About
The Latin America Colloquium (LAC) brings together graduate students and faculty with an area interest and research focus on Latin America. The group meets every other week to discuss published and in-progress articles, book chapters, and funding or grant proposals. We strive to being a collegial, interdisciplinary, and safe space where graduate students and faculty from different departments can share original research at any stage of development for constructive feedback.
PLEASE NOTE: These events will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM in various rooms on campus as well as via Zoom. ZOOM LINK
For more information, please contact one of the following individuals:
Adriana Romero: romerosanchez@wisc.edu
Marino Miranda Noriega: mirandanorie@wisc.edu
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Spring 2025 Schedule
Monday, February 24th @ 12:30 PM | Will Baynard, “Ordering Legal Pluralities in San Cristobal de Las Casas”
Monday, March 17th @ 12:30 PM | 7205 Law School Building: Adriana Romero, “You Cannot Step in the Same River Twice’: Legitimacy, Continuity and Change in Transitional Penal Institutions”
Monday, April 7th @ 12:30 PM | Zaira Magaña,“Being “at risk” or “a risk” to others: Youth transitions in the urban margins of Mexico City”
Monday, April 21st @ 12:30 PM | Priscilla Pereira da Costa Correa, “Dialogical approach as a legal tool for socio-economic rights judicial enforcement in the Brazilian system”
Fall 2024 Schedule
Ana Carolina Girard Teixeira Cazetta
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Decisions and Non-Repetition Measures on the Right to Health in Latin America
Will Baynard
From Barrio to State: Urban Borders and Legal Pluralism in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Alex Huneeus
Beyond the Environment in the Laws of War
Adriana Romero
The JEP’s ‘Justice Orthopedics’: A Transitional Justice Institution in the Search for the Perfect Justice
Spring 2024 Schedule
Spring 2023 Schedule
Feb 06: Adriana Romero: “Transitional Justice as ‘Justice Orthopedics’” | 8108 Sewell Social Sciences Building
Feb 20: Markus Ciesielski: “Mapping Recent Simultaneities of Law and Inequality in Latin America. Challenges for Theory and Research” | Remote Only
Mar 27: Marino Miranda: “The Construction of Urban and Rural Education in Mexico and the US at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” | 8108 Sewell Social Sciences Building
Apr 10: Madeline Soiney: “Decolonizing Dominicanidad: Anti-Blackness and Linguistic Violence against Haitians in the Dominican Republic” | 8108 Sewell Social Sciences Building
Fall 2022 Schedule
The Latin America Colloquium meets from 12 pm-1 pm every three Wednesdays.
Sep 28: Ned Littlefield: “Reading O’Donnell in Contemporary Brazil: Bureaucratic Authoritarianism under Bolsonaro (2019-2022)”
Oct 19: Juan Camilo Franco Gomez: “The Many Lives of the Agrarian Reform: Reordering Life, Labor, and Ecologies on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast (1961-2000)”
Nov 9: Will Baynard: “Understanding Zapatista Ideology and its Effect on Zapatista Assertions of Sovereignty and Indigeneity”
Nov 30: Carolina Hormaza: “German geography ideas on the agrarian colonization of Latin American between 1950 and 1970”