Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 8, 2026

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


New Approaches to Mexico's Cristero War, One Hundred Years Later
AHA Session 18

Contesting Modernization: Indigeneity and Rural Development in 20th- and 21st-Century Latin America
AHA Session 20

Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: Teaching Histories of Hope and Resiliency in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 3

Women, Bodies, and Social Control
Conference on Latin American History 4

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


The Politics of Childhood(s) and Youth in Latin America
AHA Session 45

Paper, Printing, and Proper Behavior in 19th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 49

Mexican Studies Section: Beyond (and From) the Nation—Revisiting Mexican History Through a Transnational Lens
Conference on Latin American History 7

The Military, Politics, and Policy in 20th-Century Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 8

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 9, 2026

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


The Historian as Librarian: Conversations About Professional Librarianship with Historians of Latin America and the United States
AHA Session 67

Embodied Contestations: Medical and Legal Interventions of the State in Guatemala and Mexico, 1760–1950
AHA Session 74

Provincializing Global Histories: Local Narratives and Alternative Frameworks
Conference on Latin American History 11

Borderlands–Frontiers Studies Section: Beyond the Lines—Reimagining the Porous Borders of Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 12

Colonial Studies Section: How We Adapt—Colonial Latin American History for the Climate Crisis
Conference on Latin American History 13

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Sources of Intellectual Authority: Renaissance, Enlightenment, and 19th-Century Science in Latin America
AHA Session 97

Brazil and Mexico in the 1980s
Conference on Latin American History 15

Reframing the Age of Revolutions: The Global Silver Trade, the South Atlantic, and the Iberian World, 1750–1850
Conference on Latin American History 16

CLAH Presidential Panel
Conference on Latin American History 17

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Indigenous Histories: Reckoning with the Archive from Latin America
AHA Session 103

Visions of Royal Authority in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
AHA Session 118

Santo Domingo as the First Post-Plantation Society in the Americas
AHA Session 119

Latin America in the 1980s, Part 1
Conference on Latin American History 21

Reframing the Age of Revolutions: Constitutionalism, Legal Culture, and Plebeians in the Global Iberian World, 1750–1850
Conