CLAS 60th Anniversary Conference
December 5, 2025 | 8:00am-5:30pm
LOCATION: Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
An exclusive event for the Stanford community and invited guests
8:00-8:30am - Light breakfast and coffee
8:30-9:15am - Opening remarks
- Héctor Hoyos, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University
- Jisha Menon, Director of Global Studies, Stanford University
- Daniel García-Peña, Ambassador of Colombia to the United States
9:30-10:50am - Panel 1: “Current trends in historical research on Latin America”
- José Alejandro Peres Cajias, University of Barcelona
- Moramay Lopez-Alonso, Rice University
- Luisa Schwartzman, University of Toronto
Chair: Herb Klein, Stanford University, former CLAS director (2004-2010)
11:05am-12:25pm - Panel 2: “Ecological, anthropological and population genetic approaches to the study of Latin American biocultural diversity”
- John Rick, Stanford University
- Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Cinvestav, Mexico
- Alejandra Echeverri, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University, former CLAS director (2010-2016)
Lunch: 12:30-1:15 pm
1:15- 2:35pm - Panel 3: “Comparative politics for public life: anatomy of a community-academic partnership to address the paradox of plenty”
- Abby Reyes, UCI Community Resilience; author of Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice (2025)
Chair: Terry Karl, Stanford University, former CLAS Director (1990-2001)
2:50-3:50pm - Keynote address: “Area Studies and Interdisciplinary Spaces: Around the Table at Bolívar House”
- Mary Louise Pratt, New York University, Stanford University Professor Emerita
Chair: Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Stanford University, former CLAS director (2016-2023)
3:50-4:00pm - Closing remarks: Héctor Hoyos
4:00-5:30pm - Reception: hors d'oeuvres and live music by Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Quartet
Please contact CLAS with questions: clasevents [at] stanford.edu (clasevents[at]stanford[dot]edu).