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<span style="font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Attached please find the call for papers in English
and Spanish for the 25th anniversary conference of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (</span><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">AILASA) on the topic of "Worlding Iberian and Latin American
Studies, to be held in Melbourne 4-6 July 2018. The conference is a collaboration between staff at La Trobe, Melbourne, Monash and RMIT universities. </span></span><br>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We would be grateful if you could distribute the call for papers as widely as possible. We'd particularly appreciate it if you could bring it to the attention of postgraduate
students and encourage them to attend. </span><span role="button" class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1230_1322" style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" tabindex="0">We plan
to hold a masterclass for postgraduate and ECRs with the keynote speakers on 3 July.</span></font></div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 25</span><sup><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> anniversary
conference of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia is dedicated to the theme of worlding Iberian and Latin American Studies. Here, following Heidegger, the noun (world) becomes a verb (worlding) and points to our experience
of the world as an active and ongoing process through which we construct our own world out of multiple possibilities. Worlding, of course, is a political act. As Gayatri Spivak notes, worlding is complicit in imperialist and colonialist practices; it is the
imposition of order and control on distant, foreign territories and cultures. </span></font></span></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The 2018 AILASA conference seeks to establish a dialogue on the place of Iberian and Latin American Studies in a globalised
world: how we make sense of our discipline and how our discipline seeks to make sense of the world. On the one hand, this involves an interrogation of the way in which the practice of Iberian and Latin American Studies engages with its subject matter, situating
peoples, literatures, histories, films, etc. in specific circumstances, times, places and societies. On the other, to world is to acknowledge and to make sense of the diverse and far-reaching connections that the peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America,
Hispanic and Lusophone Asia, and their diasporas make with the world beyond the established disciplinary borders of Iberian and Latin American Studies. While this can include the more traditional trans-Atlantic studies that connect Europe and Latin America
as well as the north-south/south-north relationships between Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula and their northern neighbours, it also promotes dialogues between the countries of the so-called “global south” and beyond.</span><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><br>
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<li style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ilan Stavans, the Lewis Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, and publisher of Restless
Books</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif;">Jorge Carrión, Spanish author, academic and public intellectual</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif;">Antoni Kapcia, professor and head of the Centre for Research on Cuba, University of Nottingham</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif;">Andrew Bebbington, professor of Geography and ARC Laureate, University of Melbourne</span></li></ul>
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<div><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We look forward to seeing you there.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Corbel, Skia, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stewart King, President of AILASA</span></div>
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