Transatlantic culture often presents itself as a narrative of encounter and dialogue that transcend the limits of the local. However, the trace of colonialism, the living memory of exile, and an uneven distribution of economic, political, and symbolic power haunts transatlantic imagination. This conference aims to explore the many ways in which antagonisms, uneasy pluralism, and tense negotiations of difference overdetermine sites of Transatlantic cultural practices.... Read more about SPACES OF CONFRONTATION. III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES

José Antonio Gurpegui, Member of the RCC Advisory Council and Professor of English Literature at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, and David Yagüe, RCC Fellow and TA at Harvard University, are pleased to host this event that will be held at RCC.... Read more about American Poet Tino Villanueva

RCC is pleased to announce the II International Conference in Transatlantic Literatures.

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Title: "American Communities in a Global World: Challenges for the New Millennium".

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Space and how the human experience revolves around it has been one of the common tropes of literature. No matter the nature of the written or oral text,the common frame has been the interaction between men and women locked up within a frame – be that domestic, work, or even natural – in which and/against which the self is defined. These surroundings have greatly influenced the literary work, erecting boundaries or liberating it through the creation new fantastic spaces. However, with the discovery of the New World, these boundaries got broader, as the literary minds of the Old World were...