12th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations: Spanish-Language Filipino Cultural Production and other East-West Cultural Exchanges

WHEN: June 7-8, 2022
WHERE: Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo

CALL FOR PAPERS
You are all invited to present papers in Spanish, Portuguese, or English devoted to the general topic of the conference, Spanish-Language Filipino Cultural Production, or to one of the following subthemes (the Committee may accept other subthemes related to the general theme of the conference):

• Filipino literature in Spanish
• Hispanism in Scandinavia
• Transcontinental Asian migrations and their consequences
• Artistic-literary testimonials of social exchanges between the Luso-Hispanic and Asian worlds
• Political and Sociocultural relations between Asia and Latin America/Iberian Peninsula: challenges, successes, threats
• Colonial and post-colonial approaches to the cultural exchanges in the Global South
• Intercultural communication: Spanish in Asia, Asians in Spain and Latin America
• Translation of Hispanic texts in Europe and Asia and of Asian texts in the West
• Transnationalism across the Pacific
• Transpacific Studies
• Scandinavia’s Knowledge of “the East”
• Orientalism and Occidentalism in literature and film
• Decolonialism and Transmodernity
• Asian presence and cultural production in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Travel writing
• Latin American cultural production by authors of Asian descent
• Representation of Asian and Arab women in the Hispanic world
• Arab Diasporas and cultural production in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula
• Chinatowns in the Americas
• Asian and Arab religiosity and “witchcraft” in the Americas
• Muslims and Jews in the Western imagination

The abstracts of the presentations must be sent by April 1 to the co-organizers. Abstracts must follow the following format:

Name, Last Name, Title, Institutional affiliation
Title of presentation
Abstract [200-400 words]

CO-ORGANIZERS:
Jorge J. Locane, Dept. of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo, j.j.locane@ilos.uio.no
Ignacio López-Calvo, Dept. of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. University of California, Merced, EE.UU. lopezcalvo@msn.com

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Rocío Ortuño – University of Antwerp: “Jesús Balmori: A Filipino poet talks about Japan in Mexico in the 1930s”
Mario Bellatin – Peruvian-Mexican Author

REGISTRATION
Deadline: April 1, 2022. To pay online, please use this link:
https://commerce.cashnet.com/UCME324_W1

►USA/Asia: US$150
Graduate students: $125
►Europe: 130 euros
Graduate students: 110 euros
►Latin America and Africa: US$125
Graduate students: $100