We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue (33.2), available here and part of a double special issue on Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Guest-edited by Javier Fernández Galeano and Zeb Tortorici Introduction: “Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Obscenity, Art, and Performance” By Javier Fernández Galeano and Zeb Tortorici Free access “A Chola Sex Party: Anal and Concha Art” By Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa “La Bella Otero’s Overdetermined Anality: Tales of Sexual Inversion in Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires” By Mir Yarfitz “108: Memory, Libido, and Obscenity between Paraguay and Brazil” By Clara Cuevas, Cleiton Zóia Münchow, and Erwing Szokol…

June 12-15, Bogotá (Colombia) PANELS SPONSORED BY THE JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES 🗓 Friday, 10:20am – 11:50am, Ed. 02 – Fernando Barón S.J. – P2-201 Latin American Environmental Aesthetics – Part 1: States of Matter (901 // BIO) » Mary Louise L. Pratt, New York University “Combustion Aesthetics” » Gabriel Rudas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana “Energy, Extractivism, and the Impossibilities of Landscape: On Carolina Caycedo’s Be Dammed” » Ricardo Duarte Filho, New York University “The Drowned Memories of Hydrocolonialism” » Adriana Michele Campos Johnson, University of California, Irvine “Other Waters” Chair: Jens Andermann, NYU 🗓 Friday, 12:10pm – 01:40pm,…

The editors of JLACS are delighted to invite entries for the inaugural Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Article Prize, to be awarded to the most outstanding article by an emerging scholar that is accepted for publication in the Journal in 2024. The prize aims to celebrate the best research article to appear in the journal written by an author who is either still a postgraduate student or in the Early Career Stage (eg. not in a tenured position, in the case of US applicants, or holding a junior/postdoctoral position as locally defined, as well as recently-graduated postdoctoral independent researchers)….

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…

The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies virtual conference January 12th, 11 am (EST) / 4 pm GMT / 8 am (PST): ‘The poetry-film nexus: intermediality and indiscipline in Latin American audiovisual cultures‘ February 8th, 12 pm (EST) / 5 pm (GMT) / 9 am (PST): ‘Human/nonhuman: decolonial perspectives on life on a diminished planet’ March 12th, 12 pm (EST) / 5 pm (GMT) / 9 am (PST): ‘Eroticized bodies and politicized desires’. To register for the Q&A sessions, please click here. How can we think together about the work of cultural studies in times of pandemic? Has Covid-19 upended…

Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2020 Co-edited by Javier Fernández-Galeano (Wesleyan University) and Zeb Tortorici (NYU) The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies seeks contributors for a special issue on the topic of “Obscenity, Censorship, and Libidinal Politics in Latin America.” We are particularly interested in exploring interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the shifting political, cultural, and technical contours of what gets defined as “obscene,” and how censorship works in relation to state politics, aesthetics, and forms of activism. In recent years, with the explosive growth of the field of Porn Studies, there has been a rise in scholarship on the…

Marking the foundation of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies in 1992, we have selected twenty-five stellar essays surveying the most influential themes and concepts, as well as scouring some of the polemics and controversies, which have marked the field over the last quarter of a century. The collection maps the fault lines of Latin American cultural studies over three decades, from the now classical discussions of the ‘cultural turn’ to more recent responses to the challenges of biopolitics, affect theory, posthegemony and ecocriticism. It also addresses novel political constellations including resurgent national-popular or eco-nativist and indigenous agencies. For…