Annual Editorial Meeting and Conference

Annual Editorial Meeting and Conference

New York University, September 8-9, 2022

Dossier: Ecologies of Disappearances Today

Dossier: Ecologies of Disappearances Today

A conversation between Gabriel Gatti, David Casado-Neira, Pamela Colombo and Jens Andermann

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The Editorial Board of the Journal invites submissions for a special issue, contributors include Pablo Semán (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina) and Ben Cowen (University of California San Diego). The recent shock electoral victories of ultra-rightist provocateurs including Bolsonaro in Brazil (2018) and Milei in Argentina (2023) –as well as the near-wins of Bolsonaro (2022), Kast in Chile (2021), and Hernández in Colombia (2022), the hard-line mass-incarceration policies of Bukele in El Salvador, or the current surge in support for Trump among Latinx voters in the US– have exposed a blind spot on the radar of Latin American cultural…

This conversation between member of the editorial board Amanda Smith (University of California Santa Cruz) and guest-editor Patrícia Vieira (University of Coimbra) expands on the critical and conceptual coordinates framing the newly published special issue “The Amazon River Basin: Extractivism, Aesthetics, and Indigenous Perspectives” (32.3).

Silvana Mandolessi (Universidad Católica de Lovainas) y Reindert Dhondt (Universidad de Utrecht), co-editores del dossier que acabamos de publicar en el Vol. 32, 3 de la revista, conversaron con Jens Andermann, editor de JLACS, sobre el giro afectivo y sus implicaciones para el abordaje de la violencia en América Latina.   Link al dossier.  

Annual Editorial Meeting and Conference

New York University September 8-9, 2022 RVSP: https://jlacs2022.eventbrite.com Thursday, September 8 🗓️ 3 pm – 6 pm, Modern Languages and Literatures Building, 13-19 University Place, room 222 » Gabriela Zamorano (El Colegio de Michoacán) Impossible archives. Damage, fragility and memory in visual archives of Purépecha communities in Michoacán Talking about archives involves referring to collections of objects and/or documents that have been accumulated, preserved, and organized. Archives are usually available in the present and open to possible future uses. Among the infinite generation of archives, particularly of domestic ones, only a few of them become preserved and public. Building on Derrida’s…

Rachel Price, member of the editorial board of JLACS; the magazine’s executive editor, Isis Sadek; the guest editor of the dossier “Material Turn in Cuban Studies”, María A. Cabrera Arús; and two of the authors, Jacqueline Loss and Michael Bustamante, discussed the highlights of this special issue on Cuban material culture (Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies vol. 30, no. 2). What are the implications of the recent shift towards material culture in Cuban studies? Could material culture studies help fill some of the analytical gaps produced by the lack of access to some archives? The debate revolved around the…

National Strike in Colombia (April 28th to…) Translated by Conor Harris. The morning of Wednesday, April 28th did not bode well for a massive protest in Colombia. The country was at the peak of a third wave of COVID 19 infections, and its hospitals were under a red alert due to the high occupancy rates of Intensive Care Units. The national government, as well as many regional and local governments, had issued a stay-at-home order to avoid infections due to large-scale, open-air gatherings. Moreover, some regional and local governments issued mandatory curfews, prohibitions on the sale of alcohol, and obligatory…

Join us for a conversation between editors Gabriel Gatti and David Casado-Neira, and authors Pamela Colombo and Jens Andermann, on the new ramifications of the concept of disappearance in global landscapes marked by the precarization of the living, migrations of uprooted communities, and the rapid advance of extractive frontiers in the Global South. How have the debates of the Latin American postdictatorship responded to current challenges to human rights, memory, and justice, and which are the new meanings these circumstances reveal to have always already been latent in the imaginary of disappearance?  

How can we think together about the work of cultural studies in times of pandemic? Has Covid-19 upended our research agendas, or has it transformed the ways in which we think about culture, coloniality, empire, mediality, race, queerness, and aesthetics? For more than two decades, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies conferences have showcased new work in the field, first in the form of annual one-day events at Birkbeck College, London, and more recently as multi-day events hosted, among others, by the University of Texas, Austin, UNAM (Ciudad de México), the University of Zurich and Oxford University. This year’s…

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