmental history.  This conference
endeavors to address timely concerns that are critical to understanding issues
pertaining to research in Hispanic and Lusophone Studies, and in doing so
repositions landscape as a central mode of critique.  Conquest,
colonialism(s), and the emergence of global capital signaled colossal
reorganization of landscapes across the world, and more recently global
warming and mass migration are configuring landscapes, and the people that
inhabit them in new ways that merit heightened attention.  Presenters are
invited to submit papers that consider and analyze the disparate articulations
of resistance that arise from our (re)thinking of epistemological landscapes.

We invite papers that engage in landscapes and their shifts from a wide
variety of contexts, such as:

- Language contact, Phonetics/phonology, Sociolinguistics, Second Language
Acquisition, Language variation and change
- Cultural Studies, Environmental Humanities, Gender, Women and Sexuality
Studies, African and African American Studies
- Immigration, US Latino/Chicano Studies, Border Studies, Nationalism and
Political Conflicts, Genocide Studies
- Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Colonial Studies

Please submit an abstract no longer than 250 words by January 20, 2017 to
spptconf at umn.edu.




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