IRTG at LASA 2025: Exploring Geographies of Hope
News from May 26, 2025
The IRTG “Temporalities of Future” contributed to the LASA 2025 Congress with the panel “Geografías de la esperanza: Movilidad, inmovilidad y futuros imaginados,” bringing together international scholars to examine how hope, migration, and imagined futures intersect in contexts shaped by displacement, immobility, and anticipation.
Session Organizer: Arisbeth Hernandez Tapia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM
Chair: Pia Berghoff, Freie Universität Berlin
Discussant: Stephanie Schütze, Freie Universität Berlin
Presentations included:
- Recursos legales como puente: El futuro y las aspiraciones postdesplazamiento: Arisbeth Hernandez Tapia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM
- Between Queer Temporalities and Chrononormativity: Future Anticipations and Aspirations of LGBTQ+ Migrants Waiting at the U.S.-Mexico Border:Pia Berghoff, Freie Universität Berlin
- La búsqueda como esperanza: Aspiraciones y cotidianidades tras la desaparición forzada de 22 migrantes de San Luis de la Paz (Guanajuato): Helena Fabré Nadal, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
Many thanks to all participants for their insightful contributions and for representing the IRTG at LASA 2025!