Our Conferences

  • William San Martín: William San Martín was a panelist in the webinar Climate Justice and Just Transitions: Contributions from Latin America, organized by the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2) at Universidad de Chile. The CR2 is an interdisciplinary research center sponsored by Chile’s National Agency for Research and Development, coordinating efforts across seven universities in Chile to improve the understanding of the Earth system and help develop climate resilience in Chile. William met researchers at the CR2 in August 2023 as part of efforts from WPI’s Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program to build collaborations in the region supported by a U.S. Department of Education Grant ending this year. https://www.cr2.cl/29-de-septiembre-seminario-cr2-contribuciones-desde-latinoamerica-al-debate-conceptual-sobre-justicia-climatica-y-transicion-justa/

  • Aarti Madan: La centralidad de las mujeres en el intercambio cultural sur-sur: Adelina del Carril.” XLIV Congreso Internacional del IILI in Athens, Greece: July 2023.

  • William San Martín: Keynote Panelist: Agriculture as a “nature-based climate solution”: What can agricultural history bring to the table? Agricultural History Society Conference 2023, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. (June 8-10, 2023)

  • William San Martín: Recentering Justice in Climate Governance: Expertise, Conflict, and Sustainable Development in the Global South (2023). Spring Faculty Panel Series: Climate Change: Adaptation, Impact, and Science.Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Boston, USA. (Apr 4, 2023)

  • William San Martín: Justice as Biogeochemical Governance: Multispecies Justice, Rights of Nature, and the Struggle over More-than-Human Sovereignty. Workshop: Climate Justice and Extractive Economic Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, USA. (Mar 7, 2023)

  • John Galante: “Reorientations toward Italic and Latin Atlantic Worlds,” The Mediterranean Seminar, Miami, February 2023

  • John Galante: “Author Meet Critic: On the Other Shore by John Starosta Galante,” Social Science History Association Conference, Chicago, November 2022 Commentors Pedro Cameselle-Pesce (Western Washington University), Mark Choate (Brigham Young University), Linda Reeder (University of Missouri), and Elizabeth Zanoni (Old Dominion University)



  • Aarti Madan: “Estanislao Severos Zeballos, or Nineteenth-Century Argentina’s Environmental Unconscious.” Meeting of the Association for the Study of Literatures of the Environment (ASLE-UK) in Newcastle, England: September 2022


  • William San Martín: What the Environmental Governance Literature can tell us about Nitrogen Roadmaps. Developing Roadmaps for Sustainable Nitrogen Management Workshop.Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Institut d’études Avancées de Paris, Paris, France (May 18-20, 2022)

  • Aarti Madan: “India as Creation: Andrés di Tella, Ricardo Güiraldes, and Ramachandra Gowda in Fotografías.” Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention in Washington D.C.: January 2022.

  • Laureen Elgert: 2021 Stories are Data: Using Stories to Build Understanding & Community around Public Interest Technology. Engineering, Social Justice and Peace, XV Conference,  June 26-27.  (with Yunus Telliel and Ben Nephew).
  • Laureen Elgert: 2021 Political Design and the Power of Experts.  Engineering, Social Justice and Peace, XV Conference,  June 26-27. 
  • Aarti Madan: “Indios: Sarmiento and the Subcontinent.”  International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, virtual: May 2021.

  • Aarti Madan: “Performing and Painting: Panmela Castro and Feminist Solidarity in the Global South.” Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention: January 2021. [virtual]


  • Laureen Elgert: 2020 Constitutional Environmental Rights: Post-development and Popular Resistance against Extractivism, Association for Environmental Science and Studies, Low Carbon Conference, June 26-29.
  • Laureen Elgert: 2020 Keynote speaker, 1st Annual Conference on Development Engineering, Academic City College, Accra, Ghana, Feb 27-29.