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First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean
May 22-24, 2008
University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA

ERIP Conference Links
Schedule of Key Dates
Registration/Pre-registration Form
Conference Program
ERIP-LACES Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Lodging, transportation, maps

On May 22-24 2008, the University of California, San Diego will be home to the First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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 and housed at UCSD).

The conference will cover topics related to all aspects of ethnicity, race relations, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and other ethnic or racial groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Participants will include more than 300 scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The program will feature 56 panels organized into eight sessions beginning on Thursday, May 22 and continuing through Saturday, May 24. For more information: Conference Program.

There has been a great deal of interest in periodically organizing a conference on these areas of research since the establishment of the section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples at LASA (Latin American Studies Association) and the launching of the journal Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (published by Taylor & Francis and housed at UCSD). Two academic centers have offered to sponsor and host the first two conferences: the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of California, San Diego (2008) and the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh (2010).

Conference participants coming from Latin American and Caribbean countries will be exempted from payment of the conference’s registration fee. On a competitive basis, the Program Committee has awarded grants of varying amounts to some paper presenters from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America.

The LASA Section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) and the journal Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (LACES) have jointly established the ERIP-LACES Best Graduate Student Paper Award to give a prize and special recognition to a paper presented by a graduate student at the conference. For more information: ERIP-LACES Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

Payment of registration fees is required from all those who will be present at the conference (registration fees will cover lunches and receptions). Conference participants (panel organizers, paper presenters and discussants) must pre-register in order to be included in the final program. Other persons attending the conference can pre-register at a discounted fee or register at the conference at a higher rate. For more information: Registration/Pre-registration Form.

Schedule of Key Dates
- Deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals: Wednesday, October 31, 2007
- Deadline for submission of travel support applications: Wednesday, October 31, 2007
- Notification of acceptance of panel/paper proposals: Friday, December 7, 2007
- Notification of travel support awards: Friday, December 7, 2007
- Pre-registration deadline: Friday, March 14, 2008
- Deadline for submission of papers to organizers/discussants: Friday, March 28, 2008
- Conference: Thursday-Saturday, May 22-24, 2008

Travel and Accommodations
All conference participants are responsible for making their own arrangements for travel and accommodations. Useful details about UCSD and the cities of La Jolla and San Diego, including lodging options, transportation, and maps can be found at our local information webpage. For more information: Lodging, transportation, maps

Contact Information: ERIP Conference (eripprog@dss.ucsd.edu)

Members of the ERIP Conference Program Committee
Professor Christine Hunefeldt, University of California, San Diego (chunefeldt@ucsd.edu)
Professor Leon Zamosc, University of California, San Diego (lzamosc@ucsd.edu)
Professor Jerome Branche, University of Pittsburgh (branche+@pitt.edu)

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