CALL FOR PAPERS
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           12th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations
Spanish-Language Filipino Cultural Production and other East-West Cultural Exchanges
 
WHEN:        May 25-26, 2020
WHERE:      University of South-Eastern Norway, Campus Bø (Norway) 
 
You are all invited to present papers in Spanish, Portuguese, or English devoted to the general topic of the conference, Spanish-Language Filipino Cultural Production, or to one of the following subthemes (the Committee may accept other subthemes related to the general theme of the conference):

  • Filipino literature in Spanish
  • Hispanism in Scandinavia
  • Transcontinental Asian migrations and its consequences
  • Artistic-literary testimonials of social exchanges between the Luso-Hispanic and Asian worlds
  • Political and Sociocultural relations between Asia and Latin America/Iberian Peninsula: challenges, successes, threats
  • Colonial and post-colonial approaches to the cultural exchanges in the Global South
  • Intercultural communication: Spanish in Asia, Asians in Spain and Latin America
  • Translation of Hispanic texts in Europe and Asia and of Asian texts in the West
  • Transnationalism across the Pacific
  • Transpacific Studies
  • Scandinavia’s Knowledge of “the East”
  • Orientalism and Occidentalism in literature and film
  • Decolonialism and Transmodernity
  • Asian presence and cultural production in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Travel writing 
  • Latin American cultural production by authors of Asian descent
  • Representation of Asian and Arab women in the Hispanic world
  • Arab Diasporasa and cultural production in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula
  • Chinatowns in the Americas
  • Asian and Arab religiosity and "witchcraft" in the Americas
  • Muslims and Jews in the Western imagination
 
 
CO-ORGANIZERS:
 
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo, Dept. of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. University of California, Merced, EE.UU. lopezcalvo@msn.com
Dr. Hans Jacob Ohldieck, Dept. of Languages and Literature Studies. University of South-Eastern Norway: hans.j.ohldieck@usn.no
 
 
                          KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 
                                   Dr. Rocío Ortuño 
                        University of Antwerp

                                                            “Jesús Balmori:
              A Filipino poet talks about Japan in Mexico in the 1930s”
 



 

 
 
 
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION PROPOSALS
The abstracts of the presentations must be sent by April 1 to: 
 
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo, lopezcalvo@msn.com
Dr. Hans Jacob Ohldieck, hans.j.ohldieck@usn.no   
 
 
During the conference, there will be a maximum of 20 minutes to present your paper (approximately 8 double-spaced pages in Times New Roman 12).
Presentations must be in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.
Abstracts must follow the following format:
 
Name, Last Name, Title, Institutional affiliation
Title of presentation
Abstract [200-400 words]

 
 
 
PUBLICATION
Anthem Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, or the academic journal Transmodernity
 
 
REGISTRATION
           Deadline: April 1, 2020. To pay online, please use this link:
                         https://commerce.cashnet.com/UCME324_W1

►USA/Asia: US$125 
    Graduate students - USA/Asia: $100
►Europe: 100 euros
    Graduate students - Europe: 80 euros 
►Latin America and Africa: US$80
 
If the website for online registration does not work, participants from the USA, can 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 
 
Non-US participants can pay on-site at the conference to any of the three co-organizers.
 
LOGISTICAL INFORMATION
 
RECOMMENDED HOTEL IN BØ: BØ HOTEL Please inform them that you'll be participating in the conference, since we made reservations.
 
Airport
The nearest airports are Torp Sandefjord Airport and Oslo Airport. Bø is located along the railway line «Sørlandsbanen», and the travel time from Oslo Airport is about 2,5 hours by train.
 
 Concerning the itinerary, you’ll take the train from Oslo Airport (Lufthavn) Gardermoen to the Oslo Central Station, where you’ll change train to Bø. When buying tickets, you can just write Oslo Airport (or Lufthavn) to Bø, and the itinerary will be indicated at the ticket. From the train station in Bø you may walk to the hotel (about 15 minutes) or take a taxi.