The “Language, Image, Power” conference will take up the history, evolution and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as both a discipline and a set of working practices. Stuart Hall famously termed culture as a site of “negotiation, where the struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is also the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. [...] It is the arena of consent and resistance." With this in mind, the goal of this conference will be to share ideas about how Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of Cultural Studies to address the many cultures of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world.