Our Partners

An academic space based in Chile bringing together scholars from different disciplines around the impact, scope, and dynamics of science in society, with the aim of supporting academic activities and disseminating new work in our field.

LASA fosters intellectual discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean, and its people throughout the Americas, promote the interests of its diverse membership, and encourage civic engagement through network building and public debate. Members of LASA may join one or more Sections, which are intended to promote the common interest of the Association members in specific areas of the Latin American Studies. LASA includes sections on Environment; Health; Food, Agriculture, and Rural Studies; Health, Science, and Technology; and Otros Saberes.

LASA's Environment Section brings together scholars and practitioners to exchange ideas, information, and to promote fuller understanding of the dynamics of the environment and its interaction with human society. It seeks to promote an awareness of environmental issues among the LASA membership and to introduce those concerns into the policy-making processes in the Hemisphere.

LASA's Food, Agriculture and Rural Studies Section facilitates interdisciplinary and international communication and cooperation among scholars and practitioners whose work relates to policies, politics, practices and cultural aspects of food, agrarian issues, and any dimension of rural studies, past or present, theoretical or applied. In addition to sponsoring panels, sessions, or round tables at LASA congresses, the Section pursues other methods of facilitating communications such as an electronic newsletter, an e-mail list, a Section’s website and a Facebook page.

LASA's Health, Science and Technology Section promotes the humanistic and social scientific study of disease, health, healing practices, and medical and scientific knowledge production, examining these topics in relation to broader social, political, and cultural contexts in Latin America. We are an interdisciplinary organization including historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in languages, literature, science studies, public health, and the natural sciences. Specific activities to promote scholarly interaction and the diffusion of views include organized sessions at LASA congresses and an electronic bulletin board.

LASA's Otros Saberes Section promotes collaborative, transformative research and exchange between academics and civil society knowledge producers to further social justice. The dual objectives of the Section are to defend and advance this field of “Otros Saberes” scholarship within LASA, and in so doing, to permanently transform the LASA Conference program by including civil society-based knowledge producers whose presence will enrich and challenge Conference proceedings.

The Forum for Science and Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean (SKLAC) promotes work on the region in the History of Science Society. It sponsors biannual article and dissertation prizes and panels at the HSS annual conferences.

SOLCHA facilitates the encounter between the natural and social sciences in order to build a sustainable future. SOLCHA disseminates research on the environmental history of Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly through its biannual symposiums and sponsors the Revista Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC).

The Consortium invites scholars to join topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of interesting publications in their fields and of each others’ works-in-progress. Each group meets monthly. All interested scholars are welcome to participate via online video conferencing.

This working group brings together perspectives examining the tensions between technology, design and aesthetics. The scholars in the working group explore the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries, how these informed and are informed by the politics of design and aesthetics, the way these imaginaries are not only textual but visual and aural, and how users altered and reinvented the aesthetics/design of technological devices to meet their cultural and personal values, needs and desires. This working group organizes a monthly speaker series.

This working group examines the history of the evolutionary synthesis of genetics and natural selection, and its impact upon agriculture, and theories of race and eugenics. Monthly meetings are held in Portuguese.

This Working Group meets monthly to advance the conversation of researchers in the expanding field of science, technology, and medicine in Latin America. The multilocality of the Group’s core members (United States, Chile, and Spain), and their respective temporal (16th-20th centuries) and geographic areas of expertise (Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and the Caribbean), contributes to the scholarly analysis of the variegated Latin American experiences.

Latin American and Caribbean Environmental History (HALAC) is a journal edited by the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History (SOLCHA). HALAC publishes academic works on Environmental History in its various dimensions, with a special focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Museo de Embriofetología Luis Pereda Tapiol de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile teaches the development of human life with fetuses and real embryos in its different stages.

The Museo de Química y Farmacia Profesor César Leyton Caravagno (MQF) is a university, historical and scientific museum of the Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Chile.

The Museo Nacional de Medicina de Chile protects Chile's medical heritage through its collection, conservation, research and dissemination.

An interdisciplinary team based in Chile carrying out the project of "rescuing scientific memories."

This museum hosts a collection of historical anatomical objects associated with the School of Medicine at the Universidad de Chile.

The H-LatAm Syllabus Archive is a collection of syllabi organized by H-LatAm and the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH).

Tapuya is a a peer-reviewed, open access journal, published by Taylor & Francis, and affiliated to the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE) and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). By publishing STS research about and from Latin America and other peripheral regions, Tapuya challenges and expands current science, technology and society (STS) scholarship.

Manguinos is a publication of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruzmission founded in 1994. The journal features articles that address topics in health and the life sciences from a historical perspective, encompassing various fields related to health practices and the production of knowledge in its social, political, and cultural dimensions.

Itinerante is a monthly, inter-institutional seminar, based in Mexico and founded in 2019, focused on the history and historiography of science and technology. The seminar provides a space for presenting and discussing research papers in the area of the history of science and technology, at any stage of the academic career.

A network of researchers on indigenism in the Americas.

Saberes is a publication specialized in the history of science, medicine, humanities and technology. Saberes addresses these topics from a broad perspective, recovering the historical processes that involve the construction, mobilization and communication of knowledge, in narratives that incorporate material, institutional, political and socioeconomic aspects, as well as the people involved in these processes, either as experts or as subjects of study.

The Health Sciences Magazine is the official publication of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Universidad del Rosario. It is an open access journal that publishes manuscripts based on basic, clinical, and social disciplines related to the field of health.

Rehsnal is a network of researchers on historical and social studies of nutrition and food in Latin America. Rehsnal organizes academic and public events, produces podcasts, and disseminates bibliographies and links related to food and nutrition topics.

The LAGLOBAL Network advances and disseminates research on Latin America’s critical place in the global history of knowledge. The network organizes workshops, seminars, summer schools, and publications.

HOSLAC is a comprehensive database of primary sources on the history of science in Latin America and the Caribbean for the purposes of teaching, research, and general interest. The site, launched in January 2010, provides a virtual archive of over 200 primary sources along with introductions based on the latest scholarly findings.

The Historical Archive of the La Plata Museum belongs to the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the National University of La Plata, in Argentina. It was created in 1999, with the objective of preserving the documentation produced in and by the institution since the creation of the Museum in 1884. It also functions as a research unit dedicated to the History of Science.

The Gotha Research Library belongs to the University of Erfurt, Germany. It is part of the collections housed at Friedenstein Palace from the ducal house of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, which existed from 1640 to 1825, and from the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, compiled in Gotha between 1826 and 1945. Together with the museum collections, the secret archive, the ducal museum and the former ducal apartments as well as the park landscape, it forms a unique collection. It preserves an important collection of letters from German emigrants to America from the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as innumerous publications composed of maps produced by German expeditions in Latin America, such as the reports resulting from these expeditions.

The Linda Hall Library is one of the world’s leading independent science research libraries. It collects materials in 82 languages and is widely known for the breadth and depth of its collections, its role as an international destination for research and scholarship. Its collection includes especially journals, conference proceedings, monographs, technical reports.

O Museu Paulista integra a Universidade de São Paulo e é um museu especializado em história e cultura material. possui um acervo de cerca de 450 mil itens, entre objetos, iconografia e documentação textual, do século 17 até meados do século 20. São coleções significativas para a compreensão da sociedade brasileira, especialmente no que se refere à história paulista.