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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:20pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Dialogando con la literatura: Convergencia mediática y su expresión escrita</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;color:red"><font face="Times New Roman">Saturday, April 16, 2011</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Although the influence of the arts into the realm of literature is not exclusive to our present time, there are newly developed forms of art, media and technology that are not only changing the world around us, but are quickly making their way into literature today. These new forms are reshaping the way literature is produced and seen in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula as if they were fashioning a dialogue among them.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Some of these discourses include, but are not limited to: music’s influence on written structures, the reshaping of plastic arts into literary aesthetics, film and other visual media’s embedment into the written discourse, E-writing and the hypertext novel, mediatic and transmedia productions, etc. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We encourage panels or papers related to linguistics, literature, transatlantic studies, historical perspectives, performance studies, film and media, Chicano/a studies, ethnic and indigenous studies, religious studies, gender and queer studies. Papers may use an interdisciplinary approach to the arts, issues of gender, and conceptions of identity. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Key Note Speaker:</span></b><font size="3"> </font><span style="font-size:40pt;color:#000099;font-family:'Edwardian Script ITC'">Mario Bellatín</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Submission Information:</font></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="color:red">Abstract deadline:</span></b> Monday, January 10, 2011 (<b>include</b>: name, title, affiliation & phone #)</font></font></p>
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