Tulane Scholars at 2025 LASA Annual Conference
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Conference will be held in San Francisco, CA, from May 23 to May 26, 2025. This year's theme is “Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América.” Latin Americanist scholars across Tulane University will participate in in-person and virtual panels, workshops, discussions, author talks, and more.
If you’re attending LASA this year, check out the list of events featuring Stone Center faculty and students below. All times are listed in Pacific Time.
Download LASA full program here.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Fragile Futures: Political Responses to Environmental and Climate Harms in Latin America
(166 // ENV - Panel - Friday, 01:45pm - 03:15pm, Sierra E)
Session Organizer: Anthony Calacino, University of Oxford
Chair: Anthony Calacino, University of Oxford
Discussant: Isabella Alcañiz, University of Maryland
The Politics of Environmental and Climate Harms in Latin America: Energy Transition: Kathryn A. Hochstetler, London School of Economics (LSE)
Natural Disasters and Climate Change in Latin America: Moisés Arce, Tulane University
First to Manage, First in the Polls: Legacy Power in Water Provision During Mega Droughts: Anthony Calacino, University of Oxford
Who Cares About the Environment? Survey Data from Latin America: Jonathan Cohen, University of Colorado Boulder
The Ideology of Criminal Actors
(184 // VIO - Roundtable - Friday, 01:45pm - 03:15pm, Sierra F)
Session Organizers: Philip L. Johnson, Flinders University; Enrique Desmond Arias, Baruch College, City University of New York
Chair: Philip L. Johnson, Flinders University
Presenters: Teo Ballvé, Colgate University; Rebecca A. Hanson, University of Florida; Verónica Zubillaga, Universidad Simón Bolívar; David A. Smilde, Tulane University; and Enrique Desmond Arias, Baruch College, City University of New York
Citizen Responses to Violence
(200 // VIO - Panel - Friday, 03:30pm - 05:00pm, Sierra G)
Session Organizer: Tara J. Yanez, Tulane University
Chair: Samuel Ritholtz, University of Oxford
Divine Justice and the Common Good: Rethinking Women’s Roles in the Production of Violence in Latin American Urban Peripheries: Tara J. Yanez, Tulane University
Illiberal Demonstrations, Violence, and Polarization in Brazil: Renzo O. Aurazo Diaz, Tulane University
Moral Order, Social Transformation, and the Logic of AntiLGBT Violence during Colombia’s Paramilitary Incursion: Samuel Ritholtz, University of Oxford
Tejiendo redes de protección: Mujeres periodistas y defensoras en Sinaloa: Iliana Padilla, UNAM
Political Behavior, Public Opinion, and Political Psychology Session
(24 // POL - Panel - Friday, 03:30pm - 05:00pm, Sierra H)
Organizer: Nicolás de la Cerda, Tulane University
Chair: Matias C. Tarillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussants: Rosario Queirolo, Universidad Católica del Uruguay; Nicolás de la Cerda, Tulane University
Not Your Party, But Something Else: Political Stereotyping in Low-Partisanship Contexts: Matias C. Tarillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Crime-State Conflict and Police Legitimacy: Evidence from Central America: Margaret Frost, University of Rhode Island
When Do Voters Develop Anti-Establishment Attitudes and Vote for Outsiders? Experimental Evidence from Argentina and Chile: Lautaro Cella, University of Chicago
How Transparency Efforts Shape Citizen Confidence in Elections: Mollie J. Cohen, Purdue University
Political Identities and Belief Networks in Developing Democracies: Nicolás de la Cerda, Tulane University
Unity Through Particularism: How Parties Can Respond to Electoral Reforms
(277 // EXH - Author(s) and Book Presentation - Friday, 06:15pm - 06:45pm, Nob Hill D)
Contact Person: Lucia Motolinia, Washington University in St. Louis
Session Organizer: Lucia Motolinia, Washington University in St. Louis
Presenters: Álvaro F. López Lara, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Aníbal S. Pérez-Liñán, University of Notre Dame; and Nicolás de la Cerda, Tulane University
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Actors and Processes in Venezuelan Politics Before and After July 28, 2024
(328 // DEM - Panel - Saturday, 10:15am - 11:45am, Foothill G1)
Session Organizer: Sybil D. Rhodes, Universidad del CEMA
Chair: Sybil D. Rhodes, Universidad del CEMA
Discussants: Terry L. Karl, Stanford University; Sybil D. Rhodes, Universidad del CEMA
Civil-Military Relations in Hybridizing Regimes: Harold A. Trinkunas, Stanford University
