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Welcome to Antigua!

We are excited to open the 70th annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. We know many conference choices are out there, and we greatly appreciate your choice to join us in Antigua. While the congress begins in earnest tomorrow morning, SECOLAS invites you to an impromptu meet-up at Hector’s Bistro and El Deposito (same building) this evening. There will be a live New Orleans-style jazz band. I hope to arrive between Read more…

2023 draft program is out.

If you are coming to Antigua in March, check to ensure you are on the program and we have your details correct. Many thanks to our volunteer Program Chairs, Colin Snider and David Dalton, for putting this program together. This was yeoman’s work. Let Colin, David, and Steven know of any corrections to be made. Below the program are some action items and important information Action Items: Request: Fair warnings:

Call for Submissions – The 2023 Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article

The Sturgis Leavitt Award is given annually for the best article or book chapter on a Latin American or Iberian subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous calendar year. The article may be written in any language. Preference will be given to articles that appeal beyond a single discipline. The winner must be a member in good standing of the year in which the article or chapter was published, and the year the Read more…

Call for Submissions – 2023 Thomas Book Award competition

The Alfred B. Thomas Award is awarded annually for the best book on a Latin American subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous year. Co-authored works may be considered, but not anthologies or edited works. Books may be in any language. Authors must have been members of SECOLAS for the two calendar years preceding the year in which the prize will be awarded, and the year the award is given. A committee of Read more…

Deadline EXTENDED! – CFP – Antigua 2023

SECOLAS has extended its deadline for abstract submissions to Tuesday, November 15, 2022. CALL FOR PAPERS 70th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies(SECOLAS) Antigua, GuatemalaMarch 22-26, 2023 Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2022 Submit your abstract at this link. The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) is pleased to announce a call for paper and panel abstract submissions for SECOLAS’s 70th Annual Meeting, to be held March 22-26, 2023 in Read more…

¡Ojo! Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean CFP

Our friends at the Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a CFP for their annual meeting, which will be March 8-11, 2023 in Palenque, Mexico. See below: AAPLAC 2023 Call for Proposals Conference Dates: March 8 – 11, 2023 Location: Palenque, Mexico https://www.aaplac.org/aaplac-2023-call-for-proposals/ We welcome presentations from any professional engaged in fomenting educational and cultural exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean: Faculty and professors Study Abroad Administors Latin Read more…

Call for Papers – Secolas 2023 in Antigua, Guatemala

CALL FOR PAPERS 70th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies(SECOLAS) Antigua, GuatemalaMarch 22-26, 2023 Proposal Submission Deadline: November 1, 2022 Submit your abstract at this link. The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) is pleased to announce a call for paper and panel abstract submissions for SECOLAS’s 70th Annual Meeting, to be held March 22-26, 2023 in Antigua, Guatemala. SECOLAS invites faculty members, independent scholars, and students to submit panel Read more…