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…
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 Read more…
For Immediate Release March 28, 2022 Charlotte, North Carolina – The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) has been awarded funding from the American Historical Association’s Grants to Sustain and Advance the Work of Historical Organizations Program, which provides relief to institutions adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This Read more…
Panel 6: Thursday, 3:30-5:00 pm, Comensal Vulnerability: Three Perspectives on Food and Eating in Contemporary Peru, Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81289793066?pwd=QklONGE1Sy9UbXRHRE96amxWOEZCdz09 [Hybrid] Panel 28: Saturday, 9:15 am-10:45 am, Roundtable: Powering Mexican History, Zoom link: [forthcoming] [Virtual] We will post the link to the roundtable as soon as we receive it. To see Read more…
Our co-sponsor, the North Carolina Conference on Latin American Studies, has organized a suite of virtual and hybrid panels at this year’s SECOLAS meeting. They include: Panel 1: Thursday, 1:45-3:15 pm, Roundtable: The Rise of Diversity and Inclusion as a Professional Practice in Corporate Brazil, Zoom link: https://duke.zoom.us/j/7728751720 [Virtual] Panel Read more…
Volume 65, Issue 2 is hot off the presses! Check it out: Issue hyperlink: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44820 Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Articles: Greg Weeks, Note from the Outgoing Editor João Batista Nascimento Gregoire, The Poor Need Money – Rethinking Poverty in Brazil’s Post-Military Dictatorship Silvia Borzutzky Read more…
Submit your abstracts (individual or panel proposals) for SECOLAS 2021 annual meeting by 1 November 2020 Check out the CFP below!
Graduate student presenters at the Austin meeting may submit their revised conference paper to the Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award competition. The deadline to submit to the committee is Tuesday, March 24, 2020 by 5pm EST. Submissions must not be longer than 25 pages, including bibliography, endnotes and/or footnotes. Read more…
Change is on the horizon in Uruguay. On 1 March 2020, the new center-right coalition led by National Party leader Luis Lacalle Pou took over the country’s reigns, bringing an end to a decade and half of government by the center-left Broad Front party. The day also marked the thirty-fifth Read more…
SECOLAS is delighted to announce that Historias has moved to new digs. Find us here: https://historiaspodcast.com/ Happy listening and as always thank you for listening.