28.4724, Calls: Spanish, Portuguese, Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/USA

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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:26:33
From: Monica de la Fuente Iglesias [delaf027 at umn.edu]
Subject: Horror Vacui: 5th Annual Graduate Conference of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese - University of Minnesota

 
Full Title: Horror Vacui: 5th Annual Graduate Conference of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese - University of Minnesota 

Date: 30-Mar-2018 - 31-Mar-2018
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): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

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

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2018 

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 ''Horror vacui: V Annual Graduate
Student Conference''. The conference will take place on March 30-31, 2018 in
Minneapolis. Through the Latin expression horror vacui we intend to synthesize
a comprehensive Western tradition of the creation of and approach to different
kinds of emptiness, be they linguistics, political, cultural, or artistic
voids, whose mere existence generates anguish and, thereby, legitimizes the
strategies of their occupation and suppression.

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

   Prof. Yuri Herrera, Tulane University
   Prof. Manuel Díaz-Campos, Indiana University.


Call for Papers:

The theft and sale of azulejos (tiles) from the Art Nouveau building where
Fernando Pessoa lived in Lisbon between 1915 and 1916 accelerated its
deterioration and subsequent demolition. Since 2007, Projeto SOS Azulejo has
made an effort to combat this trend that has commodified, emptied, and
distributed pieces of Lisbon, thus converting the city into a souvenir. The
disappearance of the azulejos and the attempt to recover them is an example of
the tension that surfaces from the urgency and anguish when considering
emptiness and its ramifications. The Aristotelian adage ''nature abhors a
vacuum'' also obliges man to fight it; however, the inevitability of the void
in nature, a foil to modernity, challenges humankind. This is a challenge that
erases certain cultures, languages, institutions, and populations and then
supplants them with others.

Considering Horror vacui allows us to think through an occidental tendency
that essentializes the
suppression and creation of different types of voids. A survey of these voids
reaches across many
different forms: the exuberant expression of the baroque retablos (religious
icons); the aesthetic
emphasis on simplicity in digital design; the total occupation of simulated
territory in cyber-warfare. These are voids that, like silence in poetic rhyme
and rests in music, can disrupt a continuity in order to introduce an
aesthetic strategy. They also may signal pedagogical challenges in linguistic
fields and social sciences--just as emptiness resides in the gap between
language and content. These problematics mimic the precarious (re)assembly of
the azulejos, a mosaic prompting new questions in its new configuration.
Therefore, the 5th Annual Graduate Conference invites submissions from works
that think through emptiness and its manifestations from a variety of
different contexts; these themes include, but are not limited to, the
following:

-Language Contact, Phonetics/Phonology, Sociolinguistics, First and Second
Language Acquisition,
Linguistic Variation and Change, Language Policy
-Cultural Studies, Environment and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies,
Immigration, Latino/Chicano Studies, Border Studies, Nationalism and Political
Conflicts, Human Rights, Genocide Studies, Race and Identity
-Art and Aesthetics, Music and Sound Studies, Film and Image Studies,
Communication Studies
-Medieval and Modern Era Studies, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Send abstracts of up to 250 words before February 1, 2018 through the
conference website: http://calambur.weebly.com/call-for-papers-submission.html
. Presentations should last 20 minutes and can be in English, Spanish, or
Portuguese. For more information, please contact us at spptconf at umn.edu.




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