Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 7, 2016

12:30 PM-6:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Caribbean Borderlands during the Long 19th Century: Geographic Mobility, Social Experiments, and Radicalism on the Fringes of Empire and Nation-States
AHA Session 8

Caught in the Middle: The Politics of Migrant Labor in Mexico and the United States
AHA Session 16

Imagining Failure and Its Consequences in the Colonial Spanish Pacific World
Conference on Latin American History 3

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Why Caribbean Women’s History Matters
AHA Session 32

Development from Within and Without: Debates, Partnerships, and Aid in Postwar Brazil
AHA Session 39

Crafting Order and Progress: Revisionist Perspectives of the Porfirian Era in Mexican History
AHA Session 45

Sport, the City, and the Nation in Latin America, 1930–75
AHA Session 49

Inka Dynastic Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches
AHA Session 50

Constructing the National: Mexican Society, Politics, and State Projects, 1905–82
Conference on Latin American History 9

6:30 PM-8:30 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 8, 2016

8:00 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


The Contested Politics of Resource Nationalism in Inter-American Relations
AHA Session 60

Contesting US-Centric Approaches to Inter-American Affairs: Latin American Responses to US Hegemony, 1880–1955
AHA Session 65

“Exceptional” Figures in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Latin America: Suggestive Protagonists and New Directions for Future Scholarship
AHA Session 70

The Economics of Urban Life in 19th-Century Mexico and Brazil
AHA Session 73

Buenos Aires: Consumption, Politics, and Foreigners
Conference on Latin American History 14

The Nation/State: Order and Authority in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 15

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Epidemics, Medicine, and Society in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 98

Migration, Space, and World War II in Latin America
AHA Session 99

Transnational Activism in the Western Hemisphere in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 18

Markets and Consumerism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 19

12:15 PM-1:45 PM


CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Everyday Economics: Food, Consumption, and Natural Resource Struggles in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 118

“Bárbaros” in the Archive: Sources and Methods for the Study of Autonomous Indigenous Peoples in South America
AHA Session 120

Medical Ethics in 20th-Century Latin America: Human Subject Experimentation, Forced Sterilization, and Cold War Torture
AHA Session 125

Commemoration and Memorialization: Informal, Popular, and Vernacular Memory in 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 23

Culture, Politics, and the State during Colombia’s República Liberal, 1930–46
Conference on Latin American History 24

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


Andean Studies Committee Meeting: The Expanded Andes
Conference on Latin American History 25

Inaugural Atlantic World Studies Committee Meeting: Making Connections: Latin America and the Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 26

Mexican Studies Committee Meeting: New Perspectives on the Study of Indigenous Intellectuals in Mexico: Colonial Period to the Present 
Conference on Latin American History 27

Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Committee Meeting: Frontiers of Borderlands History: Gender, Nation, and Empire
Conference on Latin American History 28

The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:00 PM-8:30 PM


Central American Studies Committee Meeting: Colonialism and Its Legacies in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 29

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: Teaching and the Idea of Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 30

Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: New Research on the Early Spanish Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 31

Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Global Ports: Mobilities, Information, and Local Exchanges in the Spanish Caribbean, 1700–1898
Conference on Latin American History 32

Saturday, January 9, 2016

9:00 AM-11:00 AM


Forging a Latin American Identity in 1960s Argentine Popular Culture
AHA Session 146

State Medical Projects and Popular Reactions in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 152

New Approaches to Inter-American Defense, 1940–70
AHA Session 156

Imperial Reform in an Age of Globalization: Iberian Empires, Enlightenment, and Commercial Society, Part 1: Commercial Society and Iberian Empires
AHA Session 163

Indigenous Communities Confront Modernity and Identity
Conference on Latin American History 37

The 20th-Century State: Projects, Personalism, and Identity
Conference on Latin American History 38

CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

11:30 AM-1:30 PM


Postcolonial Shadings: A Roundtable Discussion of Barbara Weinstein’s The Color of Modernity: Making Race and Nation in Modern Brazil
AHA Session 176

Reimagining Latino Geographies: Historicizing Midwest and Southern (Im)Migration
AHA Session 182

Caribbean Nationalisms and Community Formation: Violence, Memory, and the Politics of Boundary-Making in Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad
AHA Session 183

Imperial Reform in an Age of Globalization: Iberian Empires, Enlightenment, and Commercial Society, Part 2: The Enlightenment Contexts of Iberian Empires
AHA Session 191

Grassroots Organization and Social Mobilization in Latin America: New Perspectives on Civil Society, Identity, and Power
Conference on Latin American History 43

Race in the Colonial and National Periods
Conference on Latin American History 44

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Grounding Transnational History: Place-Based Approaches to Connections and Borders
AHA Session 201

Child Labor in the History of Latin America
AHA Session 203

Power and Authority: The Subaltern Sectors and the Elites in Colonial Andes
AHA Session 205

Reframing Guatemala’s “Ten Years of Spring”
AHA Session 209

The Year of Interventions: The United States in the Caribbean Basin in 1916
AHA Session 216

Engineering Society and the Environment: Perspectives from Above and Below
Conference on Latin American History 50

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Chile-Río de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: Long Term Dynamics in the Making of the State in Chile and the Río de la Plata, 1500s–1900s
Conference on Latin American History 51

Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: Race and Radical Politics: New Directions from Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 52

Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: Gran Colombia before the Gran Colombia 
Conference on Latin American History 53

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 10, 2016

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Civil Wars, National Imaginings, and the State in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective
AHA Session 229

Families and Communities in the Early Modern Atlantic Empires
AHA Session 242

Tourism and Sport in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 56

11:00 AM-1:00 PM


Engendering Landscapes, Creating Citizens: Colonization and Resettlement in the Mid-20th-Century Tropical World: Examples from Latin America and Africa
AHA Session 259

Remapping Cuban Political Histories: Personal Connections and Global Implications
AHA Session 261

Paradise Is a Faraway Land: Racial Representation, Hierarchy, and Conflicts in 20th-Century Brazil
AHA Session 269

New Findings in North American Drug History: Mexico, the United States, and the Wider World, 1890–1980
AHA Session 273

Cleaning up the Neighborhood: State Formation and the Ambiguous Politics of Anticommunism in Cold War Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 61