Past Committees and Events
Here is a list of some of our prior committee members and conferences. While each conference used to have its own website in the past, this is now PILAS’ official website where all the information about our events and resources have been centralised.
2022-2023
Committee Members: Nathan Huanacune (President & Treasurer), Mar Sánchez (Secretary), Daniela Suárez Vargas (Social Media and Outreach Chief), Elisabeth Goemans (Work-In-Progress and Workshop Organiser), Juan Luis Bradley (Work-In-Progress and Workshop Organiser)
Conference (hybrid): “Coloniality, Autonomy, and Emancipation in Latin America”, 29th March 2023, Queen's University Belfast
2021-2022
Committee Members: Oliver Wilson-Nunn (President), Francisca Valenzuela (Secretary), Pablo Soffia (Treasurer and Workshop Organiser), Erika Teichert (Social Media and Outreach Chief), Patrick Turner (Work in Progress Chief), Gustavo Sanchez (Workshop Organiser), Anna Corrigan (Conference Organiser), Javier Pérez-Osorio (Conference Organiser)
Conference (hybrid): “Repair, Resistance, and Resilience in Latin America”, 7 - 8 July 2022, University of Cambridge
2019-2021
Committee Members: Armandina Maldonado Deller (President), Mariana Reyes Carranza (Public Relations Manager), Metin Senel (Treasurer), Stephanie Ashton (Inter-University Coordination and Logistics), Aleksandra Kaye (Community Outreach)
(Virtual) Conference “I, We, They, the Other: Deconstructing Identity in Latin America” held online, 1st and 2nd July 2021
https://pilasconference19.wordpress.com/
The conference in 2020 was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2018-2019
Committee Members: Jessica Wax-Edwards (President), Alex Curry (Vice President), Olgierd Iwanczewski (Co-Secretary), Giulia Champion (Co-Secretary/Treasurer), Matthew Barlow (Inter-university coordination and logistics), Gabriel Funari (Community Outreach)
Conference “Communities of Knowledge, Communities of Action” held at the University of York, 4th-5th June 2019
2017-2018
Committee Members: Richard Smith (President/Treasurer), Jo Morley (Vice-President/Secretary), Adjoa Osei (Social Media Coordinator), Grace Gaynor (Events – Conference and PILAS@SLAS), Marta F. Suárez (Events – Workshops and Exhibitions), Luke Grover (Communication & Community Outreach), Jeremy Gunson (Inter-university Coordination and Logistics)
Conference “Contested Narratives Within and Beyond Latin America” held at the University of Liverpool, 3rd-5th June 2018
2016-2017
Committee Members: Lourdes Parra Lazcano (President), Jesús Sanjurjo (Vice President), Valentina Caruso (Secretary and Treasurer), Peter Watson (Communications)
Conference “Discontinuities and Resistance in Latin America” held at the University of Leeds, 26th and 27th June 2017
https://pilasconference17.wordpress.com/
2015-2016
Committee Members: Laura Sariego-Kluge (President), Diana Morales-Arcila (Vice-President), Héctor Bezares-Buenrostro (Treasurer), Ivone Campos-Luna (Secretary/Communications Officer), Jorge Altamirano-Flores (Communications Officer)
Conference: ‘Latin America in Transformation: Bridging disciplinary boundaries’ held at Newcastle University, 29th and 30th June 2016
https://pilasuk.wixsite.com/pilasconference2016
2014-2015
Committee Members: Esther Ojulari (President), Megan Ryburn (Vice-President/Liaison Officer), Natalie Hoskin (Secretary/Communications), Pablo Torres (Treasurer), Rachel Randall (Conference website/Social media), Sanna-Mari Tuunanen (Communications)
Conference ‘Latin America on the World Stage’ held at the University of Cambridge, 23rd and 24th June 2015
https://pilasuk.wixsite.com/conference2015
2013-2014
Committee Members: Jose Angel Garcia (President), Christian Beyle (Secretary), Ramón I. Centeno (Treasurer), Marcia A. Vera Espinoza (Communication Officer), Jennifer Nelson (Webmaster Developer), Mauricio Castaneda (Liaison Officer)
Conference “Where is Latin America heading?” held at the University of Sheffield, 12th-13th June 2014
Photo: Molly Avery. Street art in Xela (Quetzaltenango).