Tenth Conference on East-West Intercultural Relations

Tenth Conference on East-West Intercultural Relations:
“East-West and Transpacific Studies: Reconfiguring Transnational Flows across the Pacific “

WHEN: May 11-12, 2018

WHERE: School of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Republic of Croatia, Lepušićeva 6

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr. Ignacio Sánchez-Prado
Washington University in Saint Louis
“Shared Neoliberalisms: The Pacific’s Cultural Affects”

REGISTRATION:

Deadline March 1, 2018. For online payment go to https://intelforms.ucmerced.edu/Form/CallForPapers

►USA/Asia: US$100

Graduate students – USA/Asia: $75

►Europe: 80 euros

Graduate students – Europe: 60 euros

►Latin America and Africa: US$60

If the website for online registration does not work, participants from the USA, can send a check signed to University of California Regents. The address is the following:

Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
SSHA University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road
Merced, CA. 95343

Non US participants can pay on-site at the conference to any of the three co-organizers.

ABSTRACT: Please send your abstract via email before March 1, 2018 along with a brief biography (maximum of 10 lines) to the any of following emails:

Prof. Ignacio López-Calvo
lopezcalvo@msn.com

Dean, prof. dr. sc. Lidija Kos-Stanišić
east-west@fpzg.hr

TIME: There will be a maximum of 20 minutes to present the paper (about 8 double-spaced pages, Times New Roman 12).

PUBLICATION: If presenters are interested, they can submit paper dealing with Luso-Hispanic issues to our academic journal T ransmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Production of the Luso-Hispanic World to be evaluated by the editorial committee. Provided that there are enough submissions, a volume with selected essays may be published with Cambridge Scholars Publishing or another publisher.

LANGUAGES: Papers can be presented in English or Spanish.

SUBTHEMES: You are cordially invited to present a paper dedicated to one of the following subthemes (other sub-themes related to the main theme of the conference may be accepted by the conference committee.)

Transnationalism across the Pacific
Transpacific Studies
Latin America and Asia
Croatia’s Knowledge of “the East”
Decolonial and Postcolonial Approaches to Global South cultural exchanges
Orientalism and Occidentalism
Decolonialism and Transmodernity
East-West intercultural relations
East Asia and Latin America
Hispanic Orientalism in literature and film
Orientalization of the Asian imaginary
Exoticizing Asia in the Americas and the Iberian world
Asian presence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Asian travelers in the West
Western travelers in Asia
Images of the Luso-Hispanic world in Asian cultural production
Images of Asia in Luso-Hispanic literature and culture
Translations of Asian texts in Croatia
Latin American cultural production by authors of Asian descent
Travel narratives
Asian and Arab cultural production in the Hispanic world
Representation of Asian and Arab women in the Hispanic world
Asian and Arab Diasporas
Filipino literature in Spanish
Chinatowns in the Americas
Asian and Arab religiosity and “witchcraft” in the Americas
Muslims and Jews in the Western imagination