The 2025 Lozano Long Conference, "Urban Entanglements: Centering Marginalized Lives and Ecologies in Latin America," is a three-day interdisciplinary conference aimed at expanding our understanding of the urban experience in Latin America by re-centering the lives of marginalized human and more-than-human actors; exploring cities in relation to the wider territories and ecologies they depend on; and fostering conversations about non-conventional narratives, media, and methods.

Day 1 takes place at the School of Architecture, in the third-floor conference room and the Mebane Gallery. It will feature a viewing of the Jaguar Lens exhibition organized by Assistant Professor of Practice Juana Salcedo. View full conference schedule.

Keynote speakers will be Alejandro Echeverri, EAFIT Universidad, Medellín (Day 1), and Barbara Mundy, Tulane University (Day 3).

"Urban Entanglements" brings together historians, architects, urbanists, literary scholars, art historians, sociologists, and environmental scholars, among others, to share innovative ways of conceiving and narrating cities and urban life, as well as discussing the challenges ahead to forge otherwise futures to live in our warming planet. The conference will revisit urban life in Latin America from 1400 to the present, bridging the gap between pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern cities—a long period some have termed the Anthropocene to describe the “colonial and industrial remakings of the earth [that] have created the dangerous environmental conditions that confront us today” (Feral Atlas).