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IAS Prize for Best Thesis or Dissertation and IAS Prize for Best Essay or Article

Continuing its efforts to promote Inter-American Studies, the Association is announcing the third round of competitons for IAS Prizes. There are again two awards, one for the best master’s or doctoral or post-doctoral thesis and one for the best article … Continue reading

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Keynote Speakers

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, … Continue reading

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Raussert, Wilfried (ed.).The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies. 2017

An essential overview of this blossoming field, The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies is the first collection to draw together the diverse approaches and perspectives on the field, highlighting the importance of Inter-American Studies as it is practiced today. Including … Continue reading

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Seminario Permanente de Migración International: 7a. sesion: El desplazamiento forzado por violencia en México: un debate pendiente, 26 de mayo 2017

Te invitamos a la 7a. sesión del Seminario Permanente sobre Migración Internacional. En esta ocasión, el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM organiza la sesión y la transmitirá por videoconferencia a El Colef y por internet.

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Raussert, Wilfried, Rozema, Brian; Campos, Yolanda, Littschwager, Marius (eds.). Key Tropes in Inter-American Studies from the “Forum for Inter-American Research (fiar).” 2016

This book is a key text for scholars and students that study the Americas in a multilingual and transdisciplinary fashion. The dialogical paradigm that underlies any sincere Inter-American scholarship makes clear that no single scholarly positioning can capture the complexity … Continue reading

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Breinig, Helmbrecht. Hemispheric Imaginations: North American Fictions of Latin America. 2017

An extensive study of fictional representations of Latin America in North American literature.  What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How … Continue reading

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“A Long Time Ago on a Reservation Far, Far Away”: Contemporary Indigenous Popular Culture across the Globe, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 1-3, 2017

A three-day international conference devoted to the field of Indigenous Popular Culture, organized and hosted by the department of North American Literary and Cultural Studies of Saarland University, Germany. Indigenous Popular Culture is arguably one of the most vibrant and … Continue reading

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Reinventing the Social: Movements and Narratives of Resistance, Dissension, and Reconciliation in the Americas

University of Coimbra, Portugal, 22-24 March 2018 The struggle over social issues and the resistance to ruling elites have a long history in the colonies and nations of the Americas. They range from wars of independence and slave uprisings to … Continue reading

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