The University of Arizona Press
When: July 15-18, 2026
Where: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Join us in Minneapolis for the 2026 MALCS Summer Institute! The theme this year is “Movements along Bdote: Disruption and Solidarity Sin Fronteras.” Learn more at the MALCS website.
About the MALCS Summer Institute:
“Through the 2026 Summer Institute, MALCS welcomes proposals that create a space where we can learn collectively from Bdote, the movement of water and earth, our Indigenous and more-than-human relatives, and each other, to uplift struggles for freedom and planetary life. We seek to resist settler colonial borders and structures that inflict harm, including the harm of being torn from land, or destierro, as theorized by Yomaira Figueroa. We also listen to Indigenous Wayuu scholar Jose Quintero Weir’s call for hacertopías. Unlike utopia (the “no” place), hacertopía is an agentic collective and cultural place-making in relational buen (con)vivir with other saberes. Hacertopías reconfigure power as a communal force with affective investments to place in order to create and cultivate, instead of control and dominance.”
