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Conferences

Annual Consortium Conference:

Each Spring, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University Consortium in Latin American Studies sponsors an academic conference inviting Duke and UNC graduate students, faculty, and international scholars to participate.

2008 Consortium Conference: "The Politics of Culture in Latin America & the Caribbean"

2007 Annual Consortium Conference: "Right Turn, Left Turn"

Annual Latin American Labor History Conference (LALHC):

Founded in 1984 with the sponsorship of Yale University's Council on Latin American Studies, the Latin American History Conference initially rotated among the campuses of Yale, Princeton or SUNY-Stony Brook. Since 1993, the conference has occurred annually at Duke University with the sponsorship of Duke's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and additional financial support from the Dean of Arts & Sciences and other campus sources. The conference fosters a relaxed, workshop atmosphere for faculty and graduate students specializing in Latin American labor, attracting scholars from major Latin American studies programs in the U.S. and abroad.

2007 LALHC: "Labors of Love: Domestic Work in Latin American Labor History"

2008 LALHC: "Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities:  An Assessment of Lula's Presidency"

Other Conferences: TBA