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At the LASA (Latin American Studies Association) annual congress, ENLAAS will host two roundtables and three members will participate as speakers and present their latest papers.

Programme: 

26 May 2026

13:45 - 15:15 h, Studio B Panel: Arte en movimiento: de bienales у diásporas a estrategias antiimperialistas у antifascistas Speaker: Katerina Valdivia Bruch “Presentist Reframing or Historical Interpretation? Revisiting Teresa Burga’s “Perfil de la mujer peruana””

27 May 2026

10:15 - 11:45 h, Studio I Roundtable: The State of Latin American Art Studies in Europe: Institutions, Networks, and Infrastructures

Participants: Margarida Brito Alves, Katarzyna Cytlak, Laura Karp Lugo, Giulia Lamoni, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, and Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Session organiser: Katerina Valdivia Bruch Chair: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra

12:00 - 13:30 h, Studio F Roundtable: Off the Record: Curatorial Narratives on Latin American Artists from the 1960s and 1970s

Participants: Margarida Brito Alves, Katarzyna Cytlak, Laura Karp Lugo, Giulia Lamoni, Katerina Valdivia Bruch, and Claudia Calirman

Session organiser: Katerina Valdivia Bruch Chair: Laura Karp Lugo

15:30 - 17:00 h, Studio A Panel: Mediated Utopias: Art, Technology and the Environment” Speaker: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra “On Painterly Vitalism: The Work of Elda Cerrato at CAyC”

29 May 2026

19:00 – 20:30 h, Studio B Panel: Arte y performance en emergencia y flujo Speaker: Katarzyna Cytlak “Artistic Networks on the Margins of the Cold War: Artistic Links Between East European and Latin American Cultures During Late Socialism”

“Mapping Space and Time” at Forum Transregionale Studien and Bardo Projektraum

Inaugural event of the European Network on Latin American Art Studies (ENLAAS), 4-6 June 2025

Mapping Space and Time connects the idea of cartography and its  temporality, and sheds light on how maps – once created to give  orientation and divide territories, as part of colonial and imperialist  agendas – have been changing in time due to different political and  social circumstances, becoming more porous and fragile. One of the aims  of this project is to reflect on current geopolitical shifts, such as  the ones resulting from wars or climate change, which have given rise to  migration movements in different parts of the world. At the same time,  these movements have created new unofficial maps and routes, which are  in constant transformation. We are interested in recalling historical  accounts in which maps were intimately associated with colonial history,  which started in the Americas in the fifteenth century, marking the  beginning of modernity.

"Sobre a proporção das formas," exhibition co-curated by Margarida Brito Alves and Giulia Lamoni

You are cordially invited to the opening of "Sobre a proporção das formas" (On the Proportions of Shapes), a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Flávia Regalado, curated by Giulia Lamoni and Margarida Brito Alves, members of the ENLAAS network.

Opening: 25 October 2025, 18:00 - 21:00 h

Address: Coletivo Amarelo, Rua Capitão Leitão 74, Lisbon 1950-052, Portugal

Katarzyna Cytlak contributed to the volume "Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism and Gender-Based Violence"

Katarzyna Cytlak’s text, titled "The Visual Sociology of the manqhapacha: Aníbal López’s Anthology of the Violence in Guatemala and Gender-Based Violence in Latin American Art", is part of the volume "Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism and Gender-Based Violence", edited by Basia Sliwinska.

Book release: "Repensar el conceptualismo: vanguardia, activismo y política en el arte latinoamericano (1960s-1980s)", edited by Katerina Valdivia Bruch

"Repensar el conceptualismo: vanguardia, activismo y política en el arte latinoamericano (1960s-1980s)", edited by Katerina Valdivia Bruch, brings together recent scholarship on conceptual and experimental art in Latin America between the 1960s and 1980s. The texts examine the intersections between avant-garde and politics, the critical thought of Latin American thinkers such as Juan Acha, Marta Traba, and Luis Camnitzer, the preservation of artists’ and collectives’ archives (such as that of Clemente Padín and the CADA Archive), artistic practices on memory and violence in Colombia and Peru, the contributions of Latin American women artists, and the connections between Third Cinema and internationalism.

The Spanish edition of the book is available in three formats: e-book, PDF, and print-on-demand.

Margarida Brito Alves and Katarzyna Cytlak are part of the CIRCUL'ARTs COST Action

Giulia Lamoni is part of the editorial board of the journal Feminist Art Practices and Research: Cosmos