CALL FOR PAPERS
IMAGINING FUTURES, RETHINKING THE PASTS
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine and UC-Mexicanistas announce the twenty-ninth annual Mexican Studies Conference to be held on May 1-3, 2025. This conference brings together academics from Mexico, the U.S., and other parts of the world who are conducting research on related themes.
The topic of Imagining Futures, Rethinking the Past allows us to reflect on the field of Mexican Studies in the first quarter of the 21st century. How do academics and writers approach the cultural cannon today? How has the notion of cannon, and its functions, changed over the past century? How has the place of literature shifted as the field has broadened to include cultural studies and the digital world? How do we think of Mexico from within and from beyond its borders in a globalized academic world? We invite scholars to reflect on the past and present of humanistic study about Mexico through literature, film, and other cultural productions, and to imagine and envision various possible futures for our profession.
- Questioning and reinventing the cannon
- New and old aesthetics
- Anachronistic temporalities
- Historical writing in the present
- Mexican cinema and its Golden Age, past and future
- Writing about and from Mexico today
- The digital world as applied to Mexican culture (Posthumanism, AI, Digital Humanities)
- Queer futurities
- Race and ethnicity
- Migration and future transnational identities
- Colonialism, slavery and forced displacement
- Indigenous futurisms
- Diasporic futures
- Ecocriticism and Eco Apocalyptic Futures
- Disability Justice
- Utopian and Dystopian Horizons
- Memory, identity and archive
- Science fictions, old and new
We will also consider papers or panels that explore other related themes in Mexican literature and culture.
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 January 24, 2025.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically via this Google Form. 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 February 21, 2025.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Rosa Beltrán and David Toscana
REGISTRATION
This year’s conference fees will be:
$60 US DLLS for students and independent scholars
$70 US DLLS for faculty until March 30, 2025.
Afterward, the cost will be $70 and $80 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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