New Typologies of (E/Im)Migration: Mobility and Transcultural Spaces. Santiago de Compostela. 8 – 10 October, 2015.

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New Typologies of (E/Im)Migration: Mobility and Transcultural Spaces. 20th Culture and Power International Conference. Santiago de Compostela. 8-10 October, 2015.

The 20th Culture and Power International Conference seeks to bring together scholars interested in issues of migration and mobility, with particular emphasis on the new patterns and typologies of (e/im)migration that have emerged in the 21st century and their representation in literature, the media, and the visual arts. More than ever before, migration is nowadays one of the factors that most powerfully contributes to the configuration of our current transnational and transcultural contemporaneity. Transnational forms of migration have served to destabilise cultural barriers and frontiers, putting to the test the ways in which nations and national imaginaries have traditionally been constructed or defined. Migration has created transcultural spaces that challenge the idea of the nation-state and its borders, showing that national and cultural identities are unstable, metamorphic and in a constant state of transformation. Such transcultural spaces are often sites where relations of power are tested and contested, where culture is productively transformed and where new hybrid and rhizomatic identities emerge. However, these processes have not always been perceived in positive terms, giving rise to ongoing debates surrounding national identity, citizenship, border regulations as well as individual and collective rights. Especially in a period of economic crisis such as the present, it is worth pondering the extent to which migrant regulation and policies are affecting or will affect current patterns and typologies of (e/im)migration.

We invite 20-minute papers that address these broad concerns. A potential – though not exhaustive – list of topics includes:

• Culture, power and transitional spaces
• Politics, space and mobility
• (E/Im)Migration and/or transculturality in literature and the visual arts
• Mobility, internationalism, transnationalism and transculturalism
• (E/Im)migrants, exiles, expatriates, refugees and asylum seekers
• Migration, identity, citizenship and belonging
• Gender and Migration
• The subversion of spatial and corporeal borders
• Transcultural spaces and transcultural bodies
• Linguistic transculturalities
• Migration, transculturalism and digital media
• Subversion, migration and new technologies
• Crime and law frontiers
• Literature and literary borderlands
• Transcultural worlds and fictions
• Migration in a (pre-/post-)economic crisis context
• Migration and the labour market
• Old and new patterns of migration in Europe
• Asia and Africa in their literature of migration
• The Irish diaspora and its literary representations
• Australian, Anglo-American and other (con)texts
• Anglo-Indian migratory movements

This Conference is part of a National Research Project entitled "New Typologies of European (E/Im)Migration and their Representation in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English", funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2012-38790), and is also sponsored by the Xunta de Galicia Research Network (R&D) "Lingua e Literatura Inglesa e Identidade II" (R2014/403).

The Conference is organized by the University of A Coruña, the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the University of Vigo, in collaboration with the Amergin University Institute (UDC), the Franklin Institute (UAH), the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies (IBACS), and the Bridge of Cultures Araguaney Foundation.

We invite 300-word abstracts to be sent to Dr. Noemí Pereira Ares at: noemi.pereira@rai.usc.es
The deadline for submissions is 15th July 2015. These proposals will be peer reviewed and acceptance will be notified before the end of July.

Each participant will have 20 minutes to present her/his paper, plus 10 minutes for discussion.
Selected papers will be published by an international publishing house.

For further information, please contact Dr. José Manuel Estévez-Saá (Conference Coordinator) at:
jose.manuel.estevez.saa@udc.es

Conference Fees: Regular registration fee 50 EUR (25 EUR for students and the unwaged). Please make the payment via bank transfer to the following recipient:

Payment Code: 790115 New Typologies
Name: Universidade da Coruña, CIF: Q6550005J
Bank name: Banco Santander
Bank Address: Rúa San Andrés, 145, 15003 A Coruña(España) Beneficiary bank account: ES76 0049 5030 1525 1601 1262 Beneficiary bank SWIFT code: BSCHESMM
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Venue and Accommodation: The conference will take place at the site of the Bridge of Cultures Araguaney Foundation, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In the same building, Hotel Eurostars Araguaney will offer very special discounts for those participating in the Conference and their relatives. Contact for information and reservations in the Hotel: reservas.eurostars@araguaney.com

Conference Coordinator:
José Manuel Estévez-Saá
Organizing Committee:
Julio Cañero Serrano
Antonio de Toro Santos
Ghaleb Jaber Ibrahim
María Jesús Lorenzo Modia
Manuela Palacios González
Noemí Pereira Ares
Martín Urdiales Shaw
Carlos Villar Flor
David Walton