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[Maggie Ronkin]

A Symposium of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Linguistics, and
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A Symposium of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Linguistics, and 
Visual Culture

The Georgetown University graduate students in the Department of Spanish and 
Portuguese invite all interested graduate students to the second annual 
Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY), which will be held on 
Friday, September 29 and Saturday, September 30 , 2006.

The organizing committee will consider papers related to Hispanic and 
Luso-Brazilian Literature, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies, as well as 
requests for the formation of special sessions organized around a specific 
topic, author or work. These sessions are limited to three papers.

Papers may examine the conference topic from a variety of perspectives, 
including linguistic, social, psychological, cultural, theoretical, 
political, ideological, and/or artistic. Possible panel topics and papers 
might include, but are not limited to:

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics
Phonology and morphology of Spanish and Portuguese
Syntax of Spanish and Portuguese
Semantics-Pragmatics of Spanish and Portuguese
Diachronic and dialectal variation in Spanish and Portuguese
Sociolinguistics: language contact (including bilingualism, codeswitching),
language policy and endangered languages in the Iberian
            Peninsula and the Americas
Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as a first, second or subsequent
language (including issues in instructed second language acquisition and
research methodology)

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Cultural Studies
Trans-Atlantic voyages, pilgrimages, and shipwrecks
National and post-national utopias
(Mis)representations in performance and visual culture
North/ South Dialogues: US Latino Studies
Intertextuality and tales of exchange
Migrations, exile, and new frontiers and spaces
With(in) and beyond the body: gender identities and politics
Ethnographic writing
Representations of violence
Politics of the memory: trauma and turmoil

Please submit by July 1st, 2006 two separate 250-word abstracts in 
Portuguese, English or Spanish.
We only accept electronic submissions to GRAPHSY2006 at gmail.com
-- On one abstract, please include the title of proposed paper, name, 
academic affiliation, current address, telephone, and e-mail address of each 
presenter.
-- The second abstract should be anonymous.

The paper presentation is limited to 20 minutes (8-10 double-spaced pages).

Registration:
General registration fee for all presenters is $40 (late or on-site official 
attendance registration is $50).   This fee includes the cost of all food 
and beverages provided only to conference participants.

The keynote speakers will be Professor Vicky Unruh of the University of 
Kansas for Literature and Professor John Lipski of Penn State University for 
Linguistics.