This is the scheduke for the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Annual Conference 2022.
- Day 1: 21 April 2022
- Day 2: 22 April 2022
Please note: Times and locations may change, please check this page regularly for updates.
All times BST (GMT+1). All sessions take place in the Chancellors' Building, unless otherwise stated.
Day 1
Registration
- Time: 8am – 9am
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
Session 1
- Time: 9am – 10:30am
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
| Session | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Methods in Latin American Studies Research | Juan Mario Díaz, Phillip Horn, Olivia Casagrande, Daniela Soto | 3.15 |
| Football/footballing histories | Will Huddleston, Thomas Fischer, Nelson Chacón | 3.5 |
| Colombia in times of COVID | Viviana García Pinzon, Henry Staples, Carlos Mosquera, Jennifer Kibbe, Franklin | 3.16 |
| Much more than the US ‘backyard’: Central America and the international history of the 1970s and 1980s | Molly Avery, Fionntan O'Hara | 3.6 |
| Contentious politics Religion, and Political Distrust in Post-Revolutionary Mexico | Jenny Pearce, William Booth, Nathaniel Morris, Gema Santamaria-Kloppe, Thomas Rath | 3.7 |
| Social organising in the urban context | Taru Silvonen, Carlos Eduardo Cardenas Escutia, Kevin Daniel Rozo | 3.9 |
| Pushing the boundaries of collaborative research and scholar activism | Sonja Marzi, Maria Fernanda Carrillo Sánchez, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch , Susanne Börner, Floor van der Hout | 4.10 |
| Infrastructure and coloniality in Latin America: Historical geographies (1) | Austin Zeiderman, Archie Davies, Alejandro de Cos- Corzo, Tessy Schlosser | 4.5 |
Coffee break
- Time: 10:30am – 11am
- Location: Chancellors’ Building foyer
Session 2
- Time: 11am – 12:30pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
| Session | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Political Institutions in Latin America | Elisa Mendes Vasconcelos, Bastián González-Bustamante, Kazuma Mizukoshi | 3.15 |
| Contentious politics and institutions in Latin America | Emilia Arpini, Rocio Annuziata, Sam Halvorsen, Gabriel Silvestre, León Felipe Téllez Contreras, Trevor Stack, Freitas, Cintia | 3.5 |
| Political mistrust and global pandemics: a historical perspective | Juan Nieves Sarriegui Graciela Iglesias- Rogers, Samantha Edwards | 3.16 |
| Navigating uncertainities during forced im/mobilities | Nuni Jorgensen, Giovanna Gini, Marcia Vera Espinoza | 3.6 |
| Social Policy In + Out of times of Covid | Thalles Vichiato Breda, Isabela Vianna Pinho, Ricardo Velázques Leyer, Eve Hayes de Kalaf, Itzel San Roman Pineda | 3.7 |
| Human rights and decoloniality | Rebecca Smuth, Gabriela Mezzanotti, Penny Miles Clare Wright, Fionnuala Ni Aolain | 3.9 |
| Social relations at the Intersections (2): Race+ | Edward King, América López, Alí Siles, Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, Carlos Bolomey | 4.10 |
| Infrastructure and coloniality in Latin America: Historical geographies of infrastructure (2) | Austin Zeiderman, Matthew Richmond, Camila Saraiva, Francis Portes Virginio | 4.5 |
Lunch
- Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
Session 3
- Time: 1:30pm – 3pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
| Session | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Migration | Simón Palominos, Helton Levy, Gabriela Patricia Garcia Garcia, Sonia Romero, Juan Carlos Ruiz | 3.15 |
| Approaching the PhD: The Everyday Life of Graduate Students in Latin American Studies | Oliver Wilson-Nunn | 3.5 |
| Workshop: Contemporary Brazil: the Bolsonaro effect and the pandemic from a transdisciplinary perspective | Felipe Tirado, Fabiana Pegoraro Soares, Jessica Holl | 3.16 |
| Cuba's Tricontinental: Narratives and Artefacts of Cold War Social Movements | Anna Grimaldi | 3.6 |
| Presentation of a book: After the Decolonial: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America | David Lehmann | 3.7 |
| Roundtable: ‘Indigenous Mobility and Urbanisation in Latin America in times of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ | Philipp Horn, Daqui Lema Maldinado, Olivia Casagrande, Clarie Wright, Alezandra Tomaselli | 3.9 |
| Research collaborations across borders: Challenges, rewards and ethical questions | Sonja Marzi, Maria Fernnada Carrillo Sánchez, Susanne Börner, Alejandro de Coss, Sofie Narbed | 4.10 |
| New Alphabets: Building a poetic & critical dialogue between Latin American and South Asian thought | Jessica Sequeira, Abhay K., Jorge Heine | 4.5 |
Coffee break
- Time: 3pm – 3:15pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building foyer
Session 4
- Time: 3.15pm – 4:45pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
| Session title | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
| LGBTQIA+ lives | Penny Miles, Raúl Pérez Monzón, Coni Valdés | 3.15 |
| EcoSol-agroecologia responde a la pandemia | Les Levidow, Giovanna Villani Gross, Juliana Duarte de Carvalho, Carlos Vacaflores, Davis Sansolo | 3.5 |
| Rhythms and spatialities of work in contemporary Brazil | Pedro Mendes Loureiro, Mara Nogueira, Lousa Acciari, Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Gareth Jones | 3.16 |
| Historical Perspectives on Nation from within and without | William A. Booth, Pedro Acuña, Jose Lara | 3.6 |
| Brazil, Democracy & Covid | Brigitte Weiffen Wagner Guilherme Alves da Silva, Jéssica Matheus de Souza | 3.7 |
| Covid + educational impact | Juan Carlos Ruiz, Thomas Dang Thalles Vichiato Breda, Marie Jasser, Isabela Vianna Pinho | 3.9 |
| Covid + intimate lives | Maximiliano Marentes, Beatriz Santos Barreto, Martín Hernán Di Marco | 4.10 |
| Workers and international organisations in Latin America | Norberto O. Ferreras, Luciana Zorzoli, Edward Brudney, Andres Stagnaro | 4.5 |
Keynote
- Time: 5pm – 6:15pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building 1.10
Anti-politics and the crisis of democracy in Brazil
Presented by: Professor Leonardo Avritzer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Evening reception
- Time: 7pm onwards
- Location: The Roman Baths, Abbey Churchyard, Bath, BA1 1LZ
Day 2
Registration
- Time: 8am – 9am
- Location Chancellors’ Building
Session 1
- Time: 9am – 10:30am
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
| Session | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Film and literature in Latin America in times of COVID | Niamh Thornton, Clara Garavelli, Luis Medina Cordova | 3.15 |
| Cultural sites of social protest | Struan Gray, Luz Cáceres, Phoebe Martin | 3.5 |
| Politics in Brazil, Argentina and Chile | Juan Pablo Ferrero, Esther Solano Gallego, Magdalena Lisińska, Ken Mitchell, Sam Maynard | 3.16 |
| Political Elites in Latin America | Asbel Bohigues, Alicia Fijalkowska-Myszyńska, Emile Curryova, Bastián González-Bustamante, Carla Cisternas | 3.6 |
| Democratic backsliding: analysing political reasons | Laura Tedesco, Mariana Llanos, James Bowen | 3.7 |
| Abortion in Latin America: experiences and challenged | Cordelia Freeman, Lea Happ, Saskia Riera Zielińska | 3.9 |
| Reimagining protests: cultural mediations and social movements in contemporary Latin America | Javier Pérez-Osorio, Oliver Wilson-Nunn, Anna Corrigan, Erika Teichert | 4.10 |
| SLAS officers and BLAR (Bulletin of Latin American Research) editors to meet | - | 4.5 |
| Workers and the 1976 dictatorship in Argentina: new research | Luciana Zorzoli, Leandro Molinaro, Mariana Stoler, Marianela Galli | 4.1 |
Coffee break
- Time: 10:30am – 11am
- Location: Chancellors’ Building foyer
Session 2
- Time: 11am – 12:30pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
| Session | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Insecurity & illegality in urban Latin America | Josefa Maria Stiegler, Isabela Vianna Pinho, Paz Irarrázabal | 3.15 |
| Politics, Power and Play: Transforming territories of existence/resistance in the Southern Cone | Lucy Bell, Mar Sánchez, Catrion McAllister, Camila González Ortiz, Joey Whitfield | 3.5 |
| The Case for Connections: Academic Stress in the times of COVID-19 in Texas and Mexico City | Melaine Milligan, Mariana Rendon Flores, Grace Ozor, Thomas Dang, Alfonso Rojas-Álvarez | 3.16 |
| Environment, Land & Justice & its intersections (1+2) | Gabriela Ramirez Galindo, Consuelo Biskupovic, Patrick O'Hare, Carlos Vacaflores, Deborah Delgado Pugley, Marisol Arestegui Espinal | 3.6 |
| Debating the state of International Relations in and about Latin America | Leslie Wehner, Brigitte Weiffen, Mahrukh Doctor | 3.7 |
| Feminist Mobilisation / Political Thought | Melany Cruz, Blanca Larrin, Micaela Moreira, Jorgelina Loza | 3.9 |
