Description:Co-organized by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, this conference initiates a dialogue about the locations and experiences framing the practices of the wide spectrum of Latino/a communities. Focusing on US Central American populations whose role has been critical in the reconfiguration of Latino/a Studies in the first decade of the twenty-first century, this scholarly conversation and cultural interchange is of paramount importance, considering the continuous growth, visibility, and significance of Central Americans in the US and Latino/a landscape. The purpose of this conference is to suggest that Latina/o America needs to be understood as a geographically displaced phenomenon with complex connections of commodities, people, and cultural production.