[AIW] CFP: Walls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX/USA, October 1-3, 2020

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Call for Papers

Sixth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American
Studies (IAS)

Walls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas

Department of Psychology and Communication, Texas A&M International
University, Laredo, TX/USA

October 1-3, 2020

http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?page_id=6869

 

Borders between modern nation/states in the Americas have always been porous
and flexible, with nationals moving from one country to another—with or
without documents—to flee poverty, violence, political instability, failing
economic systems or just to seek better jobs. Recently, these border
crossings have significantly increased, while, at the same time political
forces such as nationalist and conservative movements in the receiving
countries have emerged or expanded, adopting ever more confrontational (and
even more violent) tactics, a situation similar to what has been happening
in other regions of the world.

 

Borders in the Americas separate but also allow for contact and multiple
exchanges between nation states. They are set to contain people and goods
from leaving one country and entering another. Yet they also make
international trade, tourism, and commerce possible. Likewise, trans-border
contact promotes cultural and linguistic exchanges.

 

Mass migration has been exacerbated in different parts of the
Americas—particularly Central America and South America—due to extreme
violence, the violation of human rights, and economic crises. Thousands of
people have fled their countries, some trying to reach the United States
requesting entrance as refugees, while others have moved to other Latin
American countries (for example, Venezuelans migrating to Colombia, Brazil,
Peru, or Ecuador, or Haitians relocating to Chile, Brazil, Mexico or the
US). Humanitarian crises are on the rise due to increasingly harsh
conditions along the migration routes. Meanwhile, the governments of
receiving countries have demonstrated a general lack of interest in
protecting migrants from discrimination and criminalization. As such,
migrants often struggle to obtain the rights to asylum and due process—or
even to be treated with basic dignity.

 

Migrants able to settle in other countries typically maintain some of their
most enduring traditions, values, language, and customs, creating symbolic
and spatial territories while typically assimilating or adopting varying
cultural elements of their new homes.

 

Nevertheless, borders are not only defined by documented or undocumented
migration patterns. Millions of people living permanently on the fringes of
their nation-states, interact on a daily basis with citizens of the
neighboring countries. As well, people who many times are closer to them on
ethnic, linguistic, and cultural grounds than fellow countrymen find comfort
in these new circumstances even though they are living far away from the
original political boundary. The fluid and intense social, economic, and
cultural interaction between people living in the borderlands results in
liminal spaces where multiple cultures and sub-cultures co-exist either
producing hybrid cultural manifestations (as argued by Garcia Canclini) or
maintaining the core of their customs and beliefs while interacting in
complex multicultural arenas (as pointed out by Giménez). Everything from
language, religion, literature, music, and media is impacted by this daily
interplay of contrasting cultural forces subject to political and economic
systems that frequently pull in different directions.

 

The theme of this conference, “Walls, Bridges, and Borders in the Americas”
encompasses a wide range of topics and approaches to these issues relating
to the past as well as to present times,, while trying to draw the attention
of Inter-American scholars towards the political, cultural, and social
complexities and challenges of border regions in the Americas.

 

Presenters are asked to consider questions such as:

*	What kind of advantages can Inter American approaches bring to the
understanding of migration patterns, cultural and economic exchanges,
geographic and demographic issues as well as political divisions and
conjunctions about borders between countries in the Americas?
*	How can new research contribute to the understanding of the role of
borders and cross-border flows in the regional context of the Americas?
*	What kind of policies should be adopted by governments and NGO’s to
promote peace and human rights, to respect cultural differences, to
facilitate cultural and economic exchanges, and to confront extreme violence
and human trafficking?
*	What are the distinctive processes of border-making in the
Americas—past and present?
*	How can we (re)define political, geographical, territorial,
cultural, and symbolic borders in the Americas?
*	What can we learn by looking into their historical development and
the cultural and social entanglements that have characterized them?
*	What are the distinctive cultural traits of the people living on the
fringes of their nation states?
*	What are the linguistic, social, and cultural differences of border
regions in the Americas in contrast with their respective national cultures?
*	How have artistic cultural expressions represented walls, bridges,
and borders in their cultural production such as literature, films,
paintings, drawings, music, theater, and so forth?

 

We encourage proposals from various disciplines including sociology,
political science, political economy, anthropology, history, literature,
linguistics, philosophy, geography, music, and media studies, among others,
that address these themes as well as any other theoretical and/or empirical
approaches on the study of borders from relevant Inter American
perspectives.

 

Please send proposals either for individual papers (only one proposal per
person) or for panels (with a chairperson and 3 or 4 presentations) to
carlos.lozano at tamiu.edu <mailto:carlos.lozano at tamiu.edu>  by April 1, 2020.
Presentations can be delivered in English or Spanish, and should be
approximately 20 minutes in length.

 

The participation of doctoral candidates is strongly encouraged.

 

Please include your name, affiliation, the title of your presentation and/or
panel, an abstract (300-400 words), up to 5 keywords, and email address(es).
You will be notified by the end of May 2020 whether your proposal has been
accepted.

 

The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2020.

 

Host institution: Texas A&M International University, Department of
Psychology and Communication, Laredo, Texas, USA

 

Organizing Committee (Texas A&M International University): José Carlos
Lozano (MEDIA STUDIES), José Cardona (LITERATURE), Ariadne Gonzalez
(COMMUNICATION), Andrew Hilburn (GEOGRAPHY), Rogelio Hinojosa (KILLAM
LIBRARY), Aaron Alejandro Olivas (HISTORY), Wolfram F. Schaffler (ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT).

 

Program Committee: José Carlos Lozano (Texas A&M International University),
Isabel Caldeira (University of Coimbra, Portugal); María Herrera-Sobek (UC
Santa Barbara, USA); Luz Angélica Kirschner (SDSU South Dakota State
University, USA)

 

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