WHEN: May 22-23, 2026 WHERE: Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)

The conference will be in-person only. There will be no virtual sessions You are all invited to present papers in Spanish, Portuguese, or English devoted to the general topic of the conference, “The Global Luso-Hispanophone: Transpacific Exchanges in the Luso-Hispanic World,” or to one of the following subthemes (the Committee may also accept other subthemes related to the general theme of the conference): •  Portugal in the Eastern imaginary and the East in Portuguese imaginaries •  East-West cross-cultural relations •  Western travelers in the Middle East/Asia and Middle Eastern/Asian travelers in the West •  Filipino cultural production in Spanish •  (Self-)Orientalization of the Asian and Western imaginaries •  Exoticizing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian world •  Luso-Hispanic presence in the Middle East and Asia •  Archiving Middle Eastern and Asian narratives in the Americas and the Iberian world •  Consumption and reception of Asian cultural production (K-pop, Bollywood, etc.) in the West •  Consumption and reception of Western cultural production in the Middle East and Asia •  Cultural production by authors of Asian and Arab descent in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula •   Middle Eastern and Asian presence in [...]]]> 16th Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations:“The Global Luso-Hispanophone: Transpacific Exchanges in the Luso-Hispanic World”

WHEN: May 22-23, 2026
WHERE: Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)

The conference will be in-person only. There will be no virtual sessions

You are all invited to present papers in Spanish, Portuguese, or English devoted to the general topic of the conference, “The Global Luso-Hispanophone: Transpacific Exchanges in the Luso-Hispanic World,” or to one of the following subthemes (the Committee may also accept other subthemes related to the general theme of the conference):

•  Portugal in the Eastern imaginary and the East in Portuguese imaginaries
•  East-West cross-cultural relations
•  Western travelers in the Middle East/Asia and Middle Eastern/Asian travelers in the West
•  Filipino cultural production in Spanish
•  (Self-)Orientalization of the Asian and Western imaginaries
•  Exoticizing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian world
•  Luso-Hispanic presence in the Middle East and Asia
•  Archiving Middle Eastern and Asian narratives in the Americas and the Iberian world
•  Consumption and reception of Asian cultural production (K-pop, Bollywood, etc.) in the West
•  Consumption and reception of Western cultural production in the Middle East and Asia
•  Cultural production by authors of Asian and Arab descent in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula
•   Middle Eastern and Asian presence in Latin America and the Caribbean
•   Orientalism and self-Orientalization in Asian-Latin American and Arab-Latin American cultural production
•   Decolonial and Postcolonial connections between the cultural production in Middle East, Asia, and the Luso-Hispanic world
•   Images of the Luso-Hispanic world in Middle Eastern and Asian cultural production
•   Images of Middle East and Asia in Luso-Hispanic literature and culture
•  Translations of Middle Eastern and Asian texts in the West
•  Translations of Western texts in the Middle East and Asia
•  Latin American cultural production by authors of Middle Eastern and Asian descent
•  Images of the Middle East and Asia in Lusophone writing
•  Eastern religions in the West
•  Trans-Pacific Studies
•   Travel narratives
•   Exoticization and idealization of the Oriental “Other”
•   Occidentalism
•   Representation of Asian and Arab women in the Luso-Hispanic world
•   Asian and Arab Diasporas in the in the Luso-Hispanic world
•   Chinatowns in the in the Luso-Hispanic world
•   Racialization of Jews in the Hispanic world
•  Muslims in the Western imagination

CO-ORGANIZERS:

Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced, EE.UU. ilopez-calvo@ucmerced.edu

Everton V. Machado, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal everton.machado@letras.ulisboa.pt

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Isabelle Laussant-Herrera (Independent researcher) “Las diferentes facetas de las comunidades chinas en el Perú: Pasado y presente”


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION PROPOSALS

The abstracts of the presentations must be sent by April 1, 2026 to:

Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced, EE.UU. ilopez-calvo@ucmerced.edu and Everton V. Machado, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal   everton.machado@letras.ulisboa.pt

Abstracts must follow the following format:

Name, Last Name, Title, Institutional affiliation
Title of presentation
Abstract [200-400 words]

POSSIBLE PUBLICATION
Anthem Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Tamesis Press, or the academic journal Transmodernity
REGISTRATION
Deadline: April 1, 2026. To pay online, please use this link:
https://commerce.cashnet.com/UCME324_W1