CALL FOR PAPERS

The students of the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York will hold the Eighteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference on April 5^th and 6^th, 2013.

Our keynote speakers for this year’s conference will be Anna María Escobar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Joan Cammarata (Manhattan College).

Submissions are invited on all periods and areas of Iberian, Spanish-American, Hispanic/Latino, Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Film, Visual and Performing Arts, as well as any area of Hispanic or Luso-Brazilian Linguistics. Papers may be presented in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Please send an abstract of not more than 250 words via email as an attachment to congreso.hlbll.gc.cuny@gmail.com by February 1^st, 2013. In the body of the email specify your name, phone number, title of the presentation, and academic affiliation.

Reading time of papers will be limited to 20 minutes.

Authors will be notified by the second week of February 2013, as to whether their papers have been accepted.

Additionally, authors are encouraged to submit their papers to the LL Journal for potential publication.  The LL Journal is an online publication dedicated to the promotion of research related to the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian worlds. For submission guidelines, visit: http://lljournal.gc.cuny.edu.

For more information, please visit our conference website: http://congreso.ws.gc.cuny.edu.  You may also contact the conference organizers at:

Eighteenth Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
The Graduate School and University Center – CUNY
Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
Room 4116
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Email: congreso.hlbll.gc.cuny@gmail.com