[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: "Transcultural & Transmodern Readings between Eastern and Western Countries, " April 12-13, 2013, Pedagogical State University A. I. Herzen, St. Petersburg, Russia

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Sholeh Quinn <squinn at ucmerced.edu>,
Ignacio Lopezcalvo<lopezcalvo at msn.com>



CALL FOR PAPERS:

5th International Conference on Orientalism and the Asian and Arab 
presence in the Hispanic and Lusophone world:

"Transcultural and Transmodern Readings Between Eastern and Western 
Countries"
April 12-13, 2013
Pedagogical State University A. I. Herzen
St. Petersburg, Russia

organized by
The Dept. of Spanish, Pedagogical State University A.I. Herzen (Russia)
and
the University of California, Merced


SUBTHEMES
You are invited to present a paper dedicated to one of the following 
subthemes (other subthemes related to the main theme of the conference 
will be accepted)

* Russian Orientalism
* Russia, between the East and the West
* Travel narratives about Russia by writers and intellectuals of the 
Luso-Hispanic world
* Can we speak about orientalist discourse when the exoticist gaze comes 
from formerly colonized countries?
* Can a text be considered orientalist if it exoticizes the other 
without an obvious idealization of self?
* Can we talk about orientalism when dealing with non-eastern cultures 
and peoples?
* How can strategic self-orientalization be used for economic or 
political profit?
* Is the 'Orient' still helping Europe and the Western Hemisphere to 
define themselves?
* Orientalism, Occidentalism, strategic Orientalism, and 
self-orientalization
* Occidentalism
* Asianness and Arabness in the Americas and the Hispanic world
* "Cooleeism"
* Asian and Arab literature and culture in the Americas
* Asian and Arab characters in Western literature
* Nationalisms and the Asian or Arab as the "Other"
* Japonisme in literature, film, and other types of cultural production
* Asian and Arab testimonials, memoirs, and autobiographies in the 
Americas and the Hispanic World
* Asian and Arab women in the Americas and the Hispanic world and their 
representation
* Jose Rizal and other Spanish-language Filipino Authors
* Asian/Arab transculturation, hybridity, and assimilation in the 
Western World
* Erasure and misrepresentation of Asians and Arabs in Western cultural 
production
* Asian and Arab religiosity and "witchcraft" in the Americas
* White supremacy and Asians/Arabs in the Americas and the Hispanic world
* Chinatowns in the Americas
* 'The Orient' in Travel Literature
* Performing, Reading, and Writing ?the Orient?
   Feminization of ?the Orient? and ?the Orientals?
* Asian/Arab identities, cultural difference, and de-ethnification in 
the Western world
* Western travelers and imaginaries in the Near and Far East
* Arab and Asian travelers and imaginaries in the West
* Asian/Arab transnationalism, exile, and "inner exile"
* Racialization of Asian/Arabs
* Orientalism and the Asian and Arab diasporas in the 
Portuguese-speaking world


* Publication:
If presenters are interested, they can submit their papers to our 
academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Periferal Production of the 
Luso-Hispanic World <http://escholarship.org/uc/ssha_transmodernity>  to 
be evaluated by the editorial committee



* Abstract: Please send your abstract via email before December 31, 
2012, along with a brief bio-bibliography (maximum of 10 lines) to any 
of the following emails:

Dr. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
lopezcalvo at msn.com

Svetana V. Tyutina
Florida International University
svetatyutina at yahoo.com

Dr. Cristian H.Ricci* Publication:
If presenters are interested, they can submit their papers to our 
academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Periferal Production of the 
Luso-Hispanic World <http://escholarship.org/uc/ssha_transmodernity>  to 
be evaluated by the editorial committee
cricci at ucmerced.edu



*Languages: Papers can be presented in Spanish or English.



  *Registration:

  USA /Asia: $100
  Graduate students - USA. / Asia: $50

  *Europe (except Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus): 80 euros
  Graduate students - Europe (except Russia, Ukrania and Belarus): 40 euros

  *Latin America and Africa: $40

  * Russia, Ukrania and Belarus: free

  Please send a check signed to University of California
Regents. The address is the following:
Dr. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
SSHA
University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road
Merced, CA. 95343
USA



*Contacts:

Dr. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo
lopezcalvo at msn.com


Dr. Svetana V. Tyutina
Florida International University
svetatyutina at yahoo.com

Dr. Cristian H.Ricci
cricci at ucmerced.edu

Dra. Tatiana Makrova
co-organizer





Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Ph.D.
Professor of Latin American Literature
Vice-Chair of the Divisional Council
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
University of California, Merced