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| Estimada membresía, ¡Feliz fin de semana!!! Aquí enviamos algunos anuncios de interés. Recuerden que si tienen noticias o comunicados que puedan interesar a la membresía, con mucho gusto lo mandamos. Solamente comuníquense conmigo en acorbalan@ua.edu Muchos saludos veraniegos!! 1.BOARD NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR THE FALL 2015 NEMLA BOARD ELECTION 2. CFP. ÁMBITOS FEMINISTAS (VOLUME 6-FALL 2016) 3. CFP. REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS BRASILEÑOS 4. JORNADAS CERVANTINAS de AZUL 5. PANEL EN SAMLA DE FEMINISTAS UNIDAS 1. BOARD NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR THE FALL 2015 NEMLA BOARD ELECTION NeMLA is looking forward to a dynamic convention in Hartford, CT in March 2016. The continued success of NeMLA depends on its engaged, volunteer Board. The various positions on the Board provide an opportunity to shape the Convention as well as NeMLA’s contributions to the profession. Positions are staggered, so each year different roles become available. The vacant positions for next year as well as a description of specific responsibilities are listed below. Self-nominations are welcome. Board openings • Second Vice President • French Languages and Literatures Director • Creative Writing, Publishing, and Editing Director • Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures Director Specific Responsibilities The Second Vice President serves on the Board for 4 years, in progressive positions. The Second Vice President chairs the Fellowship Committee, whose deadline is beginning of February each year. The Second Vice President also assists the President by performing duties assigned and, when necessary, assumes the duties and repsonsibilities of the President. The VPs share with the President and the Executive Director responsibility for the annual convention. With the assistance of the Vice Presidents, and the advice of the Board, the President and the Executive Director plan the annual convention. The Second Vice President is also responsible for negotiating an agreement with a higher education hosting institution for the NeMLA conference that will take place on the year they will be the acting President. A new Second Vice President is elected every year to the NeMLA Board. The Directors represent the interests of the membership as a whole as well as of their particular Area constituency. They oversee the convention program for their particular Area, including the suggestion of Board-sponsored sessions, and work to help the Executive find speakers and other programs. In addition to the convention program committee, they may also be requested to serve on the Board's various other committees. Area Director nominations are staggered. Nominations are due by June 15. To submit nominations, or for more information about positions or the nominating process, please send an email to nemla_nominations@nemla.org. For a list of current board members, go to http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/about/governance/board.html Please do not hesitate to contact current Board members with questions about their respective positions. NeMLA Staff 2. CALL FOR PAPERS AMBITOS FEMINISTAS JOURNAL (VOLUME 6-FALL 2016) The editors of Ámbitos Feministas, a multidisciplinary journal of criticism pertinent to current feminist issues in Spanish, Spanish-American, Luso-Brazilian, Afro-Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Hispanic and Latino Studies, invite unpublished critical essays in English, Spanish, and Portuguese on literature, film, art, plastic arts, music, gender studies, history, etc., relating to contemporary Hispanic/Luso/Latina women writers and artists. Original unpublished creative work (short stories, poetry) is also encouraged. The accepted papers will appear in the next annual fall volume. EDITORIAL GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS Manuscripts should be between 17-25 double-spaced pages in length, including all notes, as well as the Works Cited. They should be formatted using Times New Roman Size 12 and 1-inch margins. For review purposes, originals should contain no reference to the author. Include a one page cover letter with author‘s information: name, rank, academic affiliation, email, postal address, essay‘s little, and a brief bio (8-10 lines) with latest publications. Essays need to conform to the most recent versions of the MLA Style Manual and Guide for Scholarly Publishing and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. The endnotes will be numerically superscripted in the text and the numbers referenced in the endnotes section. Automatically inserted endnotes should be converted to normal text in the final document. A current membership to the