Emily attended LASA Cono Sur which was held at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, from July 13-15, 2026. She presented a paper based on one of her dissertation chapters entitled "Governing Memory after Pinochet: Human Rights in Chilean Presidential Discourse." She appreciated the opportunity to present her research to an international audience in Chile and engage with various scholars who also specialize in the Southern Cone and memory studies.
Attending the XII International Congress of the Asociación de Humanidades Hispánicas in Burgos-Spain was an extremely enriching experience for my academic and professional development. I presented my project, “Reimagining Spanish Language Teaching: A Participatory Writing Lab for Linguistic and Identity Affirmation among Heritage Speakers”.
Luisa writes: "I participated in a professional academic conference held at the University of Kentucky, where I presented my paper titled “Migración Forzada de Mujeres Zapotecas en el Istmo de Tehuantepec: Extractivismo, Capital Emocional y Resistencia Decolonial.” My presentation examined the impact of extractivist projects in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and their role in shaping forced migration, with particular attention to Indigenous women’s experiences and decolonial forms of resistance.
Ana says: "Attending the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2026 conference was really beneficial. I presented two posters based on recent projects about teacher beliefs around writing assessment and artificial intelligence.
Andrea presented Lexical complexity, fluency, and tense in oral narrations: comparing the effect of valence across prompts’: Andrea co-presented with Sophia Minillo, and non-presenters were Paloma Fernandez-Mira and Dr. Sanchez-Gutierrez. This presentation took place at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2026 Conferece (Chicago, March 2026). The presentation was about prompt valence
Julissa presented "Memoria cultural como resistencia a la necropolítica: justicia alternativa y empoderamiento subalterno en La Llorona" at the XLII Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos in Mallorca, Spain (10-12june 2026).
'Negotiating AI in Spanish Heritage Classrooms: Ethics, Identity, and Emotional Resilience’. Ana co-presented with Blanca Peraza, and non-presenters were Lucas Ruppel Cane and Angelica Gonzalez. The presentation was about the implementation of Politics of Artificial Intelligence in Spanish heritage language classes.
Jonathan presented on the panel Thinking with Plants and Animals Through Latin American Texts, which served as the formal launch of the book Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production (University of Florida Press), co-edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez. Jonathan's peer-reviewed chapter focuses on yerba mate and combines an analysis of the contemporary documentary Raídos (2016) with ethnographic fieldwork conducted in yerba mate plantations in the Triple Border region of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Andrew presented “Escrituras del yo y academia: Aproximaciones hacia una genealogía” to be given at the LASA2025 Congress, May 23-26. 2025 in San Francisco, CA.
