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Call for Proposals 2012 UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Spring Conference – February 17-18, 2012

Knowledge as Change in Latin America and the Caribbean

Submission Deadline:  December 9, 2011

The UNC - Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies is pleased to invite you to participate and/or nominate graduate students to the 8th annual Consortium Conference to take place on February 17-18, 2012 at Duke University, John Hope Franklin Center and UNC-Chapel Hill, FedEx Global Education Center.

This year the conference will be dedicated to the varieties of epistemologies by which the possibility of change–past and present–insinuated itself in the popular imagination in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Attention will be given principally to the politics of knowledge in shaping of popular sensibilities through aesthetic production–including poetry, the plastic arts, music, dance, and literary forms–historical knowledge, ideological formulations, and political theory, among others, as phenomena shaped both within national and trans-national settings.

  The topic is not restrictive, but inclusive. We invite submissions for panels and/or short presentations by individuals, pairs, collectives, or working groups related to the main conference theme. Panel proposals are strongly encouraged.

  Please submit your proposal electronically no later than Friday, December 9, 2011 to Natalie Hartman at njh@duke.edu and Beatriz Riefkohl Muñiz at riefkohl@email.unc.edu (please use as subject: 2012 Consortium Conference).  Your proposal should include a title and a brief (250 word) description of the topic to be addressed, as well as name(s) and affiliation(s) of the participant(s). Attachments in Microsoft Word are preferred, but if you send the information in the body of an e-mail message, be sure that your formatting includes international characters.

  The conference welcomes also multimedia presentations, exhibitions, film screenings, and performances by participants.

For more information, contact njh@duke.edu or riefkohl@email.unc.edu.