CRISES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN LATIN AMERICA

The Latin American Studies Program at the University of California Riverside

is organizing the interdisciplinary conference:



CRISES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN LATIN AMERICA



April 23-24, 2010



Keynote Speakers:



Román de la Campa - University of Pennsylvania;

Carolyn Dean - University of California Santa Cruz;

Ana Maria Ochoa - Colombia University;

Jonh A. Zemko - Center for International Enterprise



The conference site is at:

http://sites.google.com/site/ucrlasconference/




We invite papers from across the social sciences, arts, and the humanities to examine the cultural, economic, and political reconfigurations produced by local or global transformations in Latin America and the Caribbean.“Crises and Opportunities in Latin America,” is an interdisciplinary conference to reflect on unsettling conditions in Latin America produced by historical, political, cultural or economic changes, the types of new conceptualizations and claims these have produced, and the potential transformations and opportunities they imply for the present and future.



The conference will have both invited and contributed papers. Researchers from all disciplines are invited to share their research, views, and experiences.



You may choose to propose a panel of 4 speakers or send your paper individually. We invite you to submit an abstract/paper or a panel by

February 28th, by e-mail to: Jorge M. Aguero at Jorge.aguero@ucr.edu



including the following information:

- authors’ name and affiliations

- authors' detailed contact information

- Keywords (at least 4)

- Discipline

- Please write LAS CONFERENCE in the subject



Decision about the papers will be made by March 8th, 2010.



The Latin American Studies Program will award a prize of US$ 500 for the best paper presented by a graduate student. Graduate students' electronic submissions should be followed up by a letter from a professor certifying that the submitter is a graduate student in good standing in the professor's department. This letter should be sent via mail or email to the address below. If you send by email, please write LAS CONFERENCE in the subject.



c/o Marcelle Chauvet

Latin American Studies Program

3111 Interdisciplinary Building South

University of California Riverside

Riverside, CA 92521

or

email: jorge.aguero@ucr.edu

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