CLACSO present at LASA 2026
The International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), which is celebrating its 60th anniversary, is taking place in Paris, France, from Tuesday, May 26 to Saturday, May 30, with broad participation from Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
under the motto “Republic and Revolution”, reaffirms LASA's commitment to research, academic exchange and cooperation among researchers, academics and scholars dedicated to Latin American and Caribbean studies.
CLACSO will be present with its members participating in panels organized within the framework of various projects. In addition, book presentations and other academic activities will take place. Furthermore, CLACSO's Working Groups will be represented by their members in panels, working groups, workshops, and book presentations, strengthening the network's collective presence in this space for exchange, reflection, and international cooperation.
Pablo Vommaro, Executive Director of CLACSO, together with the President of LASA, Maxwell A. Cameron, from the University of British Columbia (above) already Gisela Zaremberg, Vice President of LASA (down)
Among other activities, we can highlight:
Tuesday May 26
-Panel: The authoritarian turns of the present, 50 years after the coups d'état in Latin America and the Caribbean
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio F
He organized and presented: Claudia A. Bacci (University of Buenos Aires)
GT Network of Gender, Feminisms and Memories
-Panel: Public opinion, representations and discourses of fear regarding migration
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am (Paris – CET) | FIAP – London
Presentation: Beyond refuge: violence, intersections and decolonial perspectives on international protection in Costa Rica – Ana Lucía Fernández FernándezUNED Costa Rica
GT Care and Gender
-Panel: Ecologies of mourning and gothic aesthetics: Latin American art and literature in the face of violence and extractivism
From 12:00 pm – 01:30 pm, Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Expo 10 – FIAP – Fiji
Session Organizer: Marta Josefina Sierra, Kenyon College – Chair: Marta Josefina Sierra, Kenyon College Discussant: Karina A. BidasecaCONICET – University of Buenos Aires – UNSAM / CLACSO
-Panel: Organized Crime and Threats to Democracy
From 01:45 pm to 03:15 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Fiji
Organized and moderated by: Camila Nunes Dias, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil (UFABC)
Presentation: Criminal Organizations and Threats to Democracy – The Role of the State: Camila Nunes Dias, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil (UFABC)
GT Violence, Authoritarianism and Democratic Security Policies
-Round table: Challenges for research on migration policies in Latin America
From 05:15 pm to 06:45 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Jean Monnet Hall
Presenters: Gisela P. Zapata, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
GT Migration and South-South Borders
-Panel «Power and foreign policy of the United States in Latin America in the 20th century«
From 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Loft H
Presentation "Political Revolution and Religious Revolution: Central American Religious Geopolitics in the Context of the Cold War." Monica Ulloa Gomez (University of Costa Rica, GT Coordinator)
GT Religions and Society
-Panel: Migration and social bonds in hostile political contexts: experiences in Chile
From 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Jean Monnet Hall
Coordinator: Fernanda StangCatholic University Silva Henríquez
Presentations:
*From migrants to settlers: political subjectivations and territorial citizenship in northern and central Chile: Fernanda StangCatholic University Silva Henríquez
*Migration and urban solidarity: the case of a grassroots solidarity territory in Antofagasta, Chile: Antonia LaraCatholic University Silva Henríquez
GT Migration and South-South Borders
Wednesday May 27
-Panel: Women and Politics
From 8:30 am to 10:00 am (Paris – CET)
Presentation: Active citizenship exercise of migrant women and their access to voting in local elections in the province of Mendoza, Argentina – Giuliana Maria Guzzo
GT Just Transitions and Care for Our Common Home
-Round table: Towards a lesbian and trans feminist thought in Central America
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio D
Participates: Montserrat Sagot (University of Costa Rica)
GT Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation
-Panel: Latin America and the Balkans: Political crises – literary echoes
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Expo 10
Coordinator: Andrea Jeftanovic (University of Santiago, Chile)
Moderated by: Bojana Kovacevic Petrovic, Ibero-American Center (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
GT Latin America and the Balkans, cultural and social links
-Panel: Violence and social activism
From 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Room 9
Presentation: The intertwining of state and paramilitary repression against Latin American activists in the XXI century – Simone Gomes, UFPel Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
GT Violence, Authoritarianism and Democratic Security Policies
-Panel: Deepening Crises and Emerging Tensions: Latin American Courts in the Defense of Rights and Democracy
From 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio 2
Presentation: Between Advances and Conservative Backlash: The Role of Judicial Policy in Brazilian Courts' Approach to Violence Against Women (2019–2024): Lígia Mori Madeira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
GT Violence, Authoritarianism and Democratic Security Policies
-Panel: Paid domestic work from a transnational perspective: Movements of people, technologies and resistance
From 01:45 pm to 03:15 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Madrid
Sponsor: RITHAL - Research Network on Domestic Work in Latin America
Presentation: Domestic work and resistance: Sandra Leiva-GomezSanto Tomás University; Andrea Comelin-Fornes, University of Tarapacá
GT Care and Gender
-Working group: How to rethink feminist struggles in the face of democratic decline?
