La Frontera: Borderlands Multidisciplinary Symposium
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The Center for International Relations & The Department of American Studies of Eszterházy Károly College, Eger (Hungary) in cooperation with Gabriel Meléndez (Fulbright Professor) UNM Professor of American Studies and with the Comenius Faculty of Eszterházy Károly College in Sárospatak (Hungary) were pleased to organize the La Frontera: Borderlands Multidisciplinary Symposium.
(December 4, 2014 in Eger, at Eszterházy Károly College)
Eszterházy Károly College invited paper submissions for a one-day symposium on the general topic of la frontera. The frontier and/or borderlands concept yields itself to a wide range of inquiry including:
• literary studies
• cultural studies
• political science
• history
• American studies
• border and borderlands studies
Presenters were encouraged to draw on writer, Gloria Anzaldúa's definition of borderlands as a means to draw out topics from specific locations and texts but also as a way to think about juxtapositions in theoretical, figurative and metaphorical ways. Anzaldúa famously wrote, "The actual physical borderlands that I am dealing with in this book is the U.S.-Mexico border. The psychological, sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not specific to the [American] Southwest. In fact the borderlands are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks with intimacy."
