2012 LACS Call for Papers
SHA Meeting
Mobile, Alabama
November 1-4, 2012
Deadline: October 1, 2011

The Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACS) of the Southern Historical Association welcomes individual paper and panel proposals for the 2012 SHA meeting in Mobile, Alabama, November 1-4, 2012. LACS accepts papers and panels on all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, including the fields of the borderlands and the Atlantic World. Panels and papers that highlight the connections between people, cultures, and regions are especially welcome.

Submissions should include a 250-word abstract for each paper and brief curriculum vitae for each presenter. We encourage faculty as well as advanced graduate students to submit panels and papers. Graduate students are eligible for the Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize, awarded each year for the best paper presented by a graduate student in a panel organized by LACS.

Please note that the program committee may revise proposed panels.

All panelists are required to be members of LACS. For information about membership, please visit the website at:
http://www.tnstate.edu//lacs/ or contact Matt Childs of the University of South Carolina at childsmd@mailbox.sc.edu. For more information about the Southern Historical Association, visit the website: http://www.uga.edu/~sha/

Deadline for submissions is October 1, 2011. Complete panels are appreciated, but not required. Submit panels and papers (with a preference for electronic submissions) to:

Sarah Franklin
University of North Alabama
sfranklin@una.edu
(256) 765-5774