Call for papers: Transnationality in the Luso-Hispanic World
Call for papers 2010
The Graduate Students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the
University of California, Los Angeles, invite you to submit abstracts for the:
VII Annual Graduate
Student Conference
Transnationality in the
Luso-Hispanic World
to be held on
April 29-30, 2010
The Conference Committee invites proposals for single papers or complete
session panels from scholars of all levels related to transnationality across a
broad range of time periods and geographical regions.
Topics of exploration might include, but are not limited to:
- Anthropological and Historical perspectives
- Manifestations across various Media and the Arts
- Constructs of Identity in the Diaspora and Exile
- Imagined Communities and the Global City
- Gender Roles across Cultural Contexts
- Theoretical and/or Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Dialect change
- Development of New Speech Communities
- Language Maintenance or Loss
- Diglossia, Bilingualism and/or Multilingualism
Papers on a variety of other related topics that adhere to the conference
theme are welcome.
Deadline: The deadline for proposals is Friday, January 8, 2010. Respond
via email to: ucla.spanport.conference@gmail.com. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, title, email address, proposed paper title and a 250-word abstract. Please put “Conference Proposal” in your subject line.
The conference paper itself should have a transnational focus and be a maximum of ten pages in length, not including endnotes and/or bibliography. Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes, inclusive of any time needed for audio-visual setup.
Contact Information: ucla.spanport.conference@gmail.com
I Jornadas de Cultura, Lengua y Literatura Coloniales
Text by El Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos de UCLA
Photos by Bruce Tran and Nivardo Valenzuela
Famed Mexican writer and scholar Margo Glantz inaugurated the I Jornadas de Cultura, Lengua y Literatura Coloniales conference held at UCLA on November 19-21, 2009 with an informative and delightful presentation titled “El naufragio: ¿crónica, ficción, historia?”.
The event was organized by CECI (Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos), the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese and UC-Mexicanistas. The well attended conference brought together participants from several institutions in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Spain, France and Norway. The thirty papers, gathered into ten panels, demonstrated the vitality and wide range of research being conducted in the field of Colonial Studies today. Selected papers from the conference will be published in 2010.
Other plenary speakers included Professors Sara Poot Herrera (UCSB), Kevin Terraciano (UCLA), María José Rodilla (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), and Claudia Parodi (CECI, UCLA). UCLA participants and presenters included Professor Anna More and CECI members Ángela Helmer, Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Lizy Moromisato, Jimena Rodríguez, Belén Villareal and Bryan Green.
Members of CECI, an interdisciplinary research group housed at UCLA, founded and directed by Prof. Claudia Parodi, are currently working on an annotated edition of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Neptuno alegórico (1680). This project is being conducted in joint collaboration with the Universidad de Navarra’s Grupo Investigación Siglo de Oro (Griso) and it will be published by Iberoamericana Vervuert.
Distinguished Alumni Lecture 2009
Text by Arno Argueta
Photos by Cassandra Tesch
On November 5th and 6th, 2009, the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese presented Michael Gerli as the 2009 Distinguished Alumni. Started in 1998 and continued thanks to the generous contribution made by Shirley Aurora, the recognition is bestowed annually to department alumni who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievements in the field of Luso-Hispanic literature and linguistics.
Professor Gerli was treated to a welcome dinner reception on Thursday, November 5th in which his longtime personal friend and colleague, Professor John Dagenais, introduced him as the, “friendly, generous and open person we all know.” Among the attendees were Gonzalo Navajas, Harvey Sharrer, Sherry Velasco, Mary Coffey, Gloria Galvez-Carlisle and previous Distinguished Alumna Roberta Johnson in addition to department faculty, students, staff and other alumni.
The following day Professor Gerli presented a lecture on Americo Castro (1885-1972), a controversial historian who taught extensively at Universidad de Madrid and Princeton University. Professor Gerli synthesized Americo Castro’s perspective as one that proposes, “that Spaniards got ipseidad (oneness, identity) through the creation of different casts after the reconquista... [it was the] result of a need for convivencia …coexistence based on a mutual self-interest.” Stressing Castro’s ideals as “maybe the first cultural historian” and “an escape from historical canonicity,” he ended his speech with the assertion that “history remains an art and not a science.”
After receiving both his B.A. and Ph.D. from UCLA in 1968 and 1972, Professor Gerli went on to become one of the most renowned scholars in the field of Medieval Iberian literature. His book Reading, Writing and Rewriting in Cervantes (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995) was chosen as an “Outstanding Academic Book” by the American Association of College and University Libraries in 1996. He also edited Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2003). This year, Dr. Gerli will be publishing a new book, Celestina and the Ends of Desire, which he describes as “an attempt to understand the transformation, the goals and the ends of desire.”
Professor Gerli is currently at the University of Virginia but was previously at Georgetown University where he served as chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for twelve years.
In his remarks on Friday, November 6th, Dr. Gerli reminisced about his years at UCLA, which to him, is the institution “which gave me the foundations to appreciate literature in a great time for this department.” Dr. Gerli continues to describe the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese as “vox clamatix in deserto” (voice clamoring in the desert)—an institution that engaged “hispanismo from a new perspective: Americo Castro’s perspective.”
Graduate Students Help Clean Up Lydeen Library
Graduate students come out and cleaned up our Lydeen Library. Many thanks to those who helped out!
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