CALL FOR PAPERS: IUPLR Fifth Biennial SIGLO XXI Conference, Intra-Latinos/as: Entre Latinos/as: Reconceptualizing Nations, Regions, and Disciplines, Thursday, April 23-Saturday, April 25, 2015, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

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> CALL FOR PAPERS
> IUPLR Fifth Biennial SIGLO XXI Conference
> Intra-Latinos/as: Entre Latinos/as: Reconceptualizing Nations, Regions,
> and Disciplines
> Thursday, April 23-Saturday, April 25, 2015
> University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
>
> The IUPLR Fifth Biennial Siglo XXI will encourage the exploration of
> research on Latinos/as that challenge categories of nations, regions and
> disciplines.
>
> 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:
> 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 and change the disciplines?
> In sum, what is next?
>
> Submission:
> We invite you to submit a 2 page/500 word paper/panel abstract and a two
> page cv by the deadline of  *Monday, October 13, 2014* Please submit to
> Luz Acosta via email to lacost4@uic.edu
>
> *Only papers presented by this deadline will be considered for publication
> in a special edition of he the peer-reviewed journal, Dialogo.
>
> Selection Process: The Conference Program Committee will select papers
> that will be presented at the conference and selected panelists will be
> notified via email by November 17, 2014
>
> Conference Participation:
> Each selected panelist will be expected to submit a finished paper for
> distribution to their co-panelists and discussant not later than March 15,
> 2015   All accepted presenters must pre-register and pay registration fees
> for Siglo XXI 2015 or their names will not appear on the program. In
> addition, each IUPLR member center and/or Individual Faculty member as
> presenter will be responsible for registering and for the total cost
> incurred in his/her participation.
>
> Registration Categories:
> Online early-bird registration   $100  or $35 per day  Until February 15,
> 2015
> Online regular registration   $125  or $50 per day after February 15, 2015
> On-site registration                  $150 0r $60 per day
> Student Registration  with ID $25    or $10 per day
> Notre Dame and UIC Students with ID    No charge but must pre-register
> Distinguished IUPLR IUPLR Distinguished Lecture Luncheon      $20
> Optional Lunch Saturday      $15
>
> Registration fee includes: Admittance to all sessions, workshops, art
> exhibitions and book fair; admittance to the Keynote Plenary, Welcoming
> Reception on Thursday; admittance to the Reception on Friday at the Notre
> Dame Center for Arts and Culture; Siglo XXI Conference Program booklet
>
> Registration website: www.IUPLR.uic.edu
>
> Table Vendor:  $300
> Registration and conference three-day full pass for one person;
> Receptions, Distinguished IUPLR Lecture Luncheon; A 6-8 feet table with
> two chairs; Listing in the Siglo XXI conference program
>
> Transportation and Lodging
> All registered participants are responsible for their own lodging, travel
> and transportation.
> A block of rooms has been reserved for the convenience of participants at:
>
> The Morris Inn @ Special rate of $149 + Tax per night
> 1399 N Notre Dame Ave, South Bend, IN 46617  (574) 631-2000
> Deadline: March 22, 2015 or when block is completed, first come, first
> serve
>
> Fairfield Inn & Suites South Bend at Notre Dame  @ $121-$149 + Tax +
> Breakfast
> 1220 E Angela Blvd., South Bend, IN 46617  (574) 234-5510
> Deadline: March 22, 2015 or when block is completed, first come, first
> serve
>
> Sponsors
> This national gathering is sponsored by the Inter-University Program for
> Latino Research (IUPLR) headquartered at the University of Illinois at
> Chicago, The Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame,
> The Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture, and Southwest Airlines.
>
> For additional information about this Call for Papers and/or Conference,
> please contact Luz Acosta at lacost4@uic.edu and/or Olga Herrera at
> oherre15@uic.edu
>
> The Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) is a national
> consortium of 25 university-based centers dedicated to the advancement of
> knowledge about Latinos in the US. IUPLR works to expand the pool of
> Latino scholars and increase the availability of intellectual
> understanding about
> Latinos as well policy-relevant Latino-focused research. IUPLR works to
> strengthen the network of its member centers, to enhance their
> institutional capacity, and to foster faculty research. This is primarily
> done by supporting interdisciplinary, inter-university working groups that
> in the past have 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. These events were well attended and highly
> successful.

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