Showing posts with label call for papers. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Call for Papers: "¿Cómo se piensa lo queer en América Latina?"

ÍCONOS - Revista de Ciencias Sociales

Invitación a presentar artículos / Call for papers

Dossier: ¿Cómo se piensa lo queer en América Latina?

Coordinación: María Amelia Viteri, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz y José Fernando Serrano.

Entrega de artículos hasta: 31 de mayo.

Envío de artículos: revistaiconos@flacso.org.ec

Este dossier busca interrogar lo queer  (como teoría y práctica política, que ha surgido como una contestación y resistencia a las políticas de identidad, particularmente a las identidades basadas en la reivindicación del “orgullo gay”) en su intersección con lo racial, lo étnico y la clase que mira las categorías como objetos dentro de una historicidad. Pensamos que estas múltiples intersecciones de lo queer pueden tornar aún más visible la maleabilidad de categorías y la creatividad política en donde lo queer es producido. Producción que ha sido utilizada  además, como  una forma de ubicarse en los debates sobre sexualidades y género, observando tanto sus “márgenes” como sus normas y hegemonías... 
 
La imagen fue tomada del Blog salonKritic http://salonkritik.net/ 
 

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Sunday, November 15, 2009

A selection of upcoming conferences about the Caribbean: Nov. 2009 - Oct. 2010

November 16-20, 2009

La Habana, Cuba

1st Encounter of Caribbean Magazines

Centro de Estudios del Caribe, Casa de las Américas

Contact Yolanda Wood at seccaribe@casa.cult.cu


November 19-20, 2009

Cave Hill, Barbados

5th Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium

“Conversations V: Theories of Knowledge”

Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus

Website http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/histphil/Philosophy/ChiPS

Contact Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo at frederick.ochieng-odhiambo@cavehill.uwi.edu


November 25-26, 2009

Mona, Jamaica

7th Annual Caribbean Internet Forum (CIF)

“Building a Caribbean Broadband Platform for Regional Development”

CIF and the Business School of UWI-Mona

Contact Allison Brown at cif2009@uwimona.edu.jm


November 26-27, 2009

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

International Symposium: “Sex and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean”

NALACS (Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies), JISLAC (Joint Initiative for

the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, UK) and CEDLA (Centre for Latin American Research and

Documentation)

Website http://www.nalacs.nl/Events.aspx , http://www.jislac.org.uk ,

http://www.cedla.uva.nl/20_events/index.html

Contact Ton Salman at AJ.Salman@fsw.vu.nl


November 29 - December 2, 2009

Bridgetown, Barbados

21st Annual Meeting of the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC)

“Caribbean Curatorship and National Identity”

MAC & Barbados National Museum

Website http://www.caribbeanmuseums.com

Contact I. Witteveen at naamna@onenet.an


November 30 - December 2, 2009

Miami, Florida, USA

33rd Annual Miami Conference on the Caribbean & Central America

“Responding to Global Challenges: Surviving and Prospering in Today’s Economy”

Caribbean-Central American Action (CCAA), USA

Website http://www.c-caa.org

Contact CCAA at miami@c-caa.org


December 7-11, 2009

Montego Bay, Jamaica

4th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management

“Strengthening CDM through Youth and Community Empowerment”

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA)

Website http://cdm.cdera.org/cccdm/2009/index.html

Contact Lloyda Nicholas-Garrett or Nicola Drakes at cccdm@cdera.org


December 8-11, 2009

Bridgetown, Barbados

1st International Tourism Conference

“Beyond the Boundary: Creating New Epistemologies in Tourism”

Department of Management Studies, UWI-Cave Hill, and Univ. of Surrey (UK)

Contact Sherma Roberts at sherma.roberts@cavehill.uwi.edu


January 12-15, 2010

St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago

Conference honoring Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott: “Interlocking Basins of a Globe”

Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI-St Augustine

Website http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=728

Contact Jean.Antoine@sta.uwi.edu , Paula.Morgan@sta.uwi.edu or Barbara.Lalla@sta.uwi.edu


February 25-27, 2010

Tallahassee, Florida, USA

International Conference: “The Francophone Caribbean and North America”

Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State Univ.

