CfP guaranteed panel Philadelphia, Jan 2024: ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Galician Im/Migration’

Submissions invited for guaranteed panel on Galician im/migration at MLA Convention in Philadelphia, 4 to 7 January 2024. Please submit 250 word proposal + short bio to Catherine Barbour (barbourc@tcd.ie) and Nicola Bermingham…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

A conference will be held on the theme of ‘Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Languages’ on 23-25 March 2023, hosted by the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin, Ireland. The deadline for submission of 250 word abstracts is Friday, 28 October 2022. Further information about the…[Read more]

‘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]

MLA Convention 2022

Session #546 Translingual Encounters: Linguistic Mobilities in Catalan and Galician Writing by Women sponsored by the LLC Galician Forum as part of the Presidential Theme ‘Multilingual US’.

SATURDAY, 8 JANUARY 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, EASTERN MARKET (MARRIOTT MARQUIS), WASHINGTON, DC.

Vémonos alí!

Please find below the invitation for proposals from Leland Spencer, editor of Women & Langauge.

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Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: 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…[Read more]

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Dear colleagues,

The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.

The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109

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Posting this at the journal’s request. There may be members interested in submitting work related to Galician:

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

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all…[Read more]

Dear colleagues and friends,

Just to let you know that I am standing for election for the executive committee of the LLC Galician Forum of the MLA, and would be very grateful for your support.  I am keen to bring international representation to the forum, and hope to collaborate with US-based colleagues whilst helping to coordinate Galician…[Read more]

Call For Papers
Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician
(Guaranteed Session, MLA Convention, Chicago, 3-6 January, 2019)

On the 35th Anniversary of the Galician Language Bill Lei de normalización lingüística (1983), it is time for Galician and international scholars to re-assess the process of language plannin…[Read more]

Call For Papers: Sempre en Nova Iorque: Galician Cultures in and from New York City (MLA Convention, New York City, 4-7 January, 2018)

From the second book of Castelao’s Sempre en Galiza (1940), Eugenio Granell’s work between 1958 and 1985, and Gonsar’s Cara a Time Square(1980) to more recent works such as López Silva’s New York, New Yo…[Read more]

The first-ever election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the Philadelphia convention in January. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

There are two  conferences taking place this summer that might be of interest to Galicianistas in this forum:

Identidades en transición: representacións culturais da diáspora galega, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), 16-17 June 2017. CFP and other info available here: http://identidades2017.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/call-for-papers/
Memoria encar…[Read more]

1) The Standardization of Galician: A Response to Language Contact and Change

Forum: LLC Galician
Inc. contemporary history/prospects for a Galician oral/standard variety; language standardization as a tool for language maintenance and revival. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Obdulia Castro (ocastro@regis.edu).

2) Round table: What is…[Read more]