Our Invited Talks

  • Aarti Madan: “From Sarmiento to Street Art: The Spatial Turn in Latin American Studies,” keynote for two-day symposium on Space & Spatiality in the Americas, sponsored by Texas State University: October 2023.


  • Aarti Madan: Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative, “Presentación de libros decimonónicos” sponsored by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Escuela de Posgrado PUCP and Red Internacional de Estudios Latinoamericanos del Siglo XIX for the Seminario Internacional Perú XIX: December 2022.

  • Aarti Madan: Roundtable discussion of Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative: National Territory, National Literature (Aarti S. Madan) and Imagining the Plains of Latin America: An Ecocritical Study (Axel Pérez-Trujillo)and at Durham University, sponsored by the Centre for Culture and Ecology in Durham, England: September 2022.

  • Laureen Elgert: 2022 A Global School for a Global World: Building University-Community Partnerships to Address the SDG’s.  The Academic Council of the United Nations System, online meeting, June 25. (with Mimi Sheller, Kent Rismiller, Sarah Stanlick, and Sarah Strauss).


  • Laureen Elgert: 2022 Mobilize, Repress, Repeat: Global Actors, Local Power and Social Movements in Paraguay. New England Symposium for Latin American and Carribbean Studies, WPI, (with Charmain Levy, Laureen Elgert, Valerie L’Heureux), April 27-28.

  • Angel Rivera: Interviewed by Manuel Almeida for the Semana de la Lectura y Libro Puertorriqueño 2021. Universidad Ana G. Méndez. Miércoles 10 de noviembre del 2021 Enlace: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84708328931

  • Laureen Elgert: *2021 Panel Chair and Participant: Environmental Communication through Storytelling and Reporting, Association for Environmental Science and Studies, Washington, DC, June 26-29. (with Urmila Malick, Hannah Schulz, and Kate O’Neill).
  • Laureen Elgert: 2020 Invited speaker, Environmental Governance Research Symposium, Institute of Water Policy, National University of Singapore, January 27-29.