Mission Statement
GEMELA strives to unite scholars across traditional disciplinary boundaries through its focus on women's cultural production in medieval and early modern Spain and colonial Latin America through 1800. Our purpose is to distribute information and knowledge about women and their role as cultural producers. Our conferences and publications encourage teaching and research based on all approaches related to our principal field of inquiry.
News
2009-11-17: GEMELA (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre-1800) invites abstracts for its biennial conference to be hosted by Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley and UMass-Amherst, Massachusetts, on September 23-25, 2010.
Sponsored by Mount Holyoke College, UMass-Amherst and GEMELA, the conference will focus on women’s cultural production in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America. Papers or sessions that focus on making connections between geographical spaces, or between disciplines will be highly appreciated. We also welcome suggestions for discussion papers and/or workshops on theory, pedagogy, and other related topics. Papers may be delivered in Spanish or English.
The deadline for sending one-page abstracts is 15 April 2010. Graduate Students should send an abstract along with a full text (7-10 pages max.) Papers by graduate students will automatically be submitted to the Graduate Student Award Competition. Please submit abstracts at http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/gemela2010.
All presenters must pay 2010 membership ($30 for two years) and the conference registration fee ($100 faculty/$50 students) by June 1, 2010. Participants traveling from abroad can pay upon arrival at the conference, but need to confirm participation by June 1, 2010. See membership page for information on joining and renewing.
Please feel free to cross-post the call for papers to other lists and forward to interested students and faculty.
2009-10-06: The new GEMELA board for the 2009-10 period has just been constituted.
2009-01-30: The most recent GEMELA newsletter is available here!.
2009-01-19: GEMELA invites members to submit proposals for sponsorship of mini-conferences. See guidelines at the conference page.
2008-10-28: Business Luncheon Minutes.
The minutes from the recent conference Business Luncheon are available here.
2008-10-10: Program.
The final version of the conference program can be found here. The program will always be available (together with previous programs) at the past conferences page.
2008-10-10: Vanessa Paloma
Watch Vanessa Paloma singing a judeo-hispanic song in this video. Vanessa Paloma performed at GEMELA's recent conference.