CFP: New Dialogues on Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies (grad) (2/7/05; 4/30/05))

  A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

  "OUR RESEARCH MATTERS: NEW DIALOGUES ON LATIN AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN
  AND LATINO STUDIES"

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  April 30, 2005

  CALL FOR PAPERS

  The Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS)
  at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is pleased to announce its
  First Graduate Student Conference to be held on April 30, 2005. This
  multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary one-day conference seeks to
  open up a forum for Graduate Students from different disciplines at
  the University of Massachusetts and other regional universities, to
  share their research and academic interests on Latin America,
  Caribbean and Latino Studies with fellow graduate and undergraduate
  students, faculty and members of the community. We welcome papers in
  fields including, but not limited to:

-Anthropology - Geography
                        - Political Science

-Art History - History
                        - Postcolonial Studies

-American Studies - Linguistics
                         - Religion

-Border Studies - Literature
                         - Sociology

-Dance - Media/Film
                         - Transatlantic Studies

-Economics - Music
           - Visual Arts

-Education - Philosophy
          - Women's Studies

We are interested in receiving proposals from a wide range of research
directions relevant to Latin America, the Caribbean and Latino Studies.
We hope to initiate a meaningful and long-lasting dialogue that will
encourage further conversations within the UMass community and with
other institutions. Fifteen to twenty minute papers may be presented in
English, Spanish, Portuguese or French.

Please send 200-word abstracts to las_at_econs.umass.edu
<mailto:las_at_econs.umass.edu>. Please, on a separate page, include your
name, the title of your paper, your department affiliation, phone
number, email address, postal address, and a brief biography. Deadline
for submissions is February 7, 2005.

We also encourage graduate students to propose entire 90-minute sessions
with three to four presenters from different disciplines/department
affiliations. The session proposal should include--in addition to the
information of each presenter stated above--the title of the session and
a 100-word description of the session, such as questions addressed and
explored in the panel.

Please contact Gloria Bernabe-Ramos at gbr_at_cas.umass.edu
<mailto:gbr_at_cas.umass.edu> or estheR Cuesta at ecuesta_at_complit.umass.edu
<mailto:ecuesta_at_complit.umass.edu> regarding questions or further details.

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