SECOLAS

Conference List


SECOLAS Annual Meetings since 1954

Number

Sponsor/Location

Theme

Dates

I. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Meeting called "Southeastern Regional Round Table on Teaching Problems in the Field of Latin-American Studies," which was changed in 1955 to SECOLAS February 12-13, 1954
II. University of Georgia, Athens Various topics April 21-22, 1955
III. University of Florida, Gainesville "Report of Special Activities; Libraries and Research Collection; Suggested Projects for Cooperation" March 16-17, 1956
IV. Alabama College, Montevallo, Alabama "Pedagogical and Library Topics" April 12-13, 1957
V. Florida State University, Tallahassee "Merits and Problems of Teaching Latin-American Courses" March 7-8, 1958
VI. Pensacola Junior College, Florida "Latin America in the Twentieth Century" March 6-7, 1959
VII. University of South Carolina, Columbia "Impacts of United States Policies in Latin America" March 4-5, 1960
VIII. University of Miami at Lucerne Hotel, Miami Beach "Latin America: New Approaches" April 28-29, 1961
IX. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "The Latin-American Social Revolution" April 27-28, 1962
X. University of Tampa at Causeway Inn, Tampa, Florida "United States Mass Communications and Latin America" April 19-20, 1963
XI. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee "Brazil in the Latin American World" April 24-25, 1964
XII. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge "Chile and Peru in the Twentieth Century" April 23-24, 1965
XIII. University of Miami, Florida "Uruguay and Paraguay" March 18-19, 1966
XIV. West Georgia College at Americana Motel, Atlanta, Georgia "Statesmen, Scholars, and Scoundrels" April 14-15, 1967
XV. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa "The Role of Artists, Thinkers and Writers in the Evolution of Latin America" April 4-6, 1968
XVI. University of Florida, Gainesville "Aspects of Latin-American Development" April 10-12, 1969
XVII. University of South Carolina, Columbia "Instruction, Investigation, and Interpretation: Roles of the Latin Americanist" April 2-4, 1970
XVIII. University of Georgia, Athens "Latin America and the Contemporary World: Evolving International Relationships" April 15-17, 1971
XIX. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Cuba and Chile: Latin America's Two Marxist Regimes" April 27-29, 1972
XX. University of Tennessee, Knoxville "Urbanization in Latin America" April 5-7, 1973
XXI. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette "The Place of Literature in Interdisciplinary Approaches" April 4-6, 1974
XXII. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia "New Directions in Latin American Studies" April 17-19, 1975
XXIII. Florida International University at Hotel Carillon, Miami Beach, Florida "The Role of Foreigners in Latin America" May 6-8, 1976
XXIV. Tuskegee Institute at Holiday Inn, Tuskegee, Alabama "Race and Culture in Latin America" April 21-23, 1977
XXV. The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina "Politics and Political Participation in Latin America" April 6-8, 1978
XXVI. University of South Florida, Tampa "Cuba and the Caribbean: Twentieth Century Perspectives" April 19-21, 1979
XXVII. Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina "Business in Latin America" April 24-26, 1980
XXVIII. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa "Mexican and Central American Perspectives" April 16-18, 1981
XXIX. West Georgia College at Callaway Gardens "Population and Development in Latin America" March 25-27,1982
XXX. International Institute of the Americas, World University, San Juan, Puerto Rico "Reform and Revolution in Latin America" April 7-9, 1983
XXXI. Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama "The Many Cultures of Latin America" April 12-14, 1984
XXXII. Rollins College, Orlando, Fl "Continuity and Change in Latin America" March 28-30, 1985
XXXIII. Clemson University, Clemson, SC "City and Country in Latin America: The Implications of Change" April 3-5, 1986
XXXIV. The University of Alabama - Mérida, México "Regionalism and Nationalism in Latin America: Legacies of the Past, Directions for the Future" April 1-5, 1987
XXXV. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN "Transportation and Communication in Latin America" April 14-16, 1988
XXXVI. Coastal Carolina College/USC, Myrtle Beach, SC "Literature, Culture, and Revolution in Latin America" April 13-15, 1989
XXXVII. The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL "Inter-Americanism: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations" April 5-7, 1990
XXXVIII. The University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL "Latin America and the World" Feb. 28-March 2, 1991
XXXIX. The Citadel, Charleston, SC "The Discoveries of America: Past, Present and Future" April 2-4, 1992
XL. Universidad de San Carlos, CIRMA, and Archive of Central America, Antigua, Guatemala "Central America and the Caribbean" Feb. 18-21, 1993
XLI. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA., at the Hotel Acadiana "A SECOLAS Retrospective: Forty Years of Latin American Studies" April 7-9, 1994
XLII. Duke-University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies, Durham and Chapel Hill "Colonialism and Post-Colonialism in Latin America: Revisions and New Perspectives" March 9-11, 1995
XLIII. Florida International University, Miami "Unity and Diversity: The Face(s) of Latin America." April 11-13, 1996
XLIV. University of Alabama, San Jose, Costa Rica "Latin America: Tradition and Innovation" February 25-March 2, 1997
XLV. Georgia Southern University, Savannah "Latin America: Approaching the Millennium" April 9-11, 1998
XLVI. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, at the Hotel Acadiana "Latin America: Its People and Its Diversity" March 18-20, 1999
XLVII. Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina "Latin America Encounters the 21st Century March 9-11, 2000
XLVIII. Universidad Verzcruzana and the University of South Florida, at the Hotel Emporio, Veracruz, México "Desafíos de las Américas en el Nuevo Milenio/Challenges of the Americas in the New Millennium" March 1-3, 2001
XLIX. University of South Alabama, Mobile, at the Admiral Rafael Semmes Hotel "Hemispheric Connections: The Gulf-Caribbean and Beyond" February 28-March 2, 2002
L. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, at the Holiday Inn "SECOLAS at 50: Imaging the Past, Remembering the Future" March 6-8, 2003
LI. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and Armstrong Atlantic State University at the Hotel Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic "Caribbean and Latin American Responses to Foreign Influences" March 4-6, 2004
LII. Vanderbilt University and Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN "Transnationalism: The Intersection of the Local and the Global" April 7-9, 2005
LIII. Univeristy of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina "Latin America in the Age of Globalization" April 6-8, 2006
LIV. University of South Alabama, San Jose, Costa Rica "Contesting Images of Latin America" April 19-21, 2007

LV.

ENLACE, Florida and the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Florida, Historica Ybor City, Tampa, Florida "Our Hispanic Heritage and Latino Futures: Challenges and Opportunities for Latin American Studies"

April 17-19, 2008

LVI. Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana "Crisis and Recovery in the Americas" April 16-18, 2009
LVII. Instituto Mora, Mexico City. "Memory and Revolution" April 7-10, 2010
LVIII. University of North Carolina at Wilmington "Nation Formation and the Diaspora of Race" March 16-19, 2011
LIX University of Florida "The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America" March 29-31, 2012
LX Panama City, Panamá, sponsored by Secolas "Latin America at the Crossroads" March 6-9, 2013