From 01:45 pm to 03:15 pm | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche-Studio D
Participates: Montserrat Sagot (University of Costa Rica)
GT Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation
Thursday May 28
-Panel: Territorialities, ecology and environmental justice: discourses, conflicts and reconfigurations
From 8:30 am to 10:00 am (Paris – CET)
Presentation: Environmental governance in Latin America: critical perspectives, power asymmetries and the challenge for integral ecology – Alberto César Molina
GT Just Transitions and Care for Our Common Home
-Panel: Racialization, borders and South-South mobilities
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am (Paris – CET) | FIAP – London
Presentation: South–South Mobility and the Internalized Frontier: Haitian Migrants and the Expansion of Borders in the Dominican Republic: Igor Borges Cunha, University of Brasilia; Delia D. DutraUniversity of the Republic
GT Migration and South-South Borders
-Section panel: Challenges and contradictions in the new century: reinventing or reimagining policies in education-work transitions (Part I)
From 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Loft A
It states: Ana Miranda (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Argentina)
GT "Just Transitions and Care for Our Common Home"
-Presentation of the book "Fighting in the Interregnum" by Massimo Modonesi, Maristella Svampa and Breno Bringel (eds.). Siglo XXI-CLACSO, 2025
From 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Scène G & Virtual
Participants: Massimo Modonesi (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and Carolina Jimenez (National University of Colombia)
Organized by: Siglo XXI-CLACSO – In-person activity
-Round table: Information infrastructures on Latin America and the Caribbean in a connected digital world
From 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Montreal
Participants: Pablo A. Vommaro (University of Buenos Aires/CLACSO), Christoph Mueller (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) and Marie Stephanie Chancy (University of Florida)
Organized by: European Network of Information and Documentation on Latin America – REDIAL – In-person activity
-Panel: Emotions and power in caregiving: Cases of paid domestic work in South America
From 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio 1
Presentation: Bodies that care, emotions that weigh heavily: trajectories and relationships of caregivers for dependent elderly people – Carolina Garces-Estrada (Bolivian Catholic University)
GT Care and Gender
-Round table: Gender and racial violence in academia: mobilization, policies and responses
From 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio D
Participates: Montserrat Sagot (University of Costa Rica)
GT Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation
-Book presentation: Latin American activism and everyday violence in the XXI century
From 04:00 pm to 04:30 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Scene G
Coordinator: Simone Gomes (UFPel)
GT Violence, Authoritarianism and Democratic Security Policies
-Round table: Organized crime in Latin America: contemporary debates and new trends
From 05:15 pm to 06:45 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Rome + Dublin
Participates: Camila Nunes Dias (Federal University of ABC, Brazil)
GT Violence, Authoritarianism and Democratic Security Policies
-Section panel: Shifting Destinations: Venezuelan Mobility and the Ripple Effects of US Migration Policies in Latin America (Part I)
From 05:15 pm to 06:45 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio I
Organized by: Gisela P. Zapata, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Presentation: Shifting Roles in South–South Migration: Brazil's Humanitarian Response to Venezuelan Displacement: Gisela P. Zapata, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
GT Migration and South-South Borders
-Section panel: Shifting Destinations: Venezuelan Mobility and the Ripple Effects of US Migration Policies in Latin America (Part II)
From 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio I
Organized by: Gisela P. Zapata, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
GT Migration and South-South Borders
Meeting of CLACSO Member Centers and Working Groups
Thursday, May 28 – 17:30 p.m.
Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel Lobby
(17 Bd Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France)
Friday May 29
-Round table: Panorama of International Migration in Brazil: Emigration, Returns, Immigration, Humanitarianism, Regional Leadership, and Differentiated Policies in a Context of Global Transformations
From 08:30 am to 10:00 am (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Scene F
Moderated by: Gisela P. Zapata, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
GT Migration and South-South Borders
-Panel: Ethnic Politics
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Java (Sumatra+Bali)
Presentation: “The politics of mistrust: peasantry and dialogue processes in contexts of mining extractivism. The case of Espinar, Cusco (2020–2024)” – Jorge Duárez
GT Political regimes and democratization
-Panel: The Latin American Cold War: Global Dialogues (Part I)
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Madrid
Organized by: Julieta Carla Rostica (University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – CONICET)
GT Violence in Central America
-Panel: The Latin American Cold War: Global Dialogues (Part II)
From 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Madrid
GT Violence in Central America
-Panel – Offensives of legal conservatism and feminist resistance
From, 12:00pm to 01:30pm, FIAP – Fiji
Session Organizer: Carmen H. de Campos, Federal University of Rio Grande
chair: Karina A. BidasecaCONICET-University of Buenos Aires-UNSAM / CLACSO
Discussant: Cecilia MacDowell Santos, University of San Francisco and University of Coimbra
-LASA Intersectional Panel "Future challenges for building the LAC-EU Common Space for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation"
From 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Loft G
Session organizers: Carlos A. Quenan (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) and Alan Fairlie Reinoso (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)
Moderated by: Anna Barrera Vivero (EU-LAC Foundation)
They expose: Pablo A. Vommaro (University of Buenos Aires/CLACSO), Virginia Saldaña Ortega (Nebrija University), Carlos A. Quenan (Sorbonne Nouvelle University), Martín Benavides (IIEP-UNESCO) and Jorge E. Delgado-Troncoso (University of Pittsburgh)
Organized by: Education and Educational Policies in Latin America & Europe and Latin America
In-person activity
-Panel: The Latin American Cold War: Global Dialogues (Part III)
From 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Madrid
Moderator: Julieta Carla Rostica (University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – CONICET)
GT Violence in Central America
-Panel: Memories and social resistance in public space in Latin America and the Caribbean
From 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio E
Comment by: Claudia A. Bacci (University of Buenos Aires)
GT Network of Gender, Feminisms and Memories
-Panel: Challenges and contradictions in the new century: reinventing or reimagining policies in education-work transitions (Part III)
From 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio C
Commented by: Ana Miranda (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Argentina)
GT "Just Transitions and Care for Our Common Home"
-Panel: Governance, cooperation and migration securitization in comparative perspective
From 01:45 pm to 03:15 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Scene D
Presentation: Migration governance, border regimes, and integration processes in Mexico. Diverse experiences among migrants from the Global North and South: Alfonso Ruiz Núñez, UNAM
GT Migration and South-South Borders
-Panel “Academic Freedom, Inequalities and Decolonial Struggles in Latin America”
From 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Loft F
Coordinator: Camilla Croso (Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas)
Commented by: Pablo A. Vommaro (University of Buenos Aires/CLACSO)
They expose: Jorge D. García Rincón (Descarimba Afro-Diasporic Research Association), Marisa G. Ruiz Trejo (Autonomous University of Chiapas) and Vernor Muñoz (Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education)
Organized by: Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA) and Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
This panel on academic freedom is part of the project Strengthening comparative research and critical thinking within the framework of academic freedom in the Americas with CLAA – Face-to-face activity
-Panel: Policed, Deported, Remembered: Critical Legal Perspectives on State Violence in the Americas
From 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio 2
Presentation: State-Sanctioned Violence and the Judicial Silencing of Police Killings: Jacqueline Sinhoretto, Federal University of São Carlos; Elizabeth Pellegrini Garcia, Federal University of São Carlos (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
GT Violence, Authoritarianism and Democratic Security Policies
-Panel: Academic Freedom, Inequalities, and Decolonial Struggles in Latin America
From 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Loft F
Presentation: Critical Thinkers and the Crisis of Academic Freedom in Chiapas and Central America – Marisa Ruiz Trejo
