Updates
Business Meeting – TIME CHANGE
The Business Meeting will begin tonight (Thursday) at 5:45pm in Pressler’s Garden.
Updates
¡Bienvenido a Austin!
Bienvenido a Austin. Welcome to Austin.Some news and notes: Panels begin this morning at 9am in the Hotel Indigo. The Breakout Rooms are located on the 1st floor of Hotel Indigo. If you are staying in the Holiday Inn Express, you can access the Hotel Indigo through a passage located just off of the Read more…
Media
Historias 59 – Alan McPherson on The Ghosts of Sheridan Circle
Dr. Alan McPherson of Temple University sat down with Dustin Walcher to discuss his career working in U.S.-Latin American relations, and his new book, Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice. They chatted about anti-Americanism, nationalism, archives, and historical detective work.
Annual Meeting
Go time! Abstract submission link for Austin 2020 is live!
CALL FOR PAPERS 67th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Austin, Texas March 3-8, 2020 Proposal Submission Deadline: October 15, 2019 Submit your abstract at this link. SECOLAS is pleased to announce a call for paper and panel abstract submissions for its 67th Annual Meeting, held Read more…
Updates
Save the date! SECOLAS will be in Austin, March 3-8, 2020
Secolistas, save the dates! SECOLAS 2020 annual meeting will be in Austin, Texas from March 3 to March 8, 2020. Panels will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (March 5, 6, 7). Information regarding the annual meeting, including conference hotel, local partners, and additional activities will be posted on Read more…
Annual Meeting
Annals issue submission deadline extended
The submission deadline for the Annals issue of The Latin Americanist has been extended until July 31. If you attended the Oaxaca meeting and have not yet done so, consider submitting your conference paper for consideration of publication in the Annals issue of TLA. For any questions or concerns, direct Read more…
Information
Statement regarding the tragedy at UNC Charlotte
For immediate release: The officers and the members of the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) stand in solidarity with the students, faculty, staff, and administration of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), and the greater Charlotte community of which they are Read more…
Annual Meeting
Lina Del Castillo has earned honorable mention
Lina Del Castillo of the University of Texas has earned honorable mention from the Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article committee for her article entitled “Entangled Fates: French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819-1830,” published in the Hispanic American Historical Review. The committee found Read more…
Annual Meeting
Nesvig has earned honorable mention for Promiscuous Power
Martin A. Nesvig of the University of Miami earned an honorable mention for his book entitled Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain from the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Committee. The committee said of his book, “Nesvig employs archival research to construct a narrative of local politics in Read more…