Tenth Conference on East-West
Intercultural Relations:
"Reconfiguring Transnational Flows across the Pacific and Transpacific
Studies"
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WHEN:
May 11-12, 2017
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WHERE: University of Zagreb, Croatia
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SUBTHEMES: You are cordially invited
to present a paper dedicated to one of the following subthemes (other
sub-themes
related
to the main theme of the conference may be accepted by the conference committee.)
• Transnationalism
across the Pacific
• Transpacific
Studies
• Latin
America and Asia
• Croatia’s
Knowledge of “the East”
•
Decolonial and
Postcolonial Approaches to Global South cultural exchanges
• Orientalism
and Occidentalism
• Decolonialism and Transmodernity
• East-West intercultural relations
• East Asia
and Latin America
• Hispanic
Orientalism in literature and film
• Orientalization of the Asian imaginary
• Exoticizing Asia in the Americas and the
Iberian world
• Asian presence in Latin
America and the Caribbean
• Asian travelers in the West
• Western
travelers in Asia
• Images of
the Luso-Hispanic world in Asian cultural
production
• Images of Asia in Luso-Hispanic
literature and culture
• Translations of Asian
texts in Croatia
• Latin American
cultural production by authors of Asian
descent
• Travel
narratives
• Asian and
Arab cultural production in the Hispanic world
•
Representation of Asian and Arab women in the Hispanic world
• Asian and
Arab Diasporas
• Filipino
literature in Spanish
• Chinatowns
in the Americas
• Asian and
Arab religiosity and "witchcraft" in the Americas
• Muslims and Jews in the Western imagination
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
lopezcalvo@msn.com
Lidija Kos-Stanišic
lidija.kos-stanisic@fpzg.hr
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Ignacio Sánchez-Prado
Washington University in Saint Louis
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TIME: There will be a maximum
of 20 minutes to present the paper (about
8 double-spaced pages, Times New Roman 12).
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PUBLICATION: If presenters are
interested, they can submit papers
dealing with Luso-Hispanic issues to
our academic journal
Transmodernity: Journal of Periferal Production of the Luso-Hispanic
World to be evaluated by the editorial committee. Provided that
there are enough submissions, a volume with selected essays may be published
with Cambridge Scholars Publishing or another publisher.
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ABSTRACT: Please send your abstract
via email before March 1, 2017 along
with a brief biography (maximum of 10 lines) to any of the following emails:
Dr.
Ignacio López-Calvo
lopezcalvo@msn.com
Lidija Kos-Stanišic
lidija.kos-stanisic@fpzg.hr
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LANGUAGES: Papers can be presented
in English or Spanish.
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REGISTRATION:
Deadline March 1, 2017. For online payment go to
https://intelforms.ucmerced.edu/Form/CallForPapers
?USA/Asia: US$100
Graduate students - USA/Asia: $75
?Europe: 80 euros
Graduate students - Europa: 60 euros
?Latin America and Africa:
US$60
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.
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RECOMMENDED HOTELS
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TAXI INFORMATION
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CONTACTS (CO-ORGANIZERS):
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
University of California,
Merced
lopezcalvo@msn.com
Lidija Kos-Stanišic
lidija.kos-stanisic@fpzg.hr