CALL FOR PAPERS
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Exploring the Portuguese Diaspora in
InterDISCIPLINARY and
Comparative Perspectives: An International
Conference
July 25-27, 2013
Indianapolis - Indiana, USA
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Irene Maria F. Blayer (Brock University, Canada), Teresa Cid
(University of Lisbon, Portugal),
Francisco Cota Fagundes (UMass Amherst, USA), Dulce Maria Scott
(Anderson University, USA)
The Portuguese diaspora is in a state of
flux throughout the world. The children and
grandchildren of the immigrants of bygone
days continue to integrate and assimilate into the
societies adopted by their parents while the
language, culture, and country of their ancestry
fade into the distant recesses of their
memory. In a world molded by fast-changing
communication technologies and transnational
movements, the old and the new intertwine
within the spaces of the past, the present,
and the future. Out of this sense of being a part of
time of continuous change, a discursive
construction of the contemporaneous Portuguese
diaspora fosters a reflection upon the
interfaces between the country of origin and its global
diasporic spaces. We ought to challenge the way we study
and write about our diaspora,
especially when we have entered a period of
reconstruction and regeneration in which we
seek new forms of collaborative frameworks
and interdisciplinary knowledge.
Exploring the Portuguese Diaspora in
InterDISCIPLINARY and Comparative Perspectives: An
International Conference brings together the synergetic efforts of
colleagues from universities
in the United States, Canada and Portugal.
In collaboration with this conference, Neither
Here nor There, Yet Both: International
Conference on the Luso-American Experience will take
place at the University of Lisbon (July
11-13, 2013).
The Indiana conference Exploring the
Portuguese Diaspora in InterDISCIPLINARY and
Comparative Perspectives proposes to create a forum that will permit
scholars to engage in a
cross-national and cross-disciplinary
dialogue that will generate valuable comparative
frameworks and data. The deadline for
receiving abstracts (500 words) for a 20-min. paper,
panel proposals and a concise bio is
February 28, 2013 . Notification of
acceptance will be sent
out on March 25, 2013 . All proposals must be submitted via the
online system at the
conference link http://ocs.sfu.ca/pds/index.php/pdaip/2013 . Papers may be presented in any
of the following languages: Portuguese,
English, Spanish, and French. A selection of the
papers presented will be published in a
refereed volume.
All comparative and interdisciplinary forms
of lusophone diaspora will be considered:
sociological, economic, political, literary,
linguistic, historical, cultural, and others. Possible
themes include, but are not limited to, the
following:
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Diaspora theory and the
Portuguese “diaspora”
Historical trends and
aspects of the Portuguese diaspora
The geography of the
Portuguese diaspora by countries and continents
Diasporas and home
country socio-cultural, political, and economic interactions
Diasporas,
globalization, and international/transnational relations
Return migrations, new
transits and new migrations, transnational identity formation
Diasporas in the
digital age
The media and the
diaspora
Demographic, social,
educational, economic, and political trends in diaspora
communities
Socioeconomic, political,
cultural and psychological integration across the generations in
immigrant receiving
societies.
Diaspora and
intercultural patterns
Cultural, artistic,
literary, and linguistic trends in the diaspora
Material culture (e.g.:
artifacts, monuments, letters) and non-material culture (religion,
values, norms, feasts,
folklore, traditions, music)
Identity formation
processes, family structures, and psychological aspects of migrations
and diasporas
Diaspora and children:
language, emotion, and identity
Writing the diaspora
Language in contact
with other languages, language change and variation; notions of
bilingualism and
multilingualism; the ancestral language across the generations
Oral vs. written
narratives: Portuguese migrant stories (life stories and other narratives)
Identity and collective
memory discourse; autobiography
Linguistic issues and
gender
Context and culture in
language learning
Speech community and
representation of discourse
Translation
Diaspora and creative
writing
Comparative diaspora
studies
Other aspects of the
Portuguese diaspora
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