[Archport] American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) - 8th International Conference, University of Iowa, October 2012

["Lillios, Katina" <katina-lillios@uiowa.edu>]

Colleagues, 

This conference may be of interest to some of you.

Best,

Katina

Katina T. Lillios

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Anthropology

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa  52242  USA

319.335.3023

http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/lillios.shtml

SPECIAL INVITATION

On behalf of the Portuguese Program, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the DWLLC, I take this opportunity to share information with you about a forthcoming conference that includes Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guine-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe, and Mozambique), East Timor, Goa, and Macau. It is an interdisciplinary and bilingual conference (language, linguistics, literature, and cultural studies; presentations in English or Portuguese).  Should you have any interest in presenting a paper or in attending, or if you know someone else who could (including graduate students), I appreciate you sharing this information with them. In addition to the call for papers I am including some background information so that you know more about this conference, the association, and the invited speakers. If you have any means of disseminating of this unique opportunity in Iowa, I appreciate your help.

 

American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA)

Eighth International Conference
October 4-6, 2012

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA  

Previous conferences of this association were held at Brown U (2010), Yale U (2008, 1998), U of Minnesota (2006), U of Maryland (2004), U of Massachusetts Amherst (2002), U of Wisconsin (2000).

Background information

·         Since its founding in 1996, the American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) has established itself as an important presence within the community of Portuguese scholars and educators in the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Africa. It is the only association of its kind in the United States to open equal space for scholars whose main area of teaching and research focus on language, linguistics, literature and culture of Portugal, Brazil, or Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa. APSA’s specific goals are to increase awareness of the Portuguese-speaking world and promote the development of Portuguese language programs in North America.

 

CALL FOR PAPER:

The Eighth International Conference of the AMERICAN PORTUGUESE STUDIES ASSOCIATION (APSA) will take place at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, October 4-6, 2012. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit proposals for complete panels of 3-4 papers in any area of Luso-African, Brazilian and Portuguese Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics. Inter-disciplinary and comparative approaches are also encouraged.Individual paper proposals will also been considered. Participants are limited to one paper presentation, but can contribute in as many as two other capacities such as chair, and/or round table participant. Participants should submit panel proposals or individual paper proposals of approximately 100-200 words online at the APSA website: http://www.portuguese-apsa.com/ (“Conferences”). Papers addressing migration, immigration, transculturation, cultural diversity, and the uses of culture in the global era are specially welcome, but other topics will also be considered.

 All proposals are due by February 10^th, 2012.

Papers can be presented in either Portuguese or English.

The Program Committee will announce final decisions by March 30^th, 2012.

PLEASE NOTE: Congress participants must be APSA members by date of congress registration. Information on APSA membership can be obtained at: www.portuguese-apsa.com.

 

Speakers will include:

a)   Maria Nazareth Fonseca, a Brazilian literary critic and professor whose research and teaching focus on the literatures and cultures of Portuguese-speaking African countries and the African diaspora in Brazil and the Caribbean. She has edited numerous collections of essays, such as Literatura e Afro-descendência no Brasil (vol. 4; 2011); Mia Couto: Espaços Ficcionais (2008), Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa (2008),  Poéticas Afro-Brasileiras (2003), and Brasil Afro-Brasileiro (2000).

b)   The fiction writer Ana Maria Gonçalves was born in Brazil and currently lives in New Orleans. Her second novel, Um Defeito de Cor, has won international praise (it was awarded  the coveted prize Prêmio Casa de las Américas, Cuba, 2007) . It tells the story of an African girl who was sent to Brazil when she was seven years old, to be a slave. Gonçalves was a writer-in-residence at Tulane University (2007), Stanford University (2008), and Middlebury College (2009).

c)    Karen Tei Yamashita is an award winner novelist and playwright and a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California–Santa Cruz. She is the author of five novels that connect different cultures in the United States, Brazil, and Japan: I Hotel (2010), Circle K Cycles (2001), Tropic of Orange (1997), Brazil-Maru (1992), and Through the Arc of the Rainforest (1990). Reviews in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Washington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle have considered Yamashita one of the foremost writers of her generation, praising her talent, wit, and use of humor to address controversial philosophical and social issues, especially those linked to immigration and transculturation.

d)   Onésimo T. Almeida, was born in the Azores islands, was Chair of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown where he doubles as a scholar and as an author. He writes short stories, plays, and crónicas. He is the author and editor of numerous books including Livro-me do Desassossego (2006), Onze Prosemas (2004), Sapa(teia) Americana (2002), and Viagens na Minha Era, dia-crónicas (2001). He was elected member of the Academia Internacional de Cultura Portuguesa, Lisbon.

 

Thank you.

Maria José

 

Maria José Somerlate Barbosa

Associate Professor

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

451 Phillips Hall

The University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 52242-1409

Phone: (319) 335-2988

Fax: (319) 335-2990