GRAPHSY 2025

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17th Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY)
Emociones, sentimientos y afectos / Emoções, sentimentos e afetos / Emotions, feelings and affects

Abstracts are due by January 6, 2025.
Call for abstracts

Conference date: February 14, 2025 (Hybrid)*
Some panels will be hybrid and applicants will be allowed to present online. However, given that the hybrid slots are limited, the majority of presentations will be in person.

Contact: graphsy@georgetown.edu

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University invites you to participate in its Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium 2025 (GRAPHSY).

This year’s conference welcomes proposals within the theme of Emociones, sentimientos y afectos/Emoções, sentimentos e afetos/ Emotions, feelings and affects encouraging the submission of a broad range of research in the fields of Linguistics, Iberian and Latin American Literatures, and Cultures. Emotions play a crucial role in how we understand the world and define our place within it. Although the study of emotions remains a challenging area in modern disciplines, this conference aims to lay a solid foundation for future research by focusing on the linguistic, literary, and cultural manifestations of emotional experiences. GRAPHSY 2025 invites us to reflect on questions related to both positive and negative emotions and language learning, the role of affect in cultural and literary analysis and criticism, the contributions of these new interpretive theories to the emerging post-critical moment in literary studies, the impact of feelings on the development of bi/multilingual identities as well as in various types of social interactions, among other issues.

We are seeking papers that offer innovative readings of texts—from medieval to postmodern, including fiction, theater, poetry, and memoirs—through the lens of studies on affect, feelings, and emotions. We also welcome projects that investigate language in its relationship with emotions, as well as research examining the interconnection between language and human cognition.

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