CALL FOR PAPERS – 8th Annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium «La Boz del Pueblo: Voices of Sephardic Jews» February 25-26, 2019 University of California, Los Angeles

8th Annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Symposium
La Boz del Pueblo: Voices of Sephardic Jews
February 25-26, 2019
University of California, Los Angeles – Royce Hall 314

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Rina Benmayor, CSU Monterey Bay
Prof. Dalia Kandiyoti, CUNY – Staten Island
Dr. Maureen Jackson, independent scholar

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: December 31, 2018

Now in its eighth consecutive year, the ucLADINO annual symposium is the country’s foremost dedicated space for students, scholars, and community members to connect and share original research from a variety of linguistic, literary, cultural, sociological, anthropological, and historical fields related to Judeo-Spanish and Sephardic Jewry. ucLADINO is a student-run organization at the University of California, Los Angeles dedicated to promoting the knowledge and use of the Judeo-Spanish language.

This year’s theme invites participants to explore issues around voice, narrative, and genre relating to Sephardic Jews, with an emphasis on music, speech, and oral history. Presentations that discuss orality, aurality, sound, narrative, and voice are especially encouraged. Topics and subjects that do not directly deal with Judeo-Spanish as a language are also welcome. We invite interdisciplinary approaches from fields including Spanish and Portuguese studies, Middle East and North African studies, European studies, Jewish studies, religious studies, linguistics, musicology, history, anthropology, sociology, and literature. Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length and delivered in English or Judeo-Spanish. We encourage the use of audio/visual materials.

Possible submissions for presentations may include:

• New theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Judeo-Spanish
• Judeo-Spanish music and performance
• Judeo-Spanish and oral histories
• Education and pedagogy
• Judeo-Spanish dialects, speech patterns, and vocalization
• Sephardic narrative traditions

Please feel free to examine topics pertaining to any time period, region, or academic discipline.
Submissions by students (graduate or advanced undergraduate) and junior faculty are highly encouraged.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

• A 250-300 word description, a working title, and selected references
• Name and institutional affiliation (if any)
• Must be submitted as PDF to ucladino@yahoo.com
• Deadline for receipt of abstracts: December 31, 2018
• Latest notification of acceptance: January 7, 2019 (or earlier, if submitted before deadline)

Please contact ucLADINO director Max Modiano Daniel at ucladino@yahoo.com with any questions, and visit our website for additional information about our past events: http://www.ucladino.com

Sponsored by:
UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Student Organization Leadership and Engagement

Cosponsored by:
UCLA Department of History
UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
Graduate Student Association