Association for

Contemporary Iberian Studies

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

7-9 SEPTEMBER 2010

The Association will hold its 31st Conference at Roehampton University from 7-9
September 2010. You are cordially invited to offer a paper, panel, or workshop presentation.
This year we are proposing to seek Panels on specific themes in addition to individual
presentations. The idea would be that one person would offer to convene a Panel and would be
responsible for inviting the speakers and chairing the session. You are also invited to suggest
any speakers who you think would be willing to offer a paper, bearing in mind, however, that
ACIS does not normally offer either a fee or expenses for speakers. The choice of all panels and
papers will be made by the Conference Programme Organiser in consultation with the Executive
Committee.

Suggested thematic areas for papers and panels, which are not exclusive and may overlap, and
which must relate primarily to Spain and Portugal, are:

Politics, Government, International relations, the EU, Nationalism, Regionalisms

Economics, Business, Labour, Social and Welfare issues, Education
Film, Media, Advertising, Leisure, Tourism, Sport
Twentieth-Century History
Cultural Studies, Identities, Gender
Language, Linguistics, Language Policy and Pedagogy

Other suggestions are welcome, and Panels can be more specific within these broad areas.
Papers will be allocated a maximum of 30 minutes on the programme, in order to leave time for
discussion and debate. If you wish to offer a paper, please refer to the Guidelines for Papers (on
next page). For Papers, please send, preferably by e-mail, a provisional title and short
description of content (approx 100 words) by 31 March 2010 and for Panels by 5 February 2010
to:

Dr. Elvira Antón-Carrillo

Department of Modern Languages (Spanish)
Roehampton University
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PH

Tel: + 44 (0)20 8392 5027

Email: acis2010@roehampton.ac.uk

NOTE : Informal enquiries would be welcome before these dates.

 Association for
Contemporary Iberian Studies

GUIDELINES FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS

The Constitution briefly describes the general aims of the Association as the promotion of “the
study of the social, economic and political affairs of the Iberian area together with its languages”.
Following on from this broad description we could further define our areas of activity in terms of
geographical limits and historical period:

1. Geographical limits: Spain and Portugal and their dependent territories. International
relations involving either country are included.

2. Historical period: approximately the past 100 years, from the late nineteenth century to
the present. This is not meant to exclude references to an earlier period, where
appropriate.

3. Language: the Spanish and Portuguese languages, especially contemporary usage; the
minority languages of the Iberian Peninsula, especially in their social and political
context.

If you have published a book on a subject of potential interest to ACIS members in the course of
the past year, we invite you to take the opportunity to use our web pages to publicise it. Please
send details to acis2010@roehampton.ac.uk

For more information, please visit:

http://www.iberianstudies.net/