Alberto Castro Leñero

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine and UC-Mexicanistas announce the twenty-fourth annual Mexican Studies Conference to be held on April 26-28, 2018. This conference brings together academics from Mexico, the U.S., and other parts of the world who are conducting research on related themes.

At a time when many conversations on Mexican public life focus on forms of political and social violence, representations of the body often depict it as a receptor or propagator of violence. “The Body at its Limits” will provide a forum to address such current representations of the body, while also discussing the various complex, nuanced and perhaps even contradictory ways bodies are represented in Mexican literature, visual cultures, and the arts. 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 or panels that address the following themes:

Dissident sexualities and gendered bodies
The liminal body
The body as archive
The body and its traces
Disembodied subjectivities
Absent or disappeared bodies
Forms of corporeal violence
Memory and embodied knowledge
The body and the environment
Spectacle, performance and performativity
Racialized bodies
Commodified and monetized bodies
Abject and/or disposable bodies
Forms of corporal power and normativity

We will also consider papers or panels 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 by the deadline of January 16, 2018. Proposals should be submitted via google forms: Click HERE to submit your ABSTRACT. 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 12, 2018.

REGISTRATION: The fees for this year’s conference will be $45 for students and independent scholars and $55 for faculty until March 12, 2018. Afterwards, the cost will be $55 and $65 respectively.

HOTEL: Reservations should be made by March 25, 2018 to ensure room availability. Atrium Hotel 18700 MacArthur Blvd., Irvine, CA 92612

Call 1-800-854-3012 to make reservations: Reference UCI – Mexican Studies Conference

If you have questions, please contact: Gilberto Núñez
Email: ucimexconf@gmail.com
https://sites.uci.edu/jbncongresomexicanista/
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
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University of California, Irvine
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