Notes from the Editors

NOTES FROM THE EDITORS The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies convened its SixtySecond Annual Meeting in downtown Charleston, S.C., March 12–14, 2015. The conference featured a theme of “Memory and Identity in Latin America.” Program chairs Paul Worley of Western Carolina University and Michael Pisani of Central Michigan University organized panels in Literature & Humanities and History & Social Sciences, respectively. Following the SECOLAS Awards Banquet, Dr. Lyman Johnson, Emeritus Professor of History at UNC Charlotte, delivered the keynote address. This volume features some of the best papers from the conference in article format. Thirty of the 150 presenters at the conference submitted revised versions of their papers for publication. Following editorial and peer review and another round of revisions, the eight articles published in these pages represent a range of disciplines, including cultural studies, art history, literature, history, and political science. We are happy to present these articles, and we are grateful for the help provided in this endeavor by our graduate assistant, Patty de Arcia, and our colleagues at WileyBlackwell , especially Martha Lovvoll. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Winthrop University, and Wingate University, the three SECOLAS host institutions, offer significant financial and institutional support for the publication and success of this journal. In particular, we offer our gratitude to Professor Nancy Gutierrez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte , Dr. Debra Boyd, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dr. Karen M. Kedrowski, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at Winthrop, and Martha Asti, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Wingate University, for their continuing encouragement of both The Latin Americanist and SECOLAS. Gregory S. Crider and Jürgen Buchenau C  2016 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. DOI: 10.1111/tla.12070 5 ...