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Conference: "TOWARD AN ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS: EAST-WEST INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES"

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

lopezcalvo@msn.com

Dr. Koichi Hagimoto

khagimot@wellesley.edu

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: