2025 SLACA Conference: (Im)mobility and Memory in Latin America and the Caribbean
At the conference, Renata Hryciuk will present the paper “Oaxaca al gusto! “Gastropolitics, tourism gentrification and resistance in the South of Mexico.” She is also the chairwoman of the organizing committee.
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.
More information: https://slaca.americananthro.org/events/cfp-2025-slaca-conference-panama-city/