Deadline: February 3, 2020
Contact: Conference Organizers
Email: 2020tuspancon@gmail.com

Liminality in Literature and Language: Affect and Migration
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference
Temple University, April 10, 2020

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Junyoung Verónica Kim (University of Pittsburgh) / Dr. Rebeca Hey-Colón (Temple University)

New Submission Deadline: February 3, 2020

We are pleased to announce the FIRST ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University. We invite proposals from graduate students, professors, and independent scholars concerning liminal spaces in literature and other forms of cultural production, intersections of race, class, and gender, analyses of mobilizations and transgressions of borders, environmental and political crises, and social movements.

This year’s conference theme is liminality due to the political, socioeconomic, and ecological crises of our present. The problems of liminality intersect and organize spaces and our understandings of others and ourselves, of humans and nonhumans. As we reach a global tipping point, engaged reflection on the epistemological and political ramifications of our current circumstances—and the conditions which have produced them—are critically and ethically necessary.

We will consider a variety of topics including, but not limited to, scholarship in the following areas in literature, cultural studies, and/or linguistics:
Aesthetics
The Anthropocene
Bi-/Multilingualism
Biopolitics
Border and Migration Studies
Cognitive Linguistics
Critical Disability Studies
Critical Race Theories
Decolonial Theories
Ecocriticism
Environmental Studies
Feminist and Gender Theories
Heritage Language Education
Latinx Studies
Media Studies
Political Economy
Political Theology
Postcolonial Theories
The Posthuman
Psychoanalysis
Religious Studies
Rhetoric and Stylistics
Second Language Acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Socio-phonetics
Syntax/Semantics
Technology
Transoceanic Studies
Translation Studies
YA and Children’s Literature

Using the Google Form below, please submit abstracts of no longer than 250 words by February 3, 2020.

We encourage presentations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. However, please submit your abstract in English or Spanish.

https://forms.gle/H1f2s5WXsn583mcP6

For additional information, please do not hesitate to contact 2020tuspancon@gmail.com.
The conference is free and is open to the public.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Global Studies Program,
Dr. Hiram Aldarondo, and The College of Liberal Arts at Temple University.

Posted on January 21, 2020