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…

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…