Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 5, 2023

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Rumors, Satire, and Politics in the Spanish Empire
AHA Session 17

What’s Special about Maps? Teaching Border Regions History with Digital and Physical Materials
AHA Session 19

Latin American Antifascism(s): National and Transnational Perspectives
AHA Session 20

Subaltern Cosmopolitans in the 17th- and 18th-Century Atlantic World
AHA Session 21

Schools as Sites for Agency in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 22

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Anticommunism, Right-Wing Politics, and Latin America’s Cold War
AHA Session 37

An Entangled Empire: The Trans-Imperial Connections of the Portuguese World
AHA Session 39

Indio Identities in the Viceroyalty of Peru: Between Impositions and Adaptations
AHA Session 43

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 6, 2023

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Indigenous Knowledge and Colonial Entanglements in the Americas
AHA Session 58

On the Edge: Public Dimensions of History in Mexico and the United States
AHA Session 61

Spatializing States: Authoritarianism and Urbanization in Latin America
AHA Session 62

Brazil and Cars in Historical Perspective
AHA Session 63

8:30 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Reframing Christianity in Mexico from Francis to Facebook
AHA Session 79

Getting Argentina out of the Atlantic: Rethinking the Spaces of Historical Narrative Construction in the Southern Cone
AHA Session 80

Resisting Reforms in Spanish America: Royal Administrators and Colonial Subjects Negotiate Hapsburg and Bourbon Rule
AHA Session 86

The Catholic Church, State, Labor, and Identity Struggles in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 16

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Latin America’s Consuming Issues: A Roundtable Discussion of Two Recent Books on Commodities, Marketing, and Consumer Capitalism in Brazil
AHA Session 104

Imperial Fictions and Mexico in the American Imagination
AHA Session 105

Endurance and Evolution: Ecologies, Communities, and Families on the Move in the Early Modern Americas
AHA Session 106

Do Nonstate Actors Matter? Rethinking Inter-American Affairs across the 20th Century
AHA Session 107

New Perspectives on Refugees from Nazi Europe in the Americas
AHA Session 108

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Martyrs, Narratives, and Social Change in 20th-Century Mexico and Latin America
AHA Session 130

Social and Political Identity in the Spanish Empire, 1765–1830
AHA Session 131

Race, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin American Public Spheres
Conference on Latin American History 24

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Andean Studies Section: Social Movements and Governments in the Andes, Past and Present
Conference on Latin American History 25

Atlantic Studies Section: New Currents and Old Contests—Extending the Black Atlantic into the 19th Century
Conference on Latin American History 26

Caribbean Studies Section: New Approaches to Caribbean Labor and Working-Class History
Conference on Latin American History 27

Colonial Studies Section: The Global and the Local—A Colonialist’s Conundrum
Conference on Latin American History 28

Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:15 PM-8:45 PM


Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Section: The Criminal (Un)Justice System in the US and Mexico Borderlands
Conference on Latin American History 29

Brazilian Studies Section: A Celebration of Barbara Weinstein
Conference on Latin American History 30

Central American Studies Section: Transnational Scholarship, Transnational Lives—Early Career Historians of/from Central America
Conference on Latin American History 31

Mexican Studies Section: Writing Mexican History—Issues and Solutions
Conference on Latin American History 32

Saturday, January 7, 2023

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Passports, Asylum, and Marronage: New Dimensions to Black Mobility in Mexico, Louisiana, and Haiti, 17th to 19th Centuries
AHA Session 147

The Political Economy of Hunger (or Lack Thereof) in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish America
AHA Session 148

Saints, Martyrs, and Workers: Representations, Reactions, and Rhetorics of Catholic Populism in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1926–38
AHA Session 149

The Politics of Paper: New Approaches to (Reading and Writing) Latin American Politics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 152

Constructing Urban Citizenship: The Built Environment and Social Belonging in Brazil
AHA Session 153

8:30 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Empires and Emancipation: Freedom, Agency, and Mobility in the Atlantic World
AHA Session 172

Rank-and-File Soldiers in Cold War Latin America
AHA Session 174

Do the Americas Have a Common History? On Hemispheric Forms of Imagination and Exchange
AHA Session 175

Youth, Poverty, Education, and Violence in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 41

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Deconstructing “Development” in Mexico, Brazil, and the CEPAL
AHA Session 193

Engendering the History of Latin American Capitalism: Women and Men in Brazilian Commodity Export Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 195

Partisan Politics, Environmental Struggles, and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Central America, 1940s–70s
Conference on Latin American History 44

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


New and Old Norms: Forging and Inscribing Communities across the Atlantic World
AHA Session 218

“Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches”: Anarcha-Feminism in the 20th Century
AHA Session 219

The Cuban Slave Trade: Demography, Ideology, and Race
Conference on Latin American History 47

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Chile–Rio de la Plata Studies Section: New Approaches to Dictatorships and Human Rights
Conference on Latin American History 48

Gran Colombia Studies Section: Telling Stories from and about Gran Colombia—Historical Narratives, Fragmentary Subjects, and the Archive
Conference on Latin American History 49

Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: Revisiting the Survey
Conference on Latin American History 50

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


CLAH Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 8, 2023

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Rethinking Histories of State Formation, Community, and Resistance through Ethnic Mexican Transborder Migration and Labor
AHA Session 241

Interviews with the Liberator: Four Momentous Meetings with Simón Bolívar
AHA Session 242

Debates on Citizenship in Latin America, 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 243

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Local and Transnational Scales in the History of Science, Race, and Medicine in the Americas, 1909–65
AHA Session 262