“Catalan Forms of Survival in the State of Insecurity”

Cultural, economic, social, political Catalan forms of subsistence, or insistence, in the midst of states of permanent insecurity. Abstracts by 15 March 2017; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).

Session Title: Engendering Different Catalan Enunciations
Session Organizer:  Anton Pujol

In a recent article (1/13/17), Paul B. Preciado argues that screens are the new skin of the world. They constitute the membrane of a new collective entity radically decentered and in the process of subjectivization. Like Gutenberg’s contemporaries, we ar…[Read more]

Please find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016. Send abstracts/panels to Edgar Illas eillas@indiana.edu

For outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies

COMPETITION GUIDELINES

1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or research institute in North America.

2) All studies published between the 1st of…[Read more]

Catalan Cinema and New Media

Papers should examine Catalan cinema and new media with a focus on the global, intercultural and transnational aspects of Catalan society. Send 300 word abstract to Anton Pujol at apujol@uncc.edu by March 15th.

2017 MLA (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)

Dear All,

Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the following publication that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (You can see any such items by clicking the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleague’s work and to perhaps share your own course materia…[Read more]