Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean (WLAC)

The Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean is an interdisciplinary forum and intellectual community for graduate students and faculty whose work and research are focused on Latin America or the Caribbean. The workshop hosts regular presentations of work in progress by students, faculty, and invited guests, as well as special events and gatherings. Participants come from a wide range of disciplines from across the social sciences and humanities, enabling an interdisciplinary conversation and exchange around questions of common interest to those whose work focuses on the region

Alternate Thursdays, 5–6:30 pm
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 5828 S University Ave, Pick Hall for International Studies, Room 118
Workshop coordinators for 2025-26: Belén Sanchez and Ricardo Soler Rubio

Winter 2026 Program:

• Jan 8: Joseph Wager, "Hasta que su grito se hizo ley: The Non-Search for the Disappeared and the Politics of Representation in 'Postconflict' Colombia"
• Jan 23: Emily Floyd, "Of Style and the Generic: Cuzco, the European Canon, and the 'Whiteness' of the Sacred"
• Jan 29: Cristina Cones-Pla, "Plurinational Ecuador: Authoring Space to Authorize the Collective"
• Feb 12: Jack Chelgren, "Hilda Mundy’s Cinepoetics as Parody of the Ciudad Letrada"
• Feb 26: Will Ockendon, "Rural Cosmopolitanism, Hemispheric Reconstruction and the Horizon of Cooperative Internationalism"