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The Temple University Graduate Students of Spanish and Portuguese announce the “1st Annual Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Studies” to be held at Temple University, Main Campus, Philadelphia, PA from October 24-25, 2008.
Professor Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel from the University of Pennsylvania will give the keynote address.
The conference will present a series of panel presentations that will examine various topics in literature, culture and linguistics related to the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking worlds. All areas, genres, periods and themes are welcome, especially those in underrepresented areas (i.e. Catalan literature, Luso-Asian literature, Indigenous Literature, Quechua-Spanish contrasts, etc.). All papers will be presented in Spanish, Portuguese or English. The keynote address will be given in English.
Call for papers: Abstracts on any literary, cultural or linguistic topic are requested for 20-minute presentation. Abstracts of 300 words or less should be attached in either a PDF or Word file and sent to tucsps@temple.edu. Submissions may be in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Please include the name and the affiliation of the author(s) in the body of the email message. Panel proposals may also be submitted. All abstracts for a panel should be submitted with the panel proposal.
Deadline for abstracts submissions and panel proposals: August 1, 2008
Organizing Committee:
Kellye Hawkins (khawkins@temple.edu)
Pilar Maraví (pilarm@temple.edu)
Christine Poteau (cpoteau@temple.edu)
Lorena Santos Quiñones (lsantos@temple.edu)
For more details please visit our website:
http://www.freewebs.com/tucsps or email tucsps@temple.edu.
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