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The Newberry Library Scholarly Seminar

Scholarly Seminar – Borderlands and Latino/a Studies 2025-2026

Deadline: June 6, 2025

This seminar provides a forum for works-in-progress that explore topics in Latino/a and Borderlands studies. We seek proposals from individuals for seminar papers that examine the interplay of Latino/a people, communities, and culture in the United States; transnational and comparative borderlands studies; migration studies; Latino/a gender and sexuality; changing urban landscapes as a result of Latino/a settlement; civil rights and social movements; Critical Indigenous Studies; and other related topics.

In 2025-2026, all sessions will take place virtually on Zoom.

The seminar’s co-coordinators are María Eugenia López-García, University of Illinois at Chicago, Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Emiliano Aguilar, University of Notre Dame.

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