LASA Call for Papers for your conference "Cuba Futures: Past and Present International Symposium" a pro-Castro event that excludes their ideological opponents

LASA Conference "Cuba Futures: Past and Present International Symposium"
a pro-Castro event that excludes their ideological opponents

from ARDELACO@uncg.edu
to cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu
date Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:37 PM
subject LASA Call for Papers

Dear Colleagues:

I am responding to the LASA Call for Papers for your conference "Cuba Futures: Past and Present International Symposium," scheduled for March 31to April 2, 2011. Enclosed you will find my paper proposal entitled "Cubans in the American Civil War."

I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. I am also the author of Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio Jose Gonzales (2003) and The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution (2nd ed., 2007), both with the University of South Carolina Press. I have also published essays about Cuba in six refereed academic journals, six encyclopedias, and a dozen book reviews.

I can be contacted via my email at ardelaco@uncg.edu

Sincerely,

Dr. Antonio de la Cova
Department of History
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
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from Cuba Project <CubaProject@gc.cuny.edu>
to Antonio De La Cova ARDELACO <ARDELACO@uncg.edu>
date Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM
subject RE: LASA Call for Papers

Dear Dr. Antonio de la Cova,

Thank you for your submission. We have received your Paper Proposal on "Cubans in the American Civil War” for the March 2011 Cuba Futures Symposium.

The paper selection committee has begun a preliminary evaluation following the initial round of proposal submission. We will be in touch to let you know if your paper has been accepted for presentation closer to the paper deadline, July 2010. Your proposal proves to be extremely interesting, and we look forward to reading your paper and hearing more about your research. Please do not hesitate if you have any questions. Thank you for your interest!

Best Regards,

Veronica Karpoich

Special Projects Coordinator
Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue #5209
New York, NY 10016
phone: 212 817 2096
fax: 212 817 1540
vkarpoich@gc.cuny.edu
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from Antonio De La Cova <ardelaco@uncg.edu>
to Cuba Project <CubaProject@gc.cuny.edu>
date Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:36 PM
subject Re: LASA Call for Papers

Dear Ms. Karpoich,
I never received a response from the paper selection committee. Could you please tell me if my paper proposal was accepted?
Thanks,

Dr. Antonio de la Cova
Department of History
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
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from Cuba Project <CubaProject@gc.cuny.edu>
to Antonio De La Cova <ardelaco@uncg.edu>
date Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:40 PM
subject RE: LASA Call for Papers

Dear Dr. Antonio de la Cova,

Due to the overwhelming number of proposals that we received in response to our call for papers, the committee is still in the process of evaluating the proposals. The committee should have a final decision in the coming weeks. I will be sure to inform you as soon as a final decision has been made.

Please feel free to contact me with any other questions or concerns.

Best regards,

Veronica Karpoich
Special Projects Coordinator
Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5209
New York, NY 10016-4309
212-817-2096
vkarpoich@gc.cuny.edu
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from Antonio De La Cova <ardelaco@uncg.edu>
to Cuba Project <CubaProject@gc.cuny.edu>
date Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:21 PM
subject Re: LASA Call for Papers

Dear Ms. Karpoich,
I still have not heard from the committee regarding my paper proposal. Could you please tell me if a decision has been made or how close it is to be made? I need to coordinate other travel arrangements
around the same time of the conference.
Sincerely,

Dr. Antonio de la Cova
Department of History
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
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from Cuba Project <CubaProject@gc.cuny.edu>
to Antonio De La Cova <ardelaco@uncg.edu>
date Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM
subject RE: LASA Call for Papers

Dear Dr. Antonio de la Cova,

Thank you for your e-mail. The committee is in the final stages of evaluating all proposals. The planning committee is committed to having all decisions made by October 15th. I fully understand your concern, and apologize on behalf of the committee for the delay. I will be in touch as soon as the Committee reaches its final decision.

Please feel free to contact me with any other questions or concerns.

Best regards,
Veronica

from Antonio De La Cova <ardelaco@uncg.edu>
to Cuba Project <CubaProject@gc.cuny.edu>
date Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM
subject Re: LASA Call for Papers

Dear Ms. Karpoich,
It's been two weeks since the planning committee made their final decision on the submitted proposals. I still have not heard from them. Could you please tell me if my paper proposal was accepted?
Thanks,

Dr. Antonio de la Cova
Department of History
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
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from Antonio De La Cova <ardelaco@uncg.edu>
to Cuba Project <CubaProject@gc.cuny.edu>
date Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:34 PM
subject Re: LASA Call for Papers

