A regional symposium of the Latin American Studies Association
The Symposium opens a venue for both intensive and extensive intellectual dialogue across the tracks described below.
Political regression, authoritarianism, and the closure of civic spaces; Democracy under siege: Lawfare and criminalization; Public policy; Religion and politics; Media and freedom of expression.
Environment and climate crisis; Class, gender, racial, age, disability, and territorial inequalities; Migration, territories, and dispossession; Work and care; Corruption, organized crime, and illicit economies.
Human rights; States of emergency, criminalization, and violence; Racism and discrimination; Sexism and misogyny, Femicide, youth homicide, ethnocide; Anti-rights movements.
Repertoires of resistance from communities, civil society, and social movements; Symbolic resistance in art (music, performance, literature, visual arts, cinema); Resistance and direct action as a form of resistance; Memory as resistance; Sex-gender dissidence and resistance.
Right to self-determination and territorial sovereignty, recognition of collective rights; Access to justice and historical reparation, indigenous and Afro-descendant languages; Identities and cultural expressions; Segregation, discrimination, and criminalization; Defense of territory and struggles against extractive projects.
Migration routes and risks, remittances and impacts on countries, migration policies, the diaspora in the U.S., deportations and their consequences, criminalization of migrants, refuge, asylum, and family reunification, personal experiences of migration: women, unaccompanied minors, sexual dissidents, cultural expressions in exile, construction of transnational identities.
Art as political criticism; narratives of revolution and armed conflict; digital and multimedia art; art and narratives of identity; cultural fusion and its artistic expressions.
Colonial societies and economies; Independence and sovereignty; Civil wars and armed conflicts; Everyday life and local histories; Archaeological heritage; History of epidemics; History of women and masculinities; History of health, science, and technology; History and memory.
This track is designed to accommodate other emerging and relevant topics that have not been considered in this call.