29.4665, Calls: Applied Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 29.4665, Calls: Applied Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Socioling/USA

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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:53:18
From: Monica de la Fuente Iglesias [delaf027 at umn.edu]
Subject: Tabu: 6th Annual Graduate Conference of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese - University of Minnesota

 
Full Title: Tabu: 6th Annual Graduate Conference of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese - University of Minnesota 

Date: 29-Mar-2019 - 30-Mar-2019
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA 
Contact Person: Monica de la Fuente Iglesias
Meeting Email: spptconf at umn.edu
Web Site: http://calambur.weebly.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The graduate students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies of
the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities are pleased to announce that we will
be hosting our annual conference, titled ''Tabú: 6th Annual Graduate Student
Conference''. The conference will take place on March 29-30, 2019 in
Minneapolis.


Call for Papers:

We are proud to announce the participation of our plenary speakers:

Dr. Rena Torres Cacoullos, Penn State University
Dr. Katarzyna Beilin, University of Wisconsin - Madison

On the night of November 17, 1901, on ''la calle de la Paz'', located in what
is today known as the heart of the historic center of Mexico City, the federal
police burst into what has since called the ''Baile de los cuarenta y uno.''
During the party, 42 men, half of them dressed in women's clothing and the
other half in suits, were arrested and humiliated in public for their sexual
orientation.

The only participant to be excluded was Ignacio de la Torre y Mier, son-in-law
of the President of Mexico, Porfirio Díaz. Since then, the number 41 has been
associated with homosexuality and repudiated by Mexico's conservative and
heteronormative culture. Nevertheless, this taboo opened the doors for
transgression, inspiring the work of artists like José Guadalupe Posadas,
Francisco L. Urquizo, and Fecundo, one of the precursors of gay literature in
México. The 41 is not an isolated case, as taboo exists wherever language
obfuscates that which does not adhere to normativity, and yet, at the same
time, it forges a transgressive and defiant resoluteness. It is through war,
the carnivalesque, humor and sexuality that these impositions are fractured.
Taboo provokes reflection on the function of language, art, and literature.

The VI Annual Calambur Conference invites the presentation of works that
approach taboos and their many articulations in a wide range of contexts. The
topics of interest include, among others, the following:

- Language Contact, Phonetics/Phonology, Sociolinguistics, First and Second
Language Acquisition, Linguistic Variation and Change, Language Policy,
Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics
- Cultural Studies, Environment and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Human Rights, Immigration, Latinx and Chicano Studies, Border Studies,
Political Science, Genocide Studies, Race and Identity issues
- Art and Aesthetics, Music and Sound Studies, Film Studies, Communication
Studies
- Medieval Studies, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, and Studies of the
Modern Age

Send abstracts of up to 250 words before February 1, 2019 through the
conference website: http://calambur.weebly.com. 
Presentations should last 20 minutes and may be delivered in English, Spanish,
or Portuguese. For more information, please contact us at spptconf at umn.edu.




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