73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
Westgate Las Vegas 
Las Vegas, NV
March 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.

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The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) is pleased to announce a call for paper and panel abstract submissions for SECOLAS’s 73rd Annual Meeting, to be held March 26-28, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Westgate Las Vegas.

SECOLAS invites faculty members, independent scholars, and students to submit panel and individual paper proposals for participation in the conference.

SECOLAS welcomes submissions on any aspect of Latin American and/or Caribbean Studies.

Graduate student presenters will be eligible to submit their paper for the Edward H. Moseley Student Paper Award for the best paper presented at the SECOLAS meeting.

After the conference, all presenters will be eligible to submit their paper for publication consideration in the SECOLAS Annals issue of The Latin Americanist, an international, peer-reviewed journal published by SECOLAS.

*Please note that panels will run all-day Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (March 26, 27, and 28)

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For the required conference registration and membership fees, please click below:

Note: Discounted rates apply to students, post-docs, contingent faculty, scholars based outside of the U.S., emeritus faculty, and K-12 educators. For more information on professional and discounted membership rates, click here.

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SECOLAS 2026 Program Chairs

Program Committee Chair: 
Dr. Jürgen Buchenau
Department of History
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
jbuchenau@charlotte.edu 

History and Social Sciences

• Dr. Christoph Rosenmüller
  Department of History
  Middle Tennessee State University
  christoph.rosenmuller@mtsu.edu

Literature and Cultural Studies

• Dr. Joseph Mulligan
  Department of World Languages & Cultures
  Weber State
  josephmulligan@weber.edu