JISLAC
About JISLAC
JISLAC is a body made up of the membership of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) and the Standing Conference of Centres of Latin American Studies (SC) (hosted by the Institute for the Study of the Americas). The purpose of JISLAC is to manage the activities of a jointly-held British Academy Learned Societies grant, which runs for five years, to support Latin American and Caribbean studies in the UK and Europe.
JISLAC supports postdoctoral research, regional seminars, two conferences, a web portal to aid communication, and travel bursaries and prizes, details of which are outlined below. The work of the grant began in April 2007 and is expected to finish in March 2012.
Web Resources
Enhancement or development of a range of web resources including:
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Portal (the Handbook)
- SLAS website
- Society for Caribbean Studies website
- Directory of Latin American and Caribbean Library Resources in the UK
Research Projects
JISLAC has made the following research grant awards for 2011/12:
- Peter Hulme, University of Essex - The Life and Work of W. Adolphe Roberts
- Francisco Eissa-Barroso, University of Warwick - Military officers and provincial governance in early eighteenth-century Spanish America
- Amanda Sives, University of Liverpool - The Politics of CICIG: Crime and State Sovereignty in Guatemala
- Katy Jenkins, Northumbria University - Unearthing Women’s Mining Activism in Peru
Conference grants
Eight grants of £2,000 were awarded for 2011/12 to fund seminars on Latin America and/or the Caribbean with the aim of fortifying Area Studies in our fields, especially when there exists limited or no strong institutional support structure and where researchers are often spread across discipline-based departments. They are as follows:
- Peter Clegg - 50 years of Independence: Jamaica’s development and impact as a sovereign state
- Maria Cristina Fumagalli - An Island Divided and an Island Shared: Haiti and the Dominican Republic
- Sarah Barrow - Reframing the National in Hispanic Film
- Thomas Grisaffi and Alice Guimarães - ‘The Return of the Indian’: Class and Ethnicity in the Andes
- Catherine Davies - Women in Latin American Independence: History, Society, Culture
(The remaining three seminars are awarded by the Society of Caribbean Studies and are to be announced.)
Contact JISLAC
All enquiries regarding JISLAC should be directed to the JISLAC Coordinator:
Email jislac@sas.ac.uk
Tel 020 7862 8875
Mailing address:
JISLAC
c/o Institute for the Study of the Americas
Senate House, Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