Feministas Unidas, Inc. coalition (http://feministas-unidas.org) is required of all authors at the time of submission and must be kept until the end of the process. SUBMISSION OF ORIGINALS While we accept submissions at any time, in order to be considered for the Fall 2016 Issue, originals should arrive to our editorial office by February 29th, 2016. Submit original and cover letter as Word attachments to carmen.urioste@asu.edu More information at http://ambitosfeministas.feministas-unidas.org 3. CFP REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS BRASILEÑOS. El pasado mes de julio se inició la publicación de la Revista de Estudios Brasileños. La revista, de carácter semestral y formato electrónico, es el resultado de un convenio entre las universidades de Salamanca y São Paulo, responsables del contenido académico, y Universia, que lo es desde su plataforma de publicaciones online. Los dos primeros números están disponibles aquí. El objeto de la revista es la publicación de estudios originales sobre todo aquello que configura la identidad de Brasil, con contenidos en las áreas de Humanidades, Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. Desde este momento está abierto el plazo de recepción de artículos y reseñas para los números 3 y 4. Las normas de edición están disponibles aquí. La recepción de trabajos se realizará según el siguiente calendario: 1) Artículos enviados hasta el 24 de mayo de 2015 para la publicación en el número 3, previsto para julio de 2015. 2) Artículos enviados hasta el 18 de septiembre de 2015 para la publicación en el número 4, previsto para enero de 2016. El “Dossier” del número 3 estará dedicado al tema de la Dictadura en Brasil y será coordinado por el Prof. Dr. Pedro Dallari (USP, Brasil). Los(as) autores(as) pueden hacer llegar los textos a la dirección de contacto de la Revista de Estudios Brasileños (reb@usal.es). Informaciones: http://www.cebusal.es/call-for-paper-revista-de-estudios-brasilenos/ 4. VIII Jornadas Cervantinas de Azul Azul 5, 6 y 7 de noviembre de 2015 La Universidad Nacional del Centro (Facultad de Derecho y Cátedra Cervantes), el Instituto Cultural y Educativo del Teatro Español de Azul y el Instituto Superior de Formación Docente y Técnica de Azul “Dr. Palmiro Bogliano” convocan a las Séptimas Jornadas Cervantinas que se realizarán en Azul, los días 5, 6 y 7 de noviembre de 2015. Las Jornadas Cervantinas de Azul se realizan desde 2007 en el marco de un proyecto de desarrollo local cuyos pilares son la educación, la cultura y el patrimonio, y que tiene su base en la gestión comunitaria. El proceso tuvo su punto de partida en el año 2004 por la puesta en valor del legado bibliográfico de don Bartolomé J. Ronco. Quienes estén interesados en proponer un curso breve en torno a la temática de las Jornadas Cervantinas deberán enviar, antes del 16 de AGOSTO de 2015, propuesta del título, CV y, en forma sintética, fundamentación, objetivos y temas a desarrollar en dos encuentros. Fecha límite de envío de resúmenes: 16 de agosto de 2015. Resumen de la comunicación: o Título. o Autor (con pertenencia o no a una institución). o Resumen (no más de 200 palabras), donde se indique claramente la finalidad del trabajo. o Palabras clave que permitan identificar las áreas temáticas en que podría insertarse el trabajo. Los resúmenes deberán enviarse por correo electrónico a: jornadascervantinasazul@gmail.com 5. SAMLA 2015 Conference LITERATURE AND THE OTHER ARTS November 13- November 15 Durham, NC Feministas Unidas call for papers: Hispanic/Latino Postfeminist biopics, media representations, and adaptations (Spanish, English,Portuguese) This panel includes interdisciplinary approaches to Hispanic/Latino performative subjects in a variety of literary, cultural, and multimedia representations. Alternative cultural readings informed by life writing theory, gender and sexualities, media and cinema studies, and/or popular culture studies, among others will provide the framework to consume alternative biopics. Media representations and literary and/or cultural adaptations include fiction and non-fiction biopics, biographical comics, docudramas, auto/biographical video-textures, photographic portraits, digital archives, corporeal markers as signatures, drawings or sketches, architectural sites, decorative arts as biographical mappings, among other non-canonical biographical narratives. Films, documentaries, graphic biographies, visual journals, animation, and/or cultural artifacts constructing a non-canonical biopic will be also considered. Please send a one page 250 word proposal by June 1 to: Professor Magdalena Maiz-Peña at Davidson College at mapena@davidson.edu *Presenters will need to be members of SAMLA and of Feministas Unidas. | ||
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