The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies at Northern Illinois University invites you to submit proposals for its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference, Treinta y tres, to be held on November 21-22, 2024. This year’s theme is “Latinx Oral Histories: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the NIU Latinx Oral History Project.”
The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies began collecting oral history materials in 2014 to document, disseminate, and promote better understanding of the lives and experiences of Latinxs in the Midwest. The NIU Latinx Oral History Project was founded as an undergraduate student research engagement project with students conducting interviews and generating transcripts as part of a course assignment, summer research opportunity, and/or independent research project. Today, the project holds more than 300 oral history interviews in audio and video formats.
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant, in the amount of approximately $350,000, to support the full digitization of sound/video and text files in the collection. In collaboration with the NIU Libraries, this groundbreaking project will culminate in a large collection of free-use, online materials documenting Latinx experiences and history in the Midwest.
To commemorate the significant contributions of the NIU Latinx Oral History Project, we are interested in individual and panel proposals that discuss memory, the practice of oral history, and the importance of oral histories in documenting Latinxs experiences. We also welcome proposals that explore the use of oral histories in the classroom and those that examine the broader impacts and political implications of oral histories outside of academic spaces. We aim for discussions that acknowledge the strengths and difficulties associated with conducting, preserving, and accessing Latinx oral histories.
We invite proposals from faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students as well as alumni who previously worked as researchers involved with the NIU Latinx Oral History Project. The deadline to submit proposals (150-300 words) for papers, panels, performances, or workshops is September 16, 2024. Proposals should include a title, brief abstract, and contact information for each participant. Please also indicate if you prefer a virtual or in-person session. We will do our best to accommodate preferences, but flexibility on modality will be appreciated.
To submit a proposal, please email: latinostudies@niu.edu
For any questions, please email: Dr. Christina D. Abreu (cabreu@niu.edu)
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Krystyna Kamka
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
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