CALL for PAPERS – FRIDAY, 17th MAY
41st Annual ACIS Conference
FACULDADE DE LETRAS – UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
4 – 6 September 2019
The Association will hold its 41st Conference, organised jointly by the CEC, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa and FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, from 4-6 September 2019.
The conference will take place at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa with accommodation available nearby.
You are cordially invited to offer a paper, panel, or workshop presentation. Proposals for individual papers as well as panels on specific themes (max. four papers per panel) are encouraged. Any proposed panel should be organised by one convenor who will be responsible for inviting the speakers and chairing the session. You are also invited to suggest any speakers you think would be willing to offer a paper, but please note that ACIS does not normally offer a fee or expenses for speakers.
ACIS encourages proposals from postgraduate students and a small number of partial conference fee bursaries are available – please see application process details below and encourage your students to consider this.
Below are the suggested thematic areas for papers and panels, which must advance understanding of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century socio-cultural, economic and political issues and realities and relate primarily to Spain and/or Portugal and transnational issues and processes relating to the Iberian Peninsula within the wider Lusophone and Hispanic worlds. Both single-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged and the themes listed below are not exclusive.
- Politics, Government, International Relations, the EU, Nationalism, Regionalisms, Transnational issues and processes
- Economics, Business, Labour, Social and Welfare issues
- Cultural Production in all its forms (e.g. film, television, journalism, literature, media, advertising, digital communication & social networking)
- Social and Cultural Studies (e.g. identity, gender, ethnicity, popular culture)
- Leisure, Tourism, Sport
- Contemporary History
- Language, Linguistics, Language Policy
- Education and Pedagogy
The selection of panels/papers will be made by the Conference programme convenors in consultation with the Executive Committee and these decisions will be final. Papers will be allocated 30 minutes on the programme (20 mins for the paper 10 mins for discussion).
We will shortly be announcing the keynote speakers for the conference on our ACIS website. Keynote speakers in previous years have included novelist Use Lahoz, journalist and writer Elvira Lindo, historian and diplomat Professor Angel Viñas and the Association’s President, historian Professor Paul Preston.
If you wish to offer a paper, please see the GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS and send your proposal to the ACIS 2019 Programme Convenors (Susana Relvas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Jesús Revelles Esquirol, Universitat de Isles Baleares) at the email address: ACIS2019LISBON@gmail.com by Friday 17th May 2019. Informal enquiries concerning papers and topics are welcome before the deadlines.