Friends of Kellogg Reception
Saturday, May 24 from 7 to 9pm
The Harlequin, at 68 4th Street, San Francisco 94103, located directly across the street from the Marriott Marquis (the LASA Congress venue).
Please note, you will be asked to show an ID for entry (restaurant policy).
Visit the Kellogg Institute in Booth 316 & 318 of the exhibit hall. See books from the Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development, among others, and pick up information about the Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellows program
AWARD: 2025 LARR–University of Florida Best Article Award for the article, “The Chilean Christians for Socialism Movement: Liberationist, Third Worldist, and Utopian”
Former Visiting Fellow, Denisa Jashari, Syracuse University
LASA Featured Presidential Session
Saturday, May 24 from 1:45 to 3:15 PM (PT)
Moving Kitchens / Cocinas en movimiento. Food and Migration from Grassroots Initiatives to Global Food Systems
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Vanesa Miseres (Session Organizer)
LASA Congress Highlight
Sunday May 25 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM (PT)
LASA Roundtable: Estrategias (legales) para defender la democracia latinoamericana
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Director, Kellogg Institute (Chair and Session Organizer)
Francisco Guerrero Aguirre, OAS Secretary for Strengthening Democracy (Presenter)
Marcela Peredo, Former Kellogg Chilean Fulbright Chair in Democracy (Presenter)
Katya Salazar, Executive Director, Due Process of Law Foundation (Presenter)
Laura Gamboa, Kellogg Faculty Fellow (Discussant)
More than 75 Kellogg-affiliated scholars are participating in LASA events this year!
(Listed below in date order in Pacific Time)
Friday, May 23, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Panel: AMLO and the Future of Mexican Democracy
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Rodrigo Castro Cornejo (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Presidential Approval as Majoritarian Legitimacy: How AMLO Undermined Mexican Democracy with “the People’s” Support
Friday, May 23, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Panel: Multiple Ways of Healing and Knowledge Production of Indigenous Women in Abiayala
Former Visiting Fellow, Shannon Speed (Discussant)
Friday, May 23, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Roundtable: Decarbonization, Mining, and Struggle in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Thea N. Riofrancos (Presenter)
Friday, May 23, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Panel: Subnational Administrative Capacity and Performance in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Sara Niedzwiecki (Discussant)
Friday, May 23, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
LASA Section Panel: Ethnographic Perspectives on “Political Polarization” in Contemporary Brazil
Former Visiting Fellow, Sean T. Mitchell (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: An Ethnographic Theory of Political Antagonism: As Applied to the Brazilian Popular Right, for Example
Friday, May 23, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Panel: Celebridades en Latin(x)América: Deseo, fama y subversión (Parte 1)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Vanesa A. Miseres (Presenter)
Paper: Esmeralda Cervantes: Celebridad, feminismo y sociabilidad transatlántica
Friday, May 23, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
Roundtable: The Ideology of Criminal Actors
Current Visiting Fellow, Rebecca A. Hanson
Former Visiting Fellow, Verónica Zubillaga
Former Visiting Fellow, David A. Smilde
Friday, May 23, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
Panel: Bodies and Antibodies: The Aesthetics of HIV/Aids Activisms Across Latinx America
Kellogg Undergraduate Alumnus, Justin Perez (Organizer and Presenter)
Paper: Bodies, Faces, and Risk: Visualizing HIV/AIDS Communicability in Lima, Peru (1990–1995)
Friday, May 23, 3:30 to 5:00 PM
Panel: New Debates in Latin American Political Economy
Former Visiting Fellow, Javier Pérez Sandoval (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Remittances and Subnational Democracy in Contemporary Mexico
Friday, May 23, 3:30 to 5:00 PM
Panel: Capitalismo, democracia y cambio social en Centroamérica: Las múltiples caras de la crisis democrática y sus determinantes internos y externos
Incoming Visiting Fellow, Manuel A. Meléndez-Sánchez (Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Juliana Martínez Franzoni (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea (Presenter)
Paper: La mediación entre democracia y política social en Centroamérica
Friday, May 23, 3:30 to 5:00 PM
Panel: Cruising: Archivo, cuerpo, goce (Parte 1: Derivas)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, María Rosa Olivera-Williams (Presenter)
Paper: Trans*, espectacularidad y goce según Cristina Peri Rossi
Friday, May 23, 5:15 to 6:45 PM
Panel: Archivo, cuerpo, goce (Parte 2: Abrazos)
Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate, Ignacio Sánchez-Osores (Chair)
Friday, May 23, 5:15 to 6:45 PM
Panel: Urban Latin America in the Late Twentieth Century
Former Visiting Fellow, Denisa Jashari (Presenter)
