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Please confirm your assistance by Feb. 20, 2024
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at U.C. Irvine and U.C. Mexicanistas announce the twenty-eight Mexican Studies Conference to be held on April 18-20, 2024. This conference brings together academics from Mexico, the U.S., and other parts of the world who are conducting research on related themes.
This year’s conference will provide a forum to address past and current representations of Care and Repair. We encourage submissions from across disciplines, including but not limited to literary, gender, visual, media and performance studies, as well as religious studies, history, anthropology, political and social sciences. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in papers or panels that address the following themes:
Magali Lara & Mariana Mora
Sara Poot-Herrera
Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Papers and presentations for the conference may be in either Spanish or English. Presentations have a maximum length of 20 minutes, equivalent to approximately 8 double-spaced pages.
If you would like to present a proposal, please submit a 200-word abstract by the deadline of January 16, 2024. Abstracts should be submitted electronically via this Google Form: Click HERE to submit your ABSTRACT. The abstract submission should include: your name, telephone number, email, information about any required accommodations, academic status and affiliation, the title of your presentation, a 200-word abstract, and a short-bio. If you have problems with the submission process, please email: ucimexconf@gmail.com.
The selection committee will respond to all proposals by Friday, February 9, 2024.
Please confirm your assistance by Feb. 20, 2024.
This year’s conference fees will be:
$55 US DLLS for students and independent scholars
$65 US DLLS for faculty until March 20, 2024.
Afterward, the cost will be $65 and $75 respectively.
If you have questions, please contact:
UCI Mexicanistas (ucimexconf@gmail.com)
Jacobo Sefamí (jsefami@uci.edu)
Viviane Mahieux (vmahieux@uci.edu)
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XXV Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa
Mexican Studies Conference
University of California, Irvine
May 2-4, 2019
{ Poetic Discourses at Play }
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at U.C. Irvine and U.C. Mexicanistas announce the twenty-fifth annual Mexican Studies Conference to be held on May 2-4, 2019. This conference brings together academics from Mexico, the U.S., and other parts of the world who are conducting research on related themes. In its 25th anniversary, the conference will center on, but will not be limited to, poetic discourses that pertain to Mexican writers who emerged as poets in the 21st century. We aim to highlight the diversity of Mexican poetics by focusing on the following:
TOPICS
• Poetry in Indigenous languages and the adaptation or resistance to modern Western writing;
• Pastiche, parody, and textual interventions in relation to old or new documents;
• Violence, intertextuality, and the collective voice;
• Voices in ruins and devastation as recurring topics of hopelessness
• Representations of the lyric in narration, self-fiction, essays, and other genres.
One of our goals is to examine the most important emerging discourses of the 21st century as a way to look back and reevaluate how Mexican literature has evolved over the last two decades and throughout its history. Such topics will enable us to reflect on the state of poetic discourses in past and contemporary Mexican literature and develop new critical tools to approach new literary generations with a transhistorical perspective.
Keynote Speakers TBA.
GUIDELINES
Papers should be written in either Spanish or English. Presentations are limited to no more than 20 minutes (8 pages double-spaced). If you are interested in reading an original paper, please submit a 200 word abstract electronically by the deadline of January 31, 2019. Proposals should be submitted via Google Forms: submit your abstract HERE. Include the following information: title of the presentation, name of participant, affiliation, academic status, short-bio, telephone number, and email. If you have any problems with the submission process, please email: ucimexconf@gmail.com The selection committee will respond to all proposals by February 28, 2019.
REGISTRATION
The fees for this year’s conference will be $45 US DLLS for students and independent scholars and $55 US DLLS for faculty until March 28, 2019. Afterwards, the cost will be $55 and $65 respectively.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Alejandra Castellanos
Email: ucimexconf@gmail.com
https://sites.uci.edu/jbncongresomexicanista/
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
322 Humanities Hall
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5275
Office: (949) 824-6901 / Fax: (949) 824-2803
XXIII Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa
Mexican Studies Conference
University of California, Irvine
April 13 – 15, 2017
Precarious Archives, Shifting Memories
Keynote Speakers:
ÉLMER MENDOZA
SARA SEFCHOVICH
CARLOS MARTÍNEZ ASSAD
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine and UC-Mexicanistas announce the twenty-third annual Mexican Studies Conference to be held on April 13-15, 2017. This conference brings together academics from Mexico, the U.S. and other parts of the world who are conducting research on related themes.
This year’s topic, “Precarious Archives, Shifting Memories” (Archivos precarios, memorias cambiantes), is inspired from the term “shifting baselines” often used in the natural sciences to describe how, from one generation to the next, the idea of normalcy can shift, thus rendering invisible the true extent of loss over a greater period of time. The term is usually used to discuss matters related to ecological conservation and human exploitation of natural resources, but it is particularly pertinent to connect ecocriticism with issues such as violence and memory in Mexican culture. When official archives are incomplete, falsified or prone to disappear, what roles are played by other forms of cultural memory? How do cultural narratives evolve over time? How are archives reconfigured and reinvented? How can slow forms of violence, such as the gradual erosion of human rights, economic resources, public space and the natural environment be rendered visible?
We encourage submissions from across disciplines, including but not limited to: literary, visual, media and performance studies, as well as religious studies, history, anthropology, political and social sciences. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in papers that address the following themes:
We will also consider papers that explore other themes in Mexican literature and culture.
Papers should be written in either Spanish or English. Presentations are limited to no more than 20 minutes (8 pages double-spaced). If you are interested in reading an original paper, please submit a 200 word abstract electronically to ucimexconf@gmail.com by the deadline of January 16, 2017. Proposals should include the following information: title of the presentation, name of participant, affiliation, academic status, mailing address, telephone and email. The selection committee will respond to all proposals by February 10, 2017.
Registration fees for this year’s conference will be $35 for students and independent scholars, and $45 for faculty until March 11, 2016. Afterwards, the cost will be $45 and $55 respectively.
Hotel reservations should be made by March 22nd to ensure room availability. Contact Ayres Hotel, 325 Bristol St • Costa Mesa, CA, 92626 • Tel. (800) 322-9992
If you have questions, please contact:
Dr. Jacobo Sefamí or Dr. Viviane Mahieux
Email: ucimexconf@gmail.com
https://sites.uci.edu/jbncongresomexicanista/
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
322 Humanities Hall
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5275
Office: (949) 824-6901 / Fax: (949) 824-2803