Cfp Ut 2009

18th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics Department of Spanish and Portuguese The University of Texas at Austin

CALL FOR PAPERS Merging Textualities, Emerging Paradigms in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics November 13th - 14th, 2009 Hosted by the Graduate Student Organization, this colloquium is organized to provide graduate students with an opportunity to share their current work and research interests. Debra A. Castillo Cornell University Literature Keynote Speaker

Scott Schwenter Ohio State University Linguistics Keynote Speaker

The medium is the message. Using this conceptual framework, our conference will explore how historical changes in media from the oral to the digital lead to the emergence of hybrid literary forms and the constant reinvention of literariness itself. With the revolution of (e)merging technologies as our schema, we seek pluralistic and interdisciplinary research on the dynamic network linking modes of communication, mass media and textuality.

In this Colloquium we seek to explore new and innovative ways to approach linguistics and its idiosyncrasies. While the field has had a long trajectory, our focus is towards the emerging perspectives that will pave the way that lies ahead. We also aspire to comprehend the consequences and implications of these upcoming outlooks.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

New challenges for SLA learners in the globalized world • Current tendencies in bilingualism and education • Multilingualism: clashing identities • Relimiting definitions of language • Language expansion and power • Idiosyncrasies in Syntax and Semantics Interface • Reinterpreting meaning and form • Experimental phonology and phonetics • Pragmatics of intercultural situations • Novel focuses on Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics • Discourse analysis of multiple modalities

Manuscripts, archives and cartography • The sublimation of the oral and the primacy of the visual • Rise and fall of the Lettered City • Journalism and/as literature • From the page to the stage and screen • Words, music and images • Agency, memory and witness bearing • Gender performativity • Hybrid Genres: Factual fiction, reality and verisimilitude • Silence in texts and silenced texts • Writing in the age of blogs, collective authorship and digitalization

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Papers in English, Portuguese and Spanish will be considered. Reading time of final papers is limited to 15 minutes. The organizing committee encourages submissions of panels (not to exceed three papers) organized around a specific topic, author, theory or work. Papers in Portuguese are strongly encouraged. Please submit an abstract of approximately 250 words electronically by July 15th, 2009 to [email protected] Do not include any personal information on the abstract. Instead, on a separate page please include the following: title of presentation, name of participant, affiliation, and e-mail. The general registration fee for all presenters is $30 (or a $40 on-site attendance registration). Upcoming website: http://web.austin.utexas.edu/18coloquio/