CONVOCATORIA/CALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Ethnic Studies Program, and the Alianza Latina/Latin Alliance group at Case Western Reserve University are pleased to host the 15th Ohio Latin Americanist Conference for the year 2016. We invite all Latin Americanists and Latina/o Studies scholars, educators, and students from institutions of higher education to participate in this annual meeting on the status of Latin American and Latina/o Studies.
The Ohio Latin Americanists Conference therefore announces its new call for the incoming conference on October 21-22 of this current 2016, at Case Western Reserve University. The topic for this version will revolve around...
BORDER/LESS NATIONS
Frontiers, immigration, bilingualism and contact zones
Recently, we have witnesses in the United States of America, a new round of discussions, debates and vitriolic condemnation of topics like immigration, security, walls, racial discrimination and the renewed but urgent need to look for a more equalitarian country. In this context, where a consensus is hardly attainable, academics struggle to find an answer to the multiple questions that these issues arise. Is it the TPP the new free market agreement that will replace NAFTA? How geopolitical strategies modify or conflict with cultural trends? Are we heading to a new Cold War era? What has to do the new Cuba-US climate in all this? Is the Latin American progressive governments condemned to an end?
In order to approach different responses to all these topics, the organizing committee of OLAC 15th will be accepting topics related with (but not limited to) the following:
1) Economics of immigration
2) Political consequences of immigration
3) What language(s) should be spoken in US?
4) Literary, Visual and Sound representations of the Immigrant.
5) How does Mexico deal with the immigration in its territories?
6) Bolivians in Argentina, Peruvians in Chile, Colombians in Venezuela:Towards a multicultural Latin America?
7) Transatlantic connections: Latin American literature outside Latin America
8) Cuba-US: thawing the Caribbean?
9) Dominican Republic vs Haiti: race, poverty and Junot Díaz
Please send a 200 word abstract for individual papers or panels (with all participants’ names) to olacohio@gmail.com, by May 31, 2016. The guest speaker(s) will be announced shortly.
For more information contact the Co-Organizers of OLAC 2016:
Dr. Cristián Gómez Olivares (cgg19@case.edu), Dr. Damaris Punales–Alpizar (dxp204@case.edu), Dr. Gabriela Copertari (mgc6@case.edu) and Dr. Jacqueline Nanfito (jcn@case.edu). Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, Ohio. 44106.
