The Call For Papers for the OSUHALSS 2025 is open!! The symposium will take place March 21 and 22, 2025!

The graduate students in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at The Ohio State University invite graduate students, professors, and interested researchers to reflect and engage in a dialogue about any aspect of literatures and cultures in the Luso-Hispanic world. We encourage submissions in the following areas. Other related topics are welcome:

• Afro-Latin American Literatures and Cultures
• Body Studies
• Comparative Studies
• Colonial Studies
• Cultural Heritage
• Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies
• Environmental Cultural Studies
• Film Studies
• Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
• Globalization
• Iberian Studies
• Identity and Border Studies
• Latin American
• Latinx Studies
• Lusophone Studies
• Medieval and Early Modern studies
• Literature and Comparative Literature
• Migration and Diaspora Studies
• Musicology
• Performance and Theatre Studies
• Race and Ethnic Studies
• Translation Studies
• Visual Arts
• Memory/Post-memory studies
• Disability Studies
Submission instructions:
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. The abstract should be a maximum of 500 words in the language of the presentation. When you submit your proposal, you will provide the following information: format of your presentation (online or in-person), title, presenter(s) name(s), e-mail address, and academic affiliation. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. There will be 10 minutes for questions.

Submission closes: Jan. 8, 2025

Submission link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/OSUHALSS/

Besides this, we happily announce that the event will count on the presence of the following keynote speakers: 
• Bruna Dantas Lobato
• Matthew J. Marr
• Mariana Eva Pérez

If you have any questions please contact: king.3140@osu.edu, mcbride.422@osu.edu, grisi.1@osu.edu