November 5 & 6, 2026
Fort Worth, Texas
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Call for Proposals
The Southwest Seminar on Colonial Latin America invites proposals for its 2026 annual meeting to be held November 5 and 6, 2026 in Fort Worth, Texas. The Southwest Seminar is a collaborative effort among specialists from across the American Southwest dedicated to promoting innovative approaches and new research on the study of colonial Latin America. This year’s meeting will be hosted in Texas Christian University’s beautiful tree-lined campus in Historic Fort Worth, “where the West begins.”
The Seminar’s annual meetings are conceived as welcoming and supportive venues to exchange ideas and to encourage collegiality among colonial Latin Americanists of varied backgrounds and diverse research interests. Interdisciplinary in nature, each meeting brings anthropologists, art historians, historians, ethno-musicologists, literary scholars, and specialists in a variety of disciplines to present new research on colonialism in all regions and periods in Latin America. The participants present works in progress, including dissertation chapters, articles in development, or pieces of larger works. Graduate students, junior faculty, and senior scholars are all welcome!
Submissions
To participate in the 2026 meeting, please send proposals to theSouthwestSeminar@gmail.com by July 1, 2026. We invite proposals in English or Spanish from domestic and international scholars at any career stage. Submissions should include an abstract (no longer than three hundred words) and an abbreviated CV (no longer than two pages). Invited participants will introduce their respective pre-circulated works-in-progress (no longer than 10,000 words) and serve as primary commentators for another participant’s work. The seminar consortium will cover local accommodations and meals for participants.
For more information, please contact the local host, Alex Hidalgo (a.hidalgo@tcu.edu) and seminar organizer, R.A. Kashanipour (rykash@arizona.edu).
About the Seminar
The Southwest Seminar is comprised of a community of scholars focused on the interdisciplinary study of colonial Latin America. Officially housed at the University of Arizona, the Southwest Seminar is funded through a consortium of institutions, including the following: Penn State University, University of California, San Diego, Texas Christian University, Texas State University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas, El Paso, University of Texas, San Antonio, and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, with partner institutions at Denver Art Museum, John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, and Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture at the College of William & Mary.
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