Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 2, 2015

12:30 PM-6:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Before Neoliberalism: Mexico’s Corporations Enter the Global Stage, 1970–93
AHA Session 6

Slavery as History, Slavery as Fiction , Part 1: Racial Paradise: Written and Visual Narratives of Slavery in Brazil
AHA Session 30

Biographies of Ambition in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 3

Regional Cinemas and Transnational Audiences: New Film Histories in Latin America, 1910–50
Conference on Latin American History 4

Americans Abroad: Rethinking Empire and Expatriation in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 5

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Resource Conflicts and Popular Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century Latin America
AHA Session 54

Law and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 7

“A Fragile Harmony”: Economic Tensions, Social Frictions, and Political Instability in Venezuela during the Age of Revolutions, 1780–1810
Conference on Latin American History 8

Home Is Where the “Aurika” Is: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on American, Soviet, and Corporate Modernity in Homes Overseas
Conference on Latin American History 9

6:30 PM-8:30 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Saturday, January 3, 2015

8:00 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Imperial New York City: The Scientific Survey of Puerto Rico
AHA Session 74

The Mental Stakes of Nation: Toward Psychiatric Discipline(s) in Latin America
AHA Session 83

The Politics of Reproduction in the Americas: Twentieth-Century Bolivia, Jamaica, and Cuba
AHA Session 85

New Perspectives on the Spanish Atlantic: The Slave Trade to Spanish America, Part 1
AHA Session 91

Receptions to the Napoleonic Code and the Cadiz Constitution in the Making of the New American Citizenship
Conference on Latin American History 14

Purifying the Body Politics: Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 15

New Transnational Histories of the Right in the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 16

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Ruptures and Continuities in Space and Time: Historical Studies of Science in Latin America
AHA Session 116

Sporting Bodies and Bodies Politic: Gender and Soccer in Latin America
AHA Session 118

New Perspectives on the Spanish Atlantic: The Slave Trade to Spanish America, Part 2
AHA Session 120

Soccer and Society in South America
Conference on Latin American History 20

Nineteenth-Century Colonizations: Business, State Formation, and Planned Migrations in Latin America, 1810s–70s
Conference on Latin American History 21

Agrarian Science, Modernization, Social Engineering, and the Idea of Latin America: Transnational Perspectives from Brazil, Colombia, and the Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 22

12:15 PM-1:45 PM


CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


An Atlantic Triangle: New England–Holland–Rio de la Plata Commercial Networks
AHA Session 128

Child of the Nation: The Politics of Childhood during the Cuban Revolution
AHA Session 133

Silence in the Archives: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Reading Absence in the Latin American Past
AHA Session 143

Cultures of Transnationalism: Social Networks, Solidarities, and Collectives in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 26

New Perspectives on the Spanish Atlantic: The Slave Trade to Spanish America, Part 3
Conference on Latin American History 27

Mapuche Soundscapes: Music, Ethnicity, and National Belonging in Chile and Argentina
Conference on Latin American History 28

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


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

Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Committee: State, Bordered Communities, and the North-South Dynamic Revisited: Recent Scholarship on the Borderlands of Guatemala and Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 29

Brazilian Studies Committee: Writing New Histories of Gender and Sexuality in Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 30

Chile-Río de la Plata Studies Committee: Atlantic-Pacific Worlds: Rethinking Transnational Paradigms in the Southern Cone
Conference on Latin American History 31

Colonial Studies Committee: Queering the Religious History of the Early Modern Hispanic World
Conference on Latin American History 32

Gran Colombia Studies Committee: Toward a History of Paramilitarism in Colombia
Conference on Latin American History 33

Sunday, January 4, 2015

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


Mexico in the Global 1960s
AHA Session 167

Rethinking Territoriality: Indigenous Power in North and South American Borderlands, 1700–1900
AHA Session 173

Education in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Conference on Latin American History 36

Local Struggles, Translational Alliances: Labor Movements and International Alliances in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 37

CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

11:30 AM-1:30 PM


Memory Studies and the Historian: Cases from Chile under Augusto Pinochet to the Present
AHA Session 200

Mexican Artists at the Disciplinary Crossroads
AHA Session 201

The Ground Below and Above: New Directions in the Study of Mining in the Colonial Americas
AHA Session 207

Connections and Disconnections between the Americas in the Long Nineteenth Century
Conference on Latin American History 41

Indigenous Citizens before the Indigenous Movements in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 42

When the Guns Stop Roaring: Remembering Conflict in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 43

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Latino Radicalisms, 1930s–70s
AHA Session 226

Whispers in the Archive: Rumor and Gossip as Primary Sources
AHA Session 237

Whither Ethnohistory? Writing Indigenous History across Disciplinary and Other Boundaries
AHA Session 238

Reexamining the Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Part 1: Abolition in Practice: The Implementation of the Abolition Treaties in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
AHA Session 240

Toward a Global History of Sexual Science, c. 1900-70, Part 1: Global Transfers of Sexual Knowledge: Dubbing, Appropriations, and Translations
AHA Session 241

Revisiting Development in Twentieth-Century Peru
Conference on Latin American History 49

Frontiers of Blackness in Argentina, Colombia, and the Circum-Caribbean, 1810–1930
Conference on Latin American History 50

Public Health Concerns in the Aftermath of Disaster: Perspectives from Colonial and Modern Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 51

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Andean Studies Committee
Conference on Latin American History 52

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee: Teaching Latin America in the “Global Sixties”
Conference on Latin American History 53

Caribbean Studies Committee: Gender and the Caribbean Archive
Conference on Latin American History 54

Central American Studies Committee: New Directions: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Histories of Central America
Conference on Latin American History 55

Mexican Studies Committee: New Directions in Mexican History
Conference on Latin American History 56

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


CLAH Cocktail Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Monday, January 5, 2015

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


“Asia” in Latin America: Migration, Diaspora, and Identity in Brazil and Cuba
AHA Session 247

“The New Conquest History”: New Approaches to the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
AHA Session 267

Reexamining the Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Part 2: Circumventing Abolition: Slave Traders’ Strategies of Survival and Success
AHA Session 270

Toward a Global History of Sexual Science, c. 1900-70, Part 2: Sexual Science as a Global Formation: The Multi-directionality of Intellectual Exchange
AHA Session 271

Solidarity and Revolution: Transnational Perspectives on Latin American and Caribbean Radical History
Conference on Latin American History 57

Insurgent Ethnographers: Studying Race and Culture from the Outside In (Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1890s–1960s)
Conference on Latin American History 62

Transnational Transcripts in South America’s Cold War of the 1960s
Conference on Latin American History 63

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


At the Hour of Our Death: Reinterpreting Illness in Iberian Empires
AHA Session 274

Methods of Modernity from the Margins: Toward New Theories of Africa and/in the Americas
AHA Session 284

Reexamining the Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic, Part 3: Kidnapping and Illegal Enslavement in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
AHA Session 296

Toward a Global History of Sexual Science, c. 1900-70, Part 3: Local Sexologies in a Global Context
AHA Session 297

Historical Pasts and Futures in Colonial Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 68

Sport, Race, and Gender in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 69

The “República de Indios” and the Formation of a Legal Culture in Spanish America
Conference on Latin American History 70