Spanish and Portuguese History / Studies

Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas is an international scientific publication issued by the Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas «Alberto Benveniste» dedicated to publishing original research studies, documents and book reviews with the subject of the Portuguese Sephardic communities and Diaspora. Its periodicity is biannual, and the first number was published in 2001. Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas is indexed to the international databases Latindex and Qualis/CAPES. WorldCat.

The history of free ports research network is organising a number of conferences in the next years, in order to work towards a standard publication and interactive research platform for the history of free ports from the 16^th to the early 20^th century.

The University of Alabama Languages Conference

February 8 – 9, 2019

The organizing committee of the ninth annual University of Alabama Languages Conference is pleased to welcome abstract submissions for this year’s conference entitled “The Words that Shape Us: Language, Culture and Identity” to be held February 8-9, 2019, at Hotel Capstone.

 Strands

We invite abstracts about all languages and all areas of Literature and Linguistics, including, but not limited to:

Hispanic Adaptations

The topic of this seminar is the presence of the “chicas raras” in Modern Spanish literature, also known as “queer women” in English. Queer is the perfect conceptual framework to think about how Spanish authors explore feminist themes, such as discrimination or inequality using their narratives as a tool to examine tensions in female subjectivity.

Call for creative proposals for NeMLA 2018 in Washington D.C. March 21-24, 2019.

International Colloquium 'Latin American Agrarian History, 1800 to the Present: Issues, debates and research perspectives"

Centro de Historia Económica, Facultad de Administración y Economía (FAE), Universidad de Santiago de Chile

International Cooperation Project REDES 170026 'Rethinking the Agrarian History of Latin America'

NEW DATES: 13-14 December 2018   and   EXTENDED DEADLINE: 1 October 2018

We invite you to participate in the conference The Nineteenth-Century in 2019. Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century to be held at California State University, Long Beach, Friday April 26-Saturday 27, 2019. 

Fashion and film have long been sources of mutual inspiration, with films focusing on the fashion industry and fashion designers taking ideas from icons of the silver screen. As a phenomenon that is inherently visible, external, and communicative, fashion becomes a powerful outward signifier of an individual or collective identity. Similarly, film engages in a sustained dialogue with the world it both reflects and influences, creating an exterior, aesthetic, and visible representation of groups, cultures, or identities.

Abstract: En este panel se analizarán utopías y distopías en la Ciencia Ficción como mecanismos para la representación de espacios transnacionales. Se abordarán productos de la cultura hispana que problematicen conceptos como la identidad, la raza, el género, la nación o la postnación en estos espacios ¿Cómo son los ámbitos en los que operan las fuerzas transnacionales, ej. la frontera, los mercados, el cuerpo?