Casa de las Américas, through its Programme of Studies on Latinos in the United States, is calling for its sixth International Colloquium on the theme of "Latinidad y geografías humanas: las fronteras (in)visibles y sus espacios de poder" (Latinos/as/xs and human geographies: (in)visible borders and their spaces of power), from 14 to 16 October 2025. On this occasion, the meeting will focus on the processes of construction and legitimization of racialized spaces that influence the relationship between Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous migrants and their children in US society.
It will reflect on the perspective of the Latino population in the United States as a subject and social object immersed in spaces resulting from processes of dispossession and colonization that are responded to with strategies of resistance and decolonization.
The Colloquium will gather people of Latin American and Caribbean origin linked to the arts, literature, and the social and humanistic sciences and it proposes the following thematic axes:
1. Geographical histories of Latino population in the United States.
2. Border policies and other notions of the current map of Latino migrants in the United States.
3. Afro-Latinos and indigenous people from the South of the Rio Grande in the United States.
4. Latino population mapped from the arts and literature.
5. Enclaves and settlements: from tradition and through ruptures.
6. The Latino vote in the 2024 presidential elections.
In addition, one of the working sessions will be devoted to a tribute to the life and work of the outstanding Chicana/o intellectual Gloria Anzaldúa.
Those interested may present individual papers or panels until July 20, 2025 by sending the corresponding form to latinos@casa.cult.cu and latinoscasa@gmail.com which can be downloaded at the following link.