2023 Meeting in San Antonio: Now Accepting Proposals

The Southwest Seminar Colonial Latin America is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for the 2023 meetings is now open! The meetings will take place November 9-11, 2023 in San Antonio, Texas, hosted by the University of Texas, San Antonio. This meeting will be broadly, though not exclusively organized around the theme of Known, Unknown, and Imagined Geographies of Colonial Latin America. The extended proposal deadline is June 15, 2023. For more information on joining the seminar, please contact the local host, Juliet Wiersema (Juliet.Wiersema@utsa.edu) and seminar organizer, R.A. Kashanipour (rykash@arizona.edu).

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News!!!

The Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America is pleased to announce a new book series in partnership with with Routledge Press called New Colonial Histories of Latin America.  The series will showcase innovative and original scholarship on Spanish and Portuguese colonial history, from forward-thinking approaches to transregional and transcontinental comparisons to novel empirical studies of local history.  Seminar participants, along with scholars of all ranks and backgrounds, are invited to submit proposals for monographs or edited volumes. For inquiries and information, please contact the co-editors Martha Few, Kevin Gosner, and Ryan Kashanipour.

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About 

Based at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, the Southwest Seminar is a consortium of scholars and institutions dedicated to the study of colonial Latin America, with particular interests in innovative research on identity, labor, power, knowledge production, and violence. The seminar aims to foster collegial and convivial interactions among scholars of all levels generating new research and innovative approaches. The annual seminar meetings rotate each year among institutions in the American Southwest.

At the heart of the consortium is the annual two-day seminar that brings together ten scholars to present new scholarship and works in progress. The seminar is open to faculty, independent scholars, and advanced graduate students interested in colonial Latin America. The meetings serve as spaces to workshop ideas and drafts of larger projects among a diverse collection of colonial Latin Americanists. Each participant will present a pre-circulated, article-length work in progress and serve as the primary commentator for another participant’s paper. Leading, senior scholars help moderate and guide discussions through the seminar meetings. As a group, we promote and foster positive, productive, professional relationships between scholars of all ranks, backgrounds, and interests.

With the support of our generous member institutions, the Southwest Seminar will cover the costs of housing, meals, and events for those selected to participate.  For more information, please contact R.A. Kashanipour at rykash@arizona.edu or thesouthwestseminar@gmail.com.