From: National Foreign Language Resource Center <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Final Reminder: Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies Conference - Call for Papers deadline April 30 Date: April 21, 2014 9:42:34 PM CDT To: LLTI listserv <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Aloha! Final reminder - the deadline for the extended Call for Proposals for the Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies Conference is April 30. Send in your proposal today! More information below The Department of Languages & Literatures of Europe and the Americas and the College of Languages, Linguistics, & Literature at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa are pleased to host the… XV Annual Conference of the International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Honolulu, Hawai‘i October 16-17, 2014 ** We are excited to welcome internationally renowned playwright and director Luis Valdez (El Teatro Campesino, Zoot Suit, La Bamba) as our keynote speaker. ** CALL FOR PAPERS (extended deadline April 30, 2014) The International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies announces the call for papers for its 15th annual conference. Proposals for papers or panels on any aspect of Luso-Hispanic literature or culture are invited. Presentations may be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese and involve any aspect of Luso-Hispanic humor from any period or genre wherever Spanish or Portuguese are spoken. Presentations may focus on but are not limited to the following fields: literature, folklore, semiotics, discourse analysis, art, music, cartoons and graphic humor, film, popular culture, humor theory, and cultural history. Papers must be free of excessive jargon and accessible to the non-specialist. Presentation time will be limited to twenty minutes. Selected conference proceedings will be published post-conference. Presenters and attendees should be members of the International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies. However, you do not need to be a member to submit a proposal. To submit an abstract for consideration or for more information, please visit our conference website: https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/luso-hispanic-humor-studies-conference/home Proposals are to be received by April 30, 2014. Notification of proposal selection results will be sent via email by May 15, 2014. [http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/CTPOTWtiny.jpg] College of Languages, Linguistics, & Literature (LLL)<http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/> University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 2545 McCarthy Mall, Bilger Hall 101 Honolulu, HI 96822 808-956-9424<tel:808-956-9424> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org<http://iallt.org/>. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) **************************************************************************