MLA Commons | LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6c40929115590ed39ff22f250c94092e Lennie Amores uploaded the file: CFP: MLA Convention 2027 Los Angeles ( to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1945300/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:47:11 -0500 MLA Annual Convention
Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LLC 20th- and 21st- Century Spanish and Iberian Forum
Emancipatory Narratives of Aging
This guaranteed session will examine cultural and literary representations of aging, old age, and memory in Spain, its emancipatory potential, challenges to aging, ageism, discrimination,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d2331b86208f730b5a350865fdd59db Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941342/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:52:17 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 0b548460633c2324e68208139933c5fc Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890325/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:03:58 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cb4d0a697afc921ee33c648a9d21c34 Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037800 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:05:17 -0500 Adding a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular perspectives and…[Read more]

]]> 0 ace3f098733860d7a0095c40978f961f Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037799 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:04:36 -0500 A revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdf3168b9cf15bc2923b7d2ee01830ff Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037797 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:01:43 -0500 Revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

 

]]> 0 252823137734ad2cbec39196fbae7167 Lennie Amores started the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:15:37 -0500 MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section 

The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit their proposals for the following panels:  
Iberian Exteriorities
What are the dynamics at play in the historical, political, and theoretical configurations of Spai…[Read more]

]]> 0 640b48b3300cf32aca673427d4093274 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic MLA 2024 Convention session on modern Spanish memoir and autofiction in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2024-convention-session-on-modern-spanish-memoir-and-autofiction/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:54:14 -0500 You are cordially invited to a session sponsored by the Religion and Literature forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)

Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York…[Read more]

]]> 0 081e190f63265a7f2be65abc8f220002 Angela Acosta started the topic CFP Spanish Sapphic Modernity - Feminist Modernist Studies in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-spanish-sapphic-modernity-feminist-modernist-studies/ Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:51:57 -0400 CFP: Spanish Sapphic Modernity, Special Issue of Feminist Modernist Studies

Article proposals (250-300 words) and short bios (50-75 words) due by November 15.

Co-editors: Angela Acosta (Davidson College) and Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University)

Given the relative dearth of scholarship exploring sapphic modernism in Spain, Europe, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 d20c67e1cf376751ed1bd3fd4a839696 Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-counterdiscourses-of-family-undoing-the-ties/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 02:16:33 -0400 In this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:

  • Representations of chosen…

[Read more]

]]> 0 a2fcb94034912473c7363581c89357b7 William Viestenz started the topic CFP: 19th North American Catalan Society Colloquium in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-19th-north-american-catalan-society-colloquium/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:51:08 -0400 Dear colleagues,

The 19th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society will be held April 18-20, 2024, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Please see the attached CFP for more information on how to submit an abstract or panel proposal.

 

All best,

Bill Viestenz

]]> 0 322f4eb7c7d2ab1e1d178a2b5ec9f613 Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1833562/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:25:34 -0500 Salaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]

]]> 0 445e3e55bbd8db922bee7e5f7edb7bad Mary Kate Donovan started the topic TRECE Symposium 2022 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/trece-symposium-2022/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 10:54:35 -0400 CFP – TRECE Symposium 2022 to be held in person at Northwestern University, September 29 – October 1. Proposals for papers are due July 15, 2022 to ColectivoTRECE@outlook.com. Please see attached document for more details.

]]> 0 4171d21d6ac209d2d7d9557e35340f60 William Viestenz started the topic CfP MLA 2023 LLC Catalan Studies in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-llc-catalan-studies/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 02:25:56 -0500 Theories and Practices of Emotional Labor in Catalan Culture
Submissions related to emotional labor in Catalan culture from a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives, including histories of the emotions, affect theory, memory and trauma, practices of care, and the gendered division of labor. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 21 March…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9754fd99fde9c40526bef178c9e2646 Monica Lopez Lerma started the topic MLA 2023, CFP: LLC 20th- and 21st-century Spanish and Iberian  in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2023-cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-2/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:59:26 -0500 Law’s Violence in Contemporary Iberian Studies

Theoretical contributions or case-studies examining the relationship between law and violence, implicit or explicit, from a cultural studies approach. Please submit 250-word abstract and short bio to Mónica López Lerma (monlopez@reed.edu) by March 15, 2022.  

 

Medical Humanities in Contemporar…[Read more]

]]> 0 f76abb6f4736a8b726ec3be1cf0e0a1f Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic MLA Round Table on Unamuno - Moved Online in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-round-table-on-unamuno-moved-online/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:22:27 -0500 Dear colleagues,

In order to keep convention panelists and attendees safe, the round table “Miguel de Unamuno’s Resurgence in Contemporary Spanish Culture” (MLA session 652V)  has been moved online. I hope you can join us virtually on Sunday, January 9, at 10:15 am EST.

