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Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:33 AM
To: geography at geography.wisc.edu
Subject: Call for papers: Graduate Student Conference - Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

To whom it may concern:

Paper proposals are being accepted for the upcoming Department of
Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference "Perceptions of
Space", to be held March 24 & 25, 2006, at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. The organizers would be most grateful if you would
kindly post the following on your graduate student list-serve.  The
deadline for abstract submissions is January 24, 2006.
 
For further information, please contact Michelle Sharp [mmsharp at wisc.edu]

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Kaleidoscope 
Second Annual Graduate Student Conference 
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 24 & 25, 2006


"Perceptions of Space"

Call for Abstracts

Space is no longer an empty area waiting to be filled with more
interesting things such as characters and action. Critics from many
different disciplines, including such prominent names as Edward Soja and
David Harvey, have challenged the way we look at space and its role in
culture and literature. Space is now seen as an active player that molds
those who move within it while being molded by them and is a far cry
from the old designation of "setting." In light of the emerging interest
in Spatial Criticism, Kaleidoscope continues its commitment to providing
a venue for new visions and illuminations by inviting graduate students
from any discipline to submit proposals for papers which examine how the
perception of space, whether real or imaginary, influences disciplines,
identities, genres, artistic expression, and language in the context of
Spanish American, Luso-Brazilian, or Iberian Studies. Abstracts and
papers can be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
Presenters are welcome to address the conference topic from any
interpretive stance, and from a variety of (inter)disciplinary
approaches. The following list is not intended to be exhaustive:
§	Boundaries and borders
§	Imaginary communities and imaginary worlds
§	Cities vs. countryside / urban vs. rural
§	Regions and their effect on ethnicity / identity
§	Nationalism, transnationalism, globalization
§	Foreign and national spaces
§	Regional dialects and languages
§	Gendered, queered, and/or transgressive spaces
§	Bodies within space
§	Exile
§	Disciplinary and interdisciplinary spaces
§	Textual space
§	The space of genres 
§	The space of languages / language's view of space
§	The interaction between visual images and the spaces they reflect
§	Theatrical and/or cinematic space

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted by January 24,
2006 care of Julie M. Beutler to the following address: 1018 Van Hise
Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1557.

Questions should be addressed to Michelle Sharp [mmsharp at wisc.edu].