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News, events, vacancies and more from the international community of North Americanist, Latin Americanist, Canadianist and Caribbeanist scholars.
Lecture: Women and the Transformation of Venezuela
Wednesday 22. of February 2012The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Venezuelan Solidarity Campaing and Academics for Venezuela are pleased to announce the 1st Annual Lecture at Bolivar Hall to Celebrate International Women's Day.
Speaker:...
Call for papers: Chile's Winter of Discontent: the Breakdown of a Paradigm in Latin America
Monday 13. of February 201211th May 2012, University of Cambridge, 9.30 - 18.30
Find further information in the links...
Call for Papers - Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in Indo-America
Thursday 02. of February 2012Call for Papers for the two-day interdisciplinary symposium ‘Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in Indo-America’. This event forms part of the ‘Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging’ project, and...
AHRC studentships at the University of Liverpool
Thursday 26. of January 2012The University of Liverpool Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to announce that it will be making a number of AHRC-funded and University of Liverpool Arts and Humanities (ULAH) PhD and MA studentships and awards...
Vacancy: Profesor de planta en Sociología, Trabajo Social y Linguística en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Monday 23. of January 2012Further details:http://www.concursoexcelencia.unal.edu.co/ConcursoDocente/e107_files/downloads/CienciasHumanasBog2011.pdfhttp://www.concursoexcelencia.unal.edu.co/ConcursoDocente/news.php
Call for papers: Twelfth International Karl Polanyi Conference, Buenos Aires, 2012
Thursday 19. of January 2012November 8-9,2012National University General Sarmiento, Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires, Argentina
This conference is co-organized by the Conurbano Institute, the National University General Sarmiento (Argentina) and...
Call for papers: Media, Citizenship and Power in South America
Thursday 19. of January 2012FLACSO, Quito, ECUADOR, May 17-18th, 2012
The aim of the conference is to bring academics, media practitioners and government together to debate new responses to neoliberal media in the context of post-neoliberal South...
Symposium at University of Lincoln: Latin American Cinemas Today
Friday 13. of January 2012This Symposium represents a continuation of debates that have sought to interrogate the relationships, dependencies and tensions between the transnational, national, regional and local in Hispanic cinemas. So far, the debates...
Call for Papers: Genetics: The Sociology of Identity
Thursday 12. of January 2012BSA journal Sociology is pleased to announce its 2013 special issue. This special issue, to be published in October 2013, addresses the many ways in which genetic knowledge and technologies intersect with the formations of...
Vacancy at Warwick University: Professor of Hispanic Studies
Thursday 12. of January 2012The Department of Hispanic Studies is a newly created department within the University of Warwick and requires someone with drive and enthusiasm to establish its formation. The Department is looking for an outstanding...
