A continental congress of the Latin American Studies Association
LASA opens a venue for both intensive and extensive intellectual dialogue in the following tracks:
This track includes academic works that examine cultural, political, social, and intellectual exchanges between Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on the reciprocal influences and mutual extensions through which ideas and intellectual movements developed in one region have shaped the thought and culture of the others. Special attention is given to the historical and enduring legacies of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as central forces structuring these exchanges between Africa and the Americas.
This item encourages and fosters studies that seek to compare and contrast the social, economic, cultural, and political phenomena of these regions in order to better understand their historical processes and their current challenges.
This topic accepts academic papers on Latin America and the Caribbean from scholars from various regions of the world, especially from Africa, in any field of investigation. Studies on Africa by scholars based in the Americas are welcome. This promotes intellectual encounters between Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
This track invites academic contributions that examine emerging foreign policy agendas and diplomatic reconfigurations between Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. It highlights the renewed strategic importance of Africa for several LAC countries, reflected in the expansion of South–South cooperation, diversified diplomatic partnerships, and growing engagement with multilateral and interregional frameworks. Papers may explore how shared concerns—such as climate justice, peacebuilding, development, science and technology, and gender and racial justice—are reshaping foreign policy priorities, as well as the opportunities and challenges involved in translating new diplomatic initiatives into concrete projects, sustained economic relations, and inclusive agendas within the Global South.
This track is available for those papers that do not fit within the framework of the thematic areas described above and are relevant to the theme of the congress.