Hispanic and Latin American Studies Conference
Buffalo, New York

Convergencias Hispánicas/Hispanic Intersections
April 9-11, 1999

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Keynote Speakers include: Diana De Armas Wilson

POSSIBLE SESSION TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Homage to Mireya Camurati
• Tracing Hispanic Avant-Gardes
• Detective Fiction in Hispanic Literatures
• Borges: The Singular Writer and the Curious Reader
• Homage to Edward Dudley
• The Diva: The Galatea Discourse
• The Wild Man and Wild Woman in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures
• Hispanic and Celtic Convergences
• The Quijote in the Twenty-First Century
• Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Construction of Nationhood
• La literatura como agente de cambio en la sociedad hispánica
• La novela histórica de las últimas décadas
• Film Studies: Ideas and Images
• Hispanic Music and Art: Intersections of Theory and Practice
• Crossing Borders: Transculturalism and Transnationalism
• Language and Gender
• Spanish Retention Among U.S. Latinos
• Language Variation Reflected in Literature
• Student Attitudes in the Language Classroom
• Linguistics and Spanish Language Teaching

Papers for the twenty-minute presentations (ten-page maximum) may be in Spanish or English.
A volume of selected proceedings and related articles dedicated to Mireya Camurati and Edward Dudley is planned.

Please send a one-page abstract with a separate title page that states author's name, address, and phone number by November 23rd to:

Elizabeth Scarlett, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
910 Clemens Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York 14260-4620
Fax: (716) 645-5981, Phone: (716) 645-2191
email: scarlett@acsu.buffalo.edu