Call for Papers – LALSA 2016

Papers are invited for the LALSA Annual Conference ‘Latin American Literature: Past, Present and Future’. The conference will be held on 17-18 November 2016, at York St John University, UK.

The conference welcomes contributions from the scholars and students of Latin American literature. Any approach to well known or lesser known texts is welcome; any cross-disciplinary stance is encouraged.

This year, the theme of the conference is ‘Reading the Liminal(ity)’.

Abstracts (250-350 words) are welcome in English or Spanish. Presentations will be 20 minutes long.

IMPORTANT: To submit an abstract, you must be a LALSA member. Please contact Victoria Carpenter (v.carpenter@yorksj.ac.uk) to join. There is a £10 annual membership fee, to be paid with the conference registration.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 September 2016. We will let you know if your abstract has been accepted by 20 September 2016.
Please e-mail your abstract to v.carpenter@yorksj.ac.uk. Join us and enjoy the company of like-minded scholars of Latin American literature.