Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]

Forum: LLC Puerto Rican

409. Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective

SATURDAY, 5 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, MISSISSIPPI (SHERATON GRAND)

1. The Aesthetics of Toxicity: Vieques, Alejandra Bronfman (U at Albany, State U of New York)

2. Better Nasty than Fishy: Media Responses to Hurricane María, Juan Carlos Rodríguez (Geo…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

Forum: LLC Puerto Rican

CFP: MLA 2019 in Chicago (Jan 3-6)

Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective
Digital archives, mapping projects, sound projects, aesthetic digital interventions before/after María, oceanic perspectives, disaster capitalism in the insular and continental Caribbean. Please send 250-words abstract by 2…[Read more]

We would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).

Caribbean Space and Bodies at War

Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more]

We would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).

Caribbean Space and Bodies at War

Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more]

We would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).

Caribbean Space and Bodies at War

Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more]

We would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York.

Caribbean Space and Bodies at War

Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing Imperial Frontiers: Puerto Ricans in the Dominican Republic, Santiago…[Read more]

 Caribbean Space and Bodies at War

Forum: LLC Puerto Rican
Imperial frontier/zone; militarism/militarization of space; soldiers, veterans, military migrations, encounters with unforeseen “others”; censorship, persecution, political prisoners; pacifism, civil disobedience. 250-word abstract by 15 March 2017; Judith Sierra-Rivera (jus55@psu.edu).

Forms of Puerto Rican Debt: Critique and Conditions

Forum: LLC Puerto Rican
How do literature and art imagine past/current Puerto Rican economic crises? Reflections on aesthetic interventions into conditions of capital and debt. 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Liana Silva (liana.marie.silva@gmail.com).

Please consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s (due March 15).

1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & hi…[Read more]

MLA 2017 Proposed Special Session

“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”

This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Br…[Read more]

We welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance

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Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
Co-Organizer: Carolyn Ureña, Rutgers…[Read more]

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CFP Revista Badebec, University of Rosario, Argentina. Dossier “Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean (1980-2014)” (literature, film, and TV). First deadline: November 30th, 2014. Contact: badebec@gmail.com 

BADEBEC INVITA A PARTICIPAR DE SU PRÓXIMO DOSSIER

“Ficciones policiales en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”…[Read more]