The goal of this colloquium is to ground the study of Latin America as an idea and reality in the history of transnational entanglements between Latin Americans themselves, conceiving these entanglements as a process of production and reproduction of ideas, identities, art, social formations, and political movements, both at and beyond the state’s scale. While transnational approaches have found their way into the field of Latin American studies in recent years, their application has been normally limited to North-South relationships. By shifting attention to trans-Latin American entanglements, with a special focus on the largely neglected role of Brazil, we hope to open up a broad, unexplored field, with far-reaching ramifications for the understanding of several historical topics, socio-cultural trends, and discourses that have been at the very center of the field, such as: state formation and nation building; modernity and tradition; imperialism and anti-imperialism; ethnicity, race, and class.