Dear Colleagues,
The title of our yearly conference is "Intercultural Dialogues and Crossings among the East, the Americas, and the Iberian Peninsula." The keynote speaker will be the Mexican poet, novelist and playwright Carmen Boullosa. It will take place at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, in New York, on March 26-27, 2015. Please inform your colleagues and graduate students.
SUBTHEMES...
You are invited to present a paper dedicated to one of the following subthemes (other subthemes related to the main theme of the conference will be accepted.)- Western travelers in Japan
- Japanese travelers in the West
- Image of Japan in Hispanic literature and culture
- Image of the Hispanic world in Japanese literature and culture
- Japonisme
- Orientalism and self-orientalization in Japanese and Nippon-Latin American cultural production
- Hispanic Orientalism in literature and film
- Trans-Pacific Studies
- Travel narratives
- Exoticization and idealization of the Oriental “Other”
- Orientalism and Occidentalism
- Asian and Arab literature and culture in the Hispanic world
- Cooleism
- Asian and Arab testimonials, memoirs, and autobiographies
- Representation of Asian and Arab women in the Hispanic world
- Asian and Arab Diasporas
- Filipino literature in Spanish
- Chinatowns in the Americas
- Asian and Arab religiosity and "witchcraft" in the Americas
- Transculturation and hybridity
- Transnationalism and globalization
- Racialization of Jews in the Hispanic world
- Orientalism and the Asian and Arab presence in the Lusophone world