A very quick update about the 2023 annual meeting. We are working to finalize contracts with vendors and accommodations in Antigua, Guatemala. It has taken longer than expected. That said, we have honed in on three possible weekends to hold the conference in March 2023. The panels would be held Read more…
The membership elected the following: Dr. Eunice Rojas – President-Elect Dr. Lori Oxford and Dr. Sarah Foss, At-large Members of the Executive Committee (2022-2025) Dr. Corrie Boudreaux and Leah Walton, Members of the Executive Committee representing Contingent Faculty and Graduate Students (2022-2024)
We still have two more sessions! Be sure to check out the wonderful slate of panels coming this afternoon. SECOLAS invites you to our Networking Event starting at 5 pm in the hotel bar. Please join us for complimentary beer, wine, and sodas. We will likely move venues around 8 Read more…
Panel 5, Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Mexican Literature and Film will be in the Churchill Room starting at 3:30 pm today. Panel 6, Comensal Vulnerability: Three Perspectives on Food and Eating in Contemporary Peru will be in the Wine Room starting at 3:30 pm today
The deadline to submit your abstract for the 69th annual meeting (9-12 March 2022, Charlotte, NC) has been extended to Friday, 10 December. For further information, click here: https://secolas.org/conferences/charlotte-2022/ To submit your abstract, complete the form below: Loading…
Come join us in Charlotte! In conjunction with the North Carolina Conference on Latin American Studies (NC/CLAS), the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) is pleased to announce a call for paper and panel abstract submissions for SECOLAS’s 69th Annual Meeting, to be held from Wednesday, 9 March thru 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…
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 have an appeal beyond Read more…
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 Read more…
