April 10, 2025 - April 12, 2025
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We are pleased to announce that the 29th Conference of Spanish in the United States and 14th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages will be held on April 10-12, 2025, at the Downtown Campus of UTSA, in beautiful San Antonio, Texas. Our keynote speakers will be Mark Amengual, Judith Maxwell, and Janis Palma.
Our conference theme is "Destabilizing borders: Transdisciplinary implications of Spanish in contact." While borders are generally treated as rigid divisions, they are often arbitrarily imposed on spaces, peoples, concepts, and fields of study. With this year’s conference theme, we invite you to explore and question borders in their many senses—borders between countries, human beings, and cultures; borders between named languages; and borders between academic disciplines, among others. We welcome transdisciplinary talks that scrutinize the porous or artificial nature of the borders that surround us, centering transfronterizo identities and translanguaging practices, with the goal of destabilizing the perceived rigidity of these boundaries.
With this theme in mind, we would like to invite paper, panel and workshop submissions that investigate the tensions surrounding Spanish in the United States and language contact in an era of xenophobia and anti-immigration sentiment. As is the conference tradition, we also welcome submissions in all areas of language research related to any aspect of Spanish in the United States or Spanish in contact with other languages, including, but not limited to the following:
- Bilingualism/multilingualism
- Educational policies and practices
- Formal aspects of US Spanish
- Translanguaging
- Heritage language acquisition, learning, and teaching
- Third generation heritage Spanish
- Language and identity
- Language and the law
- Language contact and change
- Language ideologies, raciolinguistics
- Language maintenance, shift, and loss
- Language in politics and the politics of language, linguistic rights
- Language policy and language planning
- Language variation
- Linguistic anthropology
- Mass media and Spanish
- Spanish in the professions, translation, interpreting
- Spanish and the economy
Multidisciplinary, multimethod, and collaborative cutting-edge scholarship is welcome.
Call deadline: November 1st, 2024
Questions? Please email us at [email protected]
Submission instructions:
1. Abstracts must not exceed 500 words, excluding the title. You may include a second page for tables, examples, and references.
2. Abstracts must clearly present a specific thesis statement, and must include a description of topic, approach, and conclusions.
3. Authors may submit a total of two abstracts, one individual and one joint or one as first author and one as second.
4. Panel submissions will also be accepted. A panel should include a 500-word description and three to four short abstracts related to the panel theme.
5. Workshop submissions should include a 500-word description of the activity proposed, which should last between 90 minutes and two hours. The proposal should clearly specify how the workshop will provide attendees with a hands-on experience and clarify learning outcomes.
6. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously. Authors should thus avoid including their name of otherwise reveal their identities. Please remember to remove all identifiers from your file.
6. Papers/panels/workshops may be delivered in English, Spanish, or translanguaging. Please submit the abstract in the language(s) in which you intend to present
7. Authors should plan for papers that are 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute Q&A.
8. Abstracts must be submitted as a PDF.
Submissions open: Aug. 1, 2024 - Nov. 1, 2024
Abstract review period: Dec. 1, 2024 - Jan. 15, 2025