Sunday, November 8, 2015

New deadline to submit your abstracts! New date: November 20th!

Dear prospective participants,

The deadline for submission has been extended. You have now until November 20th to submit your abstracts.


We are looking forward to hearing from you!


The organization team.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Tips to write an abstract!

Dear prospective Participants,

I would like to share with you a very useful document about how to write a conference abstract.
I am thinking in particular to our French-speaking and Spanish-speaking candidates who might not be used to this kind of exercise since it is so typical to North American academia.
Do not ne afraid of submitting your project because you think it won't fit the required format.
Please, remember: we are not looking for perfect abstracts but we are first interested in good projects!

Here is the webpage with all the information you need to write an abstract:

http://theprofessorisin.com/2011/07/12/how-tosday-how-to-write-a-paper-abstract/

Sunday, October 25, 2015

We offer financial help!

Dear prospective participants,

We offer a financial contribution (for your travel, lodging expenses) to the most promising panelists. This offer is limited. Please write us for further information.

Please do not hesitate to send us your papers, do not let the money be an issue!

Again, here is the Call for papers:

Recycling Culture(s): Poetics and Practices of Sustainability – Call for Papers

Moments of crisis make possible new forms of expression, including cultural initiatives, social cooperatives, and political movements informed by diverse concepts of recycling and sustainability. “Recycling” engulfs more than reusing materials: it also means re-appropriating and repurposing ideas, resources, and forms of cultural production to new ends. For instance, the Cartonera publishing groups of Buenos Aires; Milan’s “Piano City;” Casablanca’s Abbatoirs; the repurposed pieces of tire, plastic, and metal that enclose and adorn André Eugène’s mother and child in Ayiti Pap Peri; and Miami’s Wynwood Arts District all emerge from radically distinct situations of local crisis, and yet, they share sustainable and communal approaches to understanding and addressing social, political, and economic quandaries that exist across the globe.

With these broad interests in mind, we invite abstracts in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish related to:


  • Recycling in and of literature
  • Reimagining forms of cultural production
  • Praxis of the book as a material object
  • Re-thinking and re-appropriating cultural spaces
  • The shift from print to virtual communication and its environmental impact
  • Salvaging ideas
  • Sustainability practices in social and cultural movements
  • The poetics of recycling and sustainability in the literary, visual, and performing arts


Abstracts should be sent by November 10 to: recyclingcultures@gmail.com.

Keynote Speakers:
Haitian writer, Michèle-Jessica Fièvre (www.mjfievre.com)
Colombian artist, Federico Uribe (www.federicouribe.com)

MLL Annual Graduate Conference
February 12, 2016
University of Miami

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