Paper: Building Socialism: Urban Planners, Architects, and Pobladores in 1970s Chile
Saturday, May 24, 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Panel: Origins and Development of ‘Legitimate Opposition’ in the History of Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1930 (Part 1)
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Chair)
Saturday, May 24, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Panel: Origins and Development of ‘Legitimate Opposition’ in the History of Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1930 (Part 2)
Former Visiting Fellow, Paula Alonso (Chair)
Saturday, May 24, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Panel: Memoria, método y experiencia: Propuestas desde la Historia Reciente de América Latina
Former Visiting Fellow, Cynthia A. Sarti (Discussant)
Saturday, May 24, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Panel: Constructing Democracy in Heterogeneous Societies: Latin America, 1810-1930 (Part 1)
Former Visiting Fellow, Paula Alonso (Organizer and Chair)
Saturday, May 24, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Panel: Renaissance Humanism in Colonial Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alumna, Paola Uparela (Presenter)
Paper: The Darker Side of Anatomy: Gender, Coloniality, and Genitality in Las Casas’s Writings
Saturday, May 24, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Panel: Engaging and Resisting Colonial Power: Marginalized Figures in Diverse Socio-Political Contexts
Kellogg PhD Alumna, Leonor Taiano (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Propaganda y geopolítica en Nuevo México: Mercurio Volante y la imagen del conquistador
Saturday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
LASA Section Roundtable: Migration(s) and the Transformation of Latin American Studies
Director Kellogg Institute, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (Organizer)
Saturday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
Panel: Citizen Responses to Violence 2
Kellogg PhD Alumna, Stefanie Israel de Souza (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Protesting Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas (virtual)
Saturday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
Panel: Constructing Democracy in Heterogeneous Societies: Latin America, 1810-1930 (Part 2)
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Organizer and Presenter)
Paper: Revisiting the Mestizo and ‘Racial Democracy’ in the Long Nineteenth-Century in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Paula Alonso (Presenter)
Paper: Democracy, Race and Class in the construction of the electorate in Chile, Argentina and Peru, 1830s-1870s
Saturday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
Panel: Policy, Ideology and Redistribution
Former Visiting Fellow, Sara Niedzwiecki (Chair and Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Candelaria Garay (Discussant)
Saturday, May 24, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
Panel: Exilio, comunismo y catolicismo en México de la Revolución a la Guerra Fría
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Jorge Ivan Puma Crespo (Organizer, Presenter and Discussant)
Paper: La expresión de la más profunda solidaridad con el pueblo mexicano: Charles Bettelheim y México (1962-1990)
Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate, Julio E. Souza de Oliveira (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Fabricando autogestiones en América Latina: El exilio chileno en México y los intercambios de ideas (años 1970)
Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate, Victoria Basulto (Presenter)
Paper: Mártires, masculinidad y moral: La construcción de una nación católica global en el México de la Guerra Fría (1920-1980)
Saturday, May 24, 3:30 to 5:00 PM
LASA Section Roundtable: Elections and Criminal Groups and Criminal Violence
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Juan G. Albarracin Dierolf (Organizer and Chair)
Former Visiting Fellow, Sandra J. Ley (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Verónica Zubillaga (Presenter)
Saturday, May 24, 5:15 to 6:45 PM
Panel: Armas y crimen en gobiernos populistas
Kellogg PhD Alumna, Leslie MacColman, (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Gun Ownership, Individual Agency, and Collective Safety: How Argentines Imagine an Armed Society
Sunday, May 25, 8:30 to 10:00 AM
LASA Section Panel: Managing Climate Change Impacts in Latin America: How Diverse Governments are Facing the Challenges
Former Visiting Fellow, Richard Snyder (Presenter)
Paper: Developmental Extractivism and the Politics of Economic Linkages in South America’s Lithium Triangle
Sunday, May 25, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Workshop: Thinking about Violence and other Issues from the Global North
Former Visiting Fellow, David A. Smilde (Organizer)
Former Visiting Fellow, Verónica Zubillaga (Presenter)
Current Visiting Fellow, Rebecca A. Hanson (Presenter)
Sunday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Roundtable: The Politics of Authoritarianism
Former Visiting Fellow, James I. Loxton (Organizer)