Kind regards,

Luis Álvarez-Castro

]]> 0 070997c04ecad34c85bb6a0e6459a850 Susan Larson deposited La vanguardia en la arquitectura española (1920-1936): ¿proyecto inacabado o proyecto indefinido? in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1763962/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:48:44 -0500 Este ensayo entra en el debate en España sobre el alcance que tuvo, entre 1920 y 1239, una posible “vanguardia arquitectónica”. Identificando “van­guardia” con “modernidad” y confundiendo lo que pudo ser un debate teórico con “signos” de los nuevos tiempos, la mayoría de lo que ya se ha escrito sobre el tema queda patente como fueron muchos temp…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3a321fef6ef280e5cbcafd1d93fbfe6 William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1761565/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:28:02 -0500 While many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 169b1f77ae6e36b02a7d228e848ea061 Catherine Barbour started the topic Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/womens-historical-fiction-across-the-globe-online-conference-28-29-october-2021-10/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:44:47 -0400 ‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London

This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 e60076e863a0b04acaf29c15488abb46 Susan Larson deposited Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755731/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 03:49:24 -0400 Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume examines Spanish cinema through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together the scholarship of an…[Read more]

]]> 0 940de51ed97ae6ca173ed1c814810786 Susan Larson deposited Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755714/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 02:28:42 -0400 How does one understand a filmmaker like José Antonio Nieves Conde, a Falangist whose films with strong neorealist tendencies were radically altered by the Francoist censors for being too critical of the economic injustices inherent to daily urban life after the Spanish Civil War? Many film critics have asked this question and this essay looks…[Read more]

]]> 0 682089fa56f1a6ecf6356201d354addc Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753541/ Sun, 03 Oct 2021 03:53:56 -0400 This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec12f10ca7aec0ac0eca3a92491aa151 Susan Larson deposited Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno's Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1751965/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 03:49:26 -0400 If we affirmatively answer Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw’s invitation to think beyond the ‘fetishization of the modern city’ as the pinnacle of human-centered progress and achievement in order to consider the urban as both a process of transformed nature and the metabolic and social transformation of nature through human labor, the city becom…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fb6badb2d6070a582a8d7321c48e914 Kathryn Anne Everly deposited En busca de la juventud perdida, reconciliación y desagravio en Carta al padre de Jesús Aguado in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1744959/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:28:11 -0400 Jesús Aguado’s recent book, Carta al padre (2016), deals openly with both physical and emotional trauma suffered at the hands of toxic masculinity. The poetic voice vindicates his younger self, abused by the father, through the written word that transfers power to the weak and disenfranchised. Lacanian naming and patriarchal structures (family,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8c8de7bc4e68cae0721ce5084d899e3 Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1744956/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:23:56 -0400 Libertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation
of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female
body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and
female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender,
the films question and ultimately…[Read more]

]]> 0 7737c3d1e7cde59653d29e5bf385a4c2 Rosi Song uploaded the file: CFP - Extended deadline for "En la mesa con Manolo: La gastronomía como acto cultural y político" to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742309/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:37:45 -0400 Extended deadline (July 31, 2021) for proposals (~300 words) for a special number on Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and gastronomy for Cuadernos de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Essays (in Spanish) due December 1, 2021. Proposals and queries to: José Colmeiro, j.colmeiro@auckland.ac.nz and/or H. Rosi Song, rosi.song@durham.ac.uk.

]]> 0 fb9bef3321814cfbd20196fde29e7dd9 Susan Larson deposited Trash as Aesthetic and Theme in Elvira Navarro's La trabajadora in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1735607/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:24:18 -0400 This essay focuses on one example of a collective desire to articulate new ways of thinking about and inhabiting urban space: Elvira Navarro’s 2014 _La trabajadora_, a novel that directly confronts the human cost of austerity measures in Spain by addressing the indignation experienced by those whose life plans have been altered by economic i…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a0908840e4ba544c2baa8e87b0a13f1 Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734299/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:54:55 -0400 Reveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”

]]> 0 e3f6f63b86754fc22b4dd1962cc3266a Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1734296/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:51:51 -0400 Review of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana

]]> 0 ab2990eed60e7c7ee9d64d60e6b98acf Susan Larson deposited Los modos literarios flexibles de ‘Vísceras de la ciudad’ (1935) de Rosa Arciniega in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732539/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:49:31 -0400 This is a two-part publication that contains a facsimile of the original story “Vísceras de la ciudad” by Rosa Arciniega (including an introduction) and a 7,500-word academic critical analysis of the story. Of interest to specialists in urban literature, women’s literature, social literature, and popular culture.

