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CFP: El Mundo Zurdo 2015, conference on Gloria Anzalduan studies, UT Austin
Mary Beltran
2014-10-17 15:15:50 UTC
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El Mundo Zurdo 2015: Memoria y Conocimiento

Interdisciplinary Anzalduan Studies:

Archive, Legacy, and Thought

Ten years ago, scholars and activists at the University of Texas at Austin organized and hosted a memorial for Gloria Anzaldúa in commemoration of her life and work. Activists, artists, and academics from across the country participated in the celebration of Anzaldúa’s legacy. Following her passing, LLILAS-Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin became the repository of the “Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, 1942-2004.” Scholars and activists travel from around the globe to work with Gloria Anzaldúa’s personal papers at the Benson Latin American Library; these include “correspondence, written works, audio tape interviews, reviews, clippings, photographs, posters, artwork, and collected materials.”

The Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, in cooperation with the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, are honored to serve as the host of El Mundo Zurdo 2015: Memoria y Conocimiento, Interdisciplinary Anzaldúan Studies: Archive, Legacy, and Thought. The conference will take place May 27-30, 2015 at the University of Texas at Austin. We invite papers on a range of topics, especially those that critically access the Gloria Anzaldúa archive, that theorize her work in terms of materiality, or that apply and build upon Anzaldúa’s theories.

The submission deadline for proposals has been extended to Saturday, November 15, 2014. We seek submission of proposals for papers in English or Spanish, panels of 3-4 papers, roundtables, workshops, or performances. Please send proposals to https://ssga2015.submittable.com/submit.


Proposals in should identify the track (SEE LIST BELOW) that most closely fits the content of the paper/panel.

Suggested Topics (listed under the main tracks) include:


BORDERS AND SPIRITUALITY

Bodies and Borders

Virtual Borderlands (New Media, Visual

Cultures, and Cybernepantleras)

Comparative Borderlands Studies

Sexual and/or Spiritual Borderlands


HEALTH AND HEALING

Spiritual Activism

Health Practices

Sexuality and Trauma


SEXUALITY AND GENDER

Queer bodies/identities

Trans bodies and studies

Sexuality and immigration

Sexuality and trauma

Sexual borderlands


THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES

Engaged Research and Policy

Critical Race Studies (From Theory to Application)

Anzalduan Thought (Emerging Theories and Methodologies)


ARTS—MUSIC, LITERATURE, ART, FILM

Anzaldúan Approaches to Literary Production

Anzaldúa and the Arts (Archive, Fine Art, and Music)


EDUCATION

Community, Teaching and Pedagogy

Children and Youth (Young Readers, Youth Learners)

Epistemologies (Disability, Queer, Feminist, Indigenous, Afro-

Latino)

Anzaldúa in the Academy (Institutional Legacies, Violence, and

Power)


NEW DIRECTIONS

Archive and Collection Management (Building Upon, Curating

the Anzaldúa Collection and Other Feminist Archives)

Anzalduan Studies (Life, Legacy, and Letters)


Deadline for abstracts extended to November 15, 2014. ONLY PROPOSALS SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY TO SUBMITTABLE.COM WILL BE CONSIDERED.


Proposals in English or Spanish must include the following: a.) 250-word proposal narrative b.) 100-word abstract

suitable for publication in the conference program book c.) be submitted as Word documents.

Panels must include the following: proposals and abstracts for each paper and the name; address; phone number(s);

e-mail address, and institutional affiliation of each participant; audio/visual needs; contact person's name; address,

phone number(s); e-mail address; and institutional affiliation(s).


Details on the conference schedule will be announced in January 2015.

Please visit the following web site for more details: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cmas/news/8166.

El Mundo Zurdo 2015 Planning Committee
Center for Mexican American Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

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