ZILAS active participation in LASA 2026 Paris. Republic & Revolution

Researchers from the Central Institute for Latin American Studies, ZILAS, at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt will participate in LASA2026, the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held in Paris from May 26 to 30, 2026. ZILAS members will contribute to the congress through organized panels, chaired sessions, and individual papers on memory, gender, childhood, agroecology, bioeconomies, postcolonial frontier spaces, territorial practices, cultural production, and republican imaginaries in Latin America.

Panels organized, coordinated, or chaired by ZILAS members

Wednesday, May 27, 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Loft E
574 // HUM – Panel
Más allá del Estado: Memoria, interseccionalidad y nuevas solidaridades en América Latina

Session Organizer
Hendrikje Grunow, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Chair
Ana Guglielmucci, UR y UBA/CONICET

Papers

Memorias interseccionales. Narrativas y resistencias colectivas de las comunidades negras en Colombia
Tatiana Quintero, International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, JLU Giessen

Cuerpos, clases y causas: Una lectura interseccional de biografías de mujeres insurgentes en búsqueda de una práctica de solidaridad afectiva
Hendrikje Grunow, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Memorias trans en Argentina: continuum de violencias y lazos de solidaridad entre víctimas de la última dictadura cívico-militar
Manuel Sánchez Moreno, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

Cu: Archivo del Cobre. La agencia del Sueldo de Chile
Milena P. Moena Moreno, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Climas de la memoria: archivo, territorio y experimentación artística en el desierto
Macarena Cortés, Independent Artist, Chile
 


Friday, May 29, 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Studio G
1263 // GEN – Panel
Feminismos, infancia y Estado en el Cono Sur entre fines del siglo XIX y primera mitad del siglo XX

Session Organizer
Marcela Vignoli, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Chair
Nina Schneider, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Papers

El cuerpo de las niñas y jóvenes trabajadoras de Buenos Aires como preocupación de las feministas del novecientos
Marcela Vignoli, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Was Factory Inspection in Latin America (the Americas) gendered? Enforcing Child Labour Laws in Argentina, Brazil and the US, 1890s–1930s
Nina Schneider, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Entre la protección y el trabajo: experiencias infantiles en el sistema de colocaciones familiares en Uruguay (1934–1950)
Florencia Thul, Universidad de la República
 


Saturday, May 30, 5:15–6:45 p.m.

FIAP, Auditorium
1684 // CUL – Panel
Postcolonial Frontier Spaces and Republic. Territorial, Socioeconomic and Cultural Practices in South America I

Session Organizers
Miriam Lay Brander, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Luis Peña, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Chair
Mariah Freitas Monteiro, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Discussant
Miriam Lay Brander, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Papers

Conocimientos indígenas y campesinos en Nariño y Putumayo: aproximaciones desde una perspectiva histórica y de género
Amada C. Pérez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Dangerous Frontiers. The Role of Capuchin Friars and Franciscan Sisters during the Violent Conflicts in the Cauca Department at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Thomas Fischer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Governing an Environmentalized Frontier: Chiribiquete and a New Grammar of Frontier Statecraft
Luis Peña, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

National Parks as Contested Frontier Spaces: The Touristic Production of Colonial Legacies and Hybrid Possibilities
Jessica Balling, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt / University of Innsbruck
 


Saturday, May 30, 7:00–8:30 p.m.

FIAP, Auditorium
1699 // CUL – Panel
Postcolonial Frontier Spaces and Republic. Territorial, Socioeconomic and Cultural Practices in South America II

Session Organizers
Miriam Lay Brander, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Luis Peña, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Chair
Miriam Lay Brander, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Discussant
Javier Uriarte, Stony Brook University

Papers

National Frontiers and Indigenous Communities the Amazon Highlands of Brazil and Venezuela as Seen through the Writings of Spruce and Wallace in the 1850s
Marcio Oliveira, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Articular el aula en los márgenes: tensiones entre centralización y agencia local en Coquimbo (1850–1890)
Alex A. Ovalle-Letelier, Universidad de La Serena

From Refuge to Resource: Changing Ontologies and Semantic Transformations of Forests in the Wallmapu
Christiane Hoth de Olano, Early Postdoc History, University of Bern

De islas, presas y puentes: Pensar el territorio desde el Sur chileno
Jenny Haase, Universität Potsdam
 

Individual papers and further participation by ZILAS members

Tuesday, May 26, 10:15–11:45 a.m.

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Loft A
077 // ENV – Roundtable
Latin American Bioeconomies and Green (post)Capitalisms

Participant
Mariah Freitas Monteiro, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
 


Tuesday, May 26, 10:15–11:45 a.m.

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Loft E
080 // HUM – Panel
Memorias de violencias (para)estatales

Paper
Disputed History: The Struggle for Truth about the Armed Conflict in Colombia in the Post–Peace Agreement 2016–2022
Manuel Cardozo Ruidiaz, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
 


Thursday, May 28, 1:45–3:15 p.m.

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Expo 4A
860 // RAC – Roundtable
Educating the Citizen–Subject or Educating Indigeneity? Catholic Mission Schools and the Republican Project from Patagonia to the Plains of North America

Participant
Thomas Fischer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
 


Thursday, May 28, 5:15–6:45 p.m.

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Studio H
951 // AGR – Panel
Agroecology, Producers, and Social Movements in Latin America

Paper
Field of Revolutions: Agroecological Networks versus the Green Revolution in Latin America (1980s–1990s)
Mariah Freitas Monteiro, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
 


Thursday, May 28, 7:00–8:30 p.m.

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Scène H
1018 // RLC – Workshop
Luchas comunitarias por lo común en América Latina y el Caribe: experiencias, desafíos y horizontes colectivos

Participant
Hendrikje Grunow, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
 


Saturday, May 30, 10:15–11:45 a.m.

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche, Scène F
1451 // AFR – Panel
Creole Connections: Cultural Reproduction across Geopolitical Frontiers

Paper
‘Tantas islas en una’. Place, time and belonging in Los cristales de la sal by Cristina Bendek
Miriam Lay Brander, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt