We are pleased to announce the upcoming graduate conference "Temporalities in Latin America. Experiences and Conceptualisations of Time across Past, Present, and Future" of the International Latin American Graduate Network (ILAGN) with the participation of six members of the IRTG "Temporalities of Future":

Keynote speakers:

Carmen Ibáñez (Postdoctoral Fellow CIG): "El tiempo colonizado"

José Francisco Hernández Reyes (Postdoctoral Fellow CIG): "A Pro-palestina Protest in the Mexican Mahjar at the Wilsonian Moment"

Panellists:

Federico Julián Bonet (PhD Fellow CIG): "Monumentos, memoria y legitimidad"

Jana Kluiber (PhD Fellow CIG): "Feminst Perspectives on the Migration of Care Workers: Aspirations and Imagined Futures within Transnational Care Networks"

Panel chair:

Laurita Hargreaves-Westenberger (PhD Fellow CIG): "Panel 4: Feminist Movements and Theories: Continuities and Transformations Across Time"

Pia Berghoff (Alumni CIG): "Panel 6: Migration and the Politics of Temporal Hierarchies in the Venezuelan Diaspora"

Temporalities encompass the ways in which time is experienced, perceived, and understood as a dynamic structure shaping existence. The plural form, temporalities, highlights the coexistence of multiple, often contradictory concepts of time, influenced by diverse values, political and religious beliefs, as well as economic and technological frameworks. Latin America serves as a striking example, where, among others, indigenous and (post)colonial time regimes, revolutionary futures and historical continuities, global rhythms and local temporalities have been in constant negotiation.

The main topics of the conference are summarised in the following panels:

Panel 1 – Cycles and Ruptures: Ancestral Temporalitites and Epistemologies

Panel 2 – Speculative Temporalities: Past Memories, Future Imaginaries in Film, Art and Literature

Panel 3 – Reframing the Past: Collective Memory and State Silence

Panel 4 – Feminist Movements and Theories: Continuities and Transformations Across Time

Panel 5 – Contested Futures: Youth, Education, and Cultural Diplomacy in Latin American Cold War Contexts

Panel 6 – Migration and the Politics of Temporal Hierarchies in the Venezuelan Diaspora

Early career researchers as PhD candidates and Master's students contributions from various disciplines that explore temporalities in Latin America through projections into the future, memory practices, and everyday experiences, highlighting time as both a lived and socially constructed reality.

Presentations are 15 minutes. The working languages of the conference will be English and Spanish.

Please find the conference schedule here.