Graduate Student Opportunities

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Calls for Papers
Fellowships and other Funding
Job Opportunities

Calls for Papers: New postings added as of 18 November 2009!

41st ASECS Annual Meeting (Albuquerque, NM) March 18-21, 2010
Send proposals for papers directly to the seminar chairs no later than 15 September 2009.

2009 Latin American Studies Conference, October 23, 2009
Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus, Baltimore, Maryland.
"Unsettling Decadence: Crisis and Creativity in Latin America". ,
Deadline for abstract submission is September 15th.

ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), New Orleans, April 1-4 2010.
"Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms"
Send abstracts to to "lrosa@princeton.edu" by November 13, 2009.

2nd. International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS)
 University of Cartagena, Colombia, March 15-19, 2010
“The Many Caribbeans and the Bicentennial of the Continental
Spanish American Independence Movements”
Send abstracts to hrromero@utpa.edu (in English or French)
or to figueroa@javeriana.edu.co  (in Spanish) by November 15, 2009.

2010 Interdisciplinary Conference of AHLiST (Association of History, Literature, Science and
Technology), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, from June 23 to 25, 2010.
Deadline for proposal submissions: November 15, 2009

The Journal of Contemporary Mexican Literature (RLMC) and Border Senses,
The University of Texas at El Paso, March 4-6, 2010.
"The Mexican Revolution and Literature" (but could accept other themes).
This call for papers will close November 15, 2009.

V TRANSATLANTIC CONFERENCE AT BROWN UNIVERSITY, April 7-10th, 2010
Futuros (Transiciones, Agencias, Traducciones)
Email abstract by Nov 15th, 2009 to Maria_Pizarro_Prada@brown.edu.

Seventh Biennial Florida International University
Conference on Spanish and Spanish-American Cultural Studies
Florida International University, Miami, April 1-3, 2010
"Hispanic Literature and Film at the Bicentennial of Latin American Indepences: 1810-2010"
Submit abstracts to pouj@fiu.edu by 1 December 2009.

13th Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Symposium, April 23-24, 2010
(RE)IMAGINING SPACES: MIGRATION, IDENTITY AND MEMORY, Ohio State University
Submit abstracts to symposium_sppo@osu.edu by 14 December 2009

Association of Graduate Students in Romance Studies 14th Annual Symposium, March 6, 2010
"Framing the Human: (De)humanization in Language, Literature and Culture”
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Submit abstracts to agsrs@umn.edu by 15 December 2009

UC Berkeley 5th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, April 9th, 10th and 11th, 2010
“Performing Selves: Strategies and Limits”, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA.
Submit abstracts to  spp_conf@berkeley.edu by 15 December 2009.
      
UIC Graduate Student  Conference of Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies, February 26- 27, 2010.
University  of Illinois at Chicago,  Interstices and other spaces.
Email abstract by December 15th, 2009, to uic.congresolitercultura@gmail.com.

16th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, March 25-27, 2010
University of N.C. at Chapel Hill, "From Border Building to Border Hopping: The Shifting  Nature of the Text"
Submit abstracts to ccrl.unc.edu by December 18, 2009.   

The Ohio State University Congress on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, April 23-24, 2010
symposium_sppo@osu.edu by December 20, 2009.     

The 17th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference, Univ. of Michigan, March 25th, 26th and 27th, 2010.
The Turning Point: Crisis & Disaster
Submit abstracts to fraker2010abstracts@ctools.umich.edu by December 21st, 2009.

XXXVIII Congreso Internacional, Georgetown University, 7-11 June 2010
Independencias: Memoria y futuro
Email abstract by 15 January 2010 to iili@georgetown.edu.

Weltliteratur: Crossing Boundaries, University of Notre Dame, March 19, 2010
An Interdisciplinary Conference on World Literature 
Abstracts should be submitted to gbusl@nd.edu by January 15, 2010.

XVIII Annual Conference in Romance Language, March 19th and 20th, 2010.
Boston College Romance Language Graduate Student Association
It’s Complicated: A Clash of perspectives
Send proposals to bcrlgsa@gmail.com by 16 January 2010.

XVIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana (CILCA)
León, Nicaragua, Marzo 24-26, 2010
Email abstract to roman@calumet.purdue.edu by 31 January 2010.

Kaleidoscope, Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference, March 5-6, 2009
"Distortion and Illusion", University of Wisconsin-Madison
Submit abstracts to jedebo@wisc.edu by 31 January 2010.

Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center 9th Annual Graduate Conference
Stony Brook Manhattan, New York, April 9, 2010
1810-2010: Two Hundred Years of Postcolonial Futures
Submit proposals to sbulaccgrad@yahoo.com by FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Fifteenth Annual Graduate Students' Conference, New York City, April 9th-10th, 2010.
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, City University of New York
Submit abstracts to lljournal@gc.cuny.edu by 15 February 2009

Fellowships:

Library reserve file of successful grant applications from Emory students.  
The posted collection will be open to all Emory students and faculty, but not to anyone else.
We are working with application authors to make sure that any posted files do not contain personal
or other information that should not be posted.

Laney Graduate School Grants Page

Fulbright information for fall 2009 applications (for 2010-11 funding)

CUNY DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE AT THE CITY COLLEGE
DOCTORAL STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS

Graduate School Fellowships

• Dean's Teaching Fellowships -- applications due December 15, 2008
• Mellon Foundation Graduate Teaching Fellowships -- applications due January 13, 2009 
• Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE), -- applications due February 6
  
• Women’s Club Memorial Award in Graduate Research (all fields eligible) -- appl due March 17, 2009
  
• Freie Universität Berlin Exchange (all fields eligible) -- applications due March 17, 2009

Fellowships Offered with Partners

• Center for Women at Emory -- applications due February 27
• Emory Writing Center -- applications due Feburary 4
• Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry -- applications due Feburary 26
• Office of University-Community Partnership advanced student fellowships. Appl due February 13.
• Woodruff Library-- due March 17

Miscellaneous Funding:

IDN-CIPA Scholarship - Provides support to students who have research interests related to development
and plan to participate in an off-campus program in the developing world. Scholarships provide up to
$2500 for travel, vaccinations and research costs. 
The deadline for applications has been extended to Friday, October 2nd. 

Arts Grants for Graduate Students – Apply by September 30
Project Grants for graduate students (maximum award $1,000) sponsored by
the Emory College of Arts & Science Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA) and
Creativity: Arts & Innovation (CAI) of the University.  

Travelling Jam-Pot: Fund for Graduate Students:An award of up to $300 will be given toward the cost
of attending the ASECS annual meeting. Applicants must be members of ASECS at the time of submission.

University of Maryland Visiting Scholars Program 2010-2011
Complete applications are due March 1, 2010.
Announcement of awards will be made April 30, 2010.

Job Opportunities:

The Department of Foreign Languages at the State University of New York, New Paltz:
 Assistant Professor Spanish Linguistics/Generalist Latin American Literature.

The Department of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College:
Assistant Professor, Hispanic/Latino Cultures in the United States

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University:
Assistant Professor, Latin American literary and cultural studies