Friday March 11th ; Saturday 12th March 2011

… clandestine…hidden…concealed…covert...
…private…confidential…
…secretive…
…occult… obscure… mysterious…

All these concepts can be present and instrumental in the interactions between people, societies, cultures, civilisations and all their artefacts…

The many guises of secrets, and the multi-facetted nature and impact of lies permeate all aspects of all relationships, be it at private or public levels. For this very reason, this cross-, inter-, and multi-disciplinary conference aims at providing a platform on which to discuss all occurrences of secrets and lies arising between Ireland, Latin America, the Caribbean and Iberia.

We invite abstracts and posters related to the above topic from academic fields such as comparative literature, intercultural studies, language studies, translation studies, migration studies, business studies, media and communications, law, geography, art, literature, visual studies, sexuality studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, women studies, gender studies, queer studies, art history, and history.  Practitioners from varied professional backgrounds are also welcome.
The conference committee welcomes abstracts for oral and/or poster presentations for the following themes:

1. Secrets, lies, and Time
• Revisiting history…
• Private versus public narratives…
• Translation, secrets and lies…
2.   Secrets, lies, and the Personal
• Omitting, forgetting, unsaying the truth about oneself…
• Secret lives…
• Intimacy, imagination and travelling…
• The languages of secrets and lies…
3.   Secrets, lies, and Culture
• Cultural representations of secrets and lies…
• Expressing secrets and lies through the arts…
• Religion, secrets and lies…
4.   Self, Selves, Sexuality and Society
• Institutionalising secrets and lies…
• Business, secrets and lies…
• Politics, secrets and lies…
• Diplomacy, secrets and lies…

Proposals on other themes dealing with Ireland, Latin America and Iberia are also encouraged to be presented at the Conference.
All abstracts proposals (oral and/or poster presentations) are to be submitted using the online form.
The languages of the conference are English, Irish, Spanish and Portuguese. The language of the submission piece is the language of the presentation.
Only abstracts submitted through our submission form will be considered. The submission form contains the following fields:

• Title of Applicant
• First Name of Applicant
• Surname of Applicant
• Institution and  Country of Applicant
• Email of Applicant
• Title of Abstract
• Abstract - 300 words maximum
• Biography - 150 words maximum
• Keywords – 5 maximum

Deadlines:

Abstracts to be submitted: Thursday November 18th 2010
Acceptance confirmation: Thursday December 16th 2010

Contacts:
Jean-Philippe Imbert (SALIS), jean-philippe.imbert@dcu.ie