The graduate students of the CU Boulder Department of Spanish and听Portuguese听invite听you to participate in the 11th annual graduate student conference听Voices of Marginality: Literary and Linguistic Reflections on Cultural Hierarchies in Spain and Latin America.
The conference will take place March 6鈥�7,听2020. This multidisciplinary event will explore the ways in which cultural and linguistic production challenges systemic manifestations of racism, sexism听and classism. They welcome scholars to submit original research in their respective fields of study, including but not limited to: Iberian and Latin American literatures, linguistics, sociology, philosophy听and political science. The deadline for submission is Dec. 15.听
Submission guidelines
- Send applications to cugraduateconference@colorado.edu.
- Submissions must include name, contact information听and institution.
- Abstracts and proposals may not exceed 250 words in length.
- Presentations are limited to 20 minutes and may be give in English, Spanish听or Portuguese. Presentations with visual aids are welcome.
Keynote speaker听Andrew Lynch
Lynch is a sociolinguist whose scholarship focuses on language in postmodernity, with emphasis on the situation of Spanish in the United States, the variation of Spanish in contact with other languages throughout the world, and heritage language studies. He also researches cultural and literary production among the U.S. Latino听population.
He is editor of the Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City (2019) and co-author of El espa帽ol en contacto con otras lenguas (Georgetown University Press, 2009). His studies appear in volumes published by Georgetown University Press, the University of North Carolina Press, John Benjamins Publishing, Routledge, Springer听and Instituto Cervantes, among others;听and in journals such as Hispania, Studies in Hispanic & Lusophone Linguistics, Language Sciences, and Language and Linguistics Compass. He serves as editor-in-chief of the Heritage Language Journal.
