'THE NEXT GENERATION: HISPANIC WOMEN’S
STUDIES' FORUM AT UH
Asociación de Escritoras de España
y las Américas Meets for Its Eighth Biannual Conference
HOUSTON, Oct. 7, 2004 – More than 50 experts on late medieval
to early modern Spanish and Spanish-American women writers will
convene at the University of Houston for the Asociación de
Escritoras de España y las Américas’ (AEEA)
eighth biannual conference Oct. 21-23.
“The Next Generation: Hispanic Women’s Studies”
will bring together authors, academicians and historians at the
University Center to discuss such topics as: Women’s Poetry
of the Golden Age, Women and Christianity and Representation and
Vision. Presentations will be made in English and Spanish. The conference
is free and open to the public.
“While most people are familiar with the modern-day feminist
movement, little is known about Spanish and Spanish-American women
from 1300-1800,” said Julian Olivares, UH professor of Spanish
and AEEA conference organizer. “During the time, women were
not considered subjects worth studying. The AEEA provides a forum
for scholars, students and the public to learn more about a topic
that has been uncharted for so long.”
Two experts from UH will present – Olivares and Carmen Blanco-Flynn,
a graduate student.
The conference is sponsored by UH’s Spanish Graduate Student
Organization; the Comparative, Cultural and Critical Studies Initiative
of the department of modern and classical languages at UH; and the
department of Hispanic Studies at Rice University.
The AEEA unites scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries
by focusing on women writers of Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
and Colonial Latin America. The organization disseminates information
and knowledge about these women and their creative endeavors to
promote teaching and research.
For more information about the AEEA and for a conference schedule,
go to www.aeeahome.org.
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