Conferences
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. Please submit abstracts at http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/go/gemela2010 by April 15, 2010. Feel free to cross-post the call for papers to other lists and forward to interested students and faculty.
If you are interested in hosting the conference, please download our Conference Host Form, which provides a point-by-point description of Host and Board shared responsibilities for the conference.
Click on the link for a program of the conference in PDF format.
- October 2-4, 2008, California State University, Long Beach
- October 5-7, 2006, Georgetown University
- October 21-23, 2004, University of Houston
- September 12-14, 2002 Portland, Oregon
- September 20-22, 2001, Georgetown University (cancelled due to September 11 events)
- October 5-7, 2000, Universidad del Claustro de sor Juana, Ciudad de México
- September 16-18, 1999, Tucson, Arizona
- October 22-24, 1998, Loyola Marymount University
- October 30-November 1, 1997, University of Virginia
- October 10-12, 1996, Texas Tech University
GEMELA mini conference grants
GEMELA invites members to submit proposals for sponsorship of mini-conferences. To be eligible, proposals must meet the following guidelines:
- Co-sponsorship will be considered as long as GEMELA is not hosting its conference during the same semester.
- The maximum amount awarded for an individual conference will be $250.00. No more than two awards will be granted per academic year.
- The conference/symposium must be hosted by a current GEMELA member/s.
- GEMELA will be listed on program and advertisements as co-sponsor.
- The theme of the sponsored conference must relate to GEMELA's mission.
- Please send your short request in an email to GEMELA’s 2nd Vice President: second.vice-president@gemela.org
GEMELA sessions at other conferences
- "Spiritual Voyages Beyond the Convent Walls" panel at the 14th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures: March 27-29, 2008, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- "Poesía femenina" panel at the Eighth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, October 17-20, 2007, Universidad de Córdoba.
- Panel at the III Simposio Internacional Interdisiciplinario de Estudios Coloniales de las Américas, June 5-8, 2007, Quito.
- "New Visions of Teresa of Avila and Sor Juana" panel at the 2006 MLA Convention, December 27-30, Philadelphia.