NOTE–FUTURE JOURNAL ISSUES OF OMETECA AND THE INSTITUTE’S CONFERENCES CANCELED, AS EXPLAINED IN THE “FAREWELL” NOTICE BELOW AND ELSEWHERE ON THE WEBSITE
Submissions for volume 26 (2022-23) of the Ometeca journal that were announced previously on social media by David Dalton, Editor, as well as future conferences of the Ometeca Institute are hereby canceled, due to our “farewell.”
Farewell to the Ometeca Institute on Dec. 31, 2023!
The Directors of the Ometeca Institute have conferred, and we have decided to celebrate its completion of 34 years as a leading academic institute focusing on the relations of the humanities, mainly literature, and the sciences in the Luso/Hispanic world. 25 volumes of the Ometeca journal have been published and 14 conferences/working sessions have been sponsored in the US, Latin America, and Europe. We feel that it is best to close down this long, fruitful project at the end of 2023, which Rafael began in 1989, and to retire from this endeavor. Thus, no more conferences will take place and there will be no more volumes of the Ometeca journal published henceforth. We sincerely believe it is time to move on and we wish you the very best.
With warm appreciation to all of our supporters and participants,
James D. Anderson, Treasurer & Managing Editor (thyjim3@juno.com), and Rafael Català, Founder, Editor Emeritus & Advisor
Working Sessions
From 1992-2016, we had working sessions of our conferences at universities or other cultural institutions in the U.S. and internationally. In a working session, papers to be presented, or abstracts, or outlines of these are circulated in advance to registered speakers. This way, the participants can discuss and contribute to the development of new theoretical approaches.
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Programs and Other Ephemera (2016-2012)
XIV Ometeca Conference–State of the Art, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (April 2016).
XIII Ometeca Conference, Stonehill College, Easton, MA (June 2014).
XII Ometeca Conference, Madrid and Toledo, Spain (June 2012).
It took place at the following: El Instituto Submarino; the Ateneo (Literary Society); the Cajal Institute; the campus of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; La Residencia de Estudiantes, and the Alcázar.
Older Working Sessions (2010-1992)
- XI Ometeca Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie (July 2010).
- X Ometeca Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida (June 2008).
- IX Ometeca Conference, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico (October 2006). Co-sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico–Río Piedras.
- VIII Ometeca Conference, Mexico City, México (October 2005). Co-sponsored by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
- VII Ometeca Conference, Pinamar, Argentina (November 2003). Co-sponsored by The Argentinian Scientific Society and the Faculty of Humanities of Río Cuarto University.
- VI Ometeca Conference, Cumaná, Venezuela (July 2000). Co-sponsored by the University of Oriente, the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research, and the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research.
- V Ometeca Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina (June-July 1998). Co-sponsored by The Argentinian Scientific Society, the Faculty of Humanities of Río Cuarto University, and the CAFH Foundation.
- IV Ometeca Conference, New Brunswick, New Jersey (July 1996). Co-sponsored by the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers University.
- III Ometeca Conference, San Ramón, Costa Rica (July 1994). Co-sponsored by the Universidad de Costa Rica-Sede de Occidente.
- II Ometeca Conference, Puebla, México, 23-27 (June 1993). Co-sponsored by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco.
- I Ometeca Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (June 1992). Sponsored by the Ometeca Institute.