Diálogos XVI, Graduate Student Research Conference in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Literature, and Culture

Daniel Runnels Announcement
Announcement Type
Conference
Location
Indiana, United States
Subject Fields
Graduate Studies, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Humanities

Diálogos is an interdisciplinary conference that invites original graduate student research in the fields of Hispanic and Lusophone literatures, linguistics, and cultures.  Diálogos strives to represent the diversity of research in the fields of linguistics and literatures and welcomes papers and presentations in a variety of subfields, including (but not limited to) linguistics variation, dialectology, language acquisition, pragmatics, semantics, phonology, syntax, bilingualism, historical and comparative linguistics, language contact, political, literary, and cultural theory, biopolitics, religion, gender, and film studies, and indigenous and first-peoples studies, as well as Transatlantic, African, Peninsular, and Latin American perspectives.

N. Michelle Murray, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University and author of Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture (2018) will be this year's Keynote Speaker in Hispanic Literature. Daniel Suslak, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, who specializes in anthropological linguistics of Mesoamerican languages, will be our Keynote Speaker in Hispanic Linguistics. Additionally, this year, for the first time, we are pleased to welcome a Keynote Speaker who specializes in Lusophone Literature, Dr. Lúcia Helena Costigan, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University.

Contact Information

gsac@indiana.edu

Contact Email
gsac@indiana.edu