Call for Papers | Women & Language  Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]

Dear friends,
Please join the LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Happy Hour.   As she usually does, Lisa Voigt has picked the coolest place: The Belmont Bar.    https://www.belmontseattle.com/

January 10th, 8:00 pm at the Belmont Bar.

518 Pike StreetSeattle 98122 206-557-0733

  46. Colonial Translation: Rendering Indigenous and Western Exchanges

Organizer and Chair: Galen Brokaw

THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 1:45 PM-3:00 PM, 203 (WSCC)

• Marlena Cravens, U of Texas, “Quechua Dictionaries: Catholicism and Tribute in the Wake of Castilian Conquest, 1535-1620”
• Ben Post, Murray State U, “Calderón reducido: Theological Drama in…

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The Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]

The Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]

The Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which translation shaped the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to what extent does…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

Here is the  list of the AHA 2019 Colonial Latin American History panels, you may find interesting

1. Religion and Society in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World

Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PMSalon 1 (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)Chair: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of WinnipegPapers:Becoming “…[Read more]

Guaranteed session of the of Colonial Latin American Forum

What can the study of African/Afro-descendent culture in colonial Brazil teach us about its presence elsewhere? Papers on the African presence in Brazil in isolation, connection, or comparison to other areas of colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract and cv to Lisa Voigt at voigt.25@osu.edu

CFP

2018 MLA Convention

Collaborative Session: GEMELA and Colonial Latin American Forum

As is known, misogynist scholarly and ecclesiastical practices challenged women’s cultural

production in seventeenth-century New Spain. Nevertheless, inconsistencies and insecurities

weakened gendered discourses, and women found ways to make their voices h…[Read more]

This special session seeks contributions that rethink the picaresque tradition from a colonial and post-colonial perspective.  Following the 2018 presidential theme, #States of Insecurity, papers may explore the journey of the precarious and vulnerable figure of the pícaro from Spain to Spanish America, and study how the picaresque is received, a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2017.

We hope to see you there!

Colonial Latin American Studies

<span data-term=”goog_370016640″>Thursday, 5 January</span>, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin A…[Read more]

This panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories.  The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]

This panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric  perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]

Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographies

This panel seeks papers on colonial ethnographic discourse in the context of Spanish imperialism. Numerous colonial texts engage in the description and interpretation of indigenous cultures, dealing with the complexities of transferring i…[Read more]

Dear Members,

The Forum for Colonial Latin American Literatures cordially wishes to invite you to the following events at MLA 2016. We hope to see you all very soon!

Best wishes,

Nicolás Wey Gómez

Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers

Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 209, JW Marriott

Happy Hour, Colonial Latin American Lit…[Read more]

“Circulating Spanish and European Texts in Colonial Latin America,” Angelica Duran, Purdue University.

I seek to nuance our understanding and appreciation the history of textual presence of both Iberian-Spanish canonical literature specifically and also European canonical literature more generally in Colonial Latin America. In the first hal…[Read more]