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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Congratulations to SECOLAS members Rita Palacios and Paul Worley on the release of their book entitled Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge, published by the University of Arizona Press.