CALL FOR PAPERS 14th Annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Conference: The Ladino Diaspora and Community Resilience: Memory and Adaptation – Deadline: April 7, 2026

14th Annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Conference
The Ladino Diaspora and Community Resilience: Memory and Adaptation

May 19, 2026 University of California, Los Angeles
Keynote Speaker: Edwin Seroussi

In its fourteenth consecutive year, the ucLADINO conference supports and celebrates the growing preservation of Ladino language and culture in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. The theme for this year’s ucLADINO conference centers around Ladino and community resilience, exploring the ways that Ladino language preserves cultural memory yet continually adapts and reacts to change. What is the role of language transmission amidst migration and cultural ruptures? How has Ladino practice adapted to a range of spaces, from the domestic sphere and local community centers to towns, cities, nations, archives, and digital networks?

We encourage topics that reflect on the ways in which individuals, communities, and networks relate to their environment and develop new ways of forming heritage and meaning.

Call for Papers Deadline: Tuesday April 7, 2026

Submission Form

Possible conference topics may include:

• Ladino and memory
• Ladino education, revitalization, and repatriation projects 
• Ladino and migration
• Ladino transmission networks in the archive and in the digital age
• Judeo-Spanish in the domestic sphere, community spaces, and urban centers
• Judeo-Spanish and the processing of emotions and historic events
• Judeo-Spanish and intergenerational heritage making
• Ladino and nationalism, colonialism
• Judeo-Spanish in North Africa, the Ottoman Empire & the Americas

To apply, please complete this Google Form (or email your paper’s title, an abstract of 250 words, and a one-page CV to ucladinoconf@gmail.com).

This event will take place on Zoom. Please contact ucLADINO director Courtney Blue at ucladinoconf@gmail.com with any questions.