[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: The Near and Far East in the Western World (University of California, Merced, 24-25 April 2009)

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EAST READS WEST; WEST READS EAST:

The Near and Far East in the Western World

Dear colleagues,
You are all invited to participate in the Second Conference on Orientalisms
and the Asian/Arab Diaspora in the Americas that will take place this Spring
at the 
University of California, Merced. The name of this year’s conference is EAST
READS WEST; WEST READS EAST: The Near and Far East in the Western World.
Although I am pasting the information in this e-mail, please check the
following web pages for updates:
http://faculty1.ucmerced.edu/ilopez-calvo/2.cfm?pm=212&lvl=2&menuid=216

You can also find the information in the Portal del Hispanismo of the
Instituto Cervantes: http://www.hispanismo.es/agenda.asp?DOCN=64351 

I hope some of you find it interesting and decide to participate. Please
inform any of your colleagues who may be interested in the conference. Kind
regards, Ignacio López-Calvo, Ph.D. Professor of Latin American Literature,
UC Merced 

CONFERENCE DATE AND LOCATION
Friday, APRIL 24 and Saturday, APRIL 25, 2009
Hosted by the University of California, Merced (Merced, California)

ORGANIZATION
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo, ilopez-calvo at ucmerced.edu, World Cultures,
University of California, Merced

REGISTRATION
$ 50 professors
$ 30 students

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Renowned Cuban American novelist, CRISTINA GARCÍA (author of Monkey Hunting)

SCOPE
The conference will focus on the different interpretations of Orientalism
(roughly, the image and stereotypes of the Near and Far East in the Western
world) that originated after the publication of Edward Said's seminal work
Orientalism and with the opposite version of reading the "Other":
Occidentalism. It will also deal with the cultural production written by
Asians and Arabs in the Americas and the Hispanic world in general
(including Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain). Papers from all
disciplines are welcome. They can be delivered in English or Spanish, but
English is preferred since I will edit a volume in English with thematic
chapters that will include extended versions of the papers presented at the
conference. It will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2010.

TOPICS
Possible topics include the following:
1. Orientalism, strategic Orientalism, and self-orientalization
4. Occidentalism
5. Asianness and Arabness in the Americas and the Hispanic world
6. "Cooleism"
7. Asian and Arab literature and culture in the Americas
10. Asian and Arab characters in Western literature
11. Nationalisms and the Asian or Arab as the "Other"
12. Asian and Arab testimonials, memoirs, and autobiographies in the
Americas and the Hispanic World
12. Asian and Arab women in the Americas and the Hispanic world and their
representation
13. Asian/Arab transculturation, hybridity, and assimilation in the Western
World
14. Erasure and misrepresentation of Asians and Arabs in Western cultural
production
15. Asian and Arab religiosity and "witchcraft" in the Americas
16. White supremacy and Asians/Arabs in the Americas and the Hispanic world
17. Chinatowns in the Americas
18. Asian/Arab identities, cultural difference, and de-ethnification in the
Western world
19. Western travellers in the Near and Far East
20. The Near and Far East in Western imaginaries
20. Arab and Asian travellers in the West
21. Asian/Arab transnationalism, exile, and "inner exile"

CALL FOR PAPERS
Those interested are invited to submit a one-page abstract in Spanish or
English, dealing with any of the aforementioned topics or any other topic
related to Orientalism, Occidentalism, and/or the Asian/Arab presence and
heritage in the Americas and the Hispanic world, or their imaginaries. 

Please send it via e-mail to Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo,
ilopez-calvo at ucmerced.edu
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: APRIL 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: APRIL 6, 2009

ACCOMODATION
I have stayed in the Courtyard by Marriott and I highly recommend it, but
here are other options:
Comfort Inn- www.comfortinn.com - (209) 383-0333
Quality Inn- www.qualityinn.com - (209) 723-3711 from $56.00 per night
Travelodge Merced/ Yosemite- www.travelodge.com - (209) 722-6224 from $55.00
per night
Ramada Merced- www.ramada.com - (209) 723-3121
Days Inn-Merced- www.daysinnmerced.com - (209) 722-2726 from $69.00 per
night
Super 8 Merced- www.super8.com - (209) 384-1303 from $65.00 per night
Best Western- www.bestwesterncalifornia.com - (209) 723-2163 from $100.00
per night
Hampton Inn Merced, Ca- www.hamptoninn1.hilton.com - (209) 386-1210
Courtyard by Marriott Merced- www.marriott.com - (209) 725-1221 from $119.00
per night 

Ignacio López-Calvo, Ph.D.
Professor of Latin American Literature
P.O.Box 2039
School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
University of California, Merced
Merced, California 95344
Phone 209/228.4595 209/228.7742 
http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/facultybio.asp?facultyid=120 
http://ignaciolopezcalvo.blogspot.com/