Keynote Speakers:
Desirée Bela-Lobedde, Independent Activist
Her work centers around racism and intersectionality. She writes about racism in Spain, prepares antiracist workshops, and her latest book, Minorías, is a compilation of interviews with people of color in Spain.
Dr. Cristina Burneo Salazar, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
University professor, writer, and translator. Her research areas are bilingual and border writing; and aesthetics linked to translation and contemporary migrations. Co-founder of the independent collective Corredores Migratorios.
The Graduate Students in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at The Ohio State University invite graduate students, professors, and interested researchers to participate in the 25th edition of the Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium, which will take place on March 25th-26th, 2022. On this occasion, we invite interested scholars to reflect and engage in a dialogue about any aspect of literatures and cultures in the Luso-Hispanic world, with an emphasis on race and gender.
For this virtual conference we welcome proposals for traditional papers, as well as other formats, including performance, creative writing, and video essay, among others. We accept proposals written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Speakers will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion questions.
Program:
Proposals should be submitted by February 15th, 2022 via EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/osuhalss2022
