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CALL FOR PAPERS / LLAMADO PARA PONENCIAS PARA EL CONGRESO ANUAL DE LASA 2023
AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE: PENSAR, REPRESENTAR Y LUCHAR POR LOS DERECHOS
(May 24-27, VANCOUVER, BC)
SOLICITAMOS PROPUESTAS PARA PRESENTACIONES EN NUESTRAS MESAS DE LA SECCIÓN DE LATINX STUDIES
Por favor, enviar un resumen de 150 palabras, un título y un CV corto (no más de 5 páginas) a gretchen.s.selcke@vanderbilt.com en o antes del 6 de septiembre de 2022. De ser aceptade, debe ser o hacerse miembre de LASA y la sección de Latinx Studies antes del 8 de septiembre de 2022.
WE ARE SEEKING PROPOSALS FOR PRESENTATIONS IN OUR PANELS AND ROUNDTABLE FOR THE LATINX STUDIES SECTION
Please send your 150 word abstract, title, and short-form CV (no more than 5 pages) to gretchen.s.selcke@vanderbilt.edu on or before September 6, 2022. If accepted, you must be a current LASA member and Latinx Studies Section member before September 8, 2022.
Panel 1: Centering Marginalized Latinidades
Despite increased attention to Afro-Latinx and queer expressions, these Latinx identities continue to be underrepresented in central discussions of Latinidad. Given this year's theme of "pensar, representar y luchar por los derechos, " this panel seeks to center underrrepresented identities. This panel invites presentations on the state of the field and the future of more inclusive Latinx studies.
Panel 2: Estamos Aquí: Belonging in Latinx Literature
Latinx literature is at the forefront of linguistic and geographic borders, creating a platform that allows for an alternative to binary understandings of culture and race. What does it mean to write about being Latinx in the United States? How does one “grow up Latinx” given current polarizing rhetoric? This panel will discuss issues of language, race, migration, class, and gender that influence Latinx literature. Presentations might explore psychological and political dimensions of encountering cultural difference while responding to the pressures of assimilation.
Roundtable: Agua Bendita: Afro-diasporic Aqueous Art and Performance
This roundtable discussion centers on the water as both the lifeblood and a thematic tie in Afro-diasporic art and performance. How do afro-diasporic artists, poets, and performers represent and interact with this essential element? How is access to water linked to survival, both in practical and spiritual terms? Crossing and re-crossing bodies of water can be imagined in terms of migration, but also in other contexts. We invite participants interested in how water broadly imagined influences Afro-diasporic art and performance.