Friends, pre-orders for -A Pedagogy of Kindness- are now open! Pre-order at the following link, or at your favorite bookstore: oupress.com/9780806193854/…

Our center is very pleased to host the 2024 meeting of CSDH-SCHN on our campus at Université de Montréal, with Cecily Raynor as PC chair and Michael E. Sinatra as local host (with the tireless work of our coordinator Katrina Kaustinen and students volunteer). And we begin with Andrew Piper ’s plenary!

And the closing plenary of CSDH-SCHN 2024 conference begins, with Lai-Tze Fan, SSHRC Canada Research chair at University of Waterloo, taking the floor to discuss "How does Access to AI impact Human Creativity and Humanistic Research?"

Congratulations to Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado WashU, winner of our James Whiston prize for 'most outstanding' article of 2024. Read it now: 'Endless Proliferations of Signifiers: Mexican Cultural Studies in the Future Tense' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

La mismísima Diamela Eltit reseñó mi libro!!! revistasantiago.cl/pensamiento/lo…

Con mucha alegría les presento mi nuevo libro: "Migrar y otras artes. Escritos fuera de lugar". Es una colección híbrida de textos sobre la experiencia migratoria, viajera y de mudanzas que me ha tocado vivir. Navegando diversos géneros entre la no ficción y la ficción [sigue]

We’re thrilled to announce that WWB has been awarded a general operating grant from the Mellon Foundation—the largest grant in our history. buff.ly/4cQKE9L

For the past 4 years I’ve been working on a project to tell the story of how AI is impacting global inequality. On November 24th 2024 my new book “The Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality” will be published with Polity.

2024 job market analysis that is incredibly on-point.

‘Born of war in Colombia: Reproductive violence and memories of absence’, my first book, was recently published by Rutgers University Press . I’m extremely proud of this work, and the journey of solidarity and curiosity it represents!rutgersuniversitypress.org/born-of-war-in…

Page proofs baby! So excited to be one step closer to seeing my book out in the world 🤓🎉📚 Duke University Press

Beautiful book haul from writer and dear friend María José Navia, whom I had the pleasure of seeing in Montreal this year 🌟 Watching her trajectory from fellow grad student at Georgetown University to accomplished writer, professor, & literary critic has been a joy 🫶🏼

Coming in December (and the in-house favorite cover design): The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi Details here: upittpress.org/books/97808229…

Friday was a beautiful mail day here in Montreal: two new books from the impeccable Adriana Lisboa 📚💐

For folks interested in LASA 2025, please consider submitting an abstract to a panel I’m organizing with francisco tijerina called “Bodies of Extraction.” We’re interested in papers from scholars of LatAm/Latinx cult. production who study the body’s centrality to extractive enterprises.

My department is hiring an assistant prof in Early Modern Iberoamerican / Colonial! Transatlantic and Lusophone approaches particularly welcome. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37708160/-…

Looking for a last minute LASA 2025 panel? I'm trying to put something together on any of the following: literary magazines, print culture, transnational circulation of ideas, the 1960s + 70s. I've got one established scholar on board as discussant. Let me know ASAP! Please RT

Angela & I are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides, a groundbreaking anthology featuring the work of over 60 extraordinary Latinx creatives. Drops 2025! Angela M. Sánchez

Probably the most salient fact for me about AI / GPT is that it is not a sticky technology. Unlike social media people don't get lost using it. They dip in for a task and then move on. That is way healthier.

Para los que se encuentran en Montreal, ojalá nos veamos el 4 de octubre a las 3 p.m para la charla de Dra. Adriana Pozos Barcelata: "Familias en la búsqueda: gobernanza colaborativa y transformación institutional en la crisis por la desaparición de personas en México."