[Est-grad-rrp] FW: 9th Cultural Encounters, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University

[Josefa Font]

Josefa Font Rivera, M.Ed

Coordinadora Iniciativas Desarrollo Estudiantil

Decanato de Estudios Graduados e Investigación

UPR-Río Piedras

PO Box 21790

San Juan, PR 00931-1790

Tel. 787-764-0000, x 7891, 2515

j_font at degi.uprrp.edu

http://graduados.uprrp.edu

 

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Call for Papers

9th Cultural Encounters Conference

Texts in Motion: Translation, Adaptation, and Appropriation of Literature and History in the Performing Arts

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University

November 1 - 3, 2007

Keynote speaker: Dr. Michael Solomon, University of Pennsylvania


The Association of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Students of Tulane University invites submissions for its 9th Cultural Encounters Conference. The organizing committee will consider papers and panels that reflect on and explore the processes of translating, adapting and appropriating literary texts and historical events in the development of the performing arts (theater, film, ballet, contemporary dance, opera, etc.) in all areas and periods of Iberian, Latin American and Latino culture, society, language, literature, history and criticism.

To present a paper, please submit a 250-word abstract in Spanish, Portuguese, or English including name of participant, title, affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Proposals for panels of 3 or 4 presenters should include the title of each presentation and the above information for each participant. 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS:  September 5, 2007.

Reading time of papers will be limited to 20 minutes. Registration fees are $20 for graduate students and $30 for professors.  The committee will respond by September 15, 2007. Abstracts must be submitted electronically to:



Jon Malax-Echevarría Uribe
jmalaxec at tulane.edu
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Tulane University


For more information:
Mirzam Handal, mhandal at tulane.edu
Nilda Rivera, nrivera at tulane.edu
Co-Coordinators


Nilda I. Rivera
Ph.D Student
Tulane University
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
302 Newcomb Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
(504) 865-5518
nrivera at tulane.edu

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