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.
- 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: 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: 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