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Event Grant - Supports SLAS members to organise conferences, workshops & events.

DEADLINE 24 October 2025

MORE INFO: www.slasuk.org/eventgrants

Whether you’re just starting your MA or deep in your PhD, PILAS is your space to connect, share ideas, and grow together.

💌 We’re open to collaborations and suggestions — message us here or email pilascontact@gmail.com

We aim to:
🎓 Support postgraduate researchers
🌿 Build a collaborative community
🗓️ Organise events, workshops & an annual conference
✨ Amplify postgraduate voices within SLAS

Committee Member Cristine Estefany Blas Blas 🇵🇪 🇺🇸 - PhD student in Spanish at the University of Cambridge.

Conference Secretary (shared role) Kandya Obezo 🇨🇴 PhD candidate in Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE). Kandya’s research explores Afro-descendant activism and cultural heritage policies in Colombia, with a focus on community agency and local knowledge.

Conference Secretary (shared role) Sara Lucia Guerrero 🇵🇪, anthropologist and PhD student in Film Studies in University of St Andrews. Sara Lucia studies contemporary Peruvian filmmaking in the southern Andes from an intersectional approach.

Secretary Ana Karen Reyes 🇲🇽, PhD student in Education at the University of Leeds. Her research explores how childhood and culture are constructed in Mexico, drawing on posthumanist perspectives.

Treasurer Manuel del Callejo 🇲🇽, PhD student in Spanish at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on fantastic and horror fiction in contemporary Latin American literature.

President Yasmin Getirana 🇧🇷, PhD student in International History at LSE. Yasmin studies domestic workers in Catholic movements in Latin America during the Cold War.

Also, if seeing all these events have struck up an interest in joining this upcoming year's committee, we're still open for applications: slasuk.org/expressions-... 9/9

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/

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/

... Plus a wonderful performance and workshop by Latinas in Bristol.

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

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/