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Call for Papers for Las Vegas 2026

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 free Oxford Academic account to submit. The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) is pleased to announce a call for paper and panel abstract Read more…

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Call for Papers for Mexico City 2025

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 24-26, 2025, at the Instituto Mora in Mexico City. SECOLAS invites faculty members, independent scholars, and students to submit panel and individual paper proposals for Read more…

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Save the Date – Mexico City 2025

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 the 26th – and you might want to enjoy a celebratory night out in La Gran Ciudad! Details on registration and hotels to come.  Please note: SECOLAS will Read more…

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Publish your conference paper!

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, and the University of North Carolina Press. The Latin Americanist Annals issue publishes scholarly articles from any academic discipline that include original research concerning Latin Read more…

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Valerio’s Sovereign Joy wins the Thomas Award

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 fascinating, interdisciplinary study that takes us on a journey through the festive performances of Black kings and queens in colonial Mexico. He uses literary and Read more…

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Ramos receives Thomas Award honorable mention

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 out in the realm of mental health in New Spain from 1567 through the 1700s. Her innovative approach focuses on the patients at the San Read more…

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Uparela wins the 2023 Sturgis Leavitt Award

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 to offer a fresh new look at the otherwise well-known case of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun. In doing so, Uparela makes important contributions Read more…

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Johnson wins the Delpar Award

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 just outside of Buenos Aires known as La Salada, which emerged in the early 1990s when Bolivian immigrants to Argentina began to sell food and Read more…

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Heaney earns Sturgis Leavitt Honorable Mention

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 a transnational Indigenous history of the Americas, bridging the fields of Native North America and Indigenous histories of Latin America.” The Sturgis Leavitt Award is Read more…

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McPherson earns Delpar Award Honorable Mention

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 of Orlando Letelier, a Chilean exile in Washington DC. In 1976 by the Pinochet government by members of DINA, or the Chilean secret police. Working Read more…

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