Call for Papers - Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Annual Conference 2023

PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED AND THIS CFP IS CLOSED

Founded in 1964, the Society for Latin American Studies is one of the leading Latin American studies organisations in Europe, and covers all aspects of Latin American society and culture. Latin American studies is a multidisciplinary field stretching across the arts, humanities and social sciences. SLAS’s annual conference is the key event in the society’s calendar.

Queen’s University Belfast, which will host the SLAS conference in 2023, has a long tradition in teaching, study, and research about Latin America. The School of Arts, English and Languages is today home to a strong cohort of Latin American specialists within the Spanish and Portuguese subject area, who are part of the Core Disciplinary Research Group in Modern Languages (see its blog here). The School also hosts the Centre for the Americas, an interdisciplinary research hub bringing together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds from across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences working in the fields of US, Canadian, Caribbean and Latin American studies. We are delighted to welcome the first SLAS conference on the island of Ireland. 

We invite abstracts for individual 20-minute papers or pre-formed panels (including double panels) on any aspect of Latin American studies as approached from any disciplinary/interdisciplinary or theoretical perspective relating to the arts, humanities and/or social sciences. The usual languages of SLAS conferences are English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Panels may be made up of three 20-minute papers (with the option of including a discussant) or four 15-minute papers. We particularly welcome panels made up of scholars at various stages of their career (postgraduate, early career, mid-career and senior academics) and from different institutions. For double panels, please fill in two separate panel proposal forms and clearly indicate the link between them in the information submitted about each one. If you wish to propose an alternative or more creative type of panel, please contact the Organising Committee (details below). 

The conference will also include a keynote speaker and social and cultural events, including a conference dinner (details to be confirmed).

The conference will run in person with a portion of its programming available on a hybrid basis. Panels must be either fully in person or fully online (if proposing a double panel, one session could be in person and the other online if need be). Presenters based in Latin America will be given priority for the online sessions. 

This year the PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies) conference will take place adjacent to the main SLAS conference, on Wednesday 29 March 2023. A separate Call for Papers will be issued by PILAS. 

Conference events for all delegates are scheduled to begin in the afternoon/evening of the 29th March and last until 5pm on Friday 31st. 

SLAS offers several grants to support participation at its annual conference, for Latin America-based scholars and postgraduate/postdoctoral members of the Society. For full details and deadlines please check the SLAS website.