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]

Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu

Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa

The use and interest…[Read more]

SESSIONS: FORUM OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES

Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers

 Chair: Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky

Engaging with the presidential theme for MLA 2016, “Literature and Its Publics,” this panel focuses on the material history of the production of texts – in both manuscript and printed forms – an…[Read more]

The Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures would like to invite you to join us for our annual Colonial Happy Hour at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
Colonial Happy Hour
Bellagio Wine Bar
Friday, January 9, 5 pm – 7 pm

Bellagio Wine Bar is located in the Convention Centre. More information may be found at the webs…[Read more]

The Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures has sponsored the following panels at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:

228. Connecting Spanish and Portuguese Empires 

Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 3, VCC East

428. The Enlightenment in the Colonies

Saturday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 17, VCC East

739. Indigenous Texts a…[Read more]

Call for papers for a special session on comparative media studies in Latin America to be held at the 2015 MLA convention. While most often comparative media studies is practiced in relation to emergent literacies and narrative forms in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, this panel invites proposals focusing on other historical periods as…[Read more]