]]> 0 44b6287db9781cdb63bb342aa7bfd13f Susan Larson deposited Intermedialidad e intertextualidad en _Cinematógrafo_ (1936) de Andrés Carranque de Ríos in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1731441/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 03:48:43 -0400 En la década de 1990, el concepto ‘intermedialidad’ puso en contacto distintas disciplinas académicas (estudios literarios, estudios mediáticos, sociología, estudios cinematográficos e historia del arte) desde la intención por encarar y mejor comprender el ambiente cultural visual/escrito/auditivo que caracterizó los comienzos del siglo XX. Conect…[Read more]

]]> 0 787d85b264a408e0adeade1e16187a6d Jo Labanyi created the doc CFP Special issue of Romanic Review on "Iberian Materialities" edited by Jo Labanyi in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1730472/ Sun, 07 Mar 2021 23:47:13 -0500 0 3dad0c2fdcd5decda771176a59c73a9d Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP Volume on Agustín Fernández Mallo in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-volume-on-agustin-fernandez-mallo/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:42:44 -0500 Call for papers: Essay proposals for a volume on the work of Spanish poet, novelist, and essayist Agustín Fernández Mallo, to be edited by Ana León-Távora (Salem College) and Zachary Rockwell Ludington (U of Maine).

Following our MLA 2021 panel, “General Trash Heap of Theory: Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Iconoclastic Aesthetics,” we invite abst…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cde92562d4efc28c75f3a5d0d1a4d27 Susan Larson deposited Madrid Río, El Matadero and the Nature of Urbanization in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727978/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:41:27 -0500 This essay considers two closely related high-profile urban renewal projects that have altered the landscape of the southern region of Madrid since 2007: Madrid Río and El Matadero Madrid Centro de Creación Contemporánea. While the former is often cast as renovating the ‘natural’ ecology of the city and the latter a renovation of its cultural la…[Read more]

]]> 0 3cc39534407b4e337f005a8fc20cb9db Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2022-forum-panels-in-20th-21st-century-spanish-iberian-circulate-apply-2/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:21:17 -0500 Gender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021

Benita Sampedro…[Read more]

]]> 0 83f585db230fe06a547da5fa06496a41 Sarah Thomas started the topic MLA 2022 Forum Panels in 20th/21st Century Spanish & Iberian: Circulate & Apply! in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2022-forum-panels-in-20th-21st-century-spanish-iberian-circulate-apply/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:19:39 -0500 Gender and Black Subjectivities in Spain Today
What radical acts of visibility and resistance are being mobilized by the work of Afro-descendants in Spain? What genres, visual and verbal imagery are used to subvert gender and racial categories to redefine Spain today?

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021

Benita Sampedro…[Read more]

]]> 0 004272cde5493f7e22dc6a7fc92d5688 Mary Kate Donovan started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2022-cfp-the-politics-and-poetics-of-translation-in-the-global-hispanophone-2/ Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:48 -0500 The Politics and Poetics of Translation in the Global Hispanophone

Multilingualism within the Global Hispanophone signals the past colonial routes and present migratory flows that complicate the social cohesion national literatures purport to consolidate. Issues of translation, therefore, are steeped in both national and regional tensions,…[Read more]

]]> 0 7eb440079147ee520180df4fce9d838e Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP MLA2022 Translingual Iberia: Peripheries and Mobilities in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-mla2022-translingual-iberia-peripheries-and-mobilities/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 07:50:16 -0500 Please send 250 word abstracts for a proposed panel at MLA2022 on trans- and multilingualism in cultural production of the Iberian Peninsula. Studies of works by migrant cultural producers and/or in non-state languages particularly encouraged.

Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 15, 2021 to Catherine Barbour, University of Surrey…[Read more]

]]> 0 a486c66e6d7eb3e96d59b128848e114b Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Espacios de la memoria. Marcel Proust y Juan Benet in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1715385/ Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:50:32 -0500 In recent years it has been recognized that Proust profoundly influences different Spanish narrators (see H. Craig, also for Latin American literature), and in this work it is shown how in the syntax, the type of narrator, the construction of the scene and other aspects in Juan Benet’s narrative show the Prustian influence.

]]> 0 ec759bba1f67752daaec1844e9799f98 Epicteto Díaz-Navarro deposited Kafka en España: unas notas sobre Carmen Martín Gaite y Enrique Vila-Matas in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1715384/ Tue, 03 Nov 2020 03:48:44 -0500 Franz Kafka is one of the most influential writers in Spanish narrative since the post-war period, from the beginnings of the work of Carmen Martín Gaite, to Enrique Vila-Matas, one of the most widely translated and well-known current novelists.

]]> 0 baac38f29b8c8a7eca536ed74a840ba5 Ana León-Távora started the topic Invitation Book Presentation in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/invitation-book-presentation-2/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:29:10 -0400 Dear colleagues,

I would like to invite you to the presentation of the English translation of Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Pixel Flesh (Carne de Píxel) by my dear colleague and friend Zachary Rockwell Ludington.

