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LASA 2 0 1 8 X X X V I IN TE RN ATIO N A L CO N GRE SS

BARCELONA, SPAIN / MAY 23 26, 2018

Call for Papers

Latin American Studies in a Globalized World

Latin American studies today is experiencing a surprising world to understand processes and problematics that go well
dynamism. The expansion of this field defies the pessimistic beyond this region. For example, Latin Americanists have been
projections of the 1990s about the fate of area studies in at the forefront of debates about the difficult relationship
general and offers new opportunities for collaboration among between democracy, development, and dependence on natural
scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists around the world. resource exportschallenges faced around the globe.
This can be seen in the expansion of LASA itself, which since Migration, immigration, and the displacement of people due
the beginning of this century has grown from 5,000 members to political violence, war, and economic need are also deeply
living primarily in the United States to nearly 12,000 members in rooted phenomena in our region, and pioneering work from Latin
2016, 45 percent of whom reside outside of the United States America can shed light on comparable experiences in other
(36 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean). And while the regions today. Needless to say, Latin American studies also
majority of us reside in the Americas, there are also an has much to contribute to discussions about populism and
increasing number of Latin American studies associations and authoritarianism in their various forms in Europe and even
programs in Europe and Asia, most of which have their own the United States today.
publications and annual seminars and congresses.
With these contributions in mind, we propose that the
Several factors explain this dynamism. Perhaps the most overarching theme of the Barcelona LASA Congress be
important is the very maturity of our field. Various generations Latin American Studies in a Globalized World, and that
of Latin Americanists have produced an enormous, diverse, and we examine both how people in other regions study and
sophisticated body of research, with a strong commitment to perceive Latin America and how Latin American studies
interdisciplinarity and to teaching about this important part of contributes to the understanding of comparable processes
the world. Latin American studies has produced concepts and and issues around the globe.
comparative knowledge that have helped people around the

Aldo I. Panfichi Huaman Charles F. Walker Marianne Braig


Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Per University of California, Davis Lateinamerika Institut der FU Berlin
LASA PRESIDENT P RO G R A M C O - C H A I R P RO G R A M C O - C H A I R

THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS IS SEPTEMBER 7, 2017, 5 pm EDT see next page for instructions.
You are invited to submit a paper or PROGRAM TRACKS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS
panel proposal addressing either the
Select the most appropriate track for your proposal from the following list and enter it
congress theme or any topic related
in the designated place in the submission system. It can only be submitted to one track.
to the program tracks. LASA also
Names of Program Committee members are provided for information only. Direct your
invites requests for travel grants
correspondence to the LASA Secretariat ONLY.
from paper presenters who qualify.
Visit the LASA website for eligibility Afro-Latin and Indigenous People Gender and Feminisms Migration, Latinos, Disporas
Sofia Venturoli, Universit di Torino Jelke Boesten, Kings College London Jorge Durand, Universidad de
criteria. All proposals for papers, Alejandra Navarro, Universidad de Luzia Margareth Rago, Universidade Guadalajara
panels, and travel grants must be Buenos Aires Estadual de Campinas Snia Parella Rubio, Universidad
Autnoma de Barcelona
submitted to the LASA Secretariat Agrarian and Rural Life Global Inequalities
via the online proposal system by Guadalupe Rodrguez-Gmez, Srgio Costa, Freie Universitt Berlin Otros Saberes and Alternative
CIESAS, Occidente Lena Lavinas, Federal University of Methods
September 7, 2017, 5 pm EDT. Evelyne Mesclier, Institut Franais Rio de Janeiro Mariana Mora, CIESAS -Mxico
dEtudes Andines Angela C. Stuesse, University of North
Globalization and Transnationalism Carolina, Chapel Hill
Art, Archaeology, Architecture Ana M. Pardo, UNAM
The deadline to and Visual Culture
Ananda I. Cohen Suarez, Cornell
Petra Rivera-Rideau, Virginia Tech Performance and Visual Studies
Lisa M. Blackmore, Universitt Zrich
submit proposals University
Alessia Frassani,
History and Historiography
Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, CIESAS
Liliana Gmez-Popescu, University of
Zurich

