News

Join the Committee!
Four positions come vacant this year: Treasurer and three Ordinary Members. Why not seek nomination? Details available here
Deadline: 2 March 2010.

Postgraduate Travel Grant
SLAS provides 20 grants of £600 for postgraduate travel. For further details click here
Deadline: 28 February 2010.

Postgrad. Conference Grant
SLAS makes 8 grants of £500 available for postgraduates to attend conferences outside the UK. For further details click here
Deadline: 28 February 2010.

Harold Blakemore Essay Prize
Essay competition open to all postgraduate students. For further details click here
Deadline: 28 February 2010.

Obituary: Donna Lee Van Cott
We also mourn the death of Donna Lee Van Cott, whose work on indigenous movements was groundbreaking. The heart-felt obituary appeared in LASA Forum (Winter 2009) (click here [new window]).

Obituary: Olivia Harris
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Olivia Harris, Professor of Social Anthropology at the LSE, who has died suddenly of cancer on 9 April 2009.

A touching obituary by James Dunkerley appeared in The Guardian on Monday 20 April (click here [new window]).

New Committee
Following the electoral process, the following took up their posts at the SLAS Conference.
President: Nikky Miller
Vice-President: Lucy Taylor
Treasurer: John Fisher
Secretary: Adrian Pearce
Ordinary Members:
Polly Wilding
Jasmine Gideon
Jens Hentschke
Caroline Williams

New e-letter Editor
The new editor of the monthly member's e-letter is Silvia Posocco. Email s.posocco@lse.ac.uk if you wish to advertise conferences, workshops, seminars, funding opportunities, postgraduate study etc.

Annual Lecture
James Painter recently gave the SLAS annual lecture on "Climate Change, Latin America and the Media" at Canning House. James is a BBC reporter and has developed an impressive expertise in the fascinating field of politics and climate change in the region. His thought-provoking and important talk is available here [Word].

 

Events

Annual Conference 2010
University of Bristol
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 April 2010

The conference will be wide ranging, and panel proposals are welcomed on any theme, period or country. The Plenary Lecture "The Paradoxes of Truth: Reckoning with Pinochet and the memory question in Chile" will be given by Professor Steve Stern.

Panels have now been approved a list of panels and convenors is available here [word] while a more detailed list can be found by clicking here [word]. If you wish to participate in a panel, please contact the panel convenor by email, providing a brief abstract (around 250 words) and your name and contact details.

For further details, see website here [new window]. For conference enquiries, please contact slas-2010@bristol.ac.uk.

Conference Attendance Support:
Deadline 15 February!
Panel convenors may nominate one paper presenter for these grants: Postgraduate Bursaries for further details click here. Also, Latin American Scholars' Grant, for details click here.

What is SLAS?

Excellent Research | Multidisciplinarity | Community
SLAS was founded in 1964 and is one of the leading Latin American studies organizations in Europe. We hold an annual conference in March/April, an Annual Lecture and publish the Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR). We have around 400 members. While most are academics and PhD students, members also include diplomats, journalists, and research analysts from business and non-governmental organisations. More >>