MACLAS 2025
Memorial Hall, University of Delaware. Photo by David Plourde.
March 28-29 at the University of Delaware
Writing to the Future: Emerging Trends in Latin American Studies
We warmly invite you to join us March 28-29 for our MACLAS 2025 conference at the University of Delaware, featuring panels, poster presentations, workshops, our annual dinner meeting (Friday evening), our business & awards luncheon (Saturday afternoon), music, fellowship, and more. Dr. Rebekah E. Pite, Professor and Department Head of History at Lafayette College and winner of the 2024 Whitaker Award, will present the Whitaker Address at our annual dinner meeting on Friday evening.
Our 2024 Whitaker Award winner, Dr. Rebekah E. Pite, is Professor and Head of the History Department at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. She is a social and cultural historian committed to sharing revealing stories about everyday life in Argentina and the Río de la Plata region through a focus on food and domestic work. In September 2023, she published Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region (University of North Carolina Press). She was delighted that it received the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize from Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS), the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Association (LASA) Southern Cone Social Science Book Prize, and three U.S. Gourmand book prizes. Her earlier books include Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Doña Petrona, Women, and Food (UNC, 2013), which won the Gourmand and LASA Southern Cone Social Science Book Prize, and La mesa está servida. Doña Petrona C. de Gandulfo y la domesticidad del Siglo XX (Edhasa, 2016). She is currently researching the transatlantic history of the empanada.
The program for MACLAS 2025 can be accessed via the button below:
To register for the conference, join MACLAS, and pay for the conference and your membership, please visit our MACLAS 2025 platform at https://maclas2025.exordo.com/
Conference Travel Information
Hotels:
Courtyard Marriott University of Delaware North Campus: the cut off date is March 14 and the price is $130.00 per night. https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/ilgud-courtyard-newark-university-of-delaware/overview/?scid=f2ae0541-1279-4f24-b197-a979c79310b0
Embassy Suites Hotel by Hilton Newark: the cut off date is February 25 and the room rate is $130.00 per night. https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/newdees-embassy-suites-newark-wilmington-south/?SEO_id=GMB-AMER-ES-NEWDEES&y_source=1_MTExMDAxOC03MTUtbG9jYXRpb24ud2Vic2l0ZQ%3D%3D
Springhill Suites Newark Downtown: https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/ilgss-springhill-suites-newark-downtown/overview/?scid=f2ae0541-1279-4f24-b197-a979c79310b0
Places of Interest:
Hagley Museum
Brandywine Art Museum
Old New Castle
Winterthur Museum
Main Street Newark
Food Options:
BrewHaHa, HoneyGrow, Chipotle, El Diablo Burritos, QDOBA Mexican Eats, Roots Natural Kitchen, Pho Ever Café, Oishii Sushi and Ramen, Bahn Mi Boy, Playa Bowls
Deer Park Tavern
Taverna
Home Grown
Caffé Gelato
Click on the images to open the MACLAS 2025 call for papers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Questions? Please email us at maclas250328@gmail.com