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…

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…

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…

El peinado afro enorme, las cejas redondeadas y finas, la sombra de ojos de colores vivos, las largas pestañas postizas, el bigote y el pintalabios de color atrevido, a veces un poco de maquillaje de contorno del rostro, las uñas largas y los vestidos anchos. Con su look sexualmente ambiguo tanto como con sus atrevidas obras creativas la artista afro-dominicana trans Johan Mijail (1990) desafía las políticas de raza, género y sexualidad y cuestiona nociones preconcebidas de la obscenidad y lo erótico. Su vasta producción creativa e intelectual cuenta con textos literarios, bitácoras, piezas performativas y participación en talleres de…

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,…

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,…

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)….

O conselho editorial do JLACS tem o prazer de convidar propostas para o Prêmio inaugural da Revista de Estudos Culturais Latino-Americanos, que será concedido ao melhor artigo escrito por um pesquisador emergente e que seja aceito para publicação na revista em 2024. O objetivo do prêmio é reconhecer o artigo de pesquisa de maior destaque publicado na revista, escrito por um autor que esteja cursando pós-graduação ou que esteja em estágio inicial de carreira (por exemplo, ainda sem ocupar cargo permanente), bem como pesquisadores de pós-doutorado independentes recém-formados. Não existe um processo de inscrição formal. Os autores cujos artigos forem…

El consejo editorial de JLACS se complace en invitar a participar en el Premio inaugural del Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, el cual será otorgado al mejor artículo escrito por un o una investigadora emergente que sea aceptado para publicarse en la revista en el año 2024. El premio tiene como objetivo reconocer el artículo de investigación más destacado que aparezca en la revista escrito por un autor o autora que curse sus estudios de posgrado, o bien que se encuentre en la etapa inicial de su carrera (por ejemplo, que no ocupe un puesto permanente), así como investigadoras o investigadores…