Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 4, 2018

12:30 PM-5:30 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Cultural Diplomacy, Science, and Brazil-US Relations, 1930s–50s
AHA Session 21

What Is the African Diaspora in a “Post-racial Society”? The Case of 19th- and 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 22

Final Passages, Part 1: New Perspectives on the Intra-American Slave Trading Routes
AHA Session 23

Spatial History in Border Regions of Modern Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 4

Crossing Borders in Latin American History: “Pioneer” Women Historians and Their Stories
Conference on Latin American History 5

Kinship, Ethnicity, and the Law in the Iberian World
Conference on Latin American History 6

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Final Passages, Part 2: New Perspectives on the Intra-American Slave Trading Routes
AHA Session 33

The Latin American Middle Classes: An Interdisciplinary Approach
AHA Session 52

Moral Limits: Inequality in Ethics in the Atlantic Human Sciences, 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 9

Social Control, Violence, and Religion in the Caribbean and Central America
Conference on Latin American History 10

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 5, 2018

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Cuba in a Revolutionary World, 1940s–60s
AHA Session 61

Family, Household, Community, and the Court: Extending and Defying Domestic Male Authority in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 63

Postslavery Lives around the Caribbean: Social Control, Representation, and the Possibilities of Narration
AHA Session 68

Historical Thinking and the Survey Course: Sources, Strategies, Assessments, and Best Practices in the United States, Latin America, and World Surveys
AHA Session 69

Spain, Latin America, and the Transatlantic Cold War
AHA Session 75

Rethinking the Legal Profession in the Colonial Andes
Conference on Latin American History 16

Remembering the Eastern Andean Imperial Frontier: Exploration, Consolidation, and Identity in Colonial Spanish Charcas
Conference on Latin American History 17

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


The Abolitionist Movement in Brazil: New Approaches
Conference on Latin American History 18

The Cacicas of Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 19

Public Health and Education in the Andes and Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 20

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


1968 Mexico City Olympics
AHA Session 134

Ways of Seeing, Shaping, and Documenting Subjects under Postcolonial Conflicts
AHA Session 139

Resistant and Receptive, Insiders and Outsiders: Native Peoples and the Making of Early Modern Indigenous Sovereignty, Colonial Subjects, and Slaves
AHA Session 142

Connections and Their Consequences: Cuba, West Africa, and Spain Resisting and Adapting to Change
AHA Session 148

Envisioning the Nation: Mexico and the World, 1900–50
Conference on Latin American History 25

Scandalous Behavior in Colonial Latin America: Agency, Crime, and Punishment in Criminal and Inquisition Files
Conference on Latin American History 26

Piracy, Imperial Expansion, and the Making of the Modern World: New Perspectives from the Atlantic and Beyond
Conference on Latin American History 27

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: Flight, Migration, and Borders in the Caribbean from Carib Expansion to 21st-Century Diasporas
Conference on Latin American History 29

Central American Studies Committee Meeting: The Problem of Modernity in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 30

Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Beyond the Archival Divide: A Roundtable on Methods, Perspectives, and Experiences from Colonial Latin American Archives 
Conference on Latin American History 31

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: The Changing Narrative Arc of History: Workshopping Assignments That Link History to the Present  
Conference on Latin American History 32

The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:15 PM-8:45 PM


Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: Social Movements: Approaches, Debates, and Memory
Conference on Latin American History 33

Chile-Río de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: The Crafting and Molding of Race in a “White” Nation
Conference on Latin American History 34

Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: New Directions on Politics and Society in Pre- and Post-Gran Colombia: From the Public Sphere to Caribbean Tourism
Conference on Latin American History 35

Saturday, January 6, 2018

8:00 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Digital Colonial Latin America: Experiments in Research, Teaching, and Narrative
AHA Session 169

The Logistics of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Mobility, Space, Nation, and Race
AHA Session 174

The Environmental Axis of Identity Formation: Race, Labor, and Landscape in the Americas, 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 175

Transnational Mexico: Shifting Subjecthood in the Global 1960s and 1970s
Conference on Latin American History 39

The Global, the Local, the Diasporic, and the In-Between: Puerto Rican History through Different Lenses
Conference on Latin American History 40

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


New Perspectives on the Ethnohistory of the Spanish Borderlands
AHA Session 197

Water and Urban Power in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 202

Slavery and Gradual Emancipation in the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 43

Implementing Authoritarianism: Overlooked Sectors under Latin America’s Cold War Regimes
Conference on Latin American History 44

The Politics of the Apolitical in Latin America: Nation, Youth, and Community, 1960–90
Conference on Latin American History 45

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Historical Perspectives on Sovereignty in the Americas
AHA Session 222

State Building and Transnational Indian Policies in the Americas, 1940–80
AHA Session 224

Revolutionaries, Refugees, and Smugglers: New Directions in Inter-American Exchanges during the Age of Revolution
AHA Session 228

Writing Colombian History after the 2016 Accord: Questions and Methods
Conference on Latin American History 49

New Perspectives on Puerto Rican Nationalism
Conference on Latin American History 50

Tradition, Suspicion, and Inquisition: Catholic Anxieties of Portuguese Converso, Chino, and Nahua Heterodoxy in 17th-Century New Spain
Conference on Latin American History 51

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Assessing the State from the Peripheries: The Construction of Governance in 19th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 250

The Early Modern Iberian Empires in Global Perspective
Conference on Latin American History 53

Encountering Women in Development in 20th-Century Bolivia
Conference on Latin American History 54

Left Development Projects
Conference on Latin American History 55

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Atlantic World Studies Committee Meeting 
Conference on Latin American History 56

Andean Studies Committee Meeting: The Andes and the Pacific World
Conference on Latin American History 57

Borderlands and Frontier Studies Committee Meeting: Borderlands and Border-Crossing Histories on Land and at Sea 
Conference on Latin American History 58

Mexican Studies Committee Meeting: How Atlantic/Pacific Is Ethnohistory? 
Conference on Latin American History 59

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

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


CLAH Cocktail Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 7, 2018

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Caribbean Circulations: Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Cuba, 1890–1980
AHA Session 275

Nation-Making beyond Slavery: The United States and the Transformation of 19th-Century Brazil
AHA Session 283

Matters of State, Matters of Dispute: Collecting and Display in 19th- and 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 284

Urbanization, Mobility, and Modernization in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 63

Slavery and Emancipation
Conference on Latin American History 64

Conquest, Communal Rights, and Population in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 65

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Rethinking “Race” in the Spanish Atlantic: Shaping Imperial Laws and Defining Categories of Difference, Belonging, Royal Vassalage, and Religious Lineage
AHA Session 292

Creando Cubanos: Cuban Educational Systems in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 299

Global Crisis and International Organization in the Americas
AHA Session 304

Rethinking the Left in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 309

Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Paradiplomacy: The International Venturing of Subnational Governments in the Caribbean with Focus on Puerto Rico’s Experience
Conference on Latin American History 70

Creating and Imagining a Unified Spanish Empire in the Early 18th Century: Views from the American Viceroyalties
Conference on Latin American History 71