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LACS Conference - April 10 and 11, 2026, at the ��ݮ��ý.

Community and Resistance: Reclaiming Knowledge Production

This conference, organized by LACS (Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center), seeks to create a horizontal and transdisciplinary space to think about and practice other ways of producing knowledge, as a counter to what Spivak termed ��ݮ��ý�epistemic violence��ݮ��ý�, where the discourses of the dominant actors and structures often invalidate and seek to silence or discredit alternative ways of knowing that emerge from marginalized agents and communities. We invite academics, artists, and scientific researchers, especially graduate students and early career scholars, to present papers that address ways of generating and transmitting knowledge that attempt to answer these or related questions:

How is knowledge embodied in the relational, in the community, in orality, in the materiality of bodies?

What forms of knowledge are produced at the margins, and how do they challenge epistemic hierarchies?

What poetic or scientific methodologies can be imagined from communality and relation?

How is knowledge produced from territorial resistance, memory, and collective care?

Areas of approach 

• Embodied knowledge: Art, body and memory
• Situated science, community feminisms, and collaborative practices
• Poetics of opacity, miscegenation, and relationality
• Communal experiences of knowledge creation and dissemination
• Decolonial education and pedagogies of care
• History and memory
• Epistemic injustice and epistemicide
• Cultural heritage preservation

Formats accepted: Pre-conference sessions, papers, posters, or panels.

Presentations can be in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.

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