The Embassy of Spain will host an online presentation and reading on Friday, October 9 at 3pm EST. Zachary will be joined by Agu…[Read more]

]]> 0 b69364e4a902de46981142c81ed842d3 Ana León-Távora started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-acla-2021-online-2/ Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:04:44 -0400 Dear colleagues:

I’d like to invite you to submit a proposal for the seminar at ACLA that I am organizing together with Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego.

Title: The Shaping of Afro-Spaniard Identities: From the Colonial View to Counternarratives of Blackness within Spanish Culture (1920-2020)

Description: The numerous protests against systemic racism…[Read more]

]]> 0 02f9762a7d5f09d4a4c98cd0365d8669 Erin K. Hogan started the topic CFP due Oct 31st for ACLA online April 8-11, 2021 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-due-oct-31st-for-acla-online-april-8-11-2021/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:09:53 -0400 Colegas, I would like to invite you to submit to an ACLA seminar that I’m proposing. The conference will be held virtually between April 8-11. I include the CFP below. I hope that you will consider submitting! Salud y saludos, Erin

Spanish Society Must Be Defended?: Revisiting Foucault, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty Today This proposed seminar rev…[Read more]

]]> 0 76d5a33dee1847a870012a041ac71fc2 Carmen Moreno-Diaz started the topic CFP ACLA 2021 (online) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-acla-2021-online/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:30:03 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Please find attached the CFP for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference that this year will take place online.

We look forward to your participation!

Saludos a todxs, y buen comienzo de semestre!

Carmen.

]]> 0 c2b9f276ecf1a9141f463f6665d42b1a William Nichols deposited Viajes al futuro y sociedad del simulacro: Modernidad, Disneyficación y ruinas de la resistencia en Quinteto de Buenos Aires de Manuel Vázquez Montalban in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692262/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:48:58 -0400 A lo largo de la obra de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, tanto en las obras dentro de la serie Carvalho como fuera y en la producción de libros no-ficción, el viaje sirve para como ímpetu narrativo además de eje temático para indagar las contradicciones de la globalización y explorar la memoria como estrategia de resistencia. Por un lado, el viaje o…[Read more]

]]> 0 df9b17793e0f11679aeeaa6636941bc2 Dan Connor started the topic Solicite una beca de la Bibliografía Internacional de la MLA in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/solicite-una-beca-de-la-bibliografia-internacional-de-la-mla/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:57:42 -0500 La fecha límite de solicitud es el 1 de abril de 2020

La Bibliografía Internacional de la MLA (MLAIB) está aceptando solicitudes para becas de tres años para bibliógrafos externos. Los becarios de la MLAIB sirven como bibliógrafos externos que examinan textos académicos, escriben resúmenes informativos, y entregan citas bibliográficas para ser…[Read more]

]]> 0 169d43589c06c24fe32b781dee91106b Isabel Jaén-Portillo replied to the topic Award-Winning Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo participating tonight in Session 178 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/award-winning-filmmaker-almudena-carracedo-participating-tonight-in-session-178/#post-1023045 Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:50:29 -0500 Dear all,

I am attaching a coupon to obtain Almudena Carracedo’s film The Silence of Others with a MLA discount.

Best regards,

Isabel

 

]]> 0 6f078568ca88872a4eca78adc77c7c67 Francesco Ardolino deposited ‘Our environment is modernising’ in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674897/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:49:18 -0500 A Joan Maragall Dictionary should be written. It would contain a relatively limited number of lexemes—Fifty? Sixty?—and, in the first place, the approaches that the author himself had made to those words should be added, despite being contradictory….

]]> 0 d1ca9a7ff8e43e6c7a62269579617201 Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic Award-Winning Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo participating tonight in Session 178 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/award-winning-filmmaker-almudena-carracedo-participating-tonight-in-session-178/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:19:35 -0500 Dear colleagues,

Just a quick reminder that Spanish film director Almudena Carracedo, 2019 Goya winner for Best Documentary Feature, will be participating tonight Thursday, 9 January 2020 in Session 178 The Silence of Others and the Fight for the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain.

Here is the link to her award-winning film https://thesilence…[Read more]

]]> 0 459481ee828764ef9d427a156678e812 Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Seminar proposal ALCESSXXI: Artes discursivas, neoliberalismo y crisis in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/seminar-proposal-alcessxxi-artes-discursivas-neoliberalismo-y-crisis/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:08:48 -0400 Convocatoria. Queridas/os colegas, estoy preparando un seminario para ALCESXXI en Uviéu / Oviedo del 13 al 15 de julio de 2020. Más abajo agrego información. Interesados escribirme a aribascasasayas@scu.edu. Información sobre la conferencia en http://www.alcesxxi.org/home/ Hay que ser miembro de ALCESXXI para poder participar. Favor de difundir a per…[Read more]

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