73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American StudiesWestgate Las Vegas Las Vegas, NVMarch 26-28th, 2026 Proposal submission deadline: November 1, 2025 Submit your proposal at one of the links below! Please note: We have started using Oxford Abstracts to collect proposals. You will be asked to create a Read more…
72nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Instituto MoraMexico CityApril 24-26, 2025 Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024 The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) is pleased to announce a call for paper and panel abstract submissions for SECOLAS’s 72nd Annual Meeting, to be held April Read more…
Save the date for the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. The meeting will convene from Thursday to Saturday, April 24–26, 2025 at the Instituto Mora in Mexico City. You may want to save the block of April 23-27 as panels begin the morning of the 24th and end late on Read more…
THE LATIN AMERICANIST ANNALS ISSUE Presenters at the March 2023 SECOLAS in Antigua, Guatemala are encouraged to submit their papers for possible publication in The Latin Americanist Annals issue. The Annals edition is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal issue published by SECOLAS, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Winthrop University, Read more…
Dr. Miguel Valerio’s book Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640 has won the 2023 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award. Dr. Valerio is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. The committee wrote, “In Sovereign Joy, Miguel Valerio produces a Read more…
Dr. Christina Ramos of Washington University received honorable mention in the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award competition for her book entitled Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment. The committee wrote, In Bedlam in the New World, Christina Ramos traces how enlightenment thought played Read more…
Dr. Paola Uparela, an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, has won the 2023 Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article for her article entitled “‘Yo llana estoy’ o el despliegue de una virginidad queer.” The committee applauds Uparela’s use of “a range of historical and literary sources Read more…
Dr. Matthew Johnson of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has won the 2023 Helen Delpar Award with his article “A City of Feriantes, or Puesteros and Administradores? La Salada in Recent Argentine Film and Literature.” The committee notes “Dr. Johnson’s article examines a huge informal market complex Read more…
Dr. Christopher Heaney of the Pennsylvania State University has earned honorable mention in the Sturgis Leavitt Award competition for his article “Skull Walls: The Peruvian Dead and the Remains of Entanglement.” The committee observed Heaney’s article “presented not only an entangled history of museum studies and collecting politics, but also Read more…
Dr. Alan McPherson of Temple University earned honorable mention in the Helen Delpar Award competition for his article entitled “Sub-Perpetrators in the Chilean Security State.” The committee notes McPherson’s article “examines the ‘doers’ of state violence but who had no role in the larger decision-making process. Looking at the assassination Read more…