The Carolina Conference on Romance Studies

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OUR FINAL DEADLINE IS TOMORROW!!
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***DEADLINE EXTENDED***

We decided to extend the deadline for submission of papers until FEB. 12!!!

Please submit your paper through ccrs.unc.edu/call-for-papers/.

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We have our Keynote Speaker confirmed!! Dr. Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel from NC State University will address Keynote speech!

Opening remarks!

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26th CCRS Welcoming and Opening Remarks 26th CCRS Welcoming and Opening Remarks

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Conference Details | Carolina Conference for Romance Studies

26th Carolina Conference for Romance Studies
March 25- 26, 2022.

There are still seven days left to submit your abstract. The Romance Studies department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill welcomes you:
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We are extending the deadline for abstract submissions through January 16, 2022. We would appreciate it if you would reshare our Call for Papers with your department/institution.
The Romance Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the call for papers for our Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference "Power Play: (Im)balances of Power in the Romance World." The conference will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 25-26th, 2022. We would very much appreciate it if you could circulate the CFP (attached) among your Faculty and Graduate Students and relevant departments at your university.
We also have a webpage, and page where conference information will be updated throughout the year.
Please address any questions to [email protected].
We appreciate your time to read our CFP and to circulate it among your colleagues.
With respectful regards,
Rafael Núñez Rodríguez
Yaisy Rodríguez
Refujio Avalos Reyes
CFP
Questions surrounding gaining power, retaining power, or seeking power (whether real or imagined) are deliberated in countless literary and artistic works, and contemporary societal problems relating to power are unfortunately familiar as we discover that history, in fact, repeats. Similar fundamental concerns are laid bare and challenged as the result of purposeful mobilization as well as unforeseen crises. The rapid spread of COVID-19 and the resulting global consequences forcefully exposed severe socio-economic inequalities and inequitable public policies. Meanwhile, the Me Too movement and protests following the murder of George Floyd have called for public reckonings with the purpose of not only revealing and condemning abuses of power but also empowering those who have suffered those abuses and to demand justice and accountability.
While each generation experiences new challenges in changing contexts regarding power, the core issues remain consistent, tightly binding all pasts to the present and the future. These more recent events echo social movements and crises of past centuries in wrestling with new iterations of enduring questions as to distributions of power and authority. What can we as scholars learn from past and current examinations of power presented through literature, film, visual arts, creative writing, and other mediums of communication and artistry? Have structures of power evolved over the centuries or simply acclimated to new social and temporal contexts without significant systemic change? Who facilitates (or impedes) access to basic resources (such as healthcare, education, etc.) and through what means? What are the implications of control over the publication and circulation of information and, thus, the credibility of sources of information? Can obstacles to challenging power be overcome successfully so as to effect productive change? Through what methods might that change occur?
The 26th annual Carolina Conference for Romance Studies invites graduate students, professors, scholars, and artists to consider and to engage with these and other questions of power in all forms through presentations and discussions. Topics of interest and approaches may include, but are not limited to, the following fields and themes:
· Anthropocene · Intersectionality
· Architecture · Medical Humanities
· Biopolitics · Linguistic Studies
· Colonial, Decolonial, and Postcolonial Studies · Migration and Border Studies
· Digital Humanities · Pedagogical Studies
· Disability Studies · Performance Studies
· Ecocriticism · Posthumanism
· Environmental Humanities · Q***r Studies
· Feminist Studies · Sexuality
· Gender and Women’s Studies · Urban Studies
· Geocriticism · Utopias/Dystopias
· Global Studies · Violence and Trauma
· Historical Memory · Visual and Media Studies Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words using the submission form via the CCRS website (ccrs.unc.edu) by January 16, 2022. We welcome papers submitted in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish; however, in certain cases, submissions in English will be preferred in order to facilitate the creation of panels based on common subject areas rather than language concentration. Panel proposals and roundtables that are language- and/or topic-specific are also welcomed, and each participant should individually complete a submission form. Please direct any questions to [email protected].
Please submit a single-page Word document including the following information. (See ccrs.unc.edu for more information.)
Name:
Email Address:
Affiliation:
Classification: (Professor, Ph.D. Student, M.A. Student, Post-Doc, Independent Researcher, etc.)
Presentation Title:
Abstract (300 words, single-spaced):
Relevant Time Period(s) and Country(-ies):
Keywords (up to six):
**The conference is currently scheduled to be hosted in person at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 25 and 26 and will abide by any university, local, and national pandemic restrictions or safety regulations that have been set in place. However, we are prepared to pivot to hosting the conference online should circumstances change.