Cornell University’s 3rd Annual Latin American Studies Program Graduate Student Conference will be held in Ithaca, NY on February 24-25, 2006. We would like to encourage graduate students from various disciplines to participate. The conference provides a forum for discussion and dialogue on Latin America across disciplines, gives graduate students the opportunity to meet fellow Latin Americanists and is an excellent place to present and hear new scholarly work.

Proposals are invited for research papers, dissertation chapters or works-in-progress related to Latin America and the Caribbean. Abstracts (250-300 words) of proposed papers should be sent to rat36@cornell.edu by November 11, 2005. Please write “LAGSC2006 Abstract” in the subject line. Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to:

Public Space and the Public Sphere
Bioprospecting, Ecotourism, and Sustainable Development
The African Diaspora in the Americas
Labor in the Formal and Informal Sectors
Legislating the Social Dimension
La Frontera: Imaginary and Real Borderlands; Poetics of the Border
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Post-Revolutionary Movements in Central America and Beyond
Environmentalism and Latin America
Labor, Gender, Migration, and the Home Country
Export Commodities in the Americas
Decentering History, Theory, and Philosophy
The Arab-Latin American World: Past, Present and Future
Communal Land Rights
Latin America’s Left Turn
Medicine and Public Health: Toward a Latin American Health Agenda
Inter- and Intra-American Relations
The Third Sector and Civil Society
Religion in the Americas: From Santería and Candomblé to Pentecostalism and Evangelism
Political Boundaries and the Criminalization of the Border
Asia and Latin America: Trade and Movement of Ideas across the Pacific Rim
Cuba, Venezuela and other Challenges to the Global Status Quo
Participatory Action Research in Latin America and the Caribbean
Terrorism and Regional Security

For more information about the conference please contact rebecca.tally@cornell.edu.

Rebecca Tally
Graduate Student
History Department
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14850
rebecca.tally@cornell.edu