Advisory Board Member & Former Visiting Fellow, Timothy J. Power (Chair)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Laura Gamboa (Presenter)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Scott P. Mainwaring (Presenter)
Director Kellogg Institute, Aníbal S. Pérez-Liñán (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Deborah J. Yashar (Presenter)
Sunday, May 25, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Panel: Género, desigualdades interseccionales y resistencias en la migración latinoamericana
Former Visiting Fellow, Laura Gomez Mera (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Joseph L. Wiltberger (Presenter)
Paper: Vulnerable Groups in South-South Migration: LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees in South America
Sunday, May 25, 5:15 to 6:45 PM
Panel: South-South Migration to Latin America: Policy Formulation and its Impact on Migrant Rights
Former Visiting Fellow, Sara Niedzwiecki (Organizer and Presenter)
Paper: Immigrants’ Barriers to Accessing Social Policy in South America
Advisory Board and Former Visiting Fellow, Wendy Hunter (Chair)
Sunday, May 25, 5:15 to 6:45 PM
Panel: The Challenges of Agricultural Expansion: Actors, Opportunities, and Costs
Former Visiting Fellow, Candelaria Garay (Organizer, Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Land (In) Security, Indigenous Communities, and Deforestation
Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate, Isabel Güiza-Gómez (Presenter)
Paper: Land Dispossession on Trial: Social Mobilization and Judicial Behavior in the Colombian Land Restitution Program
Sunday, May 25, 5:15 to 6:45 PM
Panel: Democracy and Democratic Backsliding in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Diego Abente Brun (Organizer and Presenter)
Paper: Las instituciones cuentan: Las nuevas reglas electorales y el proceso de autocratización en Paraguay
Former Visiting Fellow, Fabrice E. Lehoucq (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: The Coup Trap in Latin America
Sunday, May 25, 5:15 to 6:45 PM
Panel: El campo contemporáneo de estudios de la Guerra Fría en Guatemala (Parte 1)
Former Visiting Fellow, Manolo E. Vela Castañeda (Discussant)
Monday, May 26, 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Roundtable: The Origins of Democracy in South America
Former Visiting Fellow, Raúl Madrid (Organizer, Chair and Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Evelyne S. Huber (Presenter)
Former Visiting Fellow, Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Presenter)
Monday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Invited Session: Estrategias (legales) para defender la democracia latinoamericana
Director Kellogg Institute, Aníbal S. Pérez-Liñán (Organizer and Chair)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Laura Gamboa (Discussant)
Former Visiting Fellow, Marcela Peredo (Presenter)
Monday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Panel: Radical Right Parties and Politics in Latin America
Advisory Board and Former Visiting Fellow, Wendy Hunter (Presenter)
Paper: Social Pensions in Latin America
Monday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Panel: Instituciones y desempeño económico
Former Visiting Fellow, Francisco R. Rodríguez (Presenter)
Paper: Quantifying the Causes of Venezuela's Economic Collapse
Monday, May 26, 10:15 to 11:45 AM
Panel: Populismos, democracias frágiles y resistencias civiles en América Latina
Former Visiting Fellow, Margarita Lopez-Maya (Presenter)
Paper: Venezuela: El fraude de Maduro y el futuro de la democracia
Monday, May 26, 12:00 to 1:30 PM
Panel: Populism, Illiberalism, and Challenges to Democracy in Latin America
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Scott Mainwaring (Organizer, Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Executive Takeovers in Latin America
Former Visiting Fellow, Kurt G. Weyland (Presenter)
Paper: Opposition to Populist Backsliding: Conditions, Limitations, and Opportunities
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Laura Gamboa (Presenter)
Current Visiting Fellow Rachel A. Schwartz (Presenter)
Paper: New Pathways of Democratic Backsliding in Latin America
Former Guest Scholar, Fernando A. Bizzarro (Presenter)
Paper: Illiberalism in Democratic Presidential Elections in Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Benjamin Garcia Holgado (Presenter)
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Mayra A. Ortiz Ocana (Presenter)
Paper: From Loyalists to Resisters: Why do Justices Defy Populist Presidents? Insights from the Mexican Case (2018-2024)
Monday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
Panel: El campo contemporáneo de estudios de la Guerra Fría en Guatemala (Parte 2)
Former Visiting Fellow, Manolo E. Vela Castañeda (Organizer and Chair)
Monday, May 26, 1:45 to 3:15 PM
Panel: The Politics of Abortion in the Americas
Former Visiting Fellow, Mariela Szwarcberg Daby (Organizer, Discussant and Presenter)
Paper: Mobilizing for Abortion Rights in Latin America
Kellogg PhD Alumna, Cora Fernandez-Anderson (Discussant)
Monday, May 26, 3:30 to 5:00 PM
Panel: El campo contemporáneo de estudios de la Guerra Fría en Guatemala (Parte 3)
Former Visiting Fellow, Manolo E. Vela Castaneda (Presenter)
Paper: Lealtades ambiguas