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“Memory is both compass and companion" - Cara Levey

Building on Cara Levey’s groundbreaking exploration of how collective memory shapes struggles for equity, this year's conference will probe memory as a site of healing, contestation, and transformation across Latin America and its diasporas. Our contributors take these ideas as a point of departure for fresh analyses, creative interventions, and cross-disciplinary dialogue within the field of Latin American Studies.

Our panels cover a wide range of themes, including: memory studies and environmental disasters; environmental justice, rights of nature, and planetary agency; memory politics, post-memory, and memorialisation; state-building, democratic transitions, and transitional justice; social and transitional justice in international relations; memory studies and gender; memory studies and race; digital memory studies and archival futures; memory studies and the Latin American diaspora in the UK.