Dear Ms. Karpoich,
I wrote you two weeks ago indicating that I had not heard from the planning committee regarding my paper proposal "Cubans in the American Civil War." I still have not heard from anyone regarding my proposal and the planning committee deadline was a month ago.
I am planning my scheduled events for next semester and need this information as soon as possible. Could you please be so kind as to inform me of the status of my paper proposal.
Thank you.
Dr. Antonio de la Cova
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from Antonio De La Cova <ardelaco@uncg.edu>
to Cuba Project <CubaProject@gc.cuny.edu>
date Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM
subject Re: LASA Call for Papers

This is the third email that I have sent you in the last five weeks requesting to know if my paper proposal "Cubans in the Civil War" had been accepted by the planning committee for the March 2011 Cuba Future Symposium of LASA. You have not had the professional courtesy to reply to my messages. I therefore assume that the planning committee rejected my paper proposal, which you previously described as "extremely interesting." During my fifteen years in academia, I have never dealt with an organization as discourteous and irresponsible as yours.

Dr. Antonio de la Cova
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from Mauricio Font <cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu>
to ardelaco@uncg.edu
date Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:33 AM
subject Cuba Futures Conference Update

Greetings from the Cuba Project/Bildner Center!

Cuba Futures: Past and Present will consist of 53 individual panels and numerous special events, which will explore various topics relevant to Cuba's past, present, and future. We are excited to announce that we are finalizing the program for the conference and will have a working, tentative version of the program available at www.cubasymposium.org later today!

We would also like to take this opportunity to remind you to register for the upcoming conference and, if you have not already done so, to submit your final paper to cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu.

We look forward to an engaging and thought-provoking conference!

Please direct all questions and concerns to cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu or to vkarpoich@gc.cuny.edu.

Very Best,

Mauricio Font
Director
Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
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from Antonio De La Cova <ardelaco@uncg.edu>
to mfont@gc.cuny.edu,
Mauricio Font <cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu>
date Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:36 AM
subject Re: Cuba Futures Conference Update

Dear Dr. Font:
In May 2010 I submitted my paper proposal "Cubans in the American Civil War" for the March 2011 Cuba Futures Symposium. On June 2, 2010, I received the following reply from Veronica Karpoich, your Special Projects Coordinator:
"The paper selection committee has begun a preliminary evaluation following the initial round of proposal submission. We will be in touch to let you know if your paper has been accepted for presentation closer to the paper deadline, July 2010. Your proposal proves to be extremely interesting, and we look forward to reading your paper and hearing more about your research. Please do not hesitate if you have any questions. Thank you for your interest!"
On August 30, 2010, I inquired about my proposal and Ms. Karpoich responded the next day:
"Due to the overwhelming number of proposals that we received in response to our call for papers, the committee is still in the process of evaluating the proposals. The committee should have a final decision in the coming weeks. I will be sure to inform you as soon as a final decision has been made."
I inquired again about the proposal on October 4, 2010, and received the following reply two days later:
"Thank you for your e-mail. The committee is in the final stages of evaluating all proposals. The planning committee is committed to having all decisions made by October 15th. I fully understand your concern, and apologize on behalf of the committee for the delay. I will be in touch as soon as the Committee reaches its final decision."
On November 1, 2010, I again emailed Ms. Karpoich for a reply:
" It's been two weeks since the planning committee made their final decision on the submitted proposals. I still have not heard from them. Could you please tell me if my paper proposal was accepted?"
Ms. Karpoich never replied.
Two weeks later, on November 15th, I emailed Ms. Karpoich the following:
" I wrote you two weeks ago indicating that I had not heard from the planning committee regarding my paper proposal "Cubans in the American Civil War." I still have not heard from anyone regarding my proposal and the planning committee deadline was a month ago. I am planning my scheduled events for next semester and need this information as soon as possible. Could you please be so kind as to inform me of the status of my paper proposal. Thank you."
Once again, I received no reply.
Then on December 9, 2010, I sent Ms. Karpoich the following email:
"This is the third email that I have sent you in the last five weeks requesting to know if my paper proposal "Cubans in the Civil War" had been accepted by the planning committee for the March 2011 Cuba Future Symposium of LASA. You have not had the professional courtesy to reply to my messages. I therefore assume that the planning committee rejected my paper proposal, which you previously described as "extremely interesting." During my fifteen years in academia, I have never dealt with an organization as discourteous and irresponsible as yours."
I never heard again from the conference until now, when I received your generic email requesting final paper submissions from participants.
I still don't know if my paper proposal has been approved. Could you please inform me of the status of my paper proposal? If it has been accepted, will you let me know what panel it has been assigned to and who the other panelists are and the title of their papers? I looked it up on the conference website, but it does not list participants or their paper presentations.
Sincerely,
Dr. Antonio de la Cova
University of North Carolina--Greensboro
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