28.4887, Calls: Spanish, Portuguese, Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 28.4887, Calls: Spanish, Portuguese, Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling/USA

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:07:57
From: Ramses Ortin [ramsesortin at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: 28th Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-brazilian Literature, Language and Culture

 
Full Title: 28th Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-brazilian Literature, Language and Culture 

Date: 23-Feb-2018 - 24-Feb-2018
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA 
Contact Person: Ramses Ortin
Meeting Email: ramsesortin at email.arizona.edu
Web Site: http://spanish.arizona.edu/graduate/seminar 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2017 

Meeting Description:

This year the symposium will focus on exploring and engaging with tangential
disciplinary and theoretical approaches that have not been fully developed in
the field of Hispanic and Luso- Brazilian literature, cultural studies, and
linguistics. The objective of the symposium is to open new avenues of thought
and establish new interdisciplinary dialogues that will promote the
advancement of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literature, cultural, and
linguistic studies.


Call for Papers:

28th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture

The Symposium Committee is pleased to invite all interested graduate students,
scholars and professionals to submit presentation or poster abstracts, and
panel proposals for the 28th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture at the University
of Arizona. Join us to celebrate the merging of cultures and languages in one
of the US’s oldest multicultural landscapes. Come to a historic city where
languages, cultures and literatures co-exist creating a thriving contact zone.
  

The Symposium Committee will consider abstracts focusing on research in Latin
American and Peninsular Cultures, Literatures and Linguistics. Potential areas
of interest and topics include, but are not limited to:

- Applied linguistics
- Heritage/second language pedagogy
- Language program administration
- Translation
- L2/Ln acquisition
- Phonology/phonetics
- Morphology
- Sociolinguistics
- Syntax
- Psycholinguistics
- And any other area of Hispanic/Lusophone linguistics within any theoretical
or quantitative/qualitative framework.

Literature: 

- Global South studies
- Border studies
- Disability studies
- Feminist theory
- Queer theory
- Hegemony and posthegemony
- Subaltern studies
- Political theory
- Postcolonial theory
- Affect theory
- Memory studies
- Visual studies.

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2017 

- Abstracts for Presentations should be limited to 250 words. 
- Panel Proposals for a group of 3-5 presenters should be limited to a 100
word abstract from each panel member. 

Abstracts, presentations, and proposals can be delivered in Spanish,
Portuguese, or English. Please submit 250- word 
abstracts, together with a title and a short biography to the Symposium
Committee at spanport-symposium at email.arizona.edu

Posters will be displayed in a designated space at the Conference venue.
Recommended dimensions for posters are A0 (33.1 x 46.8 in) or A1 (23.4 x 33.1
in). 

Due to time and space constraints, only a combination of 70 presenters will be
accepted. Acceptance will be confirmed by January 7 2018.




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