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,…

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…

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…

A conferência virtual do Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 12-01-2021, 11 am (EST) / 4 pm GMT / 8 am (PST): ‘O nexo poesia-cinema: intermedialidade e indisciplina nas culturas audiovisuais latino-americanas’ 08-02-2021, 12 pm (EST) / 5 pm (GMT) / 9 am (PST): ‘Humano / não humano: perspectivas descoloniais sobre a vida em um planeta diminuído’. 12-03-2021, 12 pm (EST) / 5 pm (GMT) / 9 am (PST): ‘Corpos erotizados e desejos politizados’. Como podemos pensar juntos sobre o trabalho dos estudos culturais em tempos de pandemia? A Covid-19 mudou nossas agendas de pesquisa? Ela transformou a maneira como…

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…