IUPLR Fifth Biennial Siglo XXI Conference Intra-Latinas/os: Entre Latinas/os: Reconceptualizing Nations, Regions, and Disciplines CALL FOR PAPERS April 23-25, 2015

IUPLR Fifth Biennial Siglo XXI Conference

Intra-Latinas/os: Entre Latinas/os:

Reconceptualizing Nations, Regions, and Disciplines

CALL FOR PAPERS

April 23-25, 2015

Hosted by Institute for Latino Studies

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556

Inter-University Program for Latino

Research (IUPLR):

Celebrating Over 30 Years of Interdisciplinary

Research & Scholarship!

IUPLR is a national consortium of twenty-five

university-based centers dedicated to the

advancement of knowledge about Latinos in the

U.S. IUPLR is interested in expanding the pool

of Latino scholars and increasing the availability

of intellectual understanding about Latinos

including policy-relevant Latino-focused

research. IUPLR’s efforts strengthens the

network of its member centers in order to

enhance their institutional capacity and foster

faculty research. This is primarily done by

supporting interdisciplinary, inter-university

working groups that have traditionally contributed

to proposing new theoretical paradigms such

as transnationalism, cultural citizenship, and

notions of the working poor. IUPLR has hosted

conferences since the 1980s, and first held the

Biennial Siglo XXI conference in 2005.

Theme:

The accelerated impact of globalization and its resulting effects on dispersal of populations across the globe and within

nations forces us to rethink the ways nations and regions and disciplines have informed our understanding of Latinos.

That nations do not bound economies, politics, and culture has become more evident. Globalization has also

reconfigured urban demographics as poorer communities are forced to the perimeters and more affluent professionals

are residing in cities. New Latino communities are emerging across the nation in places where there are no established

ones. Simultaneously there is more diversity in established communities creating intersections where multiple Latino

nationalities coexist creating both tensions as well as opportunities to coalesce politically and engage in a variety of

cultural productions.

Guided by narrow questions and often employing single methodologies, traditional disciplines have limited tools with

which to bring about needed paradigmatic changes to capture this complex social phenomena. We encourage scholars

to present work that can challenge categories of nations, regions, and disciplines. While globalization and

transnationalism offer us ways to understand Latinos, what do they mean? What does nation mean in the context of a

global world? Would a hemispheric lens contribute to understanding the changing geographies and identities of

Latinos? Does scholarship on gentrification help us understand dispersal and mobility of communities globally and

nationally? How do we understand new emerging communities in non-traditional receiving regions? What are the cultural manifestations accompanying this rapid mobility? How do we reframe questions of belonging, voice, identity

and place? How does Latino Studies challenge & change the disciplines? In sum, what is next?

Panel Composition:

The primary purpose of this meeting will be to provide opportunities for faculty to share scholarship. IUPLR centers are encouraged to host panels. This year we will encourage panel proposals that include scholars from multiple disciplines addressing similar topics, including advanced graduate students, junior & senior faculty. We also encourage cross-regional perspectives.

How to Submit a Proposal & Conference Papers:

The Program Committee will meet to select papers and create panels of not more than four papers each with a discussant or discussants. It will also review proposals for panels. IUPLR member centers are encouraged to propose panels.

For individual papers, faculty should submit a 2 page abstract and a 1–2 page curriculum vitae (CV) for review by the IUPLR Program Committee. 

Submission Deadline: Monday, October 13, 2014

We will also accept proposals for panels. These should include abstracts for each presentation and CV for all participants.

Submission Deadline: Monday October 13, 2014

Final Papers should be circulated to panel members and

IUPLR headquarters by March 15, 2015. 

Only papers presented by this deadline will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

All materials should be submitted via e-mail to Associate Director, Luz Acosta: lacost4@uic.edu

Registration & Lodging: www.IUPLR.uic.edu