Call For Papers: Latin America Conference Ireland (LACI)
We are delighted to announce the First Latin America Conference Ireland (LACI), entitled “Latin America at a Crossroads: Between Globalisation and Regionalisation”. This First LACI Conference will take place in 23-24 May 2013 in Dublin-Ireland, and is organized by scholars of University College Dublin.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
• Abstract Submission: 30 November 2012
• Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2012
• Full paper submission: 1 May 2013
For more information, please email: LACI@ucd.ie
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS
We welcome submissions in the form of empirical and scholarly analysis, theoretical papers and creative writing from emerging or established scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, and activists. We encourage individual papers and panel session proposals from all disciplines and mixed-methods research.
We invite proposals for papers exploring any aspect of the below listed topics. Please send 250 word abstracts in Word format with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 key words.
E-mails should be entitled: LACI Abstract Submission, and send to: Laci@ucd.ie
TOPICS
Proposals are welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the following issues:
- Culture, Identities and Society
- Diversity, Equality and Human Rights
- Environment and Urban Change
- Education, Liberation and Resistance
- Gender, Masculinities and Power
- Indigenous Issues
- Latin America and Ireland
- Lessons Learned from Latin America
- Media and the Internet
- Migration to/from and within Latin America
- Neoliberalism, Poverty and Inequality
- Politics, Conflict and Social Movements
- Sexualities and LGBT Issues
While Latin America is assuming a new role in global geopolitics and its migrant population is reshaping the USA and Europe, the region is still represented as exotic, exiting at times dangerous: “For most Europeans and (US) Americans, Latin America is still little more than their underdeveloped sibling, its inhabitants pitching up on its shores or struggling across the Rio Grande into the USA. It's a place of exuberant music, mesmerising football, extravagant beauty, fantastic literature, drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare - in short, exotic, dangerous and exciting” (Guardiola-Rivera). In this Conference, we are interested in challenging stereotypical ideas and representations of Latin America presented in the Global North. Latin America is a diverse region of many cultures, nationalities and identities. It is part of a complex and globalised world where interesting economic, political and cultural changes have been taking part.
The Latin America at a Crossroads Conference is being organised as an interdisciplinary event by scholars from the Schools of Sociology, Social Justice, Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy, and Politics and International Relations in University College Dublin. It is the first conference on Latin American issues organised in Ireland, and it seeks to create links between Latin America, Ireland and the rest of Europe. The conference will provide a valuable forum for an academic dialogue on issues concerning the region and a space for intellectual activism and expression.
LACI Organising Committee: Dr. Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, Dr. Veronica Crossa, Dr. Melanie Hoewer, Valeria Llano-Arias, and Dr. Alice Feldman.
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