Liminal Encounters:
Dialogues on Latin America and the Caribbean
Research Symposium 2026
Liminal Encounters is a student–led conference that brings together presentations and roundtables on transdisciplinary approaches to Latin American Studies. Building on our successful 2025 research symposium, CLASHSA McGill, the inter-university graduate group Lecturas Liminales (LELIM), and Maison des Amériques (MDA) are proud to create a space for emerging scholars to share research, exchange ideas, and build connections across disciplines.
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About Liminal Encounters 2026
Liminal Encounters 2026 seeks to weave networks of thought, dialogue, and action among people, perspectives, and institutions. We aim to build bridges across disciplines and to make legible issues that overflow traditional academic compartments. In this sense, this event aspires to strengthen an intellectual and creative fabric that enables us to collectively imagine critical and collaborative pathways for understanding and transforming our relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean from Montreal.
The Liminal Encounters 2026 sessions will include a range of formats designed to encourage broad participation and to foster dialogue among actors who have previously remained distant.
Call for Papers
We invite students, professors, artists, researchers, and activists to present ongoing and completed projects in the working groups, organized around four thematic axes:
1. Limits, Borders, & De(s)colonial Perspectives
2. Environmental Conflicts & Transformations
2. Bodies & Affections
4. Governance, the State, and Identity ​​
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Previous Edition
Celebrating Latin American and Caribbean Studies in Montreal
Research Symposium 2025
Hosted by CLASHSA and RELAM, our research symposium featured presentations and discussions from professors, grad students, and undergrads studying Latin America and the Caribbean across Montreal. Watch the panels here to learn about the diverse and fascinating research being done in the field!