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The Society for Latin American Studies was founded in 1964 and is one of the leading Latin American Studies organisations in Europe.

https://linktr.ee/SLASLatAm
BLAR is a leading publication in Latin American Studies!

✅ CiteScore: 2.1
✅ Impact Factor: 0.6
✅ Acceptance Rate: 41%
✅ Submission to First Decision: 79 days

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#LatinAmericanStudies
December 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The first issue of our recently relaunched SLAS NEWSLETTER has been sent out this week.

If you want to receive the next one with information about events, funding opportunities, publications, and more, please join our mailing list using this link: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
BLAR is committed to promoting the dissemination of current research. We publish individual original research articles and Special Issues coordinated by a Guest Editor, covering various topics.

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November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) provides a platform for scholarly discussion on LatAm, the Caribbean, inter-American relations, and the Latin Diaspora. We publish original research articles from all Social Sciences and Humanities academic disciplines.

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November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
First session of the 6th Colloquium on Latin America with SLAS former President, @mariekeriethof.bsky.social

This is a HYBRID event hosted by the U of Bayreuth and organised by Luis Bastidas and Maria Papenfuss.

More information and link to attend here: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/CoLatinAmeri...
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Scholars working on Latin Americanist subjects are invited to apply for projects that use the library’s world-class collection.

In addition to undertaking the fellowship, the SLAS/BLAR Visiting Fellow will be invited to publish an article informed by this research in BLAR.
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📕BOOK REVIEW📕

8⃣ Giovanny Castillo-Figueroa (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur @ecosurmx) reviews Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico by María L. Cruz-Torres (@UTexasPress, 2023).

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The website for the #SLAS2026 upcoming conference, “Memory is both compass and companion" at the University of Leeds, has been launched.

Check out the page and stay tuned for more updates about the conference.

conferences.leeds.ac.uk/slas2026/
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🗓️OPPORTUNITY🗓️

Join the Colloquium on Latin America!

A hybrid platform connecting researchers worldwide to present & discuss Latin American studies projects in English or Spanish, designed for global participation across time zones.

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/CoLatinAmeri...
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Receive our monthly newsletter featuring BLAR highlights, SLAS events, conference updates, funding opportunities, calls for papers, community news, and more.

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November 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
📗BOOK REVIEW📗

7⃣ Carlos Haag (York University, Canada) shares his review of Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past and Present by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2022)

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
All are invited to check the SLAS Blog and discover insightful posts on Latin American studies, research highlights, member perspectives, and updates from our community.

Read the latest here: www.slasuk.org/blog

#SLAS #LatinAmericanStudies
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
EVENT

VI COIMI - Abya Yala: Histórias, Territorialidades e Saberes Indígenas

📍UNEB - Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brasil
🗓️February 25-28, 2026
👥Coordinators: Guillaume Candela (@cardiffuni) & Carlos Paz (FCH-UNCPBA)
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
📘BOOK REVIEW📘

6⃣ Oscar de la Torre (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) reviews Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Perez (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023).

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📙BOOK REVIEW📙

5⃣ Andrea Román-Alfaro (University of New Mexico) reviews Itinerant Ideas: Race, Indigeneity and Cross-Border Intellectual Encounters in Latin America (1900–1950) by Joanna Crow (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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November 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📕BOOK REVIEW📕

4⃣ Francis Adams (Old Dominion University) reviews Chris Gilbert’s Commune or Nothing: Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review Press 2023).

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📗BOOK REVIEW📗

3⃣ Juan Javier Rivera Andía (@uni_tue) shares his review of Reading the Illegible. Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes (@UArizonaPres 2003) by Laura León Llerena.

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📘BOOK REVIEW📘

2⃣ Andrea Cadelo (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana) reviews Food Studies in Latin American Literatures. Perspectives on the Gastronarrative (@uarkpress.bsky.social 2021), edited by Rocío Del Águila and Vanessa Miseres.

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
📚BLAR’S (44:4) BOOK REVIEWS📚

1⃣ Alex Latta (Wilfrid Laurier University) reviews Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press 2004) by Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq.

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Postgraduates in Latin American Studies (@pilas-latam.bsky.social) Network invites proposals for its 2026 Annual Conference, “Future Archives: Forging the Next Generation of Latin American Studies.”

Deadline for abstracts: 8 Dec 25
Notification of acceptance: 16 Jan 26
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
2⃣ "Political Philosophy Assumptions of Social Programmes for Family Support in Uruguay” by Ana Fascioli and Julián Reyes (Universidad de la República)

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📰BLAR's (44:4) ORIGINAL ARTICLES 📰

2️⃣ "Youth Representation in Cabinets in Latin America" by Daniel Stockemer and Francine Pauvif (@uOttawa).

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
4⃣ The final contribution to the special section is “Accusatory Whispers: Micro-Politics of Irreconciliation in the Peruvian Andes” by Dorothée Delacroix.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#OpenAccess
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
3️⃣ The next article in our latest issue’s special section is “Exploring the Limits of Indigenous Peoples' Resistance against Coca Cultivation and Drug Trafficking in Peruvian Amazonia” by Hernán Manrique López (KU Leuven).

READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
📌SLAS CONFERENCE DEADLINE EXTENDED📌

Dates: 9–10 Apr 2026 (@pilas-latam.bsky.social on 8 Apr)
Venue: @universityofleeds.bsky.social, UK
Abstracts (300 words max): Monday 20th Oct 2025
Notification of acceptance: Early-mid Dec 2025

MORE INFORMATION BELOW
October 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM