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SLAS Conference 2008
Liverpool 28-30 March, hosted by the University of Liverpool's Research Institute of Latin American Studies http://www.liv.ac.uk/rilas/
- Conference Programme Includes general programme, Symposia programmes and abstracts.
- General Programme [Word]
- Registration Form [Word]; deadline 15 February 2008.
- SLAS symposia proposals October 16, 2007 [Word].
This is the key event in our calendar, attracting 300-450 participants. It takes place during the Easter vacation in different locations each year.
Academic panels vary widely, from economics to music via anthropology, politics, history, literature, geography and film. We have a keynote speaker and social events which in the past have included visits to galleries, film festivals and which culminate in the conference dinner with salsa dancing.
PILAS runs research workshops for postgraduate students and all panels are strongly encouraged to include at least one postgraduate speaker. Postgraduate attendance is facilitated by the conference bursary.
Funding is available to assist Latin American scholars who are presenting a paper at the SLAS conference with their travel expenses.
Previous SLAS conferences.
- SLAS Conference 2007 Newcastle [Word]
- SLAS Conference 2006 Nottingham [Word]
- SLAS Conference 2005 Derby
Instituted in 2004, the aim of these lectures is to present the ideas of leading public thinkers on contemporary Latin America.
2007 Liverpool - Hugh O’Shaughnessy
‘Are we Keeping Up with Latin America?’ Journalist, co-founder of the Latin America Bureau and author of Pinochet: the Politics of Torture (LAB 1999) and (with Sue Branford) Chemical Warfare in Colombia: the Costs of Coca Fumigation (LAB 2005). Full Text of lecture here [Word].
2006 Essex - Richard Gott
'Latin America as a White Settler Society'. Journalist and author of Cuba: a New History (Yale 2005) and Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela (Verso, 2005). Published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research Volume 26 Issue 2 pp 269-289, April 2007.
2005 Manchester - Duncan Green
‘Twenty Years of Neoliberalism: Where does Latin American go From Here?' Head of Research, Oxfam; author of Silent Revolution: the Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (LAB 2003) and Faces of Latin America (LAB, 1997).
2004 London - William Robinson
'Latin America and the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Opportunities, Challenges, Hazards.' Associate Professor of Sociology, Global Studies and Iberian Studies, University of California - Santa Barbara.