Deadline:  November 15, 2013

The International Studies and African and Diaspora Studies Programs, and the Department of Foreign Languages at Wittenberg University are pleased to host the 13th Ohio Latin Americanist Conference for the year 2014. We invite all Latin Americanist and Latina/o Studies scholars, educators, and students from institutions of higher education in Ohio and surrounding areas to participate in this annual meeting on the status of Latin American and Latina/o Studies. The theme of the 2013 Conference is:  The Importance of Local Knowledge:  Cultural Boundaries, Displacement, and Identity. 

We are soliciting papers and panels which explore topics of displacement, identity cultural boundaries, afro-descendants, dismantling racism, poverty and sexual violence, emigration across the Americas, social movements, sustainability, culture and the environment, new initiatives in the Americas and representations of Latinas/os in film.

Research areas may include (but are not limited to) literatures & linguistics, history, education, geography, political science, economics, anthropology, sociology, art, area studies such as cultural, international, women's, gender, ethnic, and sexuality studies and film and cinema studies. We especially invite proposals related to the natural sciences, environmental sciences, bioethics, and other fields underrepresented in past OLAC meetings.

Please email a 300 word abstract for individual papers or panels (with all participants' names) by November 15, 2013.