The conference was celebrated recently in Chicago and featured more than 100 panels and 500 participants. Adan Griego, Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections at Stanford University Libraries, writes about the highlights of the conference.

“[International Latina/o Studies Conference] had been in the planning since the 2012 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in San Francisco when a group of scholars met informally and envisioned a LASA-like conference focusing solely on US Latin@ issues,” Griego writes. “The result was an overwhelming show of support with more than 500 participants addressing multiple aspects of US Latin@ culture. Many of those attending were younger scholars quite active in social media, as the Twitter Archive of #lschi2014shows.”

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