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Call for Papers: BORDERS, TRANSNATIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATION: Contradictions, Challenges and Resolutions2013 Annual Conference ASSOCIATION FOR BORDERLANDS STUDIESApril 10-13, 2013, Grand Hyatt Denver, CO, USAThe Association for Borderlands Studies invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels related to the study of borders. The organizing theme for the 2013 annual conference is BORDERS, TRANSNATIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATION: Contradictions, Challenges and Resolutions. This theme encompasses a wide range of topics and approaches, and it focuses on the continuing theoretical challenges of defining what borders are and how they work. Are borders actually changing in the 21st century? Are we resolving the basic questions of how borders both stop and allow, define and permit, open and close, separate and join? What we do know is that borderlands function as laboratories to understand changes due to globalization and transnationalism, and they allow us to capture and analyze these complex processes. We encourage the submission of proposals that address this theme as well as other aspects of borderlands studies.Please include the following information in your proposal:Title of presentation; Name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number and email address;Other authors; Abstract not to exceed 200 words.Scholars willing to serve as moderators or discussants should indicate their interest in theproposal.The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2012. Please submit proposals to the program chair and coordinator: Victor Konradvictor_konrad@carleton.ca Pay your registration fee for the conference first to the WSSA http://wssa.asu.edu Then renew your ABS membership for 2013 or your paper will not be consideredhttp://absborderlands.org/member/index.html&#160;2013 ABS Program Advisory Committee:Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary (Grenoble) Heather Nicol (Trent)Don Alper (Western Washington) Tony Payan (UTEP)Chris Brown (NMSU) Martin van der Velde (Radboud)&#160;