Geostrategic Alternatives and Governance in Post-Election Venezuela: Víctor M. Mijares, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
U.S. Foreign Policy, the Opposition, and the Maduro Government: Venezuela’s Authoritarian Slide in Ten Episodes: David A. Smilde, Tulane University
Diaspora Politics and the Consolidation of Political Identity: Venezuelans in Comparative Perspective: Sybil D. Rhodes, Universidad del CEMA
Book Roundtable - Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro
(376 // DEM - Roundtable - Saturday, 12:00pm - 01:30pm, Foothill F)
Session Organizer: Raul A. Sanchez Urribarri, La Trobe University
Chairs: John Polga Hecimovich, US Naval Academy; Raul A. Sanchez Urribarri, La Trobe University
Discussant: Jose Manuel Puente, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA)-IE (España)
Presenters: David A. Smilde, Tulane University; Víctor M. Mijares, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; Orcun Selcuk, Luther College; Antulio A. Rosales, York University; Marsilea Gombata, USP; and Benedicte Bull, University of Oslo
Bodies in Resistance: Desire and Gender Session
(508 // FIL - Panel - Saturday, 05:15pm - 06:45pm, Foothill J)
Organizer: Antonio Gómez, Tulane University
Chair: Koby B. Hansen, University of California, Riverside
Bodies that Dance, Bodies that Desire: Erotics and Dance in Julián Hernández's Films: Koby B. Hansen, University of California, Riverside
Documental, pornografía y autorrepresentación en «Pornomelancolía» (Manuel Abramovich, 2022): Antonio Gómez, Tulane University
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Orientalism Left and Right: Thinking about Violence and other Issues from the Global North
(631 // VIO - Workshop - Sunday, 10:15am - 11:45am, Sierra F)
Session Organizer: David A. Smilde, Tulane University
Chair: Jenny V. Pearce, London School of Economics
Presenters: Verónica Zubillaga, Universidad Simón Bolívar; Rebecca A. Hanson, University of Florida; and Antulio A. Rosales, York University
Advantages and Limitations of Protest Event Analysis
(646 // CIV - Workshop - Sunday, 12:00pm - 01:30pm, Sierra B)
Session Organizer: Moisés Arce, Tulane University
Chair: Takeshi Wada, The University of Tokyo
Presenters: Angela M. Alonso, Universidade de São Paulo (USP); Rodrigo M. Medel, Universidad Andrés Bello; Nicolas M. Somma, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Renzo O. Aurazo Diaz, Tulane University; Omar C. Coronel, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; and Jorge Aragón Trelles, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Gender, Cultural Politics, and U.S. Imperialism in Early 20thCentury Nicaragua
(744 // HIS - Panel - Sunday, 03:30pm - 05:00pm, Salon 1)
Session Organizer: Victoria C. González-Rivera, San Diego State University
Chair: Bernard Gordillo, University of California, Los Angeles
Libraries, Archives, and Public Life in Nicaragua During the Late 1930s: Arthur Gropp’s Field Letters: Juan P. Gómez, Tulane University
La pelota: Nicaraguan Anti-Interventionism in the Stage Works of Hernán Robleto and Luis A. Delgadillo, 1921–1937: Bernard Gordillo, University of California, Los Angeles
Hombres saludables y caballeros de bien: Masculinidades en competencia durante la intervención estadounidense en Nicaragua (década de 1920): Eimeel C. Castillo, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
“The People of Nicaragua are not to be trusted”: Marriages Between (White) U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Women During the Early 20th Century: Victoria C. González-Rivera, San Diego State University
Indigenous Epistemologies and Worldview in the Analysis of Cultural Productions
(796 // IND - Panel - Sunday, 05:15pm - 06:45pm, Laurel)
Sponsor: IND / Indigenous Languages and Literature
Session Organizer: Isdanny Morales Sosa, Tulane University
Chair: Miguel Rocha, Universidad Javeriana
Feyentun, rakizuam y metalenguaje en la literatura y artes mapuche contemporáneas: Estela Imigo, Princeton University
La Escuela de Cine y Comunicación Mapuche de Aylla Rewe Budi (ECCM): Otras imágenes de los mapuche: Isdanny Morales Sosa, Tulane University
Monilla Amena: Principios amazónicos para entender la producción cultural del mundo amerindio – Abiayalense: Miguel L. Rojas Sotelo, Duke University
Representaciones del cuerpo femenino y el deseo en la poesía binnizá de Natalia Toledo: Susana Bautista Cruz Textilos, lenguajes visuales experimentales en el ensayo contemporáneo: Miguel Rocha, Universidad Javeriana
Monday, May 26, 2025
