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Please see the call for papers below-note that queries should be addressed to Fernando Gonzalez-Velarde, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Lauren Cordell, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Best wishes Diana Paton From: Fernando Gonzalez Velarde Sent: 04 January 2012 09:04 To: Diana Paton Subject: 2nd Call for Abstracts - Americas Research Group - Post Graduate Conference - Newcastle University ***With apologies for cross posting*** **Postgraduate conference 2nd announcement and call for abstracts** Americas Research Group, Newcastle University "Rethinking the Americas: Peoples, Places and Cultures" Venue: Room 2.22, Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Newcastle University, UK Date: Thursday, 15th March 2012 (11am - 5pm) Keynote: Dr. Simon Hall, University of Leeds. Paper entitled 'The American Left and Interracial Cooperation: Lessons from the Anti-Vietnam War Movement and Occupy Wall Street' http://www.leeds.ac.uk/site/custom_scripts/people_profile_details.php?profileID=803 Call for Papers The identity of the Americas (North America, Latin America and the Caribbean), a continent comprising a multitude of interconnected peoples, places and cultures, is constantly being redefined, transformed and re-constructed through historical, social, and political processes. Now, more than ever, attention is being focused on this continent. Overt resistance to geopolitical changes brought about by the current economic crisis in the United States, and increasing pressure upon natural and cultural resources exerted by dominant economic elites, have had the effect of reproducing and transforming local cultures and places: specifically, in the way people experience and give sense to their everyday lives and how social groups relate to each other. This multidisciplinary postgraduate conference aims to discuss the processes affecting the peoples, places and cultures that comprise the Americas from the past to the present in a friendly and informal environment. We welcome papers from Masters and PhD students from diverse fields of study that address, but are not limited to, the following topics: Peoples: - Ethnicity, gender and issues of race - Expressions of citizenship and collective subjectivities - Migration, displacement and resistance Places: - Globalisation, development, sustainability and socio-historic processes of place-making - Indigenous movements, social struggle and the defence of place - Global, national and local uses of natural resources Cultures: - National and local cultures (knowledge systems, intercultural relations) - Cultural resources (music, art, popular culture, festivals) - Identity and representation (media, orality, texts, images) Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to both: Fernando Gonzalez-Velarde, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Lauren Cordell, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Deadline: 20th January 2012 For further information about the Americas Research Group at Newcastle University, please visit our website at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/