The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine and UC Mexicanistas announce the nineteenth annual Mexican Studies Conference to be held on April 25—27. This year's conference will be dedicated to the various manifestations of travel from colonial times to the globalized present. This conference brings together academics from Mexico, the U.S. and other parts of the world who are conducting research on themes related to this topic.
The conference will emphasize, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Virtual trips and stationary journeys
• Colonial and post-colonial routes
• The implications of travel for gender, race and class
• From periphery to center (and vice-versa)
• Exile and migration
• Eager travelers and anti-travelers
• Chronicles and travelogues
• Maps, adventures, and fantasy
• Travel as transgression
• Rituals and rites of passage
• Psychedelic or hallucinatory trips
• Cultural mobility in a globalized world

We will also consider papers that explore other themes in Mexican culture.

Papers should be written in either Spanish or English. Presentations are limited to no more than 20 minutes (8 pages double-spaced). If you are interested in reading an original paper, please submit a 250 word abstract electronically to mexconf@uci.edu by the deadline of January 21, 2013. Proposals should include the following information: title of the presentation, name of participant, affiliation, academic status, mailing address, telephone and email. The selection committee will respond to all proposals by February 22, 2013.

Registration fees for this year's conference will be $35 for students and $45 for professors until March 11, 2013. Afterwards, the cost will be $45 for students and $55 for professors. If you have questions, please contact: