First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous

CALL FOR PAPERS

First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous

Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean

May 22-23, 2008

University of California, San Diego

Individual papers and organized panel proposals are invited for the First Conference on

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, May 22-23 2008,

at the University of California, San Diego. The event is organized and sponsored by ERIP

(LASA Section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples), CILAS-UCSD (Center for Iberian

and Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego) and LACES (Latin American

and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, journal published by Taylor & Francis).

The conference will include panels, proposed and organized by CILAS-UCSD, on indigenous

peoples and natural resources (land, water, trees and forests, herbs, oil, natural gas, and other

resources). We encourage other institutions such as regional or country-focused scholarly

associations and university departments, to propose "sponsored panels" organized by the

institution, involving their members and receiving their imprimatur.

The conference’s Program Committee will consider panels and individual paper proposals on

any topic related to ethnicity, race relations, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and other

ethnic or racial groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. The committee accepts electronic

submissions only. Proponents should fill in an Individual Paper Proposal Form or, in the case of

panels, a Pre-organized Panel Proposal Form, Please visit the following website to download

the forms: http://cilas.ucsd.edu/events/conferences.php. The completed form should then be

attached to an email addressed to ERIP Conference Program (eripprog@dss.ucsd.edu).

Proposals and Forms must be received by: October 31, 2007

Any questions regarding pre-registration or registration matters, local arrangements, and mailed

or faxed invitation letters to support an application for a visa or travel funds: ERIP Conference

Administration (email: eripadm@dss.ucsd.edu or call: 858-534-6050).

Communications about paper or panel proposal submissions, program matters, and travel support applications:

ERIP Conference Program (email: eripprog@dss.ucsd.edu).