Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 3, 2019

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Rethinking Freedom and Manumission in Latin America and the Atlantic World
AHA Session 20

Rebellion as Revolution: Slave Uprisings in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions
Conference on Latin American History 2

Making the Invisible Visible in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 3

Commodities, Environment, and Space in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 4

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Black Auto/Biography and History's Biographical Turn
AHA Session 35

Mining (in) the Archive: New Approaches to the History of Mining in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 36

Beyond Loyalty: Neutrals, Neutrality, and Zones of Occupation in the 18th-Century Atlantic
Conference on Latin American History 7

Histories of Education beyond the State in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 8

Religion and Society in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 9

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 4, 2019

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Loyalties and Disloyalties: Communist Parties and Members from the Americas to the World
AHA Session 54

Health, Social Welfare, and Citizenship in the Americas, Part 1
AHA Session 57

How to Publish an Article on Latin American History: Talk to the Editors
Conference on Latin American History 12

Legal History, Capitalism, and Economic Life: New Research from Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 13

Loyalty and Disloyalty to the Nation: Identity, Migration, and Race in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 14

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Beyond Presencia: Afromexican History and the Biographical Turn
AHA Session 81

Indigenous Perspectives on the Natural World: Intersections between Ethnohistory and Environmental History in Early Colonial Mesoamerica
AHA Session 85

New Perspectives on Latin American Labor History
Conference on Latin American History 17

Scandalous Soundbites: Journalism and Media Archives in 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 18

Health, Social Welfare, and Citizenship in the Americas, Part 2
Conference on Latin American History 19

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Beyond the Veil of Planter Power: Conjuring Loyalties in the Colonial Caribbean
AHA Session 109

Women Claiming Freedom: Slavery, Race, and Resistance across the Americas, Part 1: Part 1
AHA Session 119

Late Breaking: Archives Burning: The Fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and Beyond
AHA Session

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Women Claiming Freedom: Slavery, Race, and Resistance across the Americas, Part 2: Part 2
AHA Session 142

Future Destinations: New Perspectives on the History of Tourism to and from Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 23

Building Loyalties and Creating National Identity in Argentina and Uruguay
Conference on Latin American History 24

Ambiguous Loyalties and the Politics of Ethnicity in Early 18th-Century Spanish America
Conference on Latin American History 25

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Andean Studies Committee Meeting: Loyalties and Political Culture in the Andes
Conference on Latin American History 26

Atlantic Studies Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History 27

Borderlands and Frontier Studies Committee Meeting: The Labors of Latinas across Borders, Region, and Time
Conference on Latin American History 28

Mexican Studies Committee Meeting: Gender: How Are We Doing?
Conference on Latin American History 29

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

7:15 PM-8:45 PM


Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: Digital Pedagogies for the Undergraduate Latin American Class
Conference on Latin American History 30

Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: Forward Ever, Backward Never: Caribbean Migration and Its Impact on Global African Diasporic Movements
Conference on Latin American History 31

Central American Studies Committee Meeting: Archives: Lies, Obstructions, and Possibility
Conference on Latin American History 32

Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Tuning the Colonial Survey
Conference on Latin American History 33

Saturday, January 5, 2019

8:00 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Competing Loyalties, Competing Empires: The Belize-Yucatan-Guatemala Frontier from the 17th to the 19th Centuries
AHA Session 149

18th- and 19th-Century Visions of Abundance and Scarcity in the Americas: Florida, the Caribbean, and Rí­o de la Plata
Conference on Latin American History 35

On the Road: Films, Cars, and Suburbs in 20th-Century Argentina
Conference on Latin American History 36

The Anti-Reelection Movement as Democratic Dialect in Mexico, 1900–30
Conference on Latin American History 37

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Exploring the Loyalties of Perpetrators of Violence in 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 180

Archival Disloyalties: Archives, Documentary Afterlives, and Critical Histories of Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 39

New Approaches to Exile in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 40

Frontiers of Language and History in the Early Modern Americas
Conference on Latin American History 41

Black Subject(ivities) and Interiorities: Gender and the Global Intellectual and Political Histories of Black Fugitives and Rebels
Conference on Latin American History 42

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Inter-American Lives and Loyalties: Ties That Bound
AHA Session 204

Indigenous Catholicisms and the Second Vatican Council
AHA Session 213

What Everyone Needs to Know about Central America in an Age of Deportation, Part 1: Views from the Northern Triangle
AHA Session 215

Transnational Human Rights Histories from the Americas: Discourse and Contested Negotiation in the 1980s
Conference on Latin American History 46

The European Experience of Latin American History, Perspectives from the Association of Latin American Historians in Europe (AHILA)
Conference on Latin American History 47

Science and the Construction of Indigeneity in 20th-Century Mexico and Peru
Conference on Latin American History 48

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Urban Restructuring and Spatial Regimes from Dictatorship to Democracy in Latin America
AHA Session 229

What Everyone Needs to Know about Central America in an Age of Deportation, Part 2: Views from the United States
AHA Session 239

Missions and Presidios: Jesuits, Amerindians, Filipinos, and Muslims in the Spanish Pacific, 1556–1700
Conference on Latin American History 51

Cuba and the Eastern Bloc: Everyday Life under Socialism
Conference on Latin American History 52

Beyond Body and Color: Female Agency and Contesting Notions of Power and Legality in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 53

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: New Perspectives on Indigenous Peoples and Modernity
Conference on Latin American History 54

Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: New Environmental Histories of Chile-Rio de la Plata
Conference on Latin American History 55

Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: Historians Facing a Contentious Present in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Panama
Conference on Latin American History 56

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


CLAH Cocktail Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 6, 2019

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Cultivating Environmental Reform: Competing Agrarian Politics in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 258

Performing Loyalties in Latin American History, Part 1: Forging Loyalties at Century's Turn: Live Performance in Urbanizing Latin America
AHA Session 262

From Puerto Rico to Japan, through the Panama Canal: The Western Hemisphere Idea in Transnational History during the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 59

Reassessing the Paradoxes of Revolution: Mexico after 1940
Conference on Latin American History 60

Reform and Protest in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 61

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Teaching the Environmental History of the Colonial Americas: Challenges, Prospects, and Future Directions
AHA Session 273

Cumplo Pero No Obedezco (I Comply, but I Do Not Obey): Negotiating State Power in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 275

Spies, Homophiles, and Race in the Americas, 1940–70
AHA Session 278

Performing Loyalties in Latin American History, Part 2: Forging Loyalties in the Latin American Cold War: The Politics of Media, Cultural Productions, and Performances
AHA Session 286

Unemployment, Insecurity, and Work Restructuring in the Americas, 1930s–90s
Conference on Latin American History 66

Good and Bad Government in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 67