XV Interdisciplinary Diálogos Conference (Diálogos 2018)

The XV interdisciplinary Diálogos conference, organized by the Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Indiana University-Bloomington, will be held on March 2-3, 2018. We are seeking original research in literature and linguistics in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, or English. We welcome papers on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
Linguistics: sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, semantics, pragmatics dialectology, lexicology, language acquisition, language contact, bilingualism, and psycholinguistics. Languages object of study can be other than the aforementioned (e.g., French phonology, Swahili syntax)
Literature: literary, political, and cultural theory, biopolitics, religion, film, gender studies, indigenous and first-peoples studies, and TransAtlantic, African, Peninsular, and Latin American perspectives.

Keynote speakers:
- Dr. Concepción Company Company, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- Dr. Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Temple University

Please send your anonymized abstract to gsac@indiana.edu with “Diálogos 2018 abstract submission” in the subject line. Abstracts should be no longer than 1 page in length including title, tables, examples and references. In the body of your email please include the following: name, title of your
presentation, email address, and institution. We also invite proposals for special panels which must include the abstract for the panel and the individual abstracts for each presentation considered for that session. All abstracts will be anonymously reviewed. Presentations will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for feedback/questions/discussion.
Deadline for abstract submission is January 1, 2018. Feel free to contact us with any questions/concerns. Authors may present a maximum of two papers (one single-authored and one coauthored, or two co-authored). Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.

- Decision to attend conference: January 26, 2018
- Preliminary program: February 9, 2018