[Catherine Marie Jaffe]

MULTICULTURAL IBERIA: 18th/19th-Century Iberian literature and culture in dialogue with plurality and difference. Race, labor and class consciousness, national and/or regional identity, migration, travel, gastronomy or other cultural expressions. 250-word abstract by 3/15 to wolterna@wfu.edu.

Non-Normative Sexual Practices/Sexualities in 18th-19thC Spanish and Iberian Cultures: Representations of resistance to, subversion of, and struggle with heteronormativities, and/or transgressions of sexual norms in 18th and 19th C Iberia. Brief cv and 150 word abstracts to msolino@central.uh.edu and nuf3@psu.edu by Mar 20.

Proposal for Joint Session: 18th-19th C. Spanish + Galdosistas: Translators’ tasks. Galdós and the 19th Century: This panel invites participants to consider the theme of persistence as it relates to translation and the work of Galdós and his contemporaries. The cultural history of the Spanish 19th century was built on the translation of literature. Galdós was both a translator and a promotor of original literature who lambasted bad translations of French popular works. How do we consider translation culture in both the 19th century and today? If, as Benjamin stated, translation is the afterlife of a work, or its persistence into our present, how do we consider the tasks of professors as translators? How do we translate the reading skills for the nineteenth-century novel to the present, when slow reading itself is an act of persistence and how do we, in non-anglophone fields, translate both our texts and contexts to the larger field of literature? Short version: metaphors of translation; afterlife and persistence of works in the present; relationship to reading, pedagogy, and the profession; Galdós. 150 word abstracts to surwillo@stanford.edu by Mar 5.

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