Latin American Studies Association International Congress - LASA 2012

Who should exhibit at LASA2012?

Organizations interested in reaching university educators, graduate students, undergraduate students, NGOs and representatives of organizations who focus on Latin America. LASA Congresses gather experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational backgrounds across the globe. Exhibitors may include, among others:

-Academic and commercial presses
-Film producers
-Foundations
-Publishers of university-level texts, journals, periodicals, and magazines,
-Research institutes
-Producers of information technologies, e.g., hardware, software, or Internet services
-Universities and university departments
-Multimedia producers

Who attends a LASA International Congress?

Approximately 5,000 professors, graduate students, undergraduate students, representatives of NGOs, and other organizations worldwide. All attendees have the potential to purchase or recommend the purchase of your products and services. Exhibitors can meet with

-University faculty, department chairs and program directors from the United States, Canada, and throughout the world.
-Graduate students seeking to establish their careers.
-Government and NGO representatives

Congress Theme

A number of Latin American countries already are celebrating, or soon will celebrate, the achievement of 200 years of national independence. The bicentennial commemorations represent not only an opportunity to convey and promote a sense of national unity based on collective accomplishments, but also an occasion for political, intellectual, and cultural reassessments of the past and present. In general, they are characterized by more complex views of the meaning of the revolutionary wars and of the scale of the social, economic, and human costs of nation- building and modernization, especially in relation to indigenous and other subalt