#  ALARI IV Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies 

 



## July 22–24, 2026

**Visit the** [**ALARI IV Continental Conference website**](https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/alari-iv-continental-conference-on-afro-latin-american-studies-eng/) **for more information.**

The Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI), the University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies, and the Center for Afrodiasporic Studies (CEAF) at Universidad Icesi are pleased to announce the Fourth Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, which takes place in 2026. It is an honor to bring this continental event back to South America, this time to the city of Santiago de Cali, Colombia.

### Contact

Bronia Greskovicova-Chang  
Associate Director  
Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University  
<bgreskovicovachang@fas.harvard.edu>



 

##  Convener 

 



  [### Alejandro de la Fuente

 ](/people/alejandro-de-la-fuente) <delafuente@fas.harvard.edu>Faculty Associate. 

Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Department of History; Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center; Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

 

 

 Research interests: Comparative slavery and race relations in the Americas; the evolution of slave regimes in a comparative perspective; and the intersections between race, nation, and citizenship in Latin America. 

 

 

      ![Headshot of Alejandro de la Fuente. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/wcfia/files/de_la_fuente_alejandro.jpg?itok=LRM-ofv4) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

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