Exploring the Portuguese Diaspora in InterDISCIPLINARY and Comparative Perspectives: An International Conference
July 25-27, 2013
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Exploring the Portuguese Diaspora in InterDISCIPLINARY and Comparative Perspectives: An International Conference proposes to create a forum that will permit scholars to engage in a cross-national and cross-disciplinary dialogue on the Portuguese diaspora. All comparative and interdisciplinary forms of the Portuguese-speaking diaspora (Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe) will be considered: sociological, economic, political, literary, linguistic, historical, cultural, and others. Possible themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Diaspora theory and the Portuguese “diaspora”
- Historical trends and aspects of the Portuguese diaspora
- Portuguese Jewish Diaspora
- The geography of the Portuguese diaspora by countries and continents
- Diasporas and home country socio-cultural, political, and economic interactions
- Diasporas, globalization, and international/transnational relations
- Return migrations, new transits and new migrations, transnational identity formation
- Diasporas in the digital age
- The media and the diaspora
- Demographic, social, educational, economic, and political trends in diaspora communities
- Socioeconomic, political, cultural and psychological integration across the generations in immigrant receiving societies.
- Diaspora and intercultural patterns
- Gender issues in the diaspora
- Cultural, artistic, literary, and linguistic trends in the diaspora
- Material culture (e.g.: artifacts, monuments, letters) and non-material culture (religion, values, norms, feasts, folklore, traditions, music)
- Identity formation processes, family structures, and psychological aspects of migrations and diasporas
- Diaspora and children: language, emotion, and identity
- Writing the diaspora
- Language in contact with other languages, language change and variation; notions of bilingualism and multilingualism; the ancestral language across the generations
- Oral vs. written narratives: Portuguese migrant stories (life stories and other narratives)
- Identity and collective memory discourse; autobiography
- Linguistic issues and gender
- Context and culture in language learning
- Speech community and representation of discourse
- Translation
- Diaspora and creative writing
- Comparative diaspora studies
- Other aspects of the Portuguese diaspora
Proposals must be submitted via the online system at the conference link http://ocs.sfu.ca/pds/index.php/pdaip/2013; or you may send them to ics@brocku.ca.
Papers (20 minutes) may be presented in any of the following languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French. A selection of the papers presented will be published in a refereed volume.
Any questions may be directed to dmscott@anderson.edu
