The Center for Latin American Studies' Annual Conference is held every spring at the University of Florida. Below is a list of the Center's past conferences. We encourage you to look through the Annual Conference homepage to learn about our upcoming conference.
- February 5-7, 2025: 73rd Annual Conference | The Struggle from Below: Democracy and Civil Society in the Age of Backsliding
- February 29-March 1, 2024: 72nd Annual Conference | Democratic Backsliding and Resistances in Latin America and Beyond
- March 23-25, 2023: 71st Annual Conference | Anti-racist Education in Latin America: Perspectives on State and Grassroots Projects
- March 30 - April 2, 2022: 70th Annual Conference | Ethnographic Evidence in the Americas: On the aesthetics of methods and crafting of claims
- April 15 - 16, 2021: 69th Annual Conference | Indigenous Rights, Environmental Change, and Development in South America's Chaco (virtual)
- 2020 Conference canceled due to pandemic | Being on Earth: Territorios, Soundscapes, Biocultural Diversity, and Relationships
- February 24 - 26, 2019: 68th Annual Conference | Jews and the Americas
- April 8 - 10, 2018: 67th Annual Conference | Buen Vivir and Other Post-Development Pathways
- March 30 - April 1, 2017: 66th Annual Conference | Cuba and the United States in the 21st Century
- March 24 - 26, 2016: 65th Annual Conference | Crimescapes: Space, Law, and the Making of Illegality in the Americas
- March 25 - 28, 2015: 64th Annual Conference | Envisioning a Sustainable Tropics
- March 19 - 21, 2014: 63rd Annual Conference | Panama Considered: Remembering the Past Embracing the Future
- February 14 - 15, 2013: 62nd Annual Conference | Emergent Brazil
- March 29 - 31, 2012: 61st Annual Conference | The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America
- March 24 - 26, 2011: 60th Annual Conference | Looking Forward, Looking Back: Celebrating 80 Years of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida
- January 28 - 29, 2010: 59th Annual Conference | Bridging Conservation and Development in Latin America and Africa: Changing Contexts, Changing Strategies
- January 28 - 30, 2009: 58th Annual Conference | The Urban Divide in Latin American: Challenges and Strategies for Social Inclusion
- February 7 - 8, 2008: 57th Annual Conference | Multi-Sector Partnerships and Strategic Communications in the Americas: Business, Government, Community
- February 14 - 16, 2007: 56th Annual Conference | Indigenous Peoples in Digital Cultures: Communications Technologies and the Impacts on Indigenous Languages and Cultural Identity in the Americas
- February 23 - 25, 2006: 55th Annual Conference | Alternative Visions of Development: Rural Social Movements in Latin America
- April 16 - 19, 2005: 54th Annual Conference | Latin American Studies Research and Bibliography: Past, Present and Future
- March 19 - 20, 2004: 53rd Annual Conference | The Latin American Business Environment: Corporate & Career Opportunities
- April 10 - 12, 2003: 52nd Annual Conference | Religion and Identity in the Americas: Agendas for the Future
- February 21, 2002: 51st Annual Conference | New Horizons, New Challenges in Tropical Conservation and Development
- April 19 - 21, 2001: 50th Annual Conference | Latin American Sociology and the Sociology of Latin America
- February 23 - 26, 2000: 49th Annual Conference | Staging Identity: Latin American Music and Dance
- March 23 - 26, 1999: 48th Annual Conference | Patterns and Processes of Land Use and Forest Change in the Amazon
- 1998: 47th Annual Conference | New Perspectives on Religion and Social Change in the Americas
- 1997: 46th Annual Conference | Readers, Writers, Registers: Latin America, Spain, USA and the New Politics of Publishing in Spanish
- 1996: 45th Annual Conference | Race, Culture and National Identity in the Afro-American Diaspora
- 1995: 44th Annual Conference | Innovation and Partnership: Working with National Resource Management, Gender and Local Communities in the Tropics
- 1994: 43rd Annual Conference | The Wisdom of the Maya
- 1993: 42nd Annual Conference | Black Brazil
- 1992: 41st Annual Conference | Involuntary Migration and Resettlement in Latin America
- 1991: 40th Annual Conference | Andean Crises: Traditional Dilemmas and Contemporary Challenges
- 1990: 39th Annual Conference | Economic Catalysts to Ecological Change
- 1989: 38th Annual Conference | Alternative Development Strategies for the Caribbean
- 1988: 37th Annual Conference | Demography of Inequality in Contemporary Latin America
- 1987: 36th Annual Conference | The Jewish Presence in Latin America
- 1986: 35th Annual Conference | Gender Issues in Farming Systems Research and Extension
- 1985: 34th Annual Conference | Popular Culture and the Process of Democratization in Brazil
- 1984: 33rd Annual Conference | Popular Culture, National Identity and Migration in the Caribbean
- 1983: 32nd Annual Conference | The Americas in the New International Division of Labor
- 1982: 31st Annual Conference | Frontier Expansion in Amazonia
- 1981: 30th Annual Conference | Migration and Caribbean Cultural Identity
- 1980: 29th Annual Conference | The Portuguese World in the Time of Camões
- 1979: 28th Annual Conference | Development and Inequality in Latin America
- 1978: 27th Annual Conference | Cultural Traditions and Caribbean Identity: The Question of Patrimony
- 1977: 26th Annual Conference | El Modernismo
- 1976: 25th Annual Conference | The Florida Borderlands During the American Revolution
- 1975: 24th Annual Conference | First Americans Speak Up
- 1974: 23rd Annual Conference | Population Growth and Human Productivity
- 1973: 22nd Annual Conference | Man in the Amazon
- 1972: 21stAnnual Conference | Public Policy for Urbanization in Dominican Republic and Costa Rica
- 1971: 20th Annual Conference | Fiscal Policy for Industrialization and Development in Latin America
- 1970: 19th Annual Conference | Universities in Transition
- 1969: 18th Annual Conference | Aspects of Latin American Development
- 1967: 17th Annual Conference | Africa and Latin America: A Conference on Human Mobility and Social Change in Two Continents
- 1966: 16th Annual Conference | The Caribbean: Its Hemispheric Role
- 1965: 15th Annual Conference | Current United States Relations
- 1964: 14th Annual Conference | Health Problems in the Caribbean
- 1963: Annual Conference | Mexico Today
- 1962: 13th Annual Conference | Venezuelan Development, a Case History
- 1961: 12th Annual Conference | Contemporary Colombia
- 1960: 11th Annual Conference | The Caribbean: The Central American Area
- 1959: 10th Annual Conference | The Caribbean: Contemporary Education
- 1958: 9th Annual Conference | The Caribbean: Natural Resources
- 1957: 8th Annual Conference | Contemporary British, Dutch, French and United States
- 1956: 7th Annual Conference | The Caribbean: Contemporary International Relations
- 1955: 6th Annual Conference | The Caribbean: Contemporary Political Problems
- 1954: 5th Annual Conference | Contemporary Caribbean Culture
- 1953: 4th Annual Conference | The Caribbean: Contemporary Economy
- 1952: 3rd Annual Conference | The Caribbean: Contemporary Trends
- 1951: 2nd Annual Conference | The Caribbean: Peoples, Problems, and Prospects
- December 7-9, 1950: 1st Annual Conference | The Caribbean at Mid-Century