Fall Annual Conference

Call for Proposals

The New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) invites proposals to participate in our annual meeting at the University of Vermont on
Friday and Saturday, November 7 and 8, 2025.

Borders, Crossings & Environments can be conceived not only in geographical or geopolitical terms that easily engage our current political climate, but also metaphorically in order to explore the challenges and opportunities of bridging different modes of knowledge production. This
approach encourages broader dialogues about new methodological, epistemological, and socio-political frameworks needed to recognize, foster, and learn from multiple ways of knowing and doing, including our relationship to the environment. Environmental challenges like droughts, wildfires, extractivism, and climate change are inherently regional and systemic. They often have an outsized impact on communities in the Global South, as well as their diasporas worldwide. Given the trans-disciplinary nature of these themes, we invite proposals that build a
more complex understanding of borders, crossings and environments from varied angles, including analyses of gender, race, sustainability, biopolitics, and how they intersect. We build our knowledge of these challenges through engagement with narratives , in archives, and in the
field – both in Latin America and Latin American diasporic communities. Narratives humanize protagonists, and add contextual depth to debates, policies and practices in academia and beyond.

We welcome proposals outside the specific theme, including those related to U.S. Latino/a/x communities. Presentations may be in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. We welcome proposals for individual papers, posters, panels, roundtables, professionalization workshops, and book
presentations from across disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, visual arts, and translation as well as law, public policy, public health, and education We encourage faculty members to organize undergraduate or graduate student panels or poster submissions based on capstone projects or research projects that tackle relevant topics. We also encourage proposals from refugee and immigrant organizations. Please submit your proposal using this link.

Founded in 1970, NECLAS is an inclusive community that welcomes scholars, researchers, teachers, activists, students, and the general public with interests in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino/a/x Studies. Focused on the New England region, NECLAS works to encourage more effective training, teaching, and research related to Latin American and Latino/a/x issues, while facilitating exchanges within the region through lectures, fora, seminars, conferences, prizes, and publications.

Please submit your abstracts and proposals by July 1, 2025. Presenters must be members of
NECLAS.

Please submit a membership fee and conference fee in order to participate in the conference.