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CALACS conference – May 2025

Boundaries and (dis)Junctures

Annual congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS)

May 15th – 17th, 2025

Co-organized with CERLAC, York University

Toronto, Ontario

Call for Papers

The 2025 congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies centres around the notions of boundaries, junctures, and the disruptions and reimaginings of territorial mappings of the Caribbean and Latin America. We invite proposals related to these concepts in their specificity and interrelatedness, hoping to capture ongoing negotiations of power, experience, becoming, and belonging, while attending to the creative forces that shape our regional and global experiences.

The CALACS congress will be hosted by our colleagues at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University on May 15-17, 2025. We encourage submissions from across academic disciplines in all subjects related to the Caribbean, Latin America, and their diasporas, to foster rich and diverse discussions about the ways in which boundaries and territories are shaped by geopolitical, technological, cultural, and environmental contexts. 

We welcome submissions for individual papers, panels, workshops, roundtable conversations, book presentations, and art and research creation. We enthusiastically invite contributions from artists, filmmakers, performers, policymakers, activists, and scholars working in creative and non-traditional formats. The main language of the congress will be English, but we will consider proposals for presentations in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese. Proposals must be submitted via this Google form by December 17, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST.

• Individual paper submissions should include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), a title, and a 200-word abstract of the presentation. 

Webform: https://forms.gle/sfKkMjMfYaZXK1Kt9

• Panel proposals should include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizers, a title and brief description of the panel, the names and affiliations of all the participants and a 200-word abstract for each paper. Panels can have 4 to 8 participants and be organized in one or two sessions.

Panel proposals Webform: https://forms.gle/9doSa3Js8hk3SPsF7

• Roundtable proposals should include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s), a title and description, and a list of participants with their affiliations. Roundtables can have 5-8 participants.

Roundtable proposals Webform: https://forms.gle/2JfgZ9bZ8iB9ia4x6

• Workshop proposals should include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s), the title, brief description and main objectives of the activity, the intended audience, and materials and technical requirements if needed.  

Workshop proposals Webform: https://forms.gle/vM9vDMgeU7yr6wdL7

• Book presentations should include the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author and the title and bibliographic information. The book must have been published in 2024 or 2025. 

Book presentations Webform: https://forms.gle/PALfBEr8D5Y7XD1M6

• Proposals for presentations of artwork related to the theme. These should include the name and affiliation of the author(s)/artist(s), a title and 200-word description of the piece, and technical requirements (if needed). 

Proposals for presentations of artwork Webform: https://forms.gle/YFmPTDKBLWeURi4m9

Land acknowledgement of the congress venue: We recognize that many Indigenous Nations have longstanding relationships with the territories upon which York University campuses are located that precede the establishment of York University. York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.

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