16th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics: Conflicts and Encounters: Languages and Literatures in Contact

The 16th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics will be held March 23-24, 2007. This colloquium is organized by the Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin in order to give other graduate students an opportunity to share their current work and research interests.

Keynote Speakers:

Sylvia Molloy,Offsite Link New York University:
"Desde lejos: Visions of the Archaic in Homecoming Narratives."

Silvina Montrul,Offsite Link University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
"Morphosyntactic aspects of incomplete acquisition in bilingualism: Does age play a role?"

Download the Call for Papers (PDF, 19K)
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Registration: Download a Registration Form (PDF, 24K)

Conference Program: Download a conference program (PDF, 106K)

Location: The Texas Union Building

Information on getting to Austin, accommodations, and more

Contact information: Christian Cousins, Francisco Plata, and Kristi Silva -  coloquio@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Sponsored by: Graduate Student Organization, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin.
If your department would like to make a financial contribution to help cover the costs of the Colloquium, please contact either one of the Colloquium Chairs (see contact information).

Previous Colloquia

15th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics, held April 2, 2005.

The 14th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics was held April 10, 2004. More information (DOC) | Schedule (PDF)

Information on the 13th Colloquium Offsite Link