Rutgers had a strong presence at the 2025 LASA Conference in San Francisco. Faculty and graduate students from both Rutgers–New Brunswick and Rutgers–Newark actively participated by presenting their research, organizing panels, chairing sessions, and contributing to roundtable discussions.
Here are the details of Rutgers’ participation at LASA 2025.
Panel - Subterranean Struggles: Property and Sovereignty in Latin America’s Subsoil
“The Salary of Chile”: Copper Mining, Technoscience, and Subsoil Politics in Mid-20th Century Chile. Javiera Madrid, Ph.D. student in Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Panel - Cuerpos y resistencia
Blurring the Boundaries of Femme Fluidity: Camila Belliard, Ph.D. candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Panel - Energías críticas: Etnografías de la electrificación en Colombia
Interconectando La Paz: Dinámicas de poder en sistemas de energía solar en zonas no interconectadas de Colombia: Daniela Mosquera, Ph.D. candidate in Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Panel - Ethnographic Perspectives on “Political Polarization” in Contemporary Brazil
An Ethnographic Theory of Political Antagonism: As Applied to the Brazilian Popular Right, for Example. Sean T. Mitchell, Rutgers University-Newark.
Panel - Descentrar el canon: Alternativas pedagógicas para estudiar el arte de los Andes
Desde la memoria: Hacia metodologías que consideran las tradiciones orales andino-amazónicas como archivo histórico fundamental de la región: Diana A. Iturralde, Ph.D. candidate in Art History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Panel - Refusing Identity/Uncovering Archives: Reading and Visualizing Latinx Identity
Latinidades and Pedagogies of Latinx Art: Bony Ramirez’s Cattleya: Jennifer Vilchez, Ph.D candidate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Panel - Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay
A Movement-in-Motion: CONAMURI and the Making of a Feminist Agroecology: Jamie Gagliano, PhD candidate in geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Panel - Feminisms in Activism and Artivism
Feminist Genealogies: Activism, Art, and Decoloniality in Abya Yala: Evelyn S. Autry, Rutgers University.
Panel - Embodied Extractivism: Everyday Practices, Intersectional Difference, and the Intimacies of Violence in the Expanding Andean Resource Frontier
Mapping the Intimate Geopolitics of Gold and Mercury in the Bolivian Amazon: Andrea Marston, Rutgers University.
Panel - Figurations of the Body-Migrant: Following the Migrants' Mobilities, Immobilities, and Settlement Throughout the Americas
Frontiers of the Body Politic: from Venezuelan Animosity to the Implementation of Digital Borders in Chile: Clive Echague, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
The Experiential Body-Migrant: Mobilities and Immobilities Around the Darien Gap Migrant Corridor: Gloria D'Alessio, PhD student in Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
PANEL - Poner el cuerpo en la publicación: Trayectorias de la edición independiente en América Latina (Parte 2)
Discussant: Jeffrey Lawrence, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
PANEL - Indigenous-State Relations, Coloniality, and Extractivism in Latin America
The Untold History of State and Indigenous Nations Relations: Henry M. Maquera Colque, Rutgers University - Division of Global Affairs.
PANEL - El cuerpo en los universos alternativos de la cf: Leer la política (Parte 1)
Cuerpos en tensión: Horror y naturaleza en el cine latinoamericano reciente: Ana I. Llurba, PhD candidate in Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
PANEL - México, el país de las fosas: La investigación activista sobre desaparición
Discussant: Janice K. Gallagher, Rutgers University-Newark.
PANEL - Challenges to Human Rights Compliance
Challenges to Human Rights Compliance: Human Rights in a Failed State? The Mexican Case of Tamaulipas: Janice K. Gallagher, Rutgers University-Newark.
Roundtable - Reimagining Reciprocity: Reflections on Feminist, Participatory Research Methods in High Risk Contexts
Chair: Janice K. Gallagher, Rutgers University-Newark.
Roundtable - Gendered Resistance: Feminized Bodies Navigating State Violence in the Dominican Republic
Camila Belliard, Ph.D. candidate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality, Rutgers University.
Roundtable - Palestine in Abya Yala: Revelations, Resonances, Contradictions
Sandy I. Plácido, Rutgers University-Newark.
Roundtable - Remainders of Mining Past: Engaging the Material and Symbolic Legacies of Extraction in the Andes
Daniela Mosquera, Ph.D. candidate in Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Andrea Marston, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Javiera Madrid, PhD student in Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Honorable Mention to Andrea Marston, Geography Department, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, for her book Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2024). Congratulations, Professor Marston!