Confluences – Knowledges, Ecologies, Temporalities - This is the title of the opening event of confluences – Journal of Critical Latin American and Caribbean Studies, taking place on October 26, 2026, at Freie Universität Berlin.
Read more about Journal Launch and Conference - 26 October 2026confluences – Journal of Critical Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a multilingual, open-access, inter- and transdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to Critical Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The journal addresses questions of knowledge asymmetries, transregional entanglements, and intersectional inequalities, and publishes contributions that engage contemporary political, social, cultural, and ecological issues from feminist, decolonial, anti-racist, and broader power-critical perspectives.
confluences positions itself as a forum for critical and transregional scholarship that approaches Latin America and the Caribbean not as isolated areas of expertise, but as historically entangled and globally constitutive regions. The journal fosters exchange across disciplines, languages, and epistemic traditions, while placing particular emphasis on collaborative knowledge production, the inclusion of early-career scholars, experimental and multimodal formats, and open-access publishing practices. Its aim is to create a space in which different bodies of knowledge, experiences, and perspectives can enter into relation, existing hierarchies can be critically reflected upon, and new forms of academic collaboration can be explored.
