The Diálogos conference, the Graduate Student Advisory Committee’s most important event of the year, brings together all members of the Spanish and Portuguese community at IU. For graduate students, it is a professional development opportunity, a forum for sharing research, and also an opportunity to network with graduate student scholars from other institutions.
Please contact the organizers at gsac@iu.edu if you have any questions regarding the Diálogos XXIII conference.
Call for papers for Diálogos XXIII
2026 Conference program
Kim Potowski - virtually (Hispanic Linguistics):
Dr. Kim Potowski is Professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States: Who uses it, with whom, and for what purposes? What changes is it undergoing? How does it connect to identity and to promoting social justice?
Sam Amago - virtually (Hispanic Literatures):
Sam Amago is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, where he serves as Chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. His most recent book is Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain (U of Virginia Press, 2021), which won the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.
Patrícia Lino - in person (Portuguese):
Patrícia Lino (1990) is a poet, an essayist, a performer, a translator and Associate
Professor of poetry and visual arts at UCLA. Among her books, videopoems, translations, and sound experiences are, for instance, Imperativa Ensaística Diabólica. Infraleituras da Poesia Expandida Brasileira (2024), O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (2024), A Ilha das Afeições (2023), Barriga ao Alto (2023), Aula de Música (2022), I Who Cannot Sing (2020), Manoel de Barros e a Poesia Cínica (2019) or Vibrant Hands (2019).
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