AHA Session 103
Conference on Latin American History 18
Conference on Latin American History 18
Friday, January 9, 2026: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Boulevard A (Hilton Chicago, Second Floor)
Chair:
Bianca Premo, Florida International University
Panel:
Shawn Michael Austin, University of Arkansas
Juan Fernando Cobo Betancourt, University of California, Santa Barbara
Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, University of Texas at Austin
Sylvia M. Sellers-García, Boston College
Yanna P. Yannakakis, Emory University
Juan Fernando Cobo Betancourt, University of California, Santa Barbara
Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, University of Texas at Austin
Sylvia M. Sellers-García, Boston College
Yanna P. Yannakakis, Emory University
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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