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Call for Papers
"Sensing the Other, Living in Nepantla: Colonial and
Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness"
Chimalpahin Conference 2008
Enkidu Magazine
International Society for Cultural History and Cultural
Studies (CHiCS)
Mexico City (Mexico)
15-18 October 2008
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This conference cycle organized annually by Enkidu Magazine
and the International Society for Cultural History and
Cultural Studies (CHiCS) in Mexico City is devoted to
colonial and post colonial remembering and forgetfulness
viewed from a wide range of different interdisciplinary
perspectives with particular attention to communicative
issues and reflections on self and otherness, memories,
historical myths and other expressions of historical and
political memory. In 2008, the Chimalpahin conference will
take place for the third time.
Sensing the Other, Living in Nepantla: Colonial and
Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness is dedicated to
the Nahua Historian Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón
Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (1579-1660), who more than a
century after the Spanish conquest narrated and mediated in
his native language Nahuatl, the history of Central Mexico
and in particular his own altepetl (ethnic state unit in
Central Mexico before and after the conquest) Chalco.
We welcome submissions from all branches of the social
sciences, humanities, as well as the arts. Graduate students
are encouraged to participate.
The program is organised in a large number of special
thematic sessions and subconferences covering a diverse
series of topics extending from a special session on "Voices
of slaves in inquisitorial records" to "Education and
Nation-Building in Latin America", "Gender and Empire" and
"Representations of the 'Other' on the Theater Stage".
Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from
a wide range of perspectives. Presenters are encouraged to
interpret the themes of the conference broadly and may
explore any historical period, with any geographic focus.
500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising
committee in English, Castilian, German or French by 15
July, 2008. The conference languages will be English and
Castilian.
We are pleased to announce that all printed conference
materials that will be distributed during the conference,
also will be available in large print or Braille. In several
sessions, sign language interpreters for ASL (American Sign
Language) and Mexican Sign Language will also be available
(on request). If you require sign language interpretation
during your session, or you would like to distribute
hand-outs or other materials in Braille during your
presentation, please indicate this in the registration form.
Interpretations of the conference theme ranging from the
predictable to the surprising are encouraged.
The conference will focus on conceptualizations and
representations of cultural categories in colonial and post
colonial realities, and the ways in which individuals have
understood and enacted these frameworks in their lives.
Among the themes of interest are the following:
- Conquest and Continuity
- Borders and Borderlands
- Intra-ethnic translations
- Representations of Otherness
- Historical stereotypes in the construction of the past and
the present
- Gendered Spaces
- Reinterpretations of History and Histories about
colonialism and post-colonialism
- Memory and Archives
- The interaction of categories like nation, gender, class,
and religion
- Education and nation-building in post-colonial societies
- Identities in transition
- Historical Memory
- Political Memory
- Narrative and Linguistics
- Narrative and Myth
- Voice and reflexivity in oral and written records
- Story, Dialogue and Discourse
- Testimonial Narratives
- Memory and Written Record
- Language, Authority and Silence
- Other Suggestions...
Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome since
all these topics in themselves stretch across several
disciplines: history, literary studies, linguistics,
psychology, political sciences, pedagogy, ethnology,
anthropology, sociology...
Papers should be of approximately 30 minutes duration (circa
8 - 10 pages). Other forms of presentation, for instance
workshops, panel debates and poster sessions will be
considered on request.
Graduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to attend
and present papers. Selected papers from the conference will
be published in book form.
* Proposals for Panel Sessions:
Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3
(maximum 4) speakers and 1 moderator. Each session will last
for 2 hours allowing for 30 minutes for each speaker and a
further 30 minutes for questions and discussion.
Proposers should submit:
(1) session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),
(2) paper titles,
(3) abstracts for each paper (500 words),
(4) short biography for each participant and the panel chair
(ca 100-150 words),
(5) institutional affiliation and address for each participant,
(6) audio-visual and other technical requirements.
If you would like to propose a panel session, and want
assistance in finding speakers and/or a session chair, we
can publish a call for papers for your panel session on the
conference web site and distribute it in our newsletter. If
you have an idea for panel session and would like us to
publish a call for papers on the conference website, please
send us a proposal by e-mail to [email protected]
* Proposals for individual papers
Abstracts are to be submitted by 15 July, 2008, along with
the presenters name, address, telephone, email, and
institutional affiliation as well as a short biography (ca
100-150 words). It is recommended to use the form here when
submitting an abstract:
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/chimalpahin/registration_en.htm
However, abstracts will also be accepted as e-mail
attachments to [email protected]
All correspondence for this conference will be conducted via
email. You will be notified by 25 July, 2008 whether your
proposal has been accepted or rejected. Full conference
papers should be submitted by the 1st of October 2006.
Abstracts and summaries of the conference papers will be
made available at the conference web page from July 2008.
We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals
submitted within few days. If you do not receive a reply
from us within a week you should assume we did not receive
your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest,
then, to resend your abstract and resubmit your registration
form, and if possible, suggest an alternative e-mail
address. In particular delegates using hotmail or yahoo
accounts to receive conference related e-mails often
experience problems receiving conference information by
e-mail.
E-mails from the conference organisers are often delivered
to your spam folder and not to your inbox, unless you
remember to add the following e-mail addresses:
[email protected] and [email protected] to
your safe-list. The first address is the general e-mail
address of Enkidu Magazine and will be used to send
conference newsletters and general information. The second,
is the e-mail address of the academic coordinator of the
conference and will be used for individual communication
with delegates.
* Exhibitors, Publishers and Artists
Artists are welcome to suggest exhibitions and displays of
art during the conference.
Organisations, universities and publishers are welcome to
sign up for information stands at the conference center.
The following information is required by artists, publishers
and other exhibitors during the conference:
1) Technical Description of the information stand or artwork
with indications of technical requirements for their
presentation, the size and extension of the individual
artworks to be presented.
2) Estimated Insurance value of the artworks
3) One image of a representative sample of artistic work
from the exhibitions can be sent by e-mail to the conference
organizers in the format tiff or jpg.
4) Curriculum Vitae of artist (or organisation).
5) Description of Exhibition (300 - 500 words).
6) Short bio of artist (or organisation).
* Cultural and Social Pre-Conference Activities
The academic sessions with formal paper presentations will
take place between 15. July and 18. October, 2008. In the 2
weeks before the conference, we will organise a number of
cultural and social activities for conference delegates and
we hope that many international delegates will consider
arriving in Mexico City some days before the conference and
participate in these activities, which will include a guided
tour to Teotihuacan, a city walk through colonial and Aztec
Mexico City, and an exploration of the floating gardens of
Xochimilco.
In addition conference delegates with name badges will be
given discounts and sometimes free access to various theatre
plays, concerts, film screenings and other events before and
during the conference. The final program for the cultural
and social pre-conference activities will be published on
the conference web site in September 2008 and will be
announced also in the conference newsletter, which will be
distributed by e-mail in the months before the conference.
Contact:
Centro Cultural Enkidu
Calle Ezequiel Montes #37, int. 2
Colonia Tabacalera
06030 Mexico, D.F.
Mexico
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/chimalpahin/intro_en.htm
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