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Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The 46th European Studies Conference, is being hosted (virtually in 2021) by the University of Nebraska Omaha on October 1-2, 2021, welcomes papers on European topics in all disciplines.

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Founded in 1975, our interdisciplinary conference has drawn participants from colleges and universities in the United States and from abroad.

Areas of interest have been: art, anthropology, history, literature, current issues and prospects in cultural, political, social, economic, or military areas; education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, music, geography, theater, and film.

This year we also offer special panels on the following topics: Human Rights, Holocaust and Genocide, Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies.

Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words to:

European Studies Conference
Department of Foreign Languages| ASH 301
University of Nebraska Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182-0192.

We also encourage submission via e-mail: acarballal@unomaha.edu

Please include:

  • Your name
  • Full address
  • Institution affiliation
  • Day telephone
  • Fax
  • Email address

Junior faculty and advanced graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate. Graduate students are invited to apply for Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper in the amount of $250.

Deadline to submit an abstract for presentation is May 31, 2021.

Call for Papers: Doc / PDF

The Keynote Speaker is Dr. Isabel Castro Vázquez, Professor of Foreign Languages and Iberian Studies at Townson University. Dr. Castro Vazquez fields of expertise are Galician and Iberian studies, Climate Change and Global Warming, Human Rights and Minority studies.

Dr. Castro Vazquez fields of expertise are Galician and Iberian studies, Climate Change and Global Warming, Human Rights and Minority studies. Her talk will be about “Human Rights, Ecology and Memory through the Eyes of European Minorities.”

This is a summary:

One of the most vocal literary voices for human rights and ecology is arguably that of Manuel Rivas, a European writer who chooses to create his works in a minority language from the north-west of Spain: Galician. Günter Grass, Nobel Prize in Literature, stated that he learned more about the Spanish Civil War from reading Rivas’s short novel The carpenter’s pencil than from any history book. The Spanish Civil War is the beginning of the Second World War and the Holocaust. But Rivas, like other European writers, does not dwell in the past for pasts sake, he reviews it to shed light on the present, to fight the desmemoria, the “unmemory” or “removal of memory”. His eclectic voice denounces the violations of human rights during the 1930s and 40s in Europe and his books root present issues in history.

How are these writings advocating for human rights and ecology? What strategies are used? Why is an ecological critical framework the most effective? The same power struggles from the past are bringing up new challenges in the present: human rights violations are directly related to the abuse of animals and nature. Manuel Rivas understands that writing is committing. His activist voice and his craft bring up awareness to Europe and to the world.

Establishing those connections paints a more complete picture of what we are up against.

More information:

unomaha.edu/esc
 Fax: 402.554.3445
Phone: 402.554.4838

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