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.
MACLAS 2025 Call for Papers
Click on the images to open the MACLAS 2025 call for papers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
We especially invite proposals for individual papers, panels, workshops, and poster presentations that engage with the conference themes, but will consider all submissions. We strongly encourage in-person participation but will also accommodate remote sessions for international presenters and last-minute emergencies. Undergraduate and graduate students are especially welcome to participate.
To register for the conference, submit your proposal for a paper, panel, poster, or workshop, join MACLAS, and pay for the conference and your membership, please visit our MACLAS 2025 platform at https://maclas2025.exordo.com/
Proposals are due by Friday, December 6, 2024.
Questions? Please email us at maclas250328@gmail.com
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.