Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 5, 2017

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Incorporating Queer History into Latin American Survey Courses: A Roundtable
AHA Session 4

Spain, Latin America, and the Trans-Atlantic Cold War
AHA Session 10

The 1820s in Hemispheric Perspective: Small-Scale Intimate Dynamics of Large-Scale Geopolitical Transformations
AHA Session 15

Epidemics, Public Health, and Modernity in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Latin America: Regional Perspectives and Global Comparisons
AHA Session 19

The Early African Atlantic: 16th and 17th Centuries
AHA Session 23

Transnationalism and Mexican Childhood and Youth in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 6

Scales of Conflict: Debating US Expansion in the Post-emancipation Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 7

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Urbanization and Modernity in Latin America’s Secondary Capital Cities: Guatemala City, Caracas, Asunción, and San Juan
AHA Session 33

The Slave Trade, the Spanish Empire, and Foreign Powers in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 37

Political Culture, the Legality of War, and Spatial Imaginaries: Multifaceted Views of Nation Building in 19th-Century Colombia
AHA Session 48

Materiality after Culture: New Approaches to State Formation in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 50

Bridging the Local and the Global: New Approaches to the Study of the Catholic Church in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 12

Disrupting Popular Periodizations of US Immigration Policy: Shifting Ideas of Mexican Immigrants' Early 20th-Century Exclusion and Reception
Conference on Latin American History 13

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 6, 2017

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Popular Activism and Political Organizing in 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 65

Anthropology and the Andes, 1910–45: New Critical Histories
AHA Session 70

Children as Migrants, Converts, and Mothers: Using Age as a Category of Analysis to Link Historical Experiences
AHA Session 83

Transnational Perspectives on the Making of 20th-Century Latin American Nationalisms
Conference on Latin American History 17

Faith in Development: Religious Ideas and Actors in Post-1968 Latin America and Beyond
Conference on Latin American History 18

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Fetish and Fantasy in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 96

Re-centering Crops in Latin American History
AHA Session 102

Conspiracy Theories, Violence, and Politics in 20th-Century Colombia, Guyana, and Mexico
AHA Session 103

Divergent Trajectories of Unification: Dominican Elites, Free Blacks, and the State in Santo Domingo under Haitian Rule, 1822–44
AHA Session 105

Run-Ins with the Law: Judicializing Everyday Life in 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 108

Provinces in Transition: Mexico, 1870–1930
Conference on Latin American History 24

Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, and the Norms of Economic Exchange in 19th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 25

12:15 PM-1:45 PM


CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Utopian Visionaries, Exiles, and Other Stateless Peoples in the Americas
AHA Session 127

Race and Region in the Americas
AHA Session 129

Imperial Brazilian Newspapers, the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira, and Historical Research, Part 1: Context, Content, and Research in a Digital Archive
AHA Session 139

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Across the Río de la Plata: Establishing Connections and Distinctions in 20th-Century Argentina and Uruguay
AHA Session 151

Thinking with Regions in Latin America and the Caribbean
AHA Session 156

Constructing Childhoods: Age, Race, and Nationality in Latin American Courts
AHA Session 162

Imperial Brazilian Newspapers, the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira, and Historical Research, Part 2: Politics, Reform, and New Research Opportunities in a Digital Archive
AHA Session 167

Evangelization, Mysticism, and Afro/Indigenous Relations during the Age of Exploration
Conference on Latin American History 33

Urban Spaces, Modernization, and the Working Class
Conference on Latin American History 34

Thomas Skidmore and Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 35

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: Visual Culture, Race, and Power in Brazil: New Perspectives
Conference on Latin American History 36

Chile-Río de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: Gender, Citizenship, and Processes of Revolution
Conference on Latin American History 37

Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: Iterations of State Formation: The Former Gran Colombia in the Early 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 38

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

7:15 PM-8:45 PM


Atlantic World Studies Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History 39

Andean Studies Committee Meeting: The Amazonian Andes
Conference on Latin American History 40

Borderlands and Frontier Studies Committee Meeting: Bordering on Belonging: Sex, States, and Gender/Queer Identities in North American Frontiers
Conference on Latin American History 41

Mexican Studies Committee Meeting: Mexico and the World: Looking Outward in Mexican Historiography
Conference on Latin American History 42

Saturday, January 7, 2017

8:00 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


The Moral Economy of Students: Protest, the Political, and the Quotidian in Student Mobilization
AHA Session 178

In Their Own Worlds: The Ontologies of Early Modern Iberian America and the Caribbean
AHA Session 180

Conjuring Time and the Spirits of Capitalism
AHA Session 183

Transnational Humanitarian Projects in 20th-Century Guatemala
Conference on Latin American History 46

Negotiations in the Many Pueblos of Colonial Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 47

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Revolutionary Trade: US Commercial Networks in South America during the Age of Revolution
AHA Session 201

Governing the Body: Africans and the Trans-Atlantic Legal and Natural Landscapes of Enslavement
AHA Session 203

Beyond Pan-Americanism: Internationalizing the History of the Cold War in Latin America
AHA Session 207

The Environmental Management State in Latin America
AHA Session 212

Imagining the 19th-Century Americas: New Perspectives, New Angles
AHA Session 214

Local Spaces, Global Ties: Urbanization in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 220

From Subjects to Citizens: Constructing Race, Community, and Autonomy in Oaxaca during the Long 19th Century
Conference on Latin American History 54

Thinking Globally, Acting Nationally: Transnationalizing Latin American Ideologies in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 55

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


The Cuban 1970s: The Revolution’s Second Decade from Without and Within
AHA Session 234

Scale in the Historical Study of “Development” in Latin America
AHA Session 235

The Caribbean beyond Sugar: New Approaches to Sinew Populations and Colonialism in the Early Modern Caribbean
AHA Session 245

Shaping Marian Cults: Sacred History, Materiality, and Identity in the Early Modern Spanish World
Conference on Latin American History 59

Reimagining the Nation in 20th-Century Latin America: Brazil, Ecuador, and Haiti
Conference on Latin American History 60

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


The Politics of Race, Art, and Performance in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 264

Fluidity and Contradictions in Mexican Discourse: Land, Indigenous Rights, and Environmental Justice
AHA Session 267

Women’s Agency and Embodied Experiences in Defining Sex, Childbirth, and Reproduction: Guatemala, Brazil, and Chile, 1800–1970
Conference on Latin American History 64

Economic Development in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 65

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: Popular Ideologies of Race in the 18th- and 19th-Century Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 66

Central American Studies Committee Meeting: “Conquering” in Safety and Comfort: Travelers, Immigrants, Entrepreneurs, and Evangelists in Central America, 1820–1970
Conference on Latin American History 67

Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Pueblos de Indios: Reenvisioning Indigenous Communities and the State in Colonial Peru and Charcas
Conference on Latin American History 68

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: Teaching Latin American History as World History
Conference on Latin American History 69

The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


CLAH Cocktail Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 8, 2017

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


New Perspectives on Marriage and Courtship in Mexico
AHA Session 288

Mexico on the World Economic Stage
AHA Session 291

Region and Nation in a Changing World: The Americas in the 19th Century
AHA Session 292

The Pen and the “Scalar” Cold War: Solicitation and Petitionary Correspondence across and beyond the Nation in Latin America, 1943–83
AHA Session 303

Banking, Consumption, and Natural Resources in South America
Conference on Latin American History 74

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Beyond the Public Sphere: Political, Geographic, and Temporal Scales in the Modern Mexican Press
AHA Session 326

Immigration, Nationalism, and Public Health
Conference on Latin American History 77