Conference on the Historical Links Between Spain & the Americas
The advent and consolidation of new technologies and social movements, added to the challenges created by climate change and population displacement, have put the concept of Democracy to the test glocally. That is to say that local socio-cultural phenomena are now articulated to global trends and changes in the globalized market for cultural capital (Social Media), […]
Johns Hopkins University Graduate Conference
We are pleased to share with you the Call for Papers for our Graduate Conference entitled Unraveling the Archive, scheduled for April 11-12, 2025. For submissions, please complete the following form before the deadline on January 31st, 2025: https://forms.gle/s1WMNeMmhZgY5kqG7 For any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at apinard1@jhu.edu We greatly appreciate […]
Harvard French Graduate Conference
The French section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce a call for contributions for its upcoming graduate conference, scheduled for April 4, 2025, on the theme ‘The Institution (L’institution).’ Additional information. Abstract submissions are due by January 17, 2025.
Yale Spanish & Portuguese Grad Conference
The graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University are organizing the Entre Lugares Graduate Student Conference, scheduled for April 4–5, 2025. More details can be found in the Call for Papers. For any questions or submissions, please feel free to reach out to us at sport.gradconf@yale.edu. Deadline to submit abstracts: […]
Sanchez Presents on Ana Lydia Vega
Jorge Sanchez, doctoral student in Hispanic Language & Literatures, recently presented at the Jornadas de Literatura Puertorriqueña 2024. He tells us: “My presentation analyzed Ana Lydia Vega’s prose, contrasting it with other Latin American writers of her time. I also discussed how her work connects with contemporary authors like Schweblin, Enríquez, and Rivera Garza, highlighting […]
UCLA – 54th Mester
This year, I am the editor-in-chief of Mester, the graduate-run journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. Mester publishes academic articles, interviews, and book reviews on Iberian, Latin American, Brazilian, Luso-African, and Chicanx literature, culture, and linguistics. Mester seeks articles from transdisciplinary and multimedia perspectives examining the historical and contemporary tensions in Latin […]
University of Pennsylvania Grad Conference
University of Pennsylvania Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies FIGGS Graduate Conference: 04/26/2025 Reimagining Collage Although the technique of collage as an art form first appeared in medieval Europe as early as the 13th century, the term was only officially coined by art historians after 1900, under the influence of André Breton and the […]
Alumna Sarli Mercado Promoted
Sarli E. Mercado, a 2007 graduate of our doctoral program in Spanish Language & Literatures, has been promoted to Full Teaching Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Congratulations! Mercado is a literary critic and author of Cartografías del destierro: en torno a la poesía de Juan Gelman y Luisa Futoransky. (Cartographies of Exile: On the […]
Boston College Graduate Student Conference
Graduate Student Conference “Queer Forms: Identity Narratives and Transformative Aesthetics” March 28, 2025 — March 29, 2025 Forms—whether literary, corporeal, or the shapes of the communities and traditions we embrace or resist—can serve to categorize and confine or to liberate and synthesize, opening up new possibilities for our lives and our art. This conference, “Queer […]
French Film Festival Concludes Successful Run
The Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival at Boston University has just wrapped up another successful season! Co-organizers Fargol Khosravanifard, Eleonora Mancuso, and Kara Saar were delighted with how the seven Francophone films selected this year brought their theme — Monsters: The Beasts Among Us — to life and were pleased to see the screening room filled […]