PILAS – Postgraduates in Latin American Studies
@pilas-latam.bsky.social
Exploring Latin America through multidisciplinary research & study 🌎 📚
Affiliate of SLAS, by and for postgrad students 🎓
https://www.slasuk.org/pilas
https://linktr.ee/Pilascontact
Affiliate of SLAS, by and for postgrad students 🎓
https://www.slasuk.org/pilas
https://linktr.ee/Pilascontact
Consider this your holiday miracle 🎄✨
Our CFP is officially extended to 23 December 2025.
Keep those brilliant abstracts coming!
#LatinAmericanStudies #PILAS2026 slasuk.org/pilas-confer...
Our CFP is officially extended to 23 December 2025.
Keep those brilliant abstracts coming!
#LatinAmericanStudies #PILAS2026 slasuk.org/pilas-confer...
December 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Consider this your holiday miracle 🎄✨
Our CFP is officially extended to 23 December 2025.
Keep those brilliant abstracts coming!
#LatinAmericanStudies #PILAS2026 slasuk.org/pilas-confer...
Our CFP is officially extended to 23 December 2025.
Keep those brilliant abstracts coming!
#LatinAmericanStudies #PILAS2026 slasuk.org/pilas-confer...
🎓 UK-based postgrads & postdocs in #LatinAmericanStudies: Apply for £500 SLAS bursaries to attend #SLAS2026!
💬 Priority for those without institutional funding or in precarious work. 💡 Don’t miss #PILAS2026, just before SLAS! Deadline: November 28
🔗https://www.slasuk.org/pgpdslasconferencegrant
💬 Priority for those without institutional funding or in precarious work. 💡 Don’t miss #PILAS2026, just before SLAS! Deadline: November 28
🔗https://www.slasuk.org/pgpdslasconferencegrant
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🎓 UK-based postgrads & postdocs in #LatinAmericanStudies: Apply for £500 SLAS bursaries to attend #SLAS2026!
💬 Priority for those without institutional funding or in precarious work. 💡 Don’t miss #PILAS2026, just before SLAS! Deadline: November 28
🔗https://www.slasuk.org/pgpdslasconferencegrant
💬 Priority for those without institutional funding or in precarious work. 💡 Don’t miss #PILAS2026, just before SLAS! Deadline: November 28
🔗https://www.slasuk.org/pgpdslasconferencegrant
🎓 Latin American researchers: apply for up to £1,750 to attend #SLAS2026!
Deadline: November 28
Open to PhD students, independent scholars & academics 🌎
💡 #PILASConference happens the day before — join both!
www.slasuk.org/latinamerica...
Deadline: November 28
Open to PhD students, independent scholars & academics 🌎
💡 #PILASConference happens the day before — join both!
www.slasuk.org/latinamerica...
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎓 Latin American researchers: apply for up to £1,750 to attend #SLAS2026!
Deadline: November 28
Open to PhD students, independent scholars & academics 🌎
💡 #PILASConference happens the day before — join both!
www.slasuk.org/latinamerica...
Deadline: November 28
Open to PhD students, independent scholars & academics 🌎
💡 #PILASConference happens the day before — join both!
www.slasuk.org/latinamerica...
📢 CfP! PILAS Conference 2026 — Future Archives: Forging the Next Generation of Latin American Studies
🗓️ 8 April | 📍 Leeds
Open to postgraduates & ECRs researching Latin America 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 8 Dec 25
🔗 Details & submissions: www.slasuk.org/pilas-confer...
@slaslatam.bsky.social
🗓️ 8 April | 📍 Leeds
Open to postgraduates & ECRs researching Latin America 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 8 Dec 25
🔗 Details & submissions: www.slasuk.org/pilas-confer...
@slaslatam.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
📢 CfP! PILAS Conference 2026 — Future Archives: Forging the Next Generation of Latin American Studies
🗓️ 8 April | 📍 Leeds
Open to postgraduates & ECRs researching Latin America 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 8 Dec 25
🔗 Details & submissions: www.slasuk.org/pilas-confer...
@slaslatam.bsky.social
🗓️ 8 April | 📍 Leeds
Open to postgraduates & ECRs researching Latin America 🌎
Deadline for abstracts: 8 Dec 25
🔗 Details & submissions: www.slasuk.org/pilas-confer...
@slaslatam.bsky.social
🌿 What is PILAS?
PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies) is the postgraduate network of @slaslatam.bsky.social — run by and for postgraduates based in the UK whose work focuses on Latin America 🌎
PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies) is the postgraduate network of @slaslatam.bsky.social — run by and for postgraduates based in the UK whose work focuses on Latin America 🌎
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🌿 What is PILAS?
PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies) is the postgraduate network of @slaslatam.bsky.social — run by and for postgraduates based in the UK whose work focuses on Latin America 🌎
PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies) is the postgraduate network of @slaslatam.bsky.social — run by and for postgraduates based in the UK whose work focuses on Latin America 🌎
✨ Meet the PILAS 2025–26 Committee! ✨
We’re a group of postgraduate researchers based across the UK, working to connect and support students whose work engages with Latin America 🌎
👇 Get to know us:
We’re a group of postgraduate researchers based across the UK, working to connect and support students whose work engages with Latin America 🌎
👇 Get to know us:
October 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
✨ Meet the PILAS 2025–26 Committee! ✨
We’re a group of postgraduate researchers based across the UK, working to connect and support students whose work engages with Latin America 🌎
👇 Get to know us:
We’re a group of postgraduate researchers based across the UK, working to connect and support students whose work engages with Latin America 🌎
👇 Get to know us:
Thanks so much to all the participants, speakers and performers who we've been lucky enough to work with this year, and to @slaslatam.bsky.social for their support.
And a massive thanks to all the PILAS committee members who made all of these activities work as well as they did! 9/
And a massive thanks to all the PILAS committee members who made all of these activities work as well as they did! 9/
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thanks so much to all the participants, speakers and performers who we've been lucky enough to work with this year, and to @slaslatam.bsky.social for their support.
And a massive thanks to all the PILAS committee members who made all of these activities work as well as they did! 9/
And a massive thanks to all the PILAS committee members who made all of these activities work as well as they did! 9/
Finally, we tied up the year with an amazing evening exploring sonic histories of Latin American folk with Color Sudaka, Colectiva Sonera de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca and Andrea Martínez. Great music and great dancers! 8/
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Finally, we tied up the year with an amazing evening exploring sonic histories of Latin American folk with Color Sudaka, Colectiva Sonera de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca and Andrea Martínez. Great music and great dancers! 8/
This summer we also followed up with our Online Symposium with seven more fascinating presentations. 7/
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This summer we also followed up with our Online Symposium with seven more fascinating presentations. 7/
... Plus a wonderful performance and workshop by Latinas in Bristol.
It was a busy couple of days! 6/
It was a busy couple of days! 6/
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
... Plus a wonderful performance and workshop by Latinas in Bristol.
It was a busy couple of days! 6/
It was a busy couple of days! 6/
At the conference we also:
👉 Screened the 1959 film Araya with insights from Andrés Prypchan on his restoration work
👉 Saw some exclusive photographs by Ronald Pizzoferrato
👉 Hosted a great research methods workshop with Laurence Byrne of the Eccle's Institute... /5
👉 Screened the 1959 film Araya with insights from Andrés Prypchan on his restoration work
👉 Saw some exclusive photographs by Ronald Pizzoferrato
👉 Hosted a great research methods workshop with Laurence Byrne of the Eccle's Institute... /5
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
At the conference we also:
👉 Screened the 1959 film Araya with insights from Andrés Prypchan on his restoration work
👉 Saw some exclusive photographs by Ronald Pizzoferrato
👉 Hosted a great research methods workshop with Laurence Byrne of the Eccle's Institute... /5
👉 Screened the 1959 film Araya with insights from Andrés Prypchan on his restoration work
👉 Saw some exclusive photographs by Ronald Pizzoferrato
👉 Hosted a great research methods workshop with Laurence Byrne of the Eccle's Institute... /5
Our largest event was the PILAS Conference 2025 at the University of Bristol, featuring over forty delegates over twelve panels plus two fascinating keynote speeches from Carlos Grigsby and Alejandro De Coss Corzo. 4/
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our largest event was the PILAS Conference 2025 at the University of Bristol, featuring over forty delegates over twelve panels plus two fascinating keynote speeches from Carlos Grigsby and Alejandro De Coss Corzo. 4/
We collaborated with the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University to host Esperanza Mayobre. 3/
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We collaborated with the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University to host Esperanza Mayobre. 3/
First off, we were delighted to organise three Reading Group events featuring a huge range of fantastic authors. 2/
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
First off, we were delighted to organise three Reading Group events featuring a huge range of fantastic authors. 2/
We're also delighted to invite you to our evening event with Color Sudaka, on Friday 22 August at Kings College London. Featuring two special guests, we'll be hearing and learning about folk music from across Latin America.
Entry is free but please RSVP: forms.gle/h37xLmzHg5dh...
Entry is free but please RSVP: forms.gle/h37xLmzHg5dh...
August 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We're also delighted to invite you to our evening event with Color Sudaka, on Friday 22 August at Kings College London. Featuring two special guests, we'll be hearing and learning about folk music from across Latin America.
Entry is free but please RSVP: forms.gle/h37xLmzHg5dh...
Entry is free but please RSVP: forms.gle/h37xLmzHg5dh...
Keeping the conversation going from our conference in April, we're pleased to share the details of our PILAS online symposium on Wednesday 6 August 2025, from 14:00–18:30 (BST).
