CALAC Annual Congress

Boundaries and (dis)Junctures

Annual congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS)

Co-organized with CERLAC, York University

The 2025 congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies centres around the notions of boundaries, junctures, and the disruptions and reimaginings of territorial mappings of the Caribbean and Latin America. We invite proposals related to these concepts in their specificity and interrelatedness, hoping to capture ongoing negotiations of power, experience, becoming, and belonging, while attending to the creative forces that shape our regional and global experiences.

The CALACS congress will be hosted by our colleagues at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University on May 15-17, 2025. We encourage submissions from across academic disciplines in all subjects related to the Caribbean, Latin America, and their diasporas, to foster rich and diverse discussions about the ways in which boundaries and territories are shaped by geopolitical, technological, cultural, and environmental contexts.