LINGUIST List 26.4695
Thu Oct 22 2015
Calls: English, Spanish, General Ling/USA
Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashleylinguistlist.org>
Date: 21-Oct-2015
From: Allison Yakel <hsgso
uh.edu>
Subject: Second Annual Conference in Hispanic Studies
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Date: 22-Apr-2016 - 22-Apr-2016
Location: Houston, TX, USA
Contact Person: Allison Yakel
Meeting Email:
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http://hsgso.weebly.com
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English; Spanish
Call Deadline: 20-Dec-2015
Meeting Description:
The Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Organization (HSGSO) of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston cordially invites abstract submissions to the Second Annual conference in Hispanic Studies, New Academic (Re)visions, to be held on April 22, 2016.
The conference will focus primarily on the exploration of innovative approaches to the study of Hispanic literature and linguistics, with the objective of recovering contributions and other aspects of these disciplines that have traditionally been underrepresented or overlooked and establish new interdisciplinary dialogues.
The conference will emphasize, but is not limited to, the following topics:
Linguistics
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Second language teaching and acquisition
- Heritage language teaching and acquisition
- Language for specific purposes
- Language contact, variation and change
- Language and identity
Literature
- Race, gender and ethnicity
- Transnationalism
- Feminism and its intersectionalities
- Queer discourse
- Sociocultural tensions
- Immigration and exile
- Inequality and violence
- Activism and resistance
We are proud to announce the participation of the following plenary speakers:
- Dr. Lourdes Díaz Rodríguez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Dr. Sharon Keefe Ugalde, Texas State University
All relevant conference information will be published on hsgso.weebly.com and will continuously updated with the latest news.
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions from interdisciplinary perspectives written in Spanish or English.
- Call Deadline: December 20, 2015
- Notification of Acceptance: January 7, 2016
- Abstract Submission: Authors are asked to submit their abstracts (max. 250 words) to the address hsgso
uh.edu. Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10 minute question period.
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