CALL FOR PAPERS
School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University, University of California, Merced, and Wellesley College
ORGANIZE
6th International Conference on Orientalism and the Asian and Arab presence in the Hispanic and Lusophone world:
"TOWARD
AN ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS: EAST-WEST INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES"
►DATE: April 26-27, 2014
►PLACE: School of International Liberal
Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo
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
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER:
Ambeth
Ocampo (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)
Time: There will be a maximum of 20 minutes to present the paper (about 8 double-spaced
pages, Times New Roman 12).
Publication: If presenters are interested, they can submit their papers to our academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Periferal Production of the Luso-Hispanic World (http://escholarship.org/uc/ssha_transmodernity) to be evaluated by the editorial committee.
Or papers can be also submitted
to Dr. Koichi Hagimoto (khagimot@wellesley.edu),
who will edit a volume with Cambridge Scholars Publishing containing an
extended version of selected papers.
Abstract: Please send your abstract via email before November 1, 2013 along with a brief biography (maximum of 10 lines) to any of the following emails:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
Dr. Koichi Hagimoto
Languages: Papers can be presented in Spanish or English.
Registration:
►USA/Asia: $100
Graduate students - USA/Asia: $75
►Europe: 80 euros
Graduate students - Europa: 60 euros
►Latin America and
Africa: $60
Please send a check
signed to University of California Regents. The address is
the following:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
SSHA
University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road
Merced, CA. 95343
Hotels and Transportation: TBA
Selling
books: Please let us know if
you are interested in selling your books whenever you send your abstract.
Contacts (co-organizers):
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
University of
California, Merced
lopezcalvo@msn.com
lopezcalvo@msn.com
Dr. Koichi Hagimoto
Wellesley College
Dr. Shigeko Mato
Waseda University
