See below for a selection of past workshop schedules.
Winter 2016
Multicultural Inclusion through Afro-Creole Indigeneity: State Ritual and Afro-Creole Performative Culture in Post-Colonial Guyana, 1964–1970s Ramaesh J. Bhagirat
Fellow and Visiting Instructor, History, Kenyon College January 14, 2016, 4:30-6PM
Illegal Enslavement and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire
Keila Grinberg Tinker Visiting Professor, CLAS/Associate Professor, History, UNIRIO
January 28, 2016, 4:30-6PM
Territory, Indianidad, and the State in the Papaloapan, Mexico
Diana Schwartz, PhD candidate, History
February 11, 2016 4:30-6PM
ABACC and the Evolution of Nuclear Verification between Argentina and Brazil, 1978–1992
Chris Dunlap, PhD candidate, History
February 25, 2016, 4:30-6PM
Theaters and the Creation of an Urban Public in São Paulo, Brazil
Aiala Levy, PhD candidate, History
March 3, 2016, 4:30-6PM
U.S. Imperialism and Mexican Drug Policy, 1912–1927: A Reassessment
Isaac Campos, Associate Professor, History, University of Cincinnati/ Visiting Scholar, Harvard University March 10, 2016, 4:30-6PM
Spring 2015
April 9: José Juan Pérez Meléndez, PhD Candidate, Department of History, “Launching Colonization Companies in Imperial Brazil: The Regency Years, 1831-1840”
April 23: Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera, PhD Candidate, Department of History, “Celebrating ‘All Kinds of Folk’: Racial Divisions, Multicultural Inclusion, and the Institutionalization of National Culture in the Southern Caribbean, c. 1950s-1970s”
May 7: Kevin Terraciano, Professor of History, UCLA
May 18 (Monday): John French, Professor of History, Duke University, Paper: “‘Rebels’ and ‘Good Boys’ in the 1960s: The Story of Two Brothers”
May 21: Sabine Cadeau, PhD Candidate, Department of History, “The End of the Old Border: Ethnic Profiling, Discrimination and Arrests in the Dominican Border Provinces, 1920-1936”
May 29 (Friday): MA Student Presentations, Paper(s): TBD, **Special Time** 12:00-1:30
June 4: Mikael Wolfe, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, “Knowing Nature (especially Water) by Engineering it: A Brief History of Mexican técnicos.”
Winter 2015
Jan. 15: Rogério de Souza Farias, CLAS Associate Member, University of Chicago, “Do You Wish to Marry Her? The Admission of Women in Brazilian Professional Diplomacy, 1918-1954”
Feb. 12: Matthew Nestler, MA, University of Chicago, “Rereading Freedom Letters: Slave Manumission in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1832-1888”
Feb. 26: Karen Caplan, Associate Professor, Rutgers-Newark, “The Latin American Trade, the United States, and the Origins of Development, 1808-1830”
Mar. 12: Ian Read, Associate Professor, Soka University, “Brazil’s Era of Epidemics: How Disease Shaped a Nation”
Jan. 29 (Tentative—May Be Rescheduled): Diana Schwartz, PhD Candidate, Department of History “Transforming the Tropics: Development, Displacement, and Anthropology in the Papaloapan, Mexico, 1940s-1970s”
Autumn 2013
Oct. 10 – Ramón Gutiérrez, Professor of History “Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the Inquisition: The Travails of a 17th Century Aristocratic Woman in New Mexico”
Oct. 17 – Tessa Murphy, Ph.D. Candidate, History “The Treaty of Paris and the Transformation of the Lesser Antilles, 1763-1773”
Oct 24 – María E. Balandrán-Castillo, Ph.D. Candidate, History “‘Estafabraceros’, Border Diplomacy and Migrant Protection, 1964-1974”
Nov. 7 – Jesse H. Garskof, Professor of History, University of Michigan “The Doctrina de Martí: Migration, Diaspora, and Antillean, Racial Politics in 19th Century New York”
Nov. 21- Dan Webb, Ph.D. Candidate, History “The Causes and Consequences of the Abrogation of Article XI of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo”
Winter 2012
Jan. 26 – LaShandra P. Sullivan, “Fixing and Unfixing Rural Labor to Land in Contemporary Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil”
