JISLAC is a body made up of the membership of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) and the Standing Conference of Centres of Latin American Studies (SC). The purpose of JISLAC is to manage the activities of a jointly-held British Academy Learned Societies grant, which runs for five years, to support Latin American and Caribbean studies in the UK and Europe.
JISLAC will support postdoctoral research, regional seminars, two conferences, a web portal to aid communication, and travel bursaries and prizes, details of which are outlined below. The work of the grant began in April 2007. Contact details for JISLAC.
ENQUIRIES
All enquiries regarding JISLAC should be directed to the JISLAC Coordinator, email
jislac@sas.ac.uk, tel
020 7862 8875.
Mailing address :
JISLAC
c/o ISA
31 Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9HA
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Professor James Dunkerley (Chair of the Standing Conference)
Dr David Howard (Chair, SCS)
Professor Tony Kapcia (Past President of SLAS)
Secretary & Treasurer: Karen Perkins
JISLAC is seeking to award four £4,000 research grants annually over the course of the project for research projects on one of five themes:
- Histories of migration from the Western hemisphere and patterns of settlement (2007-08)
- The New Europe: legal and political conditions of contemporary Caribbean and Latin American diasporas in Europe (2008-09)
- The political economy of the contemporary relations between Europe and the Caribbean and Latin America (2009-10)
- Cultures and identities of the diasporic communities in transnational contexts (2010-11)
- Strategic and short-term impacts of emigration on sending communities (2011-12)
The following awards have been made to date:
Theme one:
- Simon Smith and Jonathan Finch, Tracing the Contours of Settlement: Slavery and the Landscape of St Vincent, 1775-1833
- Michael Goebel, Immigration and marriage patterns in urban and rural Uruguay, 1880-1930
- Matthew Brown, European Migrants in Colombia and Venezuela, 1829-1860
- Kenneth Morgan, British Transatlantic Slaving across National Boundaries: Volume and Distribution in the Americas, 1660-1807
Theme two:
- Anastasia Bermudez Torres, Political Mobilisation of Latin American Migrants in Spain
- Laurence Brown and Paulo Drinot, Racialisation and insurgent citizenship in the New Europe: A comparative study of Latin American and Caribbean migrants
- Mette Berg, Diasporic Cultural Politics after Castro
- Silvia Posocco, Fissured Legality and Affective States: Ethnographic Reflections on the ‘International Adoption’ Circuits between Guatemala and the United Kingdom
Grant recipients should report on their project using the grant report template by the end of March in the year after the award of the grant.
A call for applications for the third theme will be made in November 2008, with an expected application deadline of February 2009.
REGIONAL SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
EIGHT SEMINARS on Latin America and/or the Caribbean will be held each year in various parts of the UK. The seminars are planned with the aim of fortifying Area Studies in our fields, especially when there exists limited or no strong institutional support structure and where colleagues are often scattered across discipline-based departments. The aim is to achieve broad regional coverage, and applications to host a seminar are welcome. The general format for each seminar is three speakers and a dinner, and an allocation of £1500 is made to each event. So far, the following seminars have been scheduled or held:
| Date | Details |
|---|---|
| Friday 11 May 2007 | An Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on the Caribbean and its Diaspora, University of Durham Programme Organisers: Charles Gullick (c.j.m.r.gullick@durham.ac.uk) and Diana Paton (Diana.paton@ncl.ac.uk) |
| Wednesday 30 May 2007 | Cultural Representations of Race, Gender and Class in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Portsmouth Poster | Programme Organisers: Ann Matear (ann.matear@port.ac.uk) and Deborah Shaw (deborah.shaw@port.ac.uk) |
| Friday 22 June 2007 | Brazil in the Northwest: an interdisciplinary seminar, University of Manchester Programme Organiser: Lucia Sa (Lucia.Sa@manchester.ac.uk) |
| Friday 5 - Saturday 6 October 2007 | Latin America and the Caribbean: Writing, History & Creolization, University of St Andrews Programme Organisers: Tristan Platt (tp@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Mette Berg (mette.berg@st-andrews.ac.uk) |
| 5 October 2007 | An Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on the Caribbean and its Diaspora University of Birmingham Programme Organiser: Sandra Courtman (s.courtman@sheffield.ac.uk) |
| 7 December 2007 | Religión en el México Moderno Queens University Belfast Programme | Abstracts | Poster Organiser: Matthew Butler (m.butler@qub.ac.uk) |
| 18 January 2008 | An Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on the Caribbean and its Diaspora University of Central Lancashire Programme Organiser: Alan Rice (arice@uclan.ac.uk) |
| 22-23 February 2008 | Regional Seminar of Latin Americanists University of Bristol Programme | Poster Organiser: Matthew Brown (matthew.brown@bristol.ac.uk) |
| 24 April 2008 | Latin American Music, Migration and Diaspora University of Newcastle Programme | Poster Organiser: Rosaleen Howard (R.E.Howard@newcastle.ac.uk) |
| 25 April 2008 | Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North Nottingham Trent University Programme Organiser: Clare Newstead (clare.newstead@ntu.ac.uk) |
| 3 October 2008 | Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North |
| October 2008 | The Latin American City University of Liverpool Organiser: Lisa Shaw |
| 14 November 2008 | New Perspectives on Latin America Aberystwyth University Flier Organiser: Lucy Taylor |
| 11-12 December 2008 | JISLAC Conference: Latin American Diasporas University of London Programme Organiser: Cathy McIlwaine |
| January 2009 | Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North University of Glasgow Organiser: Alisdair Pettinger |
| February 2009 | The World Food Crisis: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives Institute for the Study of the Americas, London Organiser: Kate Quinn |
| March 2009 | Latin American Art Essex Organiser: Valerie Fraser |
| TBA | University of Warwick |
| 22 May 2009 | Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North Newcastle Organiser: Diana Paton |
| September 2009 | Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North TBA |
| October 2009 | Cambridge |
| late November 2009 | CEDLA/NALACS, the Netherlands |
| December 2009 | Nottingham |
| January 2010 | Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North TBA |
| February 2010 | Swansea |
A call for Expressions of Interest in hosting a JISLAC seminar from 2010 onwards will be made in September 2008.
Guidelines for organisers can be downloaded here (revised on 10 July 2007).
Seminar report forms are also available.
11-12 December 2008 'STATE OF THE ART' CONFERENCE
The aim of the 2008 conference, which will be held in London, is to assess the current state of knowledge and to stimulate a critique of Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the European context. It will draw on current research output to assess contemporary scholarship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from both American and European transatlantic perspectives. A list of speakers is now available, and the full programme and registration details will be available on this site soon.
2012 SHOWCASE CONFERENCE
The 2012 conference will showcase the best of the JISLAC-funded work undertaken on the research themes listed above, and to identify future opportunities for innovative scholarship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Enhancement or development of a range of online resources, including:
A number of travel bursaries and prizes for postdoctoral researchers (or equivalent) are supported by JISLAC through the Society for Latin American Studies and the Society for Caribbean Studies. See the respective websites for details.
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Last updated 27 June 2008