Organizers: Juliana Restrepo Sanín, Cristian Pérez, Carlos Suárez, and Carlos de la Torre
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Flávia Biroli, University of Brasilia
Location: Smathers Library, Room 100
This conference will explore authoritarian challenges to democracy, and resistance to authoritarianism in Latin America. The conference will feature four panels. The first panel explores struggles for gender and LGBTQ+ rights that aimed to democratize democracies, and how in the name of the “traditional family” conservative Catholics and Christians are attempting to roll back rights and to impose their views of family and sexuality. The second panel explores how populists rise to power and govern, and the conditions that could lead to democratic backsliding. The third panel will locate historically the most recent crises of democracy. Have Latin American democracies experienced similar crises in the past? What is new in current debates on democracy? In the fourth panel experts of other world regions such as Africa, Europe, and the US will explore processes of democratic backsliding and resistance.
Thursday, February 29 (full schedule here)
Friday, March 1 (full schedule here)
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The Center for Latin American Studies' 70th Annual Conference will be held in Spring 2022. The call for papers is closed at this time.
The Center for Latin American Studies 70th Annual Conference will be held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. If you are traveling to Gainesville for the conference, we encourage you to review the hotel and parking information to ensure a smooth travel experience.
For the past 70 years, the Center for Latin American Studies has hosted annual conferences ranging in topic from business, Cuba, rural social movements, buen vivir, Indigenous peoples, and more.