#LASA2016

We enjoyed celebrating LASA’s fiftieth anniversary in New York City over the holiday weekend. We sold books and journals in our booth and welcomed our authors as they stopped by to pose with their books.

Congratulations to our LASA award winners. Fabiana Li’s Unearthing Conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru won honorable mention for the 2016 Bryce Wood Award for an outstanding book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities published in English. Kirsten Weld’s Paper Cadavers:The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala was chosen the winner of the Recent History and Memory Book Award. And Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico by Christopher R. Boyer won the 2016 Best Book in Social Sciences, presented by LASA’s Mexico Section.

Fabiana Li with her award-winning book Unearthing Conflict.

Our booth

Clara Mantini-Briggs and Charles L. Briggs, authors of Tell Me Why My Children Died

Editor Gisela Fosado with Susan Bibler Coutin, author of Exiled Home

Lesley Gill with her new book A Century of Violence in a Red City

Daniel Goldstein and his book Owners of the Sidewalk

Josie Saldana-Portillo, author of Indian Given

See additional photos on our Facebook page. Next year the LASA Congress is in Lima, Peru, which sounds amazing. We likely won’t have a big book sale there but hope we can participate in some other way.

Today in New York City, the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) opens its fiftieth annual meeting. The inaugural LASA Congress took place in New York in 1966. LASA at 50 will assess the evolution of Latin American studies over the past half century, paying special attention to how the locus of the field has changed in terms of transnational actors and flows and the shaping of new identities. At the same time, the event will also explore the challenges of creating a more participatory, diverse, and socially just future for the region and its interlocutors.

In honor of LASA’s fiftieth anniversary, we were pleased to donate to the 50 for 50 campaign. The campaign supports travel scholarships so that students and scholars from Latin America can afford to attend the meeting. We encourage our readers to donate too! This year we are also pleased to offer a complete set of our Latin America Readers at the LASA Gala Silent Auction. The twelve books have a retail value of over $300 but you can bid now starting at $125!

We’ve been proud to be a part of the annual LASA Congress for decades. It’s long been an important venue for us to display and sell our books and journals and to meet with authors past, present, and future. This year is no exception. Come visit us at Booth 114 at the Book Exhibit and check out our ad in the conference program. All books will be 30% off. Follow us on Twitter during the conference to see pictures of our authors with their books and to get special offers.