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PILAS 2012
So that as many people as possible have the opportunity to attend, the deadline for the Call for Papers has been extended to the 10th of May, 2012. To submit your paper's details, and to register for the conference, please use these links: Call for Papers, Registration form.
Call for Proposals
The Fourth Latin American Award for Research Thesis on Sustainable Housing Projects
DEADLINE 1st June 2012
This award seeks to promote the knowledge gained from the creation of new thesis on topics related to housing in Latin America. Our aim to to recognize and disseminate the new information, analysis methods and topics of interest related to the cities of the region to the widest possible audience. All thesis submitted for this award must have been completed and defended between June 1st 2009 and May 15th 2012. They must also meet the criteria given here (this page also gives details of how to submit your thesis).
Latin American Perspectives is now online!
To view them please visit http://lap.sagepub.com/
Events at the Institute for the Study of the Americas
These include an exciting opportunity to meet famous Latinos in London! Don’t forget to visit the ISA website to see what's happening: http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/forthcoming-events.html
Resources for Research on Latin America: BL and beyond
You can download the presentation that Christine Anderson and Elizabeth Cooper gave on sources of information about Latin America in the British Library. Please go to the Resource for Research on Latin America section on this webpage.
Latin Americanist Events
Ongoing Seminar Series on Latin America in the UK
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Manchester
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/clacs/events/seminars/
Institute for the Studies of the Americas Seminar Series, London
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/
Essex University Latin American Studies Seminar Series, Colchester
http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/lastud/events.html
Centre of Latin American Studies Seminar Series, Cambridge
http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/seminars/index.html
Research Institute of Latin American Studies Seminar Series, Liverpool
http://www.liv.ac.uk/rilas/events.htm
Latin American Centre, University of Oxford
http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk
54 International Congress of Americanists
We would like to draw your attention to the Call For Papers for the 54 International Congress of Americanists, which will take place in Vienna, Austria, in July 2012, under the general heading Building Dialogues in the Americas.
You can submit your paper proposals until 31 August 2011 at the congress website - http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
ABEP-UK Conference 2011
The Brazilian Association of Post-graduate Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom (ABEP-UK) are holding their 2011 conference at London King's College in October. The conference, whilst primarily aimed at Brazilian post-graduate students and researchers, is open to everyone working with or interested in Brazil, and ABEP would like to invite applications from those wishing to present papers or posters at the event.
For applications and questions, please contact ABEP directly: http://www.abep.org.uk/en.shtml.