2008 Conference - Recovery Project Program

This year, there will be two general themes for the conference:

1. Mapping the Contact Zone(s) of Nuestra América.

Rather than revisit “contact zones” as initiated and dominated by European travelers, merchants and conquistadors, we seek to investigate later evolutions of the “contact zone” with its potential as a space for a multiplicity of diverse cultural clashes and/or syntheses. The conference advocates for a more thorough mapping of cultural, political, linguistic, gendered and historical connections or disconnections between individuals and groups of any particular “contact zone.”  The evolving metropolis, as found in New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Antonio, Albuquerque and San Francisco, among others, should be the ideal place to imagine the mutability and multiplicity of the “contact zone,” but so are places visited by violence and forced displacement.
 

2. The bicentennial of Hispanic newspapers in the United States.

In September 1808, the first issue of El Misisipí was published in New Orleans. It was the first Spanish-language newspaper to be published north of the Rio Grande and was soon followed by others in the Northeast, Texas and Florida. Since the beginnings of Hispanic publishing in all areas that became part of the United States, Latinos have made of the newspaper, as well as other types of periodicals, the most important and prolific medium for their political, social, literary and religious expression, even more so than books. In the process recovering our written legacy, thousands of texts worthy of preservation and study have been found in newspapers, many more than in books.  

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The Recovery Conference will start with a pre-Conference Symposium organized by our partners Texas Southern University on Thursday November 13. Attached is the program for the symposium.  TSU Program click here