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44th ILASSA Conference (2026)
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Inventing the Near Future: Knowledge, Memory, and Imagination in Latin America
Friday, March 27, 2026
Location: Benson Second Floor Reading Room
8:30 – 9:00 am – Breakfast & Registration
9:00 – 9:30 am – Welcoming Remarks
LLILAS Director Dr. Adela Pineda Franco
9:30 – 10:15 am – Keynote Speaker
María Rosa Olivera-Williams (University of Notre Dame)
“Darío in Between: el arte de traducir el ambiente estilístico de la modernidad”
10:15 – 10:30 am – Coffee Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Panel 1
Technology, Media, and Cultural Production
Jack Riordan (UT Austin)
Jaime Ramírez (UT Austin)
Arodí Monserrat Díaz Rocha (Benemérita y Centenaria
Escuela Normal del Estado de San Luis Potosí) & Oswaldo
Yosif Godínez Díaz (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis
Potosí)
12:00 – 1:30 pm – Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 pm – Benson Special Collections Showcase
Benson Room SRH 1.115
2:15 – 2:30 pm – Coffee Break
2:30 – 4:00 pm – Panel 2
Political Ecologies and Territorial Imaginaries
Daniel Molina (UT Austin)
Rodrigo Bustamante (UT Austin)
María Celeste Camacho (UNC Córdoba)
4:00 – 5:30 pm – Panel 3
Race, Gender, and the Politics of Representation
Tatiane Zaram (University of São Paulo)
Thaís Barbosa (UT Austin)
Pierina Pighi Bel (CUNY)
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Location: Benson Conference Room
9:00 – 10:30 am – Panel 4
Agroecology, Peasant Knowledge, and Governance of Territories
Sofia I. Jordan (University of Michigan)
Esteban Barriga Abril (Quito Sin Minería / Urban Futures)
Yekaterina Eskander (University of Michigan)
10:30 – 10:45 am – Coffee Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm – Panel 5
Migration, Citizenship, and Affective Worlds
Salomé Valdivieso (UT Austin)
Isabel Ibáñez de la Calle (UT Austin)
Cristina Isabel Maymí (UT Austin)
12:15 – 1:30 pm – Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 pm – Panel 6
Archives, Language, and Cultural Memory
Carolina Rodríguez Alzza (UT Austin)
María Bacilio (Princeton University)
Gabriel Duque Coelho Novaes (UFRJ)
3:00 – 4:30 pm – Panel 7
Sound, Art, and Countercultural Practices
Kelsey Milian Lopez (CUNY)
Tova Katzman (UT Austin)
Mauricio Pajon (UT Austin)
4:30 – 4:45 pm – Coffee Break
4:45 – 5:45 pm – Documentary Projection
Tainã Rosa
5:45 – 6:00 pm – Final Remarks
6:00 – 6:30 pm – Closing Reception
Acknowledgements
The conference is sponsored by LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and co-sponsored by:
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Native American & Indigenous Studies
Latino Studies
Warfield Center for African & African American Studies
Department of Linguistics
Conference Board
Mauro Aguirre
Salomé Valdivieso
Tiago Li
Micah Unzueta
Art & Design: Celeste Camacho