O Conselho Editorial da Revista convida propostas de artigos para um número especial – colaboradores convidados: Pablo Semán (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina) e Ben Cowen (University of California San Diego). São aceitos artigos em inglês, espanhol e português. Os recentes triunfos eleitorais de candidatos de extrema direita – Bolsonaro no Brasil (2018) e Milei na Argentina (2023) – além das quase vitórias de Bolsonaro (2022), Kast no Chile (2021) e Hernández na Colômbia (2022), a popularidade de políticas de “mão dura” como as de Bukele em El Salvador ou o crescimento do apoio a Trump entre a população…

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…