Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies 45th Annual Conference-Dublin

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies will hold its 45th annual Conference, which will take place at Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin), from 4-6 September 2024. It will be hosted by Dr Deirdre Kelly, Dr Pilar Molina and Dr Mirna Vohnsen (TU Dublin). The conference will be held in a hybrid format.

You are cordially invited to offer a paper, panel, or workshop presentation. Proposals for individual papers as well as panels on specific themes (max. four papers per panel) are encouraged. Any proposed panel should be organised by one convenor, who will be responsible for inviting the speakers and chairing the session. You are also invited to suggest any speakers you think would be willing to offer a paper, but please note that ACIS does not normally offer a fee or expenses for speakers.

ACIS encourages proposals from postgraduate students and a small number of partial conference fee bursaries are available – please see application process details below and encourage your students to consider this.

Below are the suggested thematic areas for papers and panels, which must advance understanding of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century socio-cultural, economic and political issues and realities and relate primarily to Spain and/or Portugal and transnational issues and processes relating to the Iberian Peninsula within the wider Lusophone and Hispanic worlds. Both single-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged, and the themes listed below are not exclusive:

• Politics, Government, International Relations, the EU, Nationalism, Regionalisms, Transnational issues and processes
• Economics, Business, Labour, Social and Welfare issues
• Cultural Production in all its forms (e.g. film, television, journalism, literature, media, advertising, digital communication & social networking)
• Social and Cultural Studies (e.g. identity, gender, ethnicity, popular culture)
• Leisure, Tourism, Sport
• Contemporary History
• Language, Linguistics, Language Policy
• Education and Pedagogy

The selection of panels/papers will be made by the Conference programme convenors in consultation with the Executive Committee and these decisions will be final. Papers will be allocated 30 minutes on the programme (20 mins for the paper 10 mins for discussion).

We will shortly be announcing the keynote speakers for the conference on our ACIS website. Keynote speakers in previous years have included novelist Use Lahoz, journalists and writers Elvira Lindo and Martín Caparrós, historian and diplomat Professor Angel Viñas, political science expert Professor António Costa Pinto and the Association’s President, historian Professor Paul Preston.

If you wish to offer a paper, please see the Guidelines for Papers and send your proposal to the ACIS 2024 Programme Convenors Dr Deirdre Kelly, Dr Pilar Molina and Dr Mirna Vohnsen at the email address: 45acis2024@gmail.com by FRIDAY, 17th May 2024. Informal enquiries concerning papers and topics are welcome before the deadlines. Conference booking can be made at ACIS registration 2024 and there is more information about the Association at https://www.iberianstudies.net/conferences/

ABOUT ACIS

The Constitution briefly describes the general aims of the Association as the promotion and advancement of “study and understanding of contemporary socio-cultural, economic and political issues and realities relating primarily to Spain and/or Portugal and transnational issues and processes relating to the Iberian Peninsula within the wider Lusophone and Hispanic worlds”.

1. Geographical limits: Spain and Portugal, their dependent territories and their relations with the wider Lusophone and Hispanic worlds. Broader international relations involving either state are also included.

2. Historical period: from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. This is not meant to exclude references to an earlier period, where appropriate.

3. Language: All the languages of the Iberian Peninsula and their varieties, especially in their contemporary social and political context.

REGISTRATION DEADLINES

Early bird payments are accepted until the deadline, SATURDAY, 1st JUNE 2024

Standard payments are accepted until the deadline, SUNDAY, 30th JUNE 2024

ACIS CONFERENCE 2024 POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES

The Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies is offering four postgraduate student bursaries for those who participate only in-person.

Successful applicants will have the conference fee waved for the forthcoming ACIS Conference at Technological University Dublin, 4-6 September 2024.

These bursaries are available to postgraduate students whose research is related to an area of interest to ACIS members (see above Guidelines for Papers), and who are willing to offer a paper at the 2024 Conference. ACIS aims in this way to encourage postgraduate students to participate in the Association, which is concerned with the study of social, political and economic aspects of the Iberian area, as well as its languages and cultures.

N.B. These bursaries are intended for postgraduate students who are not in full-time or fractional academic posts; students who are employed to undertake small amounts of part-time teaching (less than 0.5 FTE timetable) will be eligible.

Applications should be made to the ACIS 2024 Conference Convenors Dr Deirdre Kelly, Dr Pilar Molina and Dr Mirna Vohnsen at the email address: 45acis2024@gmail.com using the form below.

The completed application form must be accompanied by a supporting reference from the applicant’s supervisor; the reference is needed to help the Conference Convenor and ACIS Executive Committee decide which applications will be of most interest and value, and of sufficient quality to be included in the Conference programme.

Successful applicants will receive a conference fee waiver but please note that travel expenses and accommodation will not be covered by the bursary.

Successful applicants will also be invited to submit papers for consideration for publication in the International Journal of Iberian Studies (IJIS), on the understanding that publication is not guaranteed, as this is a refereed journal.

Final date for applications will be FRIDAY, 17th MAY 2024.

PLEASE BRING THIS INVITATION TO THE ATTENTION OF

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS IN YOUR DEPARTMENT.

ACIS RELIES ON ITS MEMBERS AND FRIENDS TO PUBLICISE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO POSTGRADUATES.