GT Network of Gender, Feminisms and Memories
-Panel: The Lethal Republic: Necrocene, Extractivism and Violence
From 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Scene F
Presentation: The bioarithmetic of dispossession: inequalities, necropolitics and social murder in Central America. Montserrat Sagot (University of Costa Rica)
GT Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation
-Panel: Polycrisis: Capitalism and the reconfiguration of the global order
From 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Expo 6
Presentation: Polycrisis, the era of recurring crises and fractured credit: A new hegemony in a multipolar world. Alicia A. Girón (Institute of Economic Research)
GT Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation
-Workshop: Protest Policy in Latin America and the Middle East
From 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Loft C2
Simone Gomes, UFPel
GT Violence, Authoritarianism and Democratic Security Policies
-Workshop: Methodological and ethical challenges for qualitative research on migration in Latin American contexts
From 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Boston
Carolina RamirezUniversity of Chile
GT Migration and South-South Borders
Pablo Vommaro along with Taira Edilma Stanley Icaza y Olowaili Green Santacruz
Saturday May 30
-Round table: Latin America's Cold War: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Madrid
Presented by: Julieta Carla Rostica (University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – CONICET)
GT Violence in Central America
-Panel: Religion, Citizenship, and Democracy – Faith and Political Agency
From 10:15 am to 11:45 am (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Room 9
Presentation: «Recognized rights, delegated practices: religious freedom in Uruguay's prison. Valentina Pereira Arena (Catholic University of Uruguay, GT Coordinator)
Presentation: «Impact of Religion in the Public Management of Social Needs: Solidarity Networks, Social Capital and Secularism Between Religious Communities and Government of Mexico City». Felipe Gaytan (La Salle University, Mexico, GT Member)
GT Religions and Society
-Panel “Rethinking other epistemologies and research co-productions in the face of the challenges of the systemic crisis”
From 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Loft F
They expose: Taira Edilma Stanley Icaza (National Studies Institute of the University of Panama. Gunadule Village, Panama), Laura Priscila Tercero Cruz (Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Mexico), Beloved of Jesus Ramos Prieto (Indigenous Council, Los Pasos del Jaguar, El Salvador) and Ana Catarina Zema (University of Montreal)
Moderated by: Illa Carrillo Rodríguez
Organized by: Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
This panel is organized within the framework of the IDRC INDIGENA project: “Weaving an Indigenous Research Ecosystem: towards new academic relationships with Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples based on epistemic justice and equity in Abya Yala” – Face-to-face activity
-Gender and integrated care systems in Latin America
From 01:45pm – 03:15pm, FIAP – Sydney
Session Coordinator: Nora Nagels, Université du Québec in Montreal
Moderator: Françoise Montambeault, University of Montreal
Competitor: Leda M. PérezUniversity of the Pacific
"Women leaders die poor": Who cares for those who defend care? Social leaders, burnout, and the paradoxes of Bogotá's care system: María J. Gómez-Carvajalspeaker
Care in Latin America: building rights, institutional models and sustainability challenges: Karina BatthyányUniversity of the Republic, Uruguay
National Care System in Cuba: between challenges and progress: Blandine DestremauCNRS Iris / EHESS
Towards a comprehensive, local, participatory, and feminist care system? The case of the Utopias in Mexico City: Nora Nagels, Université du Québec à Montréal; Françoise Montambeault, University of Montreal
-Panel: Alternative publishing in Latin America: publishing as a political practice (Panel II)
From 1:45 pm to 3:15 am (Paris – CET) | FIAP – Rio 1
Presented by: Ana Laura De Giorgi (University of the Republic)
GT Network of Gender, Feminisms and Memories
-Panel: Polycrisis in the Global South: Currency, Financing and Sovereignty
From 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm | Pullman Montparnasse – Expo 6
Organized by the University Program of Studies on Asia, Africa and Oceania
-Panel: Diversities of Capitalism in Latin America (Part I)
From 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Expo 8 & Virtual
Organized by the Working Group on Poverty and Social Policies
-Workshop: Future Directions for Haitian and Dominican Studies: Challenges, Opportunities and Next Steps
From 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Studio G
Bridget F. Wooding, Center for Migration Observation and Development in the Caribbean (OBMICA)
GT Migration and South-South Borders
-Panel: Diversities of Capitalism in Latin America (Part II)
From 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm (Paris – CET) | Paris Marriott Rive Gauche – Expo 8 & Virtual
Organized by the Working Group on Poverty and Social Policies
