32.2430, Calls: Portuguese; Spanish; Gen Ling, Hist Ling/USA and Online

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Subject: 32.2430, Calls: Portuguese; Spanish; Gen Ling, Hist Ling/USA and Online

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:53:15
From: Luis Vazquez [lfernando.vazquezb at gmail.com]
Subject: 16th Annual Kaleidoscope. University of Wisconsin-Madison

 
Full Title: 16th Annual Kaleidoscope. University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Date: 08-Oct-2021 - 09-Oct-2021
Location: Madison, Wisconsin (Hybrid), USA 
Contact Person: Fernando Vazquez
Meeting Email: lvazquez3 at wisc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Organizing Committee of the Kaleidoscope Graduate Student Conference at
UW-Madison is the organization responsible for the planning and execution of
an annual event, a tradition which was begun in 2004 and which has since
brought together master’s and doctoral students from this and other
universities throughout the United States to present their work in Spanish and
Portuguese literatures and languages, as well as in other disciplines in the
humanities. The conference consists of a three-day academic gathering that
includes multiple panels of presenters and two or more keynote speakers from
the UW system as well as other institutions recognized for their contributions
to the fields of Spanish and Portuguese literatures and languages.  

Roots and uprootedness, through both literal and metaphoric processes, open
toward contested and intertwined literary, linguistic, biological, ecological,
sociocultural, and economic systems. Processes such as transplantation and
hybridization offer extended metaphors for understanding belonging and
dispossession, exchange and commerce, growth and change, and ecological and
cultural forms across and beyond Portuguese and Spanish-speaking worlds. From
the Medieval locus amoenus, to the Early Modern obsession with the cataloguing
of species, to the Enlightenment's interest in family trees, to the arborous
diagrams used in linguistics, roots have offered enduring cognitive maps and
metaphors. The extant inventory of human uprootedness—the dispossession of
Indigenous people from their lands, the Middle Passage, and captivity
narratives in the Mediterranean sea, among others—is being amended in the
present as mass migration, diaspora, exile, and refugee crises remain at the
forefront of contemporary geopolitics. All of this demands reckoning anew with
roots, uprootedness and the relations they engender in more-than-human worlds.

Keynote Speakers:
 - Patrícia Amaral, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Dept. of Spanish and
Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington

 - Yomaira C. Figueroa, Associate Professor of Global Diaspora Studies, Dept.
of English, Michigan State University

 - Enrique García Santo Tomás, Professor of Early Modern Spanish Literature,
Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan


Call for Papers: 

Submission deadline: August 15, 2021

Topics may include, but are not limited to: 
Linguistics: Historical Linguistics, Comparative Philology, Etymology,
Lexicography, Digital Lemmatization, Creation of Linguistic Corpora, formal or
functional approaches to Morphology, Morphosyntax, Semantics, Lexical
Phonology, Anthropological Linguistics, Pidgins and Creoles. 

Medieval: Spain’s Three Cultures; Medieval trade and travel, voluntary and
imposed; Celestinas and curanderas; Conquest and dispossession; feud building
and exile; botanica, real and metaphoric.

Golden Age: Science, Anatomy and Botany; cohabitation and expulsion of Jewish,
Muslim and Christian population; The New World; trade and exotic
collectionism; Wunderkammern; piracy.

Colonial:  Indigenous land dispossession, Transatlantic Trade, African
Diaspora, Plantation and Monoculture, the cultural lives of plants.

Contemporary: Border Studies; Migration, Diaspora and Refugee Crisis;
Detention and Family Separation; Art and Activism; Ecocriticism; Theories of
Roots and Rhizomes.

Portuguese: Amazon Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Transatlantic
Studies, Island Studies, Indigenous Studies, the roots of political
conservatism. 

Submission guidelines:
We welcome individual presentations and panels in Spanish, English, or
Portuguese that theorize, critique, or re-contextualize the conference theme.
Individual presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Proposals
containing a 200-250 word abstract, up to three keywords, institutional
affiliation (if any), and contact information may be sent to
kaleidoscopeuw at gmail.com. The submission deadline is August 15, 2021.

In-person and Online:
Kaleidoscope 2021 will be a hybrid in-person and online conference.
Participants may choose to present either in-person at UW-Madison’s Memorial
Union or online via zoom in English, Portuguese, or Spanish. Presentation
modality will not be factored into whether an abstract is selected. 

Conference organizers maintain the right to hold an all-online conference
should an in-person meeting pose a threat to the health and safety of
conference participants or the larger community.




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