Queen’s University Belfast, 29-31 March 2023

Founded in 1964, the Society for Latin American Studies is one of the leading Latin American studies organisations in Europe, and covers all aspects of Latin American society and culture. Latin American studies is a multidisciplinary field stretching across the arts, humanities and social sciences. SLAS’s annual conference is the key event in the society’s calendar.

Queen’s University Belfast has a long tradition in teaching, study, and research about Latin America. The School of Arts, English and Languages is today home to a strong cohort of Latin American specialists within the Spanish and Portuguese subject area, who are part of the Core Disciplinary Research Group in Modern Languages (see its blog here). The School also hosts the Centre for the Americas, an interdisciplinary research hub bringing together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds from across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences working in the fields of US, Canadian, Caribbean and Latin American studies. We are delighted to welcome the first SLAS conference on the island of Ireland. 

The conference will also include social and cultural events, including a conference dinner.

This year the PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies) conference will take place adjacent to the main SLAS conference, on Wednesday 29 March 2023. A separate Call for Papers has been issued by PILAS.