CALL
FOR PAPERS
Global
Movements, Local Identities:
Race, Space, and the African Diaspora in Latin America
March 6-7, 2008
University of California Los Angeles
Organized
by the UC Berkeley Afro-Latino
Working Group and the UCLA
Center for Race and Democracy in the Americas
Sponsored
by the Inter-American Foundation
Abstract
Submission Deadline: November 12, 2007
In
recent years there has been an explosion in scholarship that
goes beyond recognizing the presence of Afro-Latin Americans
and towards interrogating this topic more deeply. Building on
the momentum of this research and a successful 2007 Afro-Latino
Working Group Conference, our second annual conference will be
held in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Race and Democracy
in the Americas. The goal of this conference is to advance inter-disciplinary
scholarship that produces critical theories and methodologies
for understanding the African Diaspora in Latin America and the
Caribbean. We aim to create a forum for graduate students to
dialogue with established scholars whose work explores the African
Diaspora in Latin America. This conference will foster new academic
dialogues about race, ethnicity, culture, society, economy, politics
and nation.
The
2008 conference will focus on the impact of movement, globalization,
and notions of space on processes of racialization and identity
formation within the African Diaspora in Latin America. Departing
from scholarship that treats the African Diaspora in Latin America
as a fixed product of forced migration from Africa, this conference
will highlight continual movement and interaction within the
Diaspora. It seeks to explore cultural and political change within
the African Diaspora as well as examine the creation of new diasporas.
The
conference will feature a series of graduate student panels
as well as an invited faculty roundtable with preeminent scholars
working on the African Diaspora in Latin America. The conference
is oriented towards graduate students pursuing projects about
the African Diaspora in Latin America (including Mexico, Central
and South America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the
United States and other global Latino communities). We invite
abstract submissions from current graduate students on a diverse
array of topics and disciplinary orientations that are both theoretical
and empirical in content. We will not accept submissions from
tenured faculty. We strongly encourage papers that address under-theorized
regions in the Americas as well as comparative and regional works.
We offer the following themes as submission suggestions:
- Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics
- Theorizing Race and Diaspora(s)
- Race, Gender, and Sexuality
- Social Movements and the Politics of Race
- Forced Displacement, Human Trafficking and Violence
- Globalization, Race, and National Identity
- Comparative Historical and Literary Analysis
- Regionalism, Race, and Space
- Popular Culture, Folklore, and Racial Representations
- Impact of Technology and Mass Media on Racialized Identities
300
word abstracts should be submitted to the organizing committee
preferably via email as Word documents or PDF files. Submissions
that must be mailed should be received via USPS no later than
the submission due date. We can only accept abstracts for individual
papers or poster presentations; please do not submit panel abstracts. Please
submit abstracts by November 12, 2007. No late submissions
will be accepted.
Submissions should include:
- the abstract,
- current contact information,
- presentation title and current C.V.
Accepted
authors will be notified by December 17, 2007, along with
full submission guidelines for papers or poster presentations.
Full papers are due on February 4, 2008. All papers and presentations
must be available in English. Papers may be made available for
publication at a later date.
Submissions
and inquiries should be sent to: afrolatinogroup[at]berkeley.edu or
via USPS to Vielka C. Hoy, Afro-Latino Working Group, 660 Barrows
Hall, #2572, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Please check our website regularly for updated conference and
registration information: http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Research/workinggroups/groups/afrolatino.html
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