MACLAS 2025 at The University of Delaware

MACLAS 2025 will be hosted by the University of Delaware, March 28-29.

MACLAS 2025: Writing to the Future: Emerging Trends in Latin American Studies

Join us for the upcoming MACLAS conference at the University of Delaware (https://www.udel.edu) on March 28 and 29, 2025. MACLAS’ 25th conference will feature panels, poster presentations, and workshops. Dr. Rebekah E. Pite (Professor and Department Head, History, Lafayette College) will present the Whitaker address.

Rebekah E. Pite is Professor and Head of the History Department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. 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.

Meals and music will be provided.

Our Conference 2025 Call for papers:

Click on the images to open the Calls in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

MACLAS especially invites 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 welcome to participate.

Proposals are due by Friday, December 6, 2024