From: Rodriguez-Mansilla, Fernando [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:57 To: Lauer, A Robert Subject: Re: 2012 NEMLA Panel on Transatlantic Trauma Experience Estimado Roberto: Francisco López Martín y un servidor estamos organizando un panel en la próxima conferencia de NEMLA (la división noreste de MLA), que se llevará a cabo del 15 al 18 de marzo de 2012 en Rochester (Nueva York, EEUU). Esta es la página web de la conferencia: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html Y esta es la información sobre el panel que estamos proponiendo: Sujeto transatlántico y trauma: aproximaciones a la escritura del XVI y XVII The development of the Spanish Empire in America since the end of the fifteenth century contributed to a series of changes in the shaping of the individuals’identities involved in this process; be them the American natives subject to conquest and a new rule, or the Spanish colonialists who embarked in dangerous trips to unknown lands: in other words, the transatlantic subject. The violence of this transatlantic contact can certainly be defined as traumatic, and the consequences of such personal and social experience can be found in the cultural productions of Early Modern Spain and America, especially in the historical and literary texts of that time. The topic of trauma and its presence in/through literature has recently caught interest of researchers. However, little has been said on how the traumatic experience helped shaping and defining the Spanish-American transatlantic subject. This panel will therefore offer a space where researchers can hold a dialogue, as well as to debate on these current topics and interweave perspectives. The goal of this panel is therefore to explore the way trauma is present in Early Modern texts from Spain and America. Some of thequestions that interest us are the following: What type of traumas can be found in these texts? How is trauma textually represented? How trauma is involved in the shaping of a new transatlantic subject? What causes and consequences are common in these American and Spanish writers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? We welcome papers dealing with how theliterary discourse represents, transforms, or overlaps a traumatic experience. Through a comparative perspective, the panel seeks to discuss the shaping of the transatlantic subject and the influence of trauma in this process. Papers can be in either English or Spanish. Send 200 word proposals to Francisco Lopez Martin, Denison University, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2011 Muchas gracias por la difusión en la lista, Fernando. Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla Assistant Professor of Spanish Spanish and Hispanic Studies Department Hobart and William Smith Colleges ________________________________ Prof. A. Robert Lauer The University of Oklahoma Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics 780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall, Room 206 Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032, USA E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tel.: 405-325-5845 (office); 405-325-6181 (dept.); Fax: 405-325-0103 (dept.) Vision: Harmonious collaboration in an international world. Mission: "Visualize clearly and communicate promptly" Vita<http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/vita.html> / Ibérica<http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vSiteName=SearchSeriesResult.cfm&vLang=D&iHerausgeber=&iTitel=I&iStichwort=&iISSN=&vSeriesID=IBERICA> / BCom<http://www.comediantes.org/> / ACal<http://www.unav.es/griso/docs/publicaciones/Acal/principal.html> / Anagnórisis<http://www.anagnorisis.es/> / AsocCervantistas<http://hispanismo.cervantes.es/asociaciones_ficha.asp?DOCN=4> <http://hispanismo.cervantes.es/asociaciones_ficha.asp?DOCN=4> / ColCervantes<http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html> / ColTeatro<http://www.ou.edu/teatro/coloquioteatro.html> / Intute<http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091112-13174791> /