is September 7, 2017, Asia and Latin America


Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of
Kent, Canterbury Political Institutions and Processes
Ignacio Lpez-Calvo, University of Ezequiel A. Gonzalez Ocantos,
5 pm EDT. California, Merced
Shigeko Mato, Waseda University
Human Rights and Memory
Maria Eugenia Ulfe, Pontificia
University of Oxford
Julio Antonio Ros-Figueroa, CIDE
Jie Guo Universidad Catlica del Per
Valrie Robin-Azevedo, Universit de Politics and Public Policy
Proposal forms and instructions will Biodiversity, Natural Resources Toulouse, Le Mirail John Polga Hecimovich, U.S. Naval
and Environment Academy
be available on the LASA website: Avecita D. Chicchon, Gordon & Betty International Relations Lorenza B. Fontana, Harvard University
Moore Foundation Carol Wise, University of Southern
http://lasa.international.pitt.edu. Franck Poupeau, University of Arizona California Religions and Spirituality
Cintia V. Quiliconi, FLACSO Laura de Mello e Souza, USP
No submissions by regular mail Cities and Urban Studies Jennifer S. Hughes, University of
Omar Pereyra, Pontificia Universidad Interrogating Latin American California, Riverside
will be accepted. A confirmation email Catlica del Per Studies
Jess Manuel Gonzlez Prez, Ignacio M. Snchez Prado, Washington Sexualities and LGBTQ Studies
will be immediately sent once the University, St. Louis Joseph M. Pierce, Stony Brook
proposal is submitted successfully. Civil Society and Social Movements Cristin C. Castro, Universidad Diego University (SUNY)
Gonzalo Delamaza, Universidad de Portales Yolanda Martnez-San Miguel, Rutgers
Otherwise, contact the LASA Secretariat Los Lagos University
Adrian Gurza Lavalle, Universidade de Labor Studies and Class Relations
before the deadline for confirmation. So Paulo Paulo Drinot, University College London Social Research in the Era of
Delphine Mercier, CNRS Analytics and Big Data
All participants will be required to Culture, Power and Political Jos M. Magallanes, Pontificia
Subjectivites Law, Rights and Citizenship Universidad Catlica del Per
preregister for the Congress. Patricia Oliart, Newcastle University Jorge Gonzlez Jcome, Universidad Social Research in the Era of Analytics
Carles Feixa, Universitat de Lleida de los Andes and Big Data
LaDawn J. Haglund, Arizona State Ernesto F. Calvo, University of Maryland
Economics and Social Policies University
Erica S. Simmons, University of Sport and Society
Wisconsin-Madison Literary Studies: Colonial and David Wood, The University of Sheffield
Lindsay R. Mayka, Colby College Nineteenth Century Pablo A. Alabarces, Universidad de
Vanesa A. Miseres, University Buenos Aires, CONICET
Educacion y Politicas Educativas of Notre Dame
Norberto R. Fernndez Lamarra, Ivonne Del Valle, University of States, Markets, and Political
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero California, Berkeley Economy
Lorenza Villa Lever, Instituto de Eduardo Dargent Bocanegra, Pontificia
Investigaciones Sociales UNAM Universidad Catlica del Per
Literary Studies: Contemporary Alisha C. Holland, Princeton University
Energy, Commodities and Claudia G. Salazar, Brooklyn College
Development CUNY Violence and (in) Security
Maritza V. Paredes Gonzales, Pontificia Susanne Elisabeth Klengel, Freie Sebastian Huhn, University of Bielefeld
Universidad Catlica del Per Universitt Berlin Angelika Rettberg, Universidad de los
Matthew Amengual, Massachusetts Andes
Institute of Technology Literature and Culture:
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Europe And Latin America Maricruz Castro-Ricalde, Tecnolgico
Robin Cavagnoud, Pontificia Universidad de Monterrey
Catlica del Per Paola L. Corts-Rocca, UNTREF
Hans-Jrgen Puhle, Goethe Universitt (Universidad de Tres de Febrero),
Frankfurt CONICET

Film Studies Mass Media and Popular Culture


Michael Lazzara, University of Susana M. Kaiser, University of San
California, Davis Francisco
Pablo Piedras, Universidad de Buenos Mariana De Maio, San Diego State
Aires, CONICET, UNILA University

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