Research Conferences
Street scene in San Cristobal, Chiapas during recent faculty trip to acquire texts for the Chicago Archive of Indigenous Literatures of Latin America, a unique collection of fictional literature with primary focus on Mayan literature from southern Mexico.
The Center for Latin American Studies sponsors a wide variety of major academic conferences and symposia in order to advance innovative research on Latin America and foster dialogue between faculty and practitioners from various disciplinary and professional fields.
During the 2008-9 academic year, the Center is sponsoring the following conferences. For up-to-date announcements of up-coming Public Lectures, we encourage you to subscribe to our Email Listserv. Please see our Events Archive for details, reports and broadcasts from past conferences.
- Saturday, September 27, 2008: "El Siglo de Molina Enríquez"
- Friday, October 24 - Saturday, October 25, 2008: "Hemi-Chicago: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics"
- Friday, November 7, 2008: "Reflections on Latin American Studies:1968-2008", commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Center for Latin American Studies
- Friday, January 9 - Saturday, January 10, 2009: "Internationalizing Machado de Assis"
- May, 2009 (dates TBD): "Coping with Hyperinflation and Crisis in Latin America: The Weight of Orthodox vis-a-vis Heterodox Polities"
