Venue: Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, Campus Drammen
Date: 15-16 June 2023
Call for Panels
The Norwegian Association of Latin America Studies (NALAS), in collaboration with the University of South-Eastern Norway, invites scholars from Norway, the Nordic countries, and the rest of the world from a broad range of disciplines and theoretical perspectives to present proposals for panels for the 2nd NALAS Conference.
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The title of the conference, “Islands, Borders, Archipelagos”, places a non-exclusive emphasis on the Caribbean region and particularly Cuba. It was the Martinican thinker Édouard Glissant who coined the term archipelago as an image for thinking about forms of cultural interaction that do not suppress particularities. We propose the terms islands, borders, and archipelagos as analytical tools to approach the Caribbean and Latin American context, which is marked by widespread crisis and uncertainty, and a strong tension between neo-fundamentalisms, cultural and political reinscriptions, and the centrifugal force of globalization.
From this initial trigger, we wish to rethink the meaning of islands and borders in Latin America and the Caribbean. We use these categories in both literal terms (Cuba, the Malvinas Islands, Hispaniola, Chiloé, Tierra del Fuego and the borders that, for example, segment the original Gran Colombia or separate Latin America from the USA) as well as in metaphorical and abstract terms. That is, as identitarian islands, archipelagos of changing identities, and linguistic, social, and contested borders of identity politics. In this double dimension, the terms allow us to explore, from different disciplines and methodologies, heterogeneous aspects such as:
All presentations will be in person. The panels will be organized in parallel sessions. Panels dealing with issues related to Cuba and the Caribbean region are particularly welcome and will be grouped in a specific track.
Although we have chosen the title “Islands, borders, archipelagos” as focus for the plenary sessions at the congress, any proposal related to Latin America research is also welcome.
Deadline to submit proposals: November 30th 2022.
When the panels are decided, a call for abstracts will be announced.
A panel should comprise a minimum of three and a maximum of four presentations. Panels with participants from different research centres will have priority.
A panel should comprise presenters, chair, and convener. The chair and the convener might be the same person.
A participant can only make one panel presentation at the congress. In addition, (s)he might hold the role as chair/convener/discussant in one additional panel.
The panels may be organized in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Each panel should be held in one language only.
Panel proposals should include:
the title
a description of max 250 words
names of minimum three presenters and the title of their presentations (abstracts can wait, but might well be sent with the proposal)
name of chair and convener (might be the same person) and email addresses
The conveners would be in charge of organizing the panels before the congress.
The proposal should be written in the language to be used by the panel.
The proposals should be submitted to nalas2023@nalas.org by 30 November 2022.
The accepted panels will be published on our website by 31 December 2022, together with the call for individual abstracts. Additional contributors might later be added to the panels, if room for it, from the incoming individual abstracts.
NALAS Members: 750 NOK
NALAS student members: 100 NOK
Non-members from Europe and USA: 1500 NOK
Non-member students: 500 NOK
Scholars based in Latin America, Africa, and Asia: Free
Jorge J. Locane, Hans Jacob Ohldieck, Ole Jacob Løland, Guro Nore Fløgstad, Yuri Kasahara, Alissa Vik, Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik, Jørgen Sørlie Yri, Vegard Bye, Fabian Mosenson, Astrid B. Stensrud
To be confirmed
We are approaching the Spanish-Language Filipino Cultural Production and other East-West Cultural Exchange, at UiO, on June 7th.
Even though it is hard to choose from such a delightful program, we'd like to direct your attention towards one particular event, Mario Bellati's talk "Buscando la tercera escritura perdida".
Christian Krohn-Hansen launches his new book Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods.
The event will be streamed. To join the live stream event go the Department's YouTube-channel.
This book employs thick ethnography in the Dominican Republic to explore the more general challenges that the phenomena of jobless growth and «no wage labour futures» raise for political-economic analysis.
Christian Krohn-Hansen (Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo) will discuss the book with Susana Narotzky (Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona) and Elisabeth Schober (Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo). Rune Flikke (Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo) will chair the event.
About the book
The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remakably weak. How have ordinary and poor Dominicans worked and lived in the shadow of the country’s conspicuous growth rates? This book considers this question through an ethnographic exploration of the popular economy in the Dominican capital. Focusing on the city’s precarious small businesses, including furniture manufacturers, food stalls, street-corner stores, and savings and credit cooperatives, Krohn-Hansen shows how people make a living, tackle market shifts, and the factors that characterize their relationship to the state and pervasive corruption.
Empirically grounded, this book examines the condition of the urban masses in Santo Domingo, offering an original and captivating contribution to the scholarship on popular economic practices, urban changes, and today’s Latin America and the Caribbean.
This book is published by Stanford University Press and can be purchased here: Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods | Christian Krohn-Hansen (sup.org)
Zoom Meeting ID: 678 8480 5804
Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez and Araceli Tinajero, two renowned researchers in this field, will present the main hypotheses of their most recent books: Orientaciones transpacíficas: la modernidad mexicana y el espectro de Asia (2019) and A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan (2021).
Moderator: Ana María Ramírez (UiO)