126th Annual Meeting (January 5-8, 2012):

Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 5, 2012

2:30 PM-6:00 PM

CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

In the Context of Nationalism, Race, and Religion: Three Case Studies of Deutschtum in South America, 1820 to the Present
AHA Session 15

Communities and Networks Lost and Recovered in Latin American Archives and Libraries, Part 1: Recreating Communities: Preserving Endangered Archives to Recover African and African-Descended Communities and Networks in the Iberian Colonies
AHA Session 32

Cancelled
Conference on Latin American History 3

Transnational Networks of the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 4

Development, Commerce, and the Social Question in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 5

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History 6

Friday, January 6, 2012

9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Medicine and Public Health in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 42

CLAH Presidential Session: Transnational Migrations, Labor Networks, and Flights to Freedom
AHA Session 45

Physical Networks and Imagined Communities In Post-revolutionary Mexico
AHA Session 53

Communities and Networks Lost and Recovered in Latin American Archives and Libraries, Part 2: Lost Histories: The Destruction of Archives and Libraries in Latin America
AHA Session 64

Missiology and Missionary Strategies in Colombia, Mexico, and the Marshall Islands, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 11

Mexico in the 1920s: New Historical and Historiographical Perspectives
Conference on Latin American History 12

National Consolidation and the Promotion of "Progress": Chile, Argentina, and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century
Conference on Latin American History 13

Crime in Modern Latin America: New Narratives on Deviance and Social Control
Conference on Latin American History 14

12:15 PM-1:45 PM

CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Everyday Nationalism in the Rio de la Plata and Brazil, 1850–1910: From Military and State Consolidation to Popular Expression
AHA Session 84

Toxic Networks: Science, Eugenics, and the Politics of Race in Latin America
AHA Session 85

Indigenous Intermediaries: Networks of Multilingualism and Community in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 86

A “Land Without History”? Renewing the Social History of the Amazon
AHA Session 88

Normalizing Difference in a Colonial Regime: Indians and Imperial Uses of Ethnographic Knowledge in Latin America
AHA Session 92

Communities and Networks Lost and Recovered in Latin American Archives and Libraries, Part 3: Lost Histories: The Destruction of Archives and Libraries in Latin America
AHA Session 98

Disasters and Their Aftermaths in Modern Mexico: Political, Scientific, and Social Responses to Unforeseen Destruction, 1860s–1930s
Conference on Latin American History 21

Legislating the Subaltern in the Andes and Beyond
Conference on Latin American History 22

Nation-States and Missions in Paraguay, Colombia, and Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 23

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Brazilian Studies Committee: Historiographical Updates from Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 24

Colonial Studies Committee: On a Mission: Ecclesiastics, Natives, and Religion in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 25

Gran Colombia Studies Committee: New Approaches to Economic History
Conference on Latin American History 26

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee
Conference on Latin American History 27

The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

Andean Studies Committee: How Can I Explain What Is Happening Today? Historicizing the Contemporary Andes
Conference on Latin American History 28

Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Committee: Interethnic Relations in Borderlands Settings of the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 29

Chile/Rio de la Plata Studies Committee
Conference on Latin American History 30

Saturday, January 7, 2012

9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Racial Silences in the Archive and the Historiography of Race in Postcolonial Latin America
AHA Session 117

Native Perspectives on the Transformation of Missions in Spanish and Portuguese America
AHA Session 119

Transnational Anthropology in the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 33

Popular Culture and Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 34

Christianity Going Native? Missionary Encounters in Guatemala, Mexico, Central America, and Nigeria in the Twentieth Century
Conference on Latin American History 35

11:30 AM-1:30 PM

The Social Worlds of Devotional and Moral Discourses in Colonial Mexico and Guatemala
AHA Session 147

CLAH Presidential Session: Hemispheric Approaches to Diasporic Networks and Migrations in the Age of Empire
AHA Session 148

Scandal, Drama, and Intrigue: The Politics of Latin American Telenovelas in the Late Twentieth Century
AHA Session 153

Governing Communities: The Latin American Municipality in the Long Nineteenth Century
AHA Session 154

Radical Politics, Ambiguous Practices: Everyday Life and "the Political" in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 40

Latin American Education in a Global Context: International Networks and Local Communities
Conference on Latin American History 41

2:30 PM-4:30 PM

A Social Turn in Latin American Environmental History?
AHA Session 182

Judge-Made Law in Mexico, 1850–1910: Toward the Redefinition and Establishment of Networks and Communities
AHA Session 185

Whose Racial Democracy? Changing Representations of Race in Brazil, 1950–2000
AHA Session 188

Ethnography, Ethnology, and Science, 1500-1800, Part 1: Ethnography, Ethnology, and Natural History in Latin America: Networks, Contexts, and Communities, 1600–1800
AHA Session 196

Visualizing the Cuban Revolution
Conference on Latin American History 46

Cold War Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions in the Caribbean and Central America
Conference on Latin American History 47

CLAH Presidential Session: Negotiating the Challenges of Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
Conference on Latin American History 48

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Caribbean Studies Committee Roundtable
Conference on Latin American History 49

Central American Studies Committee: In Honor of 2012: Time and Representation in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 50

Mexican Studies Committee: Roundtable on the Use of Visual Culture as Historical Evidence
Conference on Latin American History 51

Hispanic American Historical Review Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

CLAH Cocktail Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 8, 2012

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

The Meanings of Correspondence in Modern Latin American History
AHA Session 203

Life and Death on New Spain’s Northern Frontier
AHA Session 204

The 1970s Are History: Opportunities and Limitations of Democratic Openings in Mexico
AHA Session 208

Crafting Communities in Cold War Latin America: U.S Modernization Efforts through Education, the Peace Corps, and the Alliance for Progress
AHA Session 209

The Terms of Engagement and Belonging in Colombia’s Long 1930s and 1940s
AHA Session 212

Black Militias in the Spanish Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution
AHA Session 213

Inter-American Networks and Racial Constructs in the Twentieth Century
AHA Session 215

Jewish and Latin American: Negotiating Ethnicity, Nation(s), and Continent in Argentina and Brazil, 1950–70
AHA Session 216

Environmental History of Colonial Mexico City
AHA Session 217

Elite Political and Economic Networks in Mexican History
AHA Session 226

Revolutionary Reverberations: Latin American Politics in the Wake of the Cuban Revolution
Conference on Latin American History 62

Gender, Labor, Welfare, and Family across Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 63

Jesuits and Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America: Individual and Familial Biographies
Conference on Latin American History 64

11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Cattle and Cane: Negotiating Community, Region, and Development in Brazilian Commodity Chains, 1880–1980
AHA Session 235

Reinventing Indians: New Perspectives on the "Indian Problem" in Modern Mexico
AHA Session 236

The State and Indigenous Languages in Twentieth-Century Latin America
AHA Session 242

Alternative Geographies of Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Belonging in Transnational History
AHA Session 243

South Andean "Altiplano" Communities and Colonial "Cacique" Networks, Mid-Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries
AHA Session 247

Citizenship and the Public Sphere: Methods of a New Political History
AHA Session 250

The Nature of the State in Mid-century Mexico, 1934–60
AHA Session 253

Sexing Up the "Long" 1950s, Part 2: Urban and Transnational Narratives in the Americas and Europe
AHA Session 256

Students, Intellectuals, and Politicians, 1945–80: A New Cultural History of Political Practice in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 73

The Progressive Catholic Church and Society in Ecuador and Colombia
Conference on Latin American History 74

Political Radicalism in Cold War Latin America: Networks, Contact Zones, and Tensions from Left and Right
Conference on Latin American History 75