Instituto Cervantes – 2021 Symposium
The Instituto Cervantes at Harvard (FAS) is pleased to announce this year’s symposium, which will be held via Zoom on June 3rd and 4th, 2021, and will commemorate the Instituto Cervantes’ 30th anniversary with the title:
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HISPANIC CULTURES: HISPANISM AND SPANISH IN THE U.S. OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS
The Cervantes Institute at Harvard University once more invites researchers interested in the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures to present their work to the academic community. This invitation is extended both to those who are beginning their professional career (recent Ph.D’s, graduate and doctorate students, or undergraduate students in their last year pursuing studies in any subject related to Spanish or Hispanic cultures) and to experts in the area (language teachers or researchers and professors in these fields). Throughout the years and its various forms, the Symposium has featured specialists from fields of study as diverse as Language and Linguistics, Literature, Education and Teaching, Translation, Cultural Studies, Art, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, and Psychology.
This year’s symposium is dedicated in part to the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Instituto Cervantes and will have the general subject of, “New Perspectives on Hispanic Cultures: Hispanism and Spanish in the U.S. Over the Last 30 Years,” on which the guest lecturers will center their presentations.
The session, celebrated once again online, will have the same structure as the previous year: two sessions which will each include a keynote lecture, followed by four 15-minute papers/presentations and a final debate. The presentations must be unpublished works and may be delivered in either English or Spanish.
The keynote lecturers for this year’s Symposium are Luis Girón Negrón, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and James Fernandez, Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at New York University and Director of NYU Madrid.
Those interested should send their proposals in a Word document, including name and institution, title of paper, as well as an abstract of no more than 200 words, to:
observatorio.sympo@fas.harvard.edu.
Deadline for submission of proposals: Friday, March 26th.
Notification of acceptance by Friday, April 16th.