| The Causes of Social Policy Expansion in Latin America | Gibrán Cruz Martínez, Theodoros Papodopoulos, Ricardo Velázquez Leyer, Jasmine Gideon, Isabel GEORGES, Mauro Cristeche | 4.10 |
| The Power of Propaganda | Anna Grimaldi, Daniel Madur Thomaz, Tatiane de Oliveria Elias | 4.5 |
| Sport for unification and resistance in Latin America Panel Convenors | Matthew Brown and Peter Watson: Enrico Castro Montes, Gina Robinson, Felipe Tavares Paes Lopes and Camila Nunes Dias, Penny Miles, Rodrigo Millan | 4.1 |
Lunch
- Time: 12:30pm – 2pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
Session 3
- Time: 2pm – 3:30pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
| Session | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Social Movements 1, Contentious politics: Between the state and the streets | Paolo Sosa-Villagarcia, Diego Sazo, Hectir Rios-Jara, Ana Natalucci, Juan Pablo Ferrero | 3.15 |
| Political Economy and its impacts | Hugo Goeury, Nathália Gonçalves Zaparolli, Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac | 3.5 |
| Centring historically excluded voices in Latin American research on environmental crisis and conflict (1) | Angus McNelly, Chris Hesketh, Consuelo Biskupovic, Rosario Carmona | 3.16 |
| Media at Strike! Looking through the pandemic in Colombian press, television and cinema | Karol Valderrama-Burgos, Elizabeth Otálvaro Vélez, María Paula Murcia Huertas, Alejandra Castaño-Echeverri | 3.6 |
| Precarious work, precarious life in Latin American countries (1) | Mariana Prioli Cordeiro, Fabiana Jardim, Flávia Uchôa de Oliveira, Osvaldo Battistini, Leonardo Fontes | 3.7 |
| Participación política en las ciudades latinoamericana: ¿crisis o consolidación? | Rocío Annunziata, Brian Wampler, Benjamin Golfrank, Mariano Suárez Elías, Stephanie L. McNulty, Sam Halvorsen, Sebastian Mauro | 3.9 |
| Approaching Central Americas multiple crises through immersive poetry-reading | Samira Marty | 4.10 |
| Shifting power in collaborative research and scholar activism with communities, artists and researchers in Latin America | Sonja Marzi, Maria Fernanda Carrillo Sánchez, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Susanne Börner, Floor can der Hout, Julia Zulver | 4.5 |
| Roundtable: Reflections on the study of sport in Latin America: Media, identity, histories and futures. Plus a reflection on the work of Professor David Wood | Matthew Brown, Peter Watson. Participants: Penny Miles, Gina Robinson, Enrico Castro Montes, Felipe Tavares Paes Lopes, Camila Nunes Dias, Will Huddlestone, Nelson Chacón, Thomas Fischer | 4.1 |
Coffee break
- Time: 3.30pm – 4pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building foyer
Session 4
- Time: 4pm – 5:30pm
- Location: Chancellors’ Building
| Session | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Social Movements 2, Indigenous, mobilisation | Geoff Goodwin, Linda Etchart, Alexa Jima-González, Miguel Paradela López | 3.15 |
| Digital Humanities Roundtable Discussion | Jo Crow, Anna Grimaldi, Patience Schell | 3.5 |
| Centring historically excluded voices in Latin American research on environmental crisis and conflict (2) | Maria Eugenia Ulfe, Lisa Bunclark, Roxana Vergara, Sarah Barrow, Eylem Atakav, Karoline Pelikan, Inge Boudewijn, Antonia Carcelen, Hilary Francis, Juana Francis Bone, Katy Jenkins, Sofia Zaragocin, Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier, Breno da Silva Carvalho, Luan Gomes dos Santos de Oliveira, Nathalia Maíra Cabral de Medeiros | 3.16 |
| Decolonial indigenous action | Matthew Doyle, Hannes Kalisch, Ana Cabrera Pacheco | 3.6 |
| Precarious work, precarious life in Latin American countries (2) | Juliana Lopes da Silva, Felipe Tavares Paes Lopes, Mariana Prioli Cordeiro, Jacqueline I.M. Brigagão | 3.7 |
| Movements and Institutions in Perú and Paraguay | Mijail Mitrovic, Sandra Rondríguez, Miguel Paradela López, Peter Lambert | 3.9 |
| Literature and contextual critique | Rodrigo López Martínez, Liliana Chávez Díaz, Rafael Adúgar Sousa. +12. Indigenous & Latinx visions in Literature. Nick Regan, Charles M. Pigott | 4.10 |
| Indigenous & Latinx visions in Literature | Nick Regan, Charles M. Pigott | 4.1 |
| Meet the Editors of BLAR (Bulletin of Latin American Research) | - | 4.1 |
Farewell drinks
- Time: 6pm – 8pm
- Location: Graze Bath, 5 Brunel Square, Bath, BA1 1SX