The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce

The 19th Annual Hispanic & Lusophone Studies Symposium: Literary and Cultural Studies: Dimensions of Violence in Luso-Hispanic contexts

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Brian Gollnick

and

OSU Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics in concert with (CASPSLaP) Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Timothy Face and Dr. Patricia Amaral

Columbus, Ohio April 15-16, 2016

Please visit our website for videos and additional information about our speakers’ work.

Abstract Submissions

Submission deadline: Friday January 15, 2016

Literary and Cultural Studies: We welcome papers that explore the distinct literary and cultural manifestations of violence in Luso-Hispanic contexts such as Latina/o, Latin American, and Iberian studies across a wide range of historical periods and academic disciplines. Possible themes include but are not limited to: torture, state violence, terrorism, violence in relation to gender, racial macro and micro-aggressions, economic, social and cultural oppression, trauma and memory, etc. We strive to deepen our understanding of historical changes and contexts that shape particular violent episodes as well as common threads that may unite them across geographic and temporal divisions.

Submission guidelines: Abstracts are welcome in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Abstracts should be submitted as .PDF or .Doc files, and should be limited to 250 words. Please include a paper or panel title and your contact information (name, specialization, email and affiliation) and send to symposium_sppo@osu.edu with the subject “Literatures and Cultures”.

Please contact our organizers Stacey Alex, Christian Supiot, and Miguel A. Valerio with any questions.

Linguistics: We welcome papers dealing with any theoretical aspect of Hispanic or Lusophone Linguistics, including but not limited to: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, semantics, and syntax. Talks will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion and may be given in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. We also welcome papers that discuss creoles or indigenous languages of Hispanic and Lusophone countries.

Submission guidelines: Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and must be submitted via EasyAbstracts (EasyAbs). Plesase contact our organizers Mark Hoff and Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello with any questions.

Notification of acceptance: No later than February 15, 2016.