Non-speakers are welcome to register using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Non-speakers are welcome to register using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
July 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Keeping the conversation going from our conference in April, we're pleased to share the details of our PILAS online symposium on Wednesday 6 August 2025, from 14:00–18:30 (BST).
Non-speakers are welcome to register using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Non-speakers are welcome to register using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Happy July all 🌞
We're pleased to invite expressions of interest to take the reins for the 2025/26 PILAS committee. We're looking for six PGRs in UK-based institutions to fill four officer roles and two ordinary member roles. See below for details!
We're pleased to invite expressions of interest to take the reins for the 2025/26 PILAS committee. We're looking for six PGRs in UK-based institutions to fill four officer roles and two ordinary member roles. See below for details!
July 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Happy July all 🌞
We're pleased to invite expressions of interest to take the reins for the 2025/26 PILAS committee. We're looking for six PGRs in UK-based institutions to fill four officer roles and two ordinary member roles. See below for details!
We're pleased to invite expressions of interest to take the reins for the 2025/26 PILAS committee. We're looking for six PGRs in UK-based institutions to fill four officer roles and two ordinary member roles. See below for details!
Just a few days away now. We're looking forward to welcoming you all to PILAS 2025! For those of you in Bristol, keep an eye out around campus for our posters 👀
April 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just a few days away now. We're looking forward to welcoming you all to PILAS 2025! For those of you in Bristol, keep an eye out around campus for our posters 👀
Finally, we're glad to announce a workshop by Latinas in Bristol, who will share their history and work within the city's Latin community. Expect traditional dances performed by Latin Folk, as well as the chance to engage in traditional Brazilian textile art: fuxico. Exciting!
April 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Finally, we're glad to announce a workshop by Latinas in Bristol, who will share their history and work within the city's Latin community. Expect traditional dances performed by Latin Folk, as well as the chance to engage in traditional Brazilian textile art: fuxico. Exciting!
This year we are also proud to exhibit the work of Venezuelan artist and fellow postgraduate student Ronald Pizzoferrato. This will showcase a selection of images from his project The Path of the Objects, a visual examination of Venezuela’s migration crisis.
March 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This year we are also proud to exhibit the work of Venezuelan artist and fellow postgraduate student Ronald Pizzoferrato. This will showcase a selection of images from his project The Path of the Objects, a visual examination of Venezuela’s migration crisis.
As a prelude, we're also proud to be presenting fellow postgrad Andrés Prypchan’s restoration work of Araya, comprising 22 mins of previously unseen footage from Benacerraf's discards. We'll be holding a Q&A with Andrés, delving into the technical aspects of his restoration work.
March 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
As a prelude, we're also proud to be presenting fellow postgrad Andrés Prypchan’s restoration work of Araya, comprising 22 mins of previously unseen footage from Benacerraf's discards. We'll be holding a Q&A with Andrés, delving into the technical aspects of his restoration work.
Very excitingly, we'll also be screening Margot Benacerraf's 1959 seminal film Araya. The film captures a pivotal moment in the nation’s history, when the centuries-old extraction of salt—once known as “white gold”—was eclipsed by the rise of oil, Venezuela’s “black gold.”
March 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Very excitingly, we'll also be screening Margot Benacerraf's 1959 seminal film Araya. The film captures a pivotal moment in the nation’s history, when the centuries-old extraction of salt—once known as “white gold”—was eclipsed by the rise of oil, Venezuela’s “black gold.”
We're delighted to have as our second keynote @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social, lecturer in Urban Geography at the Uni of Edinburgh. Alejandro's talk will draw from his own long-term ethnographic work in Mexico City to explore what it means to think infrastructural labour as method and practice.
March 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
We're delighted to have as our second keynote @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social, lecturer in Urban Geography at the Uni of Edinburgh. Alejandro's talk will draw from his own long-term ethnographic work in Mexico City to explore what it means to think infrastructural labour as method and practice.
A huge welcome to our first of two keynote speakers: Carlos F. Grigsby, Nicaraguan-born poet and lecturer at the Uni of Bristol. In his keynote Carlos will address scholarly research as academic activism and reconciling "Global South" perspectives with Anglo-European academia.
March 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A huge welcome to our first of two keynote speakers: Carlos F. Grigsby, Nicaraguan-born poet and lecturer at the Uni of Bristol. In his keynote Carlos will address scholarly research as academic activism and reconciling "Global South" perspectives with Anglo-European academia.
Friendly reminder that registration for PILAS 2025 closes this Monday 17 February! If you've submitted an abstract and are still awaiting a response from us, don't forget to check your spam folder. Any issues, don't hesitate to get in touch.
February 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Friendly reminder that registration for PILAS 2025 closes this Monday 17 February! If you've submitted an abstract and are still awaiting a response from us, don't forget to check your spam folder. Any issues, don't hesitate to get in touch.