From:
Lucy
Taylor [lft]
Sent:
18
November 2008 16:24
Subject:
SLAS
e-letter November 2008
Attachments:
James Painter Lecture
08.doc; CEPPAC - CFP.doc; Call for article for Latin American Perspectives
special issue.doc; PILAS Resource Guide - Nov 2008.doc; Surveillance.doc;
Terrorism in global south call for papers.doc; CfP REPLA 09.pdf; Irish Migration
Studies Reviews.doc; Nature as Image.pdf; SLAS 2009 panels.xls;
LAJSAconvocatoria.doc
Dear All,
SLAS Annual
Lecture
James Painter gave the SLAS Annual lecture on 7 November at Canning House, for which we thank him very much. This fascinating talk on an important topic is attached.
SLAS Conference
March 26 & 27 2009 (Re) Invasions and Inventions: Latin America Confronts the 21st Century, University of Leeds.
The list of panels is attached and will be available on the website shortly. Please note that
1. This list is as yet provisional: the call for papers will be made shortly via special e-letter.
2. Deadline for paper proposals will be: 31st December.
3.
The conference will take place on
Thursday and Friday this year
PILAS – Postgraduates in Latin American Studies
Resource Guide - provides brief explanations of the main organizations associated with Latin America in the UK (and further afield), together with some academic and non-academic resources available online, and links to multi-disciplinary postgraduate journals. Please see attachment.
PILAS Conference ‘The Bicentenary: Approaching 200 Years of Latin American Independence’ at the University of Cambridge, on 26 & 27 February 2009. See
http://pilas.slas.org.uk/ Contact: pilasconference@gmail.com
Journal
News
Journal of Research and Studies on the Americas - Call for papers. This electronic publication from the University of Brasilia aims to disseminate and consolidate the multidisciplinary field of studies on the Americas. See attachment for details. http://www.unb.br/ics/ceppac/
Latin American Perspectives - Call for Papers. Special issue ‘Art, Culture, and Politics: Representations of and by Latinos in the Americas’ Organized by Ariane Dalla Déa. See attachment for details. Deadline: there is no specific deadline; when we receive enough articles, we close the call. See: http://www.latinamericanperspectives.com]/ and attachment.
Latin American Review of Comparative Politics - New
Journal
Based in Ecuador, LARCP addresses broad aspects of Latin American politics as well as worldwide works on Comparative Politics in areas such as Constitutionalism, Institutions, Electoral Studies, Legislative Studies, Political Parties, Governability and Governance. Available in digital format at
www.celaep.org/revista. A print version is also available for institutions or individual subscriptions; contact María Gabriela Egas (coordinator) at info@celaep.org
Av. 12 de octubre N24-562 y Cordero, Edif. World Trade Center, Torre B, Mezanine, 05-B T. (593-2) 256 6985 Port. (593-9) 422 3689 P.O. BOX 17-07-9651 Quito, ECUADOR
Irish Migration
Studies in Latin America - seeking book,
film and website reviews in all fields of Irish-Latin American relations. See
attachment. Potential
reviewers should submit proposals by e-mail to Edmundo Murray, Co-Editor: edmundo.murray@irlandeses.org.
Deadline
for proposals 30 November 2008.
Conferences
28 November 2008 Nature as Image and Resource in Colonial Spanish American and Brazil Interdisciplinary Workshop at Queen’s University Belfast. See attached programme for further details or contact Fiona Clark (f.clark@qub.ac.uk).
11-12 December 2008 The War on Terror: Perspectives from the Global South Still time to propose a paper on the ‘war on terror’ in Latin America. See attachment. Contact: Marie Breen Smyth on mys@aber.ac.uk.
4-6 March, 2009 Surveillance, Security and Social Control in Latin America: Past, Present and Future An Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil. See attachment for details.
7-8 May 2009
III REPLA Annual Workshop – call for papers Institute for Iberoamerican
Studies, University of Salamanca (Spain)
This event will bring together
postgraduate researchers working in distinct but interrelated areas of enquiry,
as well as established academics, to engage in a timely debate on the state of
contemporary Latin American politics. The European Network on Latin American
Politics (REPLA) is an academic initiative, run by PhD students interested in
Latin American politics. See attachment. See:http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/Politics/repla09.aspx
Please send all paper proposals: repla2009@usal.es.
26-27-28 July 2009
Latin
American Jewish Experiences through Plural Lenses The Latin American Jewish
Studies Association (LAJSA) XIV International Research Conference Tel Aviv
University, Israel. Second Call for Sessions and Individual Papers. See
attachment.
Deadline for the submission of proposals has
been extended as follows:
- Sessions and symposia: November
30, 2008.
- Individual papers to be included
in approved sessions and symposia: December 15, 2008. (Please contact the
convenor directly.)
- Individual papers: December 15,
2008.
Seminars and
Events
Events at the Institute of Latin
American Studies 35
Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HA. For further information see: http://americas.sas.ac.uk/index.html
19 November ‘Cuba 1955: The Year the Working Class Joined the Revolution’ Steve Cushion 17.00-19.00
20 November ‘“Choc’late Soldiers from the USA”: Black GIs and Race Relations in Britain During World War II’ Neil Wynn, 17.30-19.30
22
November Latin American Music Seminar workshop
10:30 - 17:30
26
November ‘Colombia: An End to the War or
More of the Same?’ Christopher Abel 17:00 - 19:00
27 November
‘The Making of the President 2008: The
Contemporary and Historical Significance of the US Presidential Election.
Roundtable on Critical Presidential Elections in History’17:30 -
20:00
29
November ‘South American Archaeology Seminar
workshop’ 10:30 - 17:00
Dr Lucy Taylor
Adran Gwleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol / Department of International Politics
Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 3FE
01970 62 27 01