2012 Recovery Conference: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

EXTENSION DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2012

Crowne Plaza Houston, Downtown

October 19-20, 2012

This year’s Recovery Conference will explore the history and expression of dissent by Latinos in the United States. To be sure, one of the driving forces for the growth of Hispanic communities in the United States has been their support for political dissent, whether it be local or regional, or on many occasions hosting political refugees from throughout Spanish America and Spain. This year’s Recovery program seeks to foreground the particular role played by Hispanic intellectuals, whether of the educated elite or the working class, in such phenomena as US filibustering and/or intervention in Latin America, or the struggle for democratic institutions both in the United States and in the Spanish-speaking world but launched from these shores. Equally compelling for study is the rise of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Spanish and other nationalisms within the United States, including Pan Americanism, and subsequent funding and forging of revolutions from American shores. Of course, the study of the historical documents and literary genres that emerge from these currents and movements, be they the related to general topics such as publishing and printing, lawmaking, manifestoes of dissent or specialized themes such as underground Cristero publications, novels of the Mexican Revolution, political correspondence, anarchism in early twentieth-century communities, feminist plays presented in union halls in Tampa, essays from José Martí to Jesús Colón rejecting racial segregation and categorization, labor and civil rights organizing in New York and California and points in between,  etc. will be of utmost interest.

As always, studies on the following themes, as manifested before 1960, will be welcome:

• Analytical studies of recovered authors and/or texts
• Critical, historical and theoretical approaches to recovered texts
• Curriculum development
• Religious thought and practice
• Folklore/oral histories
• Historiography
• Language and linguistics
• Library and information science
• Social implications, cultural analyses
• Collections and archives

Submissions of Abstracts (100 words)

EXTENSION DEADLINE:  JUNE 1, 2012

For details, contact Dr. Carolina A. Villarroel, Director of Research

University of Houston

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage

4902 Gulf Fwy., Bldg. 19, Room 100

Houston, TX  77204-2004

Tel: (713) 743-3128  •  Fax: (713) 743-2847

E-mail: artrec@mail.uh.edu

Call for Papers