<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MarÃa Elena Meneses</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">El 24/08/2017, a las 09:00, Stefania Milan <<a href="mailto:s.milan@uva.nl" class="">s.milan@uva.nl</a>> escribió:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello #bigdatasur friends!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Thanks to the inspiration and initiative of Anita (Say Chan), Emiliano and I have joined Anita to out together a panel (or set of panels) for next year's Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference in Barcelona from May 23-26, 2018 (<a href="https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/congress/" class="">https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/congress/</a>). See below the invitation Anita sent around a few days ago. As the deadline is drawing near, but many of us are still on holiday or returning to the office these days, here we are with a reminder.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">LASA is - for the 1st time - hosting a new section on Social Research in the Era of Analytics and Big Data, which makes it especially friendly to our pre-conference papers. It's also the 1st time that LASA will be held in a site other than North or South America. You can see the Call for Papers <a href="https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/congress/files/CallforPapers.pdf" class="">here</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At the moment we are looking into organizing one or perhaps two panels, with up to 5 papers in each. If you'd be interested in joining a table, you'd be welcome to resubmit your updated proposal from Cartagena, or an entirely different one would also be welcome. We'd just ask that you:</div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">send us your paper title and an abstract (under 250 words) by <b class="">Wed., Aug. 30. </b></li><li class="">make sure you become a LASA member by Aug. 30 (membership rates are scaled starting at $38 for students, $45 for Latin American residents, etc.) if you are not a member of LASA already. LASA's <a href="https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/congress/proposalguidelines.asp" class="">submission system</a> won't let you be added to a panel unless you are an active member. See fees <a href="https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/membership/costs.asp" class="">here</a>.</li><li class="">LASA also accepts applications for <a href="https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/congress/travelgrants-main.asp" class="">travel grants</a> -- which are due on <b class="">Sept. 7</b>.</li></ul><div class=""><b class="">Please fell free to extend the invitation to any potentially interested colleague,</b> and do contact any of us if you have any other queries. </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We hope to continue the conversation in Barcelona!</div></div></div><div class="">Anita, Emiliano y Stefania</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Bigdatasur mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Bigdatasur@data-activism.net" class="">Bigdatasur@data-activism.net</a><br class="">https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/bigdatasur<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>