Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies CLALSIS
Call for Applications 2025-2026
Application due May 19, 2025
Are you interested in presenting your research-in-progress, advanced-dissertation-research, or a recent publication on Latin America or Latinx culture at the CLALS Internal Speaker (CLALSIS) Series next year? CLALS-affiliated faculty and advanced graduate students are invited to appy!
The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Internal Speaker (CLALSIS) Series is an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of research about Latin American and Latinx cultures conducted by the faculty, advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars of the University of Pennsylvania. CLALSIS talks are designed for our scholars to share their work at any stage of the research process, from works-in-progress to new book publications. The CLALSIS Series has several objectives. Presenters can receive constructive feedback on their ongoing research from colleagues in their discipline and other fields. Early career scholars and junior and senior faculty alike can share their research with the Penn community. In turn, members of the Penn community get to learn about and from the eminent scholarship of colleagues and advanced students on campus. Additionally, the interactions taking place in CLALSIS events will solidify an interdisciplinary community with interests in Latin America and Latinx cultures at Penn. We hope that such interactions facilitate future collaborations in teaching and research.
Depending on the type of work presented, we encourage a paper/chapter to be circulated a week prior to the talk, but this is not a requirement. CLALSIS presentations generally occur on the first Friday of the month.
The online application will ask you to provide the following information:
· Your departmental affiliation and rank (graduate students, please indicate year in the Ph.D/MA program),
· Tentative title for your presentation (in the case of graduate students we prefer chapters or papers that are part of the dissertation)
· Your preferred dates (ranked from most to least preferred)
· Tentative title for your presentation (in the case of graduate students we prefer chapters or papers that are part of the dissertation)
· Your preferred dates (ranked from most to least preferred)