Greetings Paulo Roberto Almeida,
A new Announcement has been posted in H-LatAm.
CFP: Association of Global South Studies
Association of Global South Studies Annual Conference
Call for Papers
11-13 October 2026
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Conference Venue: Arena Copacabana Hotel
Conference Theme: “The World the Global South Made”
Scholars tend to characterize the Global South as a product of external forces. There is good reason for this: most of the ongoing political and socioeconomic problems of the Global South can be tied, in one way or another, to the centuries-old colonial and postcolonial dynamics that persist across its various regions to this day. Even when scholars do examine the Global South’s contributions to the rest of the world, they tend to emphasize its role as the source of the raw extractive materials and cheap labor that have fed the world’s comparatively wealthy economic core over the last five centuries. In most cases, the Global South is seen as the passive recipient of the Global North’s designs.
What gets left out of this framework of analysis is an acknowledgement of the active role that the Global South has had in shaping the Global North. Indeed, the Global North and South operate not as two distinct entities, but rather as mutually constitutive parts of the whole binary world order. New research has demonstrated the ways in which the Global South—often precisely because of its struggles with dependency and underdevelopment—has produced many of the world’s most enduring ideas, whether in the realms of political philosophy, economic theory, cultural production, or otherwise. While we as a scholarly community have begun to reorient our view of the Global South in this direction, much work remains to be done.
The Association of Global South Studies invites proposals for individual presentations or whole panels on any topic related to the Global South’s various regions (which include much of Asia and the majority of Africa, the Middle East, and the Latin American and Caribbean region), or to the ways in which the Global South has meaningfully shaped the Global North. Presentations are typically fifteen minutes in length, and panels usually have four presentations of the same length, although there is some flexibility with these arrangements. We welcome submissions representing any discipline in the social sciences, humanities, or arts, as well as work in journalism, public policy, or social and political activism.
Participants can register at member, non-member, and student rates. Membership rates are based on income. Conference registration includes complimentary admission to an opening ceremony on Sunday evening, along with a closing ceremony and awards banquet on Tuesday evening. Tickets for additional guests can be purchased on the conference registration site. AGSS is also offering a pre-conference all-day tour to the historic city of Petropolis on Sunday, 11 October and a post-conference all-day tour to an historic coffee estate on Wednesday, 14 October. Each tour has a maximum capacity of 35 seats.
Submission deadline: September 1, 2026
Panel and Proposal Submissions & Conference Registration link:
https://form.jotform.com/260294151846156
AGSS Membership link:
https://apps.gsw.edu/agss/index.php/new-membership-application/
