Final Call for Papers - Latin America at a Crossroads: Between Globalisation and Regionalisation.
Latin America at a Crossroads: Between Globalisation and Regionalisation
23-24 May 2013
Dublin: University College Dublin
The Latin America at a Crossroads Conference is being organised as an interdisciplinary event by scholars from the Schools of Social Justice; Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy; Sociology; Applied Social Science; and Politics & International Relations in University College Dublin.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
- Panel Proposals: 15 December 2012
- Abstract Submission: 5 January 2013
- Notification of acceptance: 31 January 2013
- Full paper submission: 1 May 2013
For more information, visit: www.sites.google.com/site/laciconference
Contact 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 invite individual papers and panel session proposals from all disciplines and mixed-methods research.
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
Please send the following information in Word format and in this order:
- a) author(s)
- (b) a short biographical note (no more than 100 words)
- c) email address
- d) title of abstract
- e) body of abstract (250 words)
- f) up to 10 key words
E-mails should be entitled: LACI Abstract Submission, and send to: Laci@ucd.ie
ABOUT LACI
While Latin America is assuming a new role in global geopolitics and its migrant population is reshaping the USA and Europe, “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. As a diverse region of many cultures, nationalities and identities, Latin America is part of a complex, globalised world where interesting economic, political and cultural changes have been taking place.
This Conference builds upon the previous work that scholars have undertaken in Ireland in seeking to strengthen the understanding of and reinforce the links with Latin America and Iberia. As an international gathering, it will also provide a valuable opportunity for insights arising from conceptual, empirical and activist work in the Latin American context, in turn, to contribute to innovations in the study of globalisation and social change in other parts of the world.
IBIS hosts Director of Policy, UN Women, Ms Saraswathi Menon
The Institute for British-Irish Studies (SPIRe) and the University of Ulster Transitional Justice Institute will jointly host Director of Policy, UN Women, Ms Saraswathi Menon on Thursday, 25 October 2012. Ms Menon will give a talk entitled 'UNSC Resolution 1325 and the Work of UN Women' in the UCD Research building from 3-4pm. RSVP required. Email ibis@ucd.ie
Ms Saraswathi Menon is currently the Director of the Policy Division in UN Women, the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
She was formerly Director of the Evaluation Office in the United Nations Development Programme and the elected Chair of the United Nations Evaluations Group that brings together the heads of evaluation of all UN organizations. She was a member of the team of authors who wrote the first six Human Development Reports.
Subsequently she worked on UNDP programmes as Deputy Chief of the Regional Programme in the Regional Bureau of Asia and the Pacific, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Nepal (1999-2000) and as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Mongolia (2000-2003).
Prior to joining UNDP she taught sociology in Madras University in India. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on caste and land control in Thanjavur district during the nineteenth century, and she continues to be interested in multi-dimensional issues of poverty.
SPIRe presents at MacGill Summer School
Professor John Coakley, Dr Niamh Hardiman and Professor Brigid Laffan all presented papers at the 2012 MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Co Donegal.
View John Coakley's paper: Institutional reform: necessity or distraction?
View Niamh Hardiman's paper: The rhetoric of reform: what stops reform from happening?
GESIS Klingemann Prize & Leon Weaver Award
Russell J. Dalton, David M. Farrell and Ian McAllister are the 2012 winners of the GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best CSES Scholarship for their book Political Parties and Democratic Linkage. How Parties Organize Democracy, published by Oxford University Press in 2011. The prize is awarded each year for the best CSES scholarship published in the calendar year prior to the award, and named in honor of Professor Hans-Dieter Klingemann, an internationally renowned political scientist, major contributor to comparative research, and co-founder of the CSES project.
For more on the award click on the link below:http://www.cses.org/announce/newsltr/20120510.htm
In addition, the 2012 Leon Weaver Award for the Best Paper Presented at a Conference Panel Sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Division was presented to Russel J. Dalton (UC-Irvine), David Farrell (University College Dublin), and Ian McAllister (Australian National University) for their paper, "The Dynamics of Democratic Representation: How Democracy Works." Their paper was presented at the 2011 APSA meeting in San Francisco. The awards committee included Michelle Taylor-Robinson (Chair, TAMU), Mark Jones (Rice), and Heather Stoll (UC Santa Barbara).
To view the paper, click here
SPIRe Book Launch
Minister Brendan Howlin TD launched a new book edited by Dr Niamh Hardiman - Irish Governance in Crisis - at Newman House on 10 July 2012.
For details on the book click here
