Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 3, 2025

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Global Mobilities: Pilgrimage, Political Negotiation, and Racial Resistance in the Iberian Pacific–Atlantic
AHA Session 6

Brazil from Inside Out: Thinking the Country’s History through Its Interior
AHA Session 8

Latin American Cold War Internationalisms, Left and Right
AHA Session 9

Colonial Studies Section: New Directions on Colonial Women’s and Gender History
Conference on Latin American History 4

Exploiting Landscapes: New Approaches to the Capitalocene
Conference on Latin American History 5

Andean Studies Section: Indigenous Communities' Resistances and Workers Uprisings in the Highland Andes
Conference on Latin American History 6

Caribbean Studies Section: New Approaches to the Study of Empire in the Caribbean’s Long 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 7

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Hemispheric Black Politics in the Age of Abolition
AHA Session 35

Performative Pedagogy: Radical Reimaginations of Cultural Citizenship in 20th-Century Latin America and the Caribbean
AHA Session 51

Naturalization and Its Dis/Contents: Nationality and Citizenship in Imperial and Postcolonial Contexts across the Americas
AHA Session 52

Rethinking Brazil’s Democratic Transition
Conference on Latin American History 11

Informal Empires: Abolition, Education, and the Archives, 19th–20th Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 12

Chile–Río de la Plata Studies Section: The Politics of Doing Southern Cone History
Conference on Latin American History 13

Borderlands/Frontier Studies Section: State of the Field of Latin American Borderlands
Conference on Latin American History 14

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Saturday, January 4, 2025

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Oral History, Memory, and Positionality in Latin America
AHA Session 60

Mexican Studies Section: Indigenous and Afro-Black Mexico—Multiethnic and Multiracial Mexican Studies
Conference on Latin American History 16

20th-Century Intellectual Histories of Mexico and Peru
Conference on Latin American History 17

Central American Studies: New Research on the History of Gender in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 18

Brazilian Studies Section: Decolonizing Brazilian History? A Roundtable on Methodologies
Conference on Latin American History 19

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Rethinking the Parameters and Methodologies of Central American History
AHA Session 102

Biographical Approaches to Women and Gender in Mexico and Chile
Conference on Latin American History 21

Voices from the Margins: Exploring Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 22

The Festival at Home and in the Streets: Reaffirming and Challenging Identity, Faith, and the King in New Spain and Peru
Conference on Latin American History 23

State Projects in Mexico and Brazil, 1940–90
Conference on Latin American History 24

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Informalities: A View from the Social History of Law, 1890–1950
AHA Session 125

Latin America at the End of the Cold War
Conference on Latin American History 26

New Perspectives in the History of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship: A Roundtable Discussion
Conference on Latin American History 27

Voices from the South: Public History Perspectives from Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 28

Imagining Latin American Economic Futures before the Neoliberal Era, Part 1
Conference on Latin American History 29

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Black Literacy in Latin America, 18th and 19th Centuries
AHA Session 150

Geographies of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas
AHA Session 155

New Works in Puerto Rican History: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 159

Imagining Latin American Economic Futures before the Neoliberal Era, Part 2: Imagining Alternative Latin American Economic Futures on the Eve of Neoliberal Reform
AHA Session 165

Black Political Thought in the Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 34

Interstitial Spaces of Empire and Resistance in Latin America: A Panel Honoring Leslie Offutt
Conference on Latin American History 35

Revisiting Commodities in Latin American History: Cultural and Political Dimensions
Conference on Latin American History 36

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CLAH Awards Ceremony and Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 5, 2025

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Contesting Empire: Black Political Activism in the Interwar Caribbean
AHA Session 184

Health and Medicine in Latin America’s Cold War
Conference on Latin American History 39

Innovative Approaches to Teaching a Modern Latin American History Survey for K–16 Educators
Conference on Latin American History 40

Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: AI—Potential Approaches in Teaching and Evaluating Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 41

Gran Colombia Studies Section: Writing Black and Indigenous Histories of Gran Colombia—Archives, Politics, and Challenges
Conference on Latin American History 42

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Information, Credibility, and Political Legitimacy in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 213

Black Migrations in Brazil and the Caribbean in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 215

Another Kind of "Slave Society"? Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Freedom in 19th-Century Puerto Rico
Conference on Latin American History 45

New Approaches to Latin America’s Cold War: Transnational Solidarities, Spatial Mobilities, Generational Conformities, and Ambiguous Chronologies
Conference on Latin American History 46

Women, Gender, and Conservatism in Latin America, Part 1
Conference on Latin American History 47

Afro-Descended and Indigenous Spatial Imaginaries in Early Colonial Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 48

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Indigenous Literacies and Popular Education in Latin America from the Colonial Period to the Cold War
AHA Session 245

Women, Gender, and Conservatism in Latin America, Part 2
AHA Session 256

Reconsidering Women’s Activism in Cold War Central America: Case Studies from Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala
Conference on Latin American History 51

Interrogating Power, Identity, and Resistance in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 52

Below the Surface: Histories of the Subsoil in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 53

The Modern Endangered Archive Program in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 54

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Race, Religion, Property, and the Law in the Portuguese Atlantic World
AHA Session 272

The Problem of Immigration in the Largest Slaving Polities of the Americas: A Roundtable on the Comparative Emergence of Migration Regulation in 19th-Century Brazil and the United States
AHA Session 273

Settler Colonialism beyond Borders: The United States and Latin America in the Age of Empire
Conference on Latin American History 57

CLAH Presidential Panel: Latinx/Latin American Histories and the Rise of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Conference on Latin American History 58

The Ongoing Social Constructions of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Early Modern and Modern Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 59

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Monday, January 6, 2025

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Beyond Slavery and Resistance: Black Lives in Brazil during the Age of Slavery and Emancipation
AHA Session 297

Trafficking People, Trading Commodities: Transimperial Commerce in the South Atlantic, c. 1500–1808
AHA Session 304

Democracy in Central America, Part 1: Historical Perspectives on Present Governance in Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica
AHA Session 305

The LGBTQ+ View from the Global South, 1950s–2020, Part 1: Queer Publishing, Media Representations, and Women
AHA Session 315

New Borderlands Histories, Part 2: Latin American Borderlands
Conference on Latin American History 64

New Perspectives on Economic History in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 65

Atlantic Studies Section: Rethinking Liberty and Blackness in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 66

Transnational Visions: Development Designs in 20th-Century Mexico
Conference on Latin American History 67

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Sonic Histories of the 20th Century
AHA Session 321

Indigenous Borderlands across Time, Space, and Place
AHA Session 322

Paths of Enslavement, Ways of Freedom: Coercion and Mobility in the Greater Caribbean
AHA Session 328

The LGBTQ+ View from the Global South, 1950s–2020, Part 2: Transnational Queer Activism and Transgender Activism
AHA Session 340

Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Boundaries: Music, Labor, and Migrations in Central American and Afro-Latinx Diaspora Communities
Conference on Latin American History 72

Understanding Major Themes and Topics in a Modern Latin American History Survey for K–16 Educators
Conference on Latin American History 73

Democracy in Central America, Part 2: Historical Perspectives on Present Governance in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama
Conference on Latin American History 74