Garcia Santos Presents at Virtual LASA Conference
The annual conference of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) was intended to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico. Unfortunately, Covid-19 made it impossible to hold the conference in person – but the organizers of the LASA conference adapted to new realities an moved the conference online!
Romance Studies doctoral student Natanael Sarai Garcia Santos presented a paper at the virtual LASA conference titled “El Maestro Rural y su imaginario socialista: educación para el indígena.” Ms. Garcia Santos tells us about her experience:
“This year’s LASA 2020 has transitioned to an online conference. Despite the challenges and questions regarding this change, LASA has proven to be a successful conference in virtual mediums. Our panel, Comunidades Indígenas e Indigenismo, presented on the very first day of the conference, and the experience exceeded my expectations. The organizing team was very resourceful; more viewers than expected attended our panel, and we had the opportunity for a very engaging conversation with Prof. Adela Pineda of BU as well as University of Pennsylvania’s Humberto Cruz Morales. I presented “El Maestro Rural y su Imaginario Socialista: Educación para el Indígena”. My paper detailed the relevance of an institutional magazine that promoted the idea of childhood in order to consolidate the utopia of national integration, and inevitably showed its contradictions and failures, during the 1930’s, in Mexican rural education.”