- UAB Faculty Development Program
- UAB Office of the Provost
- Alabama Humanities Foundation, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities
- UAB Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies
- UAB College of Arts and Sciences
- UAB Student Multicultural and Diversity Programs
- UAB Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities
- Alliance Française of Birmingham
- UAB African American Studies
- UAB Anthropology
- UAB English
- UAB History
- University of Michigan Romance Languages
- Samford University World Languages
- Alabama World Languages Education Foundation
- Instituto Caro y Cuervo
- Vanderbilt Spanish and Portuguese
- Afro-Hispanic Review
- American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Alabama
Planning Committee:
- Julián Arribas, UAB
- Serge Bokobza, UAB
- Margaret Bond, UAB
- Denise Joseph, UAB
- William Luis, Vanderbilt
- John Maddox, UAB
- Graciela Maglia, Caro y Cuervo
- Kathryn Morgan, UAB
- Pamela Murray, UAB
- Armin Schwegler, UC-Irvine
- Lisa Finelli, Vanderbilt
- Ludmila Ferrari, U of Michigan