The Call for Papers opens on January 12

Centroamérica en la encrucijada: Resistir en tiempos de asedio

AUGUST 4 – 7, 2026 • SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA & VIRTUAL

You are invited to submit a paper or session proposal addressing either the Symposium theme or any topic related to the program tracks.

  • Politics
  • Socio-Economic-Territorial
  • Violence & Human Rights
  • Resistances & Counter-hegemony
  • Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples
  • Migration and the Central American Diaspora
  • Central American Literature, Film and Art
  • Colonial History, Contemporary History and Central American Archaeology
  • Emerging Topics

CALL FOR PAPERS

About LASA

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