About the event

Care in Latin American Studies is a two-day graduate workshop taking place at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on 23–24 June 2026 (University of Oxford). The event is organised by the Oxford Latin American Graduate Network, in collaboration with the International Latin American Graduate Network (Freie Universität Berlin & Lateinamerika Institut Berlin).

Focusing on the theme of care, the workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue across the humanities and social sciences. In a global context marked by geopolitical conflicts, ecological crisis, and social inequality, care offers a productive lens through which to rethink relationality, responsibility, and forms of collective life. Within Latin American contexts in particular, practices of care have often emerged in response to histories of violence, extractivism, and structural marginalisation. The choice of this theme therefore reflects its relevance across multiple discipline and the Networks' stance against the pressing social, environmental, and political challenges of our present.

The workshop will approach care across three interconnected dimensions: as a research topic, as a methodology, and as a practice within academic life. Through a combination of plenary sessions, thematic research clusters, and collaborative workshops, the event seeks to create a reflective space for graduate researchers to engage critically with questions of ethics, interdisciplinarity, and responsible knowledge production within and beyond our discipline or area of study.

The programme will include public-facing sessions—such as keynote remarks and a roundtable—as well as more focused, participatory activities for registered participants. The main languages of the event will be English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Additional satellite events will take place around the main workshop dates.

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