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Submitted June 2021 to the Latin American Studies AssociationPrepared by Riccarda Flemmer, Co-Chair; Amanda M. Smith, Co-Chair & Connie Campbell, Secretar Membership
In our second year as a section we have grown our membership to 109 members, and we continue to work on expanding our membership. We are also active on social media with 97 followers on Facebook, membership up 8% over the past quarter, and 202 Twitter followers. Section Activities
LASA 2021 (Virtual)
Business Meeting We held our business meeting via Zoom on May 27, 2021 from 7-8:45pm EDT with 20 participants from the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Present: 1 Amanda Smith, Section Co-Chair (outgoing), University of California Santa Cruz, United States 2 Riccarda Flemmer, Section Co-Chair, University of Hamburg, Germany 3 Martina Broner, Section Treasurer (outgoing), Universidad de Cornell. United States 4 Connie Campbell, Section Secretary (outgoing)/ Section Council Member (incoming), University of Florida and independent consultant, Lima-Peru 5 Jessica Solórzano, Section Council Member (outgoing)/ Section Secretary (incoming), Universidade Federal do Pará, Brasil - Phd Candidate in: Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos (NAEA), Brazil 6 Sarah J. Townsend, Section Council Member , Penn State University, United States 7 Deborah Delgado, Section Co-Chair (incoming), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru 8, Kevin W. Ennis, Section Treasurer (incoming), Brown University, United States 9 Susanna Hecht, Section Council Member (incoming), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States 10 Cari Maes, Section Council Member (outgoing), Oregon State University, United States 11 Andrea Sempertegui, University of Giessen, Germany 12 Andres Obando, Universidad del Valle (UNIVALLE), Colombia 13 Bianca Moro de Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Brasil 14 Cesar Gamboa, DAR--Derechos, Ambiente y Recursos , Peru 15 Christine Hunefeldt, Von Humboldt Academy, Peru 16 Diana Cordoba, Queens University, Canada 17 Natalia Buitron, University of Oxford, UK 18 Sarah Sarzynski, Claremont McKenna College, United States 19 Victoria Saramago, University of Chicago, United States 20 Francisco Castillo, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (UNAP), Peru Co-chair Amanda Smith welcomed the new officers of the section and warmly thanked the outgoing members of the section Executive Committee. She also gave a summary of section accomplishments in our second year. The Section’s Secretary Connie Campbell and the Treasurer Martina Broner informed us about the developments and current status of the Section’s social media accounts and the financial resources. Co-chair Riccarda Flemmer summarized the process of the Best Book Award (postponed) and the Best Article Award. In the name of the Best Article Selection Committee and the Executive Committee the winning contributions were honored and their authors were awarded with certificates. Most of the meeting was dedicated to planning for the section’s future activities (including possible uses of the Section’s $1600 funds) with the following aims: 1) strengthen the exchange and conjoint work of section members; 2) create support for younger scholars, 3) strengthen and maybe formalize relationships with Amazonian Indigenous, activist and research institutions. Several future initiatives, to achieve our objectives, came out of the meeting: 1. Strengthen the exchange and conjoint work of section members:
Election Results The resulting slate of new section officers as of June 1, 2021 is as follows:
The following section officers will remain in their current positions until LASA 2022:
In sum the Amazonia Section leadership as of June 2021 is as follows:
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