From:
Lucy
Taylor [lft]
Sent:
16
January 2009 15:50
Subject:
Slas
e-letter, January 2009
Attachments:
Caribbean Research Seminar
in the North.doc; world food crisis.pdf;
Postgraduate_conference_announcement_and_second_call_for________________abstracts1.doc;
La revista Anclajes.doc; Transnational Migration and Cities.doc; Call for
Essays-Au Naturel.pdf; SEN Call for Papers.doc
Dear All,
Happy New Year! This month’s e-letter includes lots of information on SLAS matters, as well as notes on conferences, journal news, a call for essays and up coming seminars.
SLAS MATTERS
SLAS
Annual Conference 2009 ‘(Re) Invasions and Inventions: Latin
America Confronts the 21st Century’
University of Leeds, Thursday
26 & Friday 27 March 2009
Full details can be found here:
http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/events/slas-conf-09/
Deadline for Registration 20 February
2009
PILAS
Conference 2009
‘The Bicentenary: Approaching 200 Years of Latin American
Independence’
University of Cambridge 26 & 27 February 2009 -
with a pre-conference lecture on Wednesday 25 February
For details and registration form (registration still open) see: http://pilas.slas.org.uk/annualConference.htm
SLAS Grants 2009 Many deadlines are approaching…
· Postgraduate Bursaries (SLAS Conference): 15 February
· Postgraduate Travel Grant: 28 February
· Postgraduate Conference Grant: 28 February
See: http://www.slas.org.uk/grantsPrizes/postgrad.htm
· Latin American Scholar's SLAS Conference Grant: 15 February
See: http://www.slas.org.uk/grantsPrizes/laScholarsGrant.htm
· JISLAC Travel Grant 28 February
See: http://www.slas.org.uk/grantsPrizes/jislacTravelGrants.htm
SLAS Prizes 2009 There are two prizes:
· Harold Blakemore Prize (Postgraduate) 28 February
· JISLAC Prize (Postdoctoral) 28 February
See: http://www.slas.org.uk/grantsPrizes/prizes.htm
SLAS Treasurer honoured! John Fisher, long standing member of SLAS and treasurer, was recently honoured by the Peruvian government, becoming a Great Officer of the order of The Sun of Peru, no less! See:
CONFERENCES
27 and 28 January
2009 ‘The World Food
Crisis and the Global South’ Co-organised by the Institute for the Study of
the Americas and the Food Studies Centre, the School of Oriental and
African Studies. Time: 9.30 (registration 9.00) - 5.00.
The Brunei Gallery,
School of Oriental and African Studies Thornhaugh St, Russell Square, London
WC1H OXG
See attached
PDF.
30th January,
2009
‘Caribbean Research Seminar in the North’ An Interdisciplinary Research
Seminar on the Caribbean and its Diasporas, in association with the Society for
Caribbean Studies. Funded by Joint Initiative for the Study of Latin American
and the Caribbean http://www.jislac.org.uk/
1.45 - 5.30 pm,
Club Room, CCA: The Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
G2 3JD
For further
information see attachment. To register, contact: Alasdair Pettinger: alasdair@bulldozia.com
11 March, 2009
‘Globalisation in the Americas: Interactions and Reactions’ Americas Research
Group (ARG) Postgraduate Conference, Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities (NIASSH), Newcastle University.
For further
details, see attachment and: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/
1-3 July, 2009
33rd Annual Conference, Society for Caribbean Studies.
Wilberforce
Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), University of Hull.
Research paper
proposals are welcome from all disciplines and on all areas of the Caribbean and
its diasporas.
For further
details, see http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/.
26-28 August
2009 ‘Transnational
Migration and Cities in the Global South’ RGS IBG Annual
International Conference
Manchester.
See attachtched
CFP. Please submit your abstract (max 250 words) by 19th January 2009 to
Tanja.Bastia@Manchester.ac.uk
JOURNAL NEWS
Anclajes La revista Anclajes (ISSN 0329-3807) convoca a investigadores y docentes interesados en publicar artículos, notas y reseñas sobre literatura latinoamericana, teoría y crítica literaria, estudios culturales y estudios lingüísticos.
See attachment.
Contact: anclajes@fchst.unlpam.edu.ar
Studies in
Ethnicity and Nationalism Advertising for
contributions, particularly from young professionals, post-docs and
early-stage lecturers. SEN especially
encourages
submissions from PhD candidates.
For submissions to
be considered for publication in 2009, please submit by 30th
January, 2009.
See attachment and website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1473-8481
EDITED VOLUME
Hispanic Naturalism Call for essays on this topic. Editors are Lara Bernadette Anderson (University of Melbourne, Australia) and J.P. Spicer-Escalante (Utah State University). See attachment.
LECTURES AND SEMINARS
“Cuban Baseball and national identity: a Nation of Peloteros” Thomas F. Carter (University of Brighton).
Thomas Carter will introduce his new book on how baseball has played a significant role since the nineteenth century in Cuban society and in the formation of Cuban national identity and how it continues to resonate with everyday life and politics to this day.
International Institute for the Study of Cuba, Henry Thomas Room, Tower Building London Metropolitan University
Thursday 5 February, 2009, 6.30pm. Entrance is free but please register your intention to attend by email: admin@cubastudies.org
Centre
for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. Seminar series.
Mondays
5.15pm, Seminar Room A 1st Floor 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge.
Click here for details: http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/seminars/
Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of
London. Seminar series.
31, Tavistock Square, London WC1. Contact Olga Jimenez olga.jimenez@sas.ac.uk; 020 7862 8871
Click here for details: http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events.php?aoi_id=78
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