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 >>
Events
Annual Conference 2009
(Re) Invasions and Inventions: Latin America Confronts the 21st Century
University of Leeds, Thursday 26 & Friday 27 March 2009
The highly successful conference gathered over 200 delegates from the UK, Latin America, Europe and the United States. There were 36 panels and over a hundred presentations, ranging in topic from film, literature and art, through history, sociology and politics to economics, anthropology and methodology.
Events included film screenings, workshops and a plenary lecture by Professor Maxine Molyneaux, Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. Entitled "Latin America's 'Neoliberal' social policy: what's neo-liberal about it?", she took a critical, deeper view of neoliberalism, tracing the twists and turns of social policy in Latin America over the last 30 years and its highly varied implementation across the region.
The conference was hosted by the University of Leeds School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies [new windows]
A report on the conference will appear shortly, but for further details consult the conference website here [new window].