Discussant: José Juan Pérez Melendez
Feb. 2 – Emilio Kourí, “Colonial Village Histories and the Mexican Revolution”
Discussant: Mauricio Tenorio
Feb. 16 – Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt, “Escuela Tomada: una memoria personal”
Discussant: Chris Dunlap
Feb. 23 – Jackie Sumner, “’El Señor Gobernador del Estado es muy partidario de la raza indígena:’ Village Rights and the Cahuantzista Regime”
Discussant: Emilio de Antuñano
Fall 2012
Oct. 11 – Patrick Kelly, “Redefining Sovereignty after the Chilean Coup of 1973”
Oct. 18 – Nicole Mottier, “The Persistence of Moneylenders in Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Mexico”
Nov. 1 – María E. Balandrán, “The End of the Bracero Program and its Impact on Mexican Border Cities”
Nov. 15 – Michael Albertus, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, “The Political Economy of Land Reform in Latin America, 1930-2008”
Dec. 6 – Tessa Murphy, “The Colonies of a Colony: Settlement in the Neutral Islands prior to the Seven Years’ War”
Autumn 2011
Sept. 29 – Antonio Sotomayor, “Los Juegos de San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966: Colonial Olympism and Olympic Politics during the Cold War”
Oct. 6 – Jeff Needell, Professor of History, University of Florida, “The Remembered, the Forgotten, and the Historian’s Challenge: An Introduction to Brazil’s Abolitionist Movement and its Historiography”
Oct. 20 –Matthew Barton, “’Os motins sao naturais’: The Rebellious Roots of Colonial Minas Gerais”
Nov. 10– Chris Dunlap, “A Problematic Peace: The Treaty of Tlatelolco and the World’s First Nuclear Weapon Free Zone”
Nov. 17 – Rob Karl, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University, “The Fearful Night Continues: Displacement in Late Violencia Colombia, 1957-1961”
Dec. 1 – Casey Lurtz, “Connecting Chiapas: Coffee and the Expansion of Transportation Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Soconusco”
AUTUMN 2010
Oct 14 – C.J. Álvarez “Policing the US-Mexico Border, 1848-1993”
Commenting: María Balandrán-Castillo
Oct 20: Jaira Harrington (co-sponsored with the Comparative Politics Workshop)
note this is a Wednesday workshop, to be held in the Wilder House Conference Room, 6-8pm
“An Interrogation of the “Domestic”: Domestic Work, Political Subjectivity and the Maria da Penha Law in Brazil.”
Commenting: Jay Sosa
Oct 28: Graciela Márquez Professor of History, Colegio de México, Mexico Visiting Professor, Katz Center for Mexican Studies, University of Chicago
“From Fiscal Revenue to Industrial Promotion: Tariffs in Mexico, 18701-1916”
Commenting: Emilio de Antuñano
Nov 11: Antonio Sotomayor “The State and the Olympic Movement in Puerto Rico, 1930s.”
Commenting: Ramaesh Bhagirat
Nov 18: Aline Helg (co-sponsored with the Caribbean Studies Workshop)
Professor and Director of Department of General History, Université de Genève, Switzerland “Simón Bolívar’s Gran Colombia: Fraternity or Hierarchy?”
Commenting: Tessa Murphy
FALL 2009
Oct 1 – Johnhenry Gonzalez “Property and Political Violence: the Rise of the Peasantry in Post-Emancipation Haiti, 1802-1826”
Commenting: Luis Fernando Granados
Oct 15 – Carmen Apen Ruíz Martínez, Departament d’Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain “An Obligatory Amateur and the Girl Who Collected Pottery: Two Women and Two Nations in the Practice of Mexican Archaeology”
Commenting: Diana Schwartz
Oct 29 – Patrick Iber “Cold Words in the City of Exiles: Antecedents to the Cultural Cold War in Mexico”
Commenting: Jose Luis Ramos
Nov 12 – Ramaesh Bhagirat “Challenging Extinction and Survival: Understanding and Historicizing the Neo-Taíno Movement”
Commenting: Sabine Cadeau
Dec 3 – Jaclyn Sumner “Tlaxcalan Indians, Regional Governance, and Political Order in the Porfirian Dictatorship”
Commenting: Casey Lurtz