With this first issue of 2024, CLAR has much good news to announce.
Danielle Terrazas Williams, a scholar of the social and legal histories of Afro-descended people in Mexico, of global networks, and of histories of gender, has just joined the Editorial Board.
The journal also welcomes new members to its Advisory Board, scholars based in South America, North America, the United Kingdom and the Philippines: Herman Bennett, Davíd Carrasco, Rebecca Earle, Regina Harrison, Rene Javellana, James Krippner, Carlos Riobó, Jorge Rivas, Nancy Van Deusen and Patricia Zalamea.
And CLAR is taking to the road! This spring, the journal will be sponsoring and participating in series of events that stem from its commitments to broaden conversations: in the field of colonial Latin American Studies; and on current practices in—and the challenges of—academic publishing. These include a seminar at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago, ‘Colonial ecologies of Latin America,’ where papers will consider Aymara and Nahua practices, colonial cartography, and animal, water and volcanic histories of Mexico City, the Río Magdalena of Nueva Granada, and Arequipa. In March, the workshop, ‘Editorial work in humanities journals,’ will be held in New Haven, Connecticut at Yale University. There, CLAR editors will join in conversation with editors from Renaissance Quarterly, Hispanic Review, and Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. And in conjunction with colleagues at the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y Caribe at the Universidad Autónoma de México, the workshop, ‘La publicación en revistas académicas de estudios coloniales,’ will be held in Mexico CityFootnote1
Journal readers: if you, your colleagues, or your graduate students can attend any (or all of these events), please do!
Notes
1 For registration and information about the Yale University event, see: https://yaleconnect.yale.edu/whc/rsvp_boot?id=2266273. For the workshop in Mexico City, see: https://bit.ly/Estcolonialespreinscripcion.