Call for Papers

Liminality in Literature and Language: Affect and Migration

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference

Virtual Conference Date: February 5, 2021 (Zoom Webinar)

Keynote Speakers: Junyoung Verónica Kim (University of Pittsburgh) / Rebeca Hey-Colón (Temple University)

New Submission Deadline: Submission Deadline: December 31, 2020

Contact us at 2020tuspancon@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

We are pleased to announce the FIRST ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University. We invite proposals from graduate students, professors, and independent scholars concerning liminal spaces in literature and other forms of cultural production, intersections of race, class, and gender, analyses of mobilizations and transgressions of borders, environmental and political crises, and social movements.

This year’s conference theme is liminality due to the political, socioeconomic, and ecological crises of our present. The problems of liminality intersect and organize spaces and our understandings of others and ourselves, of humans and nonhumans. As we reach a global tipping point, engaged reflection on the epistemological and political ramifications of our current circumstances—and the conditions which have produced them—are critically and ethically necessary. We will consider a variety of topics including, but not limited to, scholarship in the following areas in literature, cultural studies, and/or linguistics:

Aesthetics 

The Anthropocene

Bi-/Multilingualism

Biopolitics

Border and Migration Studies

Cognitive Linguistics

Critical Disability Studies

Critical Race Theories

Decolonial Theories

Ecocriticism

Environmental Studies

Feminist and Gender Theories

Heritage Language Education

Latinx Studies

Media Studies

Political Economy

Political Theology

Postcolonial Theories

The Posthuman

Psychoanalysis

Religious Studies

Rhetoric and Stylistics

Second Language Acquisition

Sociolinguistics

Socio-phonetics

Syntax/Semantics

Technology

Transoceanic Studies

Translation Studies

YA and Children’s Literature

Using the Google Form below, please submit abstracts of no longer than 250 words by December 31, 2020

We encourage presentations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. However, please submit your abstract in English or Spanish. https://forms.gle/CyFmsotvsxrq5MHe6

For additional information, please do not hesitate to contact 2020tuspancon@gmail.com.

The conference is free and is open to the public.