LASA/Africa 2023 is the first Continental Congress of LASA in Africa. The LASA Continental Congresses provide an opportunity to collaborate and work on the many interesting theoretical and practical problems presented in each continent in relation to Latin America.


LASA/Africa  Highlights

Kellogg-affiliated scholars participating in LASA/Africa events this year are listed below in date order. (Dates based on the preliminary schedule.)


Wednesday, November 15, 12:00 to 1:30 pm

Panel: Finance, Taxation, and Development
Kellogg Director, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (Session Organizer)

 

Wednesday, November 15, 5:15 to 6:45 pm

Panel: Democracy in Africa and Latin America
Kellogg Director, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (Chair, Session Organizer)

 

Thursday, November 16, 3:30 to 5:00 pm

Panel:  Diálogos teóricos, históricos y decolonialidad del saber
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Eduardo Febres (Presenter)
Paper: An Afro-Caribbean ink stain in the “white Creole consciousness”

 

Friday, November 17, 12:00 to 1:30 pm

Roundtable: Mining Continents: Connections and Comparisons between Africa and Latin America. PART I
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Edward Beatty (Presenter)

 

Friday, November 17, 12:00 to 1:30 pm

Panel: Afro-Diasporic Influences in Caribbean and Latinx Cultural Production
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Thomas F. Anderson (Session Organizer, Presenter)
Paper: “‘Los Negros en USA’ and the US Slave Narrative Project”


Friday, November 17, 12:00 to 1:30 pm

Panel: Afro-Diasporic Influences in Caribbean and Latinx Cultural Production
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Marisel C. Moreno (Chair, Presenter)
Paper: ​​Reclaiming “Papá Africa:” Blackness and Belonging in Roberto Carlos García’s AfroDominican Poetry

 

Friday, November 17, 5:15 to 6:45 pm

Roundtable: New Books on Afro-Latinidad in Caribbean, Latin American, and Latinx Studies
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Marisel C. Moreno (Session Organizer, Presenter)
Book: ​​Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art



Saturday, November 18, 3:30 to 5:00 pm

Panel: Perspectivas sobre África desde América Latina
Kellogg Visiting Associate Professor, Magdalena Lopez (Chair, Presenter)
Paper: Cuba y Angola: Una crítica posliberacionista a la identidad “latino-africana”