Violencia obstétrica en y desde Latinoamérica: Aportes a 18 años de su primera conceptualización
(862 // SEC - LASA Section Panel - Monday, 08:30am - 10:00am, Foothill G1)
Sponsor: Gender and Feminist Studies
Session Organizer: Paola M. Sesia, CIESAS
Chairs: Celeste Jerez, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA; Cora Fernández Anderson, Mount Holyoke College
Dos años de la Campaña Nacional contra la Violencia Gineco-Obstétrica y Neonatal en Argentina: Desafíos actuales: Celeste Jerez, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
La violencia obstétrica como violencia institucional: Una dimensión crucial de este fenómeno en México: Paola M. Sesia, CIESAS
Violencia obstétrica en República Dominicana: Avances y resistencias: Arachu Castro, Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University
Luchas de poder entre Medicina y Partería: Impactos en la Violencia Obstétrica en contexto uruguayo: Natalia Magnone, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República
Author Meets Critics: Rebecca Hanson’s Policing the Revolution: The Transformation of Security and Violence in Venezuela during Chavismo
(864 // EXH - Author(s) and Book Presentation - Monday, 09:15am - 09:45am, Nob Hill D)
Contact Person: Verónica Zubillaga, Universidad Simón Bolívar
Session Organizer: Verónica Zubillaga, Universidad Simón Bolívar
Presenters: Dorothy Kronick, University of California, Berkeley; Rebecca A. Hanson, University of Florida; and David A. Smilde, Tulane University
Infinite Debt [PRESIDENTIAL SESSION]
(929 // PRE - Roundtable - Monday, 12:00pm - 01:30pm, Golden Gate B)
Session Organizers: Emily A. Maguire, Northwestern University; Paola L. Cortes-Rocca, Universidad Nacional de las Artes / CONICET
Chair: Zorimar Rivera Montes, Tulane University
Presenters: Silvia Federici, Hofstra University; Denise Ferreira da Silva, Department of Spanish / Portuguese, New York University; and Rocío Zambrana, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
Debt is dispossession, expulsion, exploitation; a tool for dominating a state or a community, it also seeps down to intimate, quotidian spaces. It is an extractive cruelty meted out on bodies and territories. This virtual presidential panel will address the genealogy of debt that runs from colonial domination to the globalized, techno-capitalist present. What connections can be found between financial abstraction and domestic economies? What is the impact of debt on gendered and racialized bodies? How can one survive the space and time that debt creates? What strategies can we imagine to confront obligatory or compulsive indebtedness?
Presidential Session: In alignment with the Congress theme, the LASA2025 Program Committee has organized 11 sessions that address current issues in the Americas. These sessions bring together experts to explore the political, social, artistic, and environmental challenges facing the region. The presidential sessions are open to all in person registered attendees and will be live-streamed to the general public via the official LASA Facebook and YouTube pages.
Instituciones políticas y elecciones
(930 // POL - Panel - Monday, 12:00pm - 01:30pm, Sierra H)
Session Organizer: Gonzalo Contreras, Tulane University
Chair: Gonzalo Contreras, Tulane University
Masking Turnout Inequality: Invalid Voting and Class Bias When Compulsory Voting is Reinstated: Gonzalo Contreras, Tulane University
Túrnese a la colegisladora: El sistema de navette en el bicameralismo mexicano 1982-2024: Álvaro F. López Lara, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Jeffrey A. Weldon, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Author Meets Critics: The Collapse of Venezuela, by Francisco Rodríguez
(954 // EXH - Author(s) and Book Presentation - Monday, 01:00pm - 01:30pm, Nob Hill D)
Contact Person: Dorothy Kronick, University of California, Berkeley
Session Organizer: David A. Smilde, Tulane University
Presenters: Francisco R. Rodríguez, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver Benedicte Bull, University of Oslo
Reimagining Reciprocity: Reflections on Feminist, Participatory Research Methods in High Risk Contexts
(977 // VIO - Roundtable - Monday, 01:45pm - 03:15pm, Sierra F)
Session Organizers: Anne Ruelle, University of Chicago; Tara J. Yanez, Tulane University
Chair: Janice K. Gallagher, Rutgers University-Newark
Discussant: Rebecca A. Hanson, University of Florida
Presenters: Anne Ruelle, University of Chicago; Samuel Ritholtz, University of Oxford; and Tara J. Yanez, Tulane University
