AHA Session 127
Conference on Latin American History 23
Conference on Latin American History 23
Friday, January 9, 2026: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Williford A (Hilton Chicago, Third Floor)
Chair:
Erika D. Edwards, University of Texas at El Paso
Panel:
Karen B. Graubart, University of Notre Dame
María Esther Hammack, Ohio State University
Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon
Zachary Morgan, Ohio State University
Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
María Esther Hammack, Ohio State University
Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon
Zachary Morgan, Ohio State University
Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Organized by the AHA Research Division and the American Historical Review
Session Abstract
These panels will provide a Latin Americanist viewpoint that addresses whether dominant concepts of the archive adequately capture what remains for Latin America’s colonial and early republican period (1500-1830). The panels especially seek to address the methods and themes clustering around “the violence of the archive of slavery” and emergent concept about the effacements of Indigenous history from the archive due to “settler colonialism.” Presentations will focus on whether these theories and methods work for Latin Americanists. If not, perhaps we must create our own.
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