Website http://www.fsu.edu/~icffs/events.html

Contact icffs@mailer.fsu.edu


March 1-5, 2010

La Habana, Cuba

12th International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems

Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba (ANEC) & Asociación de Economistas de

América Latina y del Caribe (AEALC)

Website http://www.eleconomista.cubaweb.cu and http://www.globalizacion.cubaweb.cu

Contact María Isabel Córdova at misabel@anec.co.cu or anecnac@anec.co.cu


March 4-6, 2010

Coral Gables, Florida, USA

“Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture”

Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies Program, Department of English, University of Miami

Website http://www.as.miami.edu/cls

Contact Michelle Ramlagan at cariblocationsconf@as.miami.edu


March 12-13, 2010

Aberdeen, Scotland

Conference: “Haiti and the Politics of the Universal”

Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen (Scotland)

Website http://abdn.ac.uk/modern

Contact Nick Nesbitt n.nesbitt@abdn.ac.uk


March 15-19, 2010

Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

2nd International Conference on Caribbean Studies: “The Many Caribbean’s and the Bicentennial

of the Continental Spanish American Independence Movements”

University of Cartagena (Colombia)

Website http://www.utpa.edu/dept/modlang/Conference/iccs.htm

Contact Kevin Sedeño Guillén at kesedeno@areandina.edu.co


March 18-20, 2010

San Juan, Puerto Rico

7th Quest for Global Competitiveness Conference

“Time for Change: Academia Making the Connection with the Global Corporate World”

School of Business Administration, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus

Website http://quest.uprrp.edu

Contact Yvonne Huertas at questconference@uprrp.edu


March 19-20, 2010

Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Annual Conference of the Caribbean Chapter of the College English Association (CEA)

“Boundaries and Bridges: English Studies in the Borderlands”

Caribbean Chapter of CEA

Blog http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc

Contact cea.cc.conference@gmail.com


March 24-26, 2010

St Augustine, Trinidad &Tobago

11th Annual Conference of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies (SALISES)

“Turmoil and Turbulence in Small Developing States: Going Beyond Survival”

SALISES & UWI-St Augustine

Website http://sta.uwi.edu/salises

Contact Francine Alleyne at the.salises@sta.uwi.edu


April 8-10, 2010

Glasgow, Scotland

Interdisciplinary Conference: “Caribbean Enlightenment”

University of Glasgow

Website http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/news/news.htm

Contact: Lorna Burns and Michael Morris at caribbeanenlightenment@googlemail.com


April 20-24, 2010

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

12th International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writer and Scholars

(ACWWS)

ACWWS & Louisiana State University

Website www.acwws.org

Contact caribbean@lsu.edu


April 22-24, 2010

Turks & Caicos Islands

55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Caribbean Health Research Council (CHRC)

CHRC

Website www.chrc-caribbean.org

Contact chrc@chrc-caribbean.org or chrc@trinidad.net


May 2010 [exact dates to be determined]

Bridgetown, Barbados

42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH)

ACH and University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus

Website http://www.geocities.com/achbulletin

Contact Pedro Welch at pwelch@uwichill.edu.bb


May 24-28, 2010

Bridgetown, Barbados

35th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)

“Understanding the Everyday Occurrence of Violence in the Cultural Life of the Caribbean”

CSA

Website http://www.caribbean-studies.org

Contact Alissa Trotz at datrotz@gmail.com


June 1-4, 2010

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

40th Anniversary Congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

CALACS

Website http://www.can-latam.org

Contact calacs@uwindsor.ca


June 3-5, 2010

Mona, Jamaica

7th Caribbean Reasonings Conference

“Freedom and Power in the Caribbean: The Work of Gordon K. Lewis”

Centre for Caribbean Thought (Jamaica), Institute of Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico), and the Africana

Studies Department of Brown University (USA)

Website http://myspot.mona.uwi.edu/cct

Contact Beverley Sutherland Lewis at: cct@uwimona.edu.jm


July 5-7, 2010

Santiago, Cuba

30th Annual Caribbean Festival “Feast of Fire”

Dedicated to Curaçao and Pernambuco

La Casa del Caribe & the Cuban Ministry of Culture

Website http://www.casadelcaribe.cult.cu

Contact caribe@cultstgo.cult.cu or dirprov@cultstgo.cult.cu


July 7-9, 2010

Southampton, England, UK

34th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies

Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) & University of Southampton (UK)

Website http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk

Contact David Howard at david.howard@ed.ac.uk


July 15-18, 2010

Cave Hill, Barbados

3rd Conference on Race, Sport and Ethnicity: “Beyond Boundaries: Race and Ethnicity in Modern

Sport”

CLR James Centre, UWI-Cave Hill (Barbados) & Academy of International Sport, George Mason

University, Virginia (USA)

Website http://cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe

Contact Alan Cobley at alan.cobley@cavehill.uwi.edu or John Nauright at jnaurigh@gmu.edu


August 9-13, 2010

Cave Hill, Barbados

18th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL)

“The Languages of the Caribbean”

SCL

Website http://www.scl-online.net/callforpapers2010.html


October 21-23, 2010

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

9th Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA)

“Cuerpos vigilados y castigados: Resistance and Empowerment in the Body Rican”

PRSA

Website http://www.puertorican-studies.org


Compiled by: Peter Jordens, plancari@cura.net Last update: November 1, 2009

Saturday, April 11, 2009

La Habana elegante (ahora peer-review) -Call for papers

Convocatoria

La Habana Elegante está preparando el número correspondiente a Septiembre de 2009. Invitamos a colegas de la academia y/o a escritores a enviarnos sus propuestas de artículos y/o de dossier. Los artículos deben ser inéditos y de alto valor académico y o literario. Estamos particularmente interesados en artículos que por su originalidad y creatividad constituyan verdaderas aportaciones al campo de los estudios cubanos, caribeños, latinoamericanos, trasatlánticos y de estética.

Para la edición de septiembre, con la que se inicia la transformación de la revista en un peer-reviewed journal, recibiremos artículos sobre: todos los autores y períodos literarios y culturales,el modernismo hispanoamericano,estética (aún si no caen dentro del campo de los estudios latinoamericanos) También aceptamos propuestas de reseña. Tanto los autores como las editoriales pueden enviarnos sus libros.

El plazo para el envío de artículos concluye el 30 de junio de 2009. Los mismos se enviarán como attachment a la siguiente dirección: fmoran@smu.edu

Los libros para reseñas se enviarán a:

Francisco Morán
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Southern Methodist University
3200 Dyer Street 309 Clements Hall
Dallas, TX 75205

Call for Papers

La Habana Elegante’s next issue will be available in September, 2009. We invite our colleagues and writers to contribute with their academic and/or literary essays. We also welcome proposals for dossiers. All articles must be unpublished, and must meet a high academic and/or literary standard. We are particularly interested in articles that, because of their originality and creativity, will significantly contribute to their respective fields.

With September’s edition, La Habana Elegante will become a peer-reviewed academic journal. We will consider for publication in this issue: All authors and topics from all literary and cultural periods,Articles specifically dealing with Spanish American modernismo,Articles on aesthetic issues, even if they do not fall within the field of Latin American studies.

We accept books for review in our journal. Authors and publishing houses as well are invited to submit their works. Please, send them to the following address:

Francisco Morán
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Southern Methodist University
3200 Dyer Street 309 Clements Hall
Dallas, TX 75205

The deadline for proposals of both articles and dossiers is June, 30, 2009.

Send your proposals of articles and/or dossiers to:Francisco Moran fmoran@smu.edu