From:                                         Lucy Taylor [lft]

Sent:                                           18 July 2008 16:31

Subject:                                     SLAS e-letter July 2008

Attachments:                          Guaraguao.doc; IMSLA.doc; Submit your paper to The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; AGM-2008-Minutes.doc; Cuba and the Internet.doc

 

Dear SLAS Members,

 

Hope you are all enjoying a good summer break.

 

SLAS AGM Minutes – Minutes from the March AGM are attached.

 

SLAS Membership – standing orders

SLAS members now renew their membership each year via Blackwells, but some are still paying standing orders from their bank account direct to SLAS for their membership as well as a hangover from the past. SLAS cannot cancel these standing orders. Any members who still have a standing order to SLAS are invited to cancel it, please!

 

SLAS Postgraduate Conference Grant – details on SLAS website at http://www.slas.org.uk/grantsPrizes/postgrad.htm

Deadline 30th September

 

Prize Winners – Congratulations!

Harold Blakemore Prize (SLAS) The prize was awarded to: Michael Kent "The Making of Customary Territories".

JISLAC Essay Prize The prize went to: Gabriel Paquette "Jose da Silva Lisboa and the Vicissitudes of Enlightened Reform in Brazil".

 

Research News

Cuba and the Internet – call for collaboration on a multi-disciplinary project. See attachment.

 

Journal News

Revista Guaraguao – Participa en un numero especial de la revista de cultura latinoamericana Guaraguao sobre conflictos medioambientales en Latinoamerica (salir principio 2009). See attachment and http://www.revistaguaraguao.org/

 

Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe – new issue on "Re-thinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazil: Essays in Honor of Thomas E. Skidmore" (Vol. 19, No. 1) available at: http://www1.tau.ac.il/eial

 

Irish Migration Studies in Latin America - Call for Contributions: IMSLA Volume 6, Number 3 (November 2008), "Health, Physicians, Nurses". Deadline 25 August 2008. Guest Editor: Susan Wilkinson susan.wilkinson@irlandeses.org See attachment and

http://www.irlandeses.org/0811cfc.htm

 

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA) Call for submission of papers. See attachment.  

 

International Journal of Cuban Studies – New journal. The International Journal of Cuban Studies is “a peer-reviewed, online and open access review that will be a cornerstone of the Institute's work”. First issue contains articles on Cuban culture, science and technology and issues of US foreign policy. See http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/

 

 

Dr Lucy Taylor

Adran Gwleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol / Department of International Politics

Prifysgol Aberystwyth University

Aberystwyth

Ceredigion

SY23 3FE

01970 62 27 01

lft@aber.ac.uk