No. Electronic proceedings from the Congress will be available online.
Accepted participants will need to send their papers only if they want them to be included on the password-protected website. The deadline to submit electronic papers is March 9, 2009.
The cover page should carry the title, author's name and affiliation, and the following: "Prepared for delivery at the 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil June 11-14, 2009."
Send a final copy of your paper via email in PDF format or Microsoft Word attachment to lasacong@pitt.edu by the deadline (March 9, 2009).
We recommend the papers to be single-spaced with a suggested length of 20-25 pages. However, participants may submit a paper of a length they consider appropriate for their field and for the time they have for their presentation.
Yes, you may still present the paper. Presenters missing the deadline may request that LASA include the text of their papers on the LASA website in the "Papers from Past Congresses" section.
No. The website incorporates papers in their entirety.