Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) Biennial Spring Conference

The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) is pleased to invite
submissions for our biennial conference, “(Im)mobility and Memory in Latin America and the
Caribbean.” This conference will explore the dynamic interrelations between memory and
mobility in the region, focusing on how both movement and stasis shape, and are shaped by,
cultural, social and historical processes. We seek to examine how memory—individual and
collective—becomes a contested terrain in relation to both mobility and immobility.

Conceptualizing Memory:

In this conference, we are imagining Memory as encompassing not only personal and collective
recollections but also broader questions of heritage, patrimony, and history. How are tangible
and intangible forms of patrimony – such as monuments, artifacts, oral traditions, and historical
narratives – remembered, preserved, or transformed in contexts of movement, migration, or
displacement? How do communities in Latin America and the Caribbean negotiate their cultural
and historical legacies in the face of (im)mobility? We invite participants to consider these and
other questions as they relate to the politics of memory, heritage, and identity.