UCSB Hispanic and Lusophone Conference

It is with great pleasure that we announce our XXI Lusophone and Hispanic Conference. Mark your calendars and join us for on April 27 & 28 at UCen in Flying A Conference Room.

This year's conference proposes a debate on fostering a more inclusive and diverse academia. We hope to foster a safe space and interdisciplinary discussion around the university and its practices.

While we are drafting our final program, we would like to share that our keynote speaker is Professor Jaime Alves from the Department of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His presentation title is "Political Orphanage: Toward a deconstruction of ‘Latin America’ and its antiblack social geographies".

Professor Alves holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to UCSB, he taught Cultural Anthropology and Latin American Politics at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York and was a visiting professor in the Center for African Diaspora Studies at Universidad Icesi, in Colombia. He is the author of The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Professor Alves' current research focuses on the geographies of policing and black spatial insurgency in the urban margins of two Latin American cities. More specifically, he is interested in making ethnographically visible how black life is sustained and lived in the intersections of infrastructural violence, racialized policing practices, and broad urban security dynamics in Santiago de Cali (Colombia) and São Paulo (Brazil).

Hey! Take a look at the updated Call for Papers for our UCSB Hispanic and Lusophone Conference.

Share it with your colleagues, send it to your Graduate Programs, and spread the word!!!

We welcome proposals either in Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque, or English.

Submissions are open until April 10.

⚠️⚠️⚠️BREAKING NEWS⚠️⚠️⚠️

You have until April 10 to submit your proposal for our UCSB Hispanic and Lusophone Conference.

This year's conference topic is "Reassessing Academia: Approaches to a More Inclusive and Equitable University," and you still have a chance to be a participant/panelist.

The Conference will be held on April 27th & 28th at UC Santa Barbara, CA.

We will have a hybrid format, so you can present from overseas as well! We are accepting proposals in Spanish, Portuguese, English, Catalan, and Basque. Send your proposal to [email protected]!

Looking forward to seeing all of you soon!
UCSB Hispanic and Lusophone Conference organizing team.

Hi everybody!

Do you have to spend a couple of days on the Pacific Ocean Coast and enjoying the beautiful city of Santa Barbara? After a year of absence, our annual UCSB Hispanic and Lusophone Conference is back and will be held on April 27th-28th at UC Santa Barbara, CA.

This year's conference topic is "Reassessing Academia: Approaches to a More Inclusive and Equitable University," and we are looking for participants and panelists. Please, find attached the CFP and submit your work by April 1st! We will have a hybrid format, so you can present from overseas as well! We are accepting proposals in Spanish, Portuguese, English, Catalan, and Basque. Send your proposal to [email protected]!

Looking forward to seeing all of you soon!
UCSB Hispanic and Lusophone Conference organizing team.

We are happy to share the Program for the XX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference | Reframing Knowledge!
We are very excited to see y'all next Friday, May 14, at 8:30 am!

If you have not done it yet, please register at tinyurl.com/ucsbspanport to receive the Zoom link.

If you would like to attend our conference, you may register at tinyurl.com/ucsbspanport.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: XX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Department of Spanish and Portuguese (RE)FRAMING KNOWLEDGE Critical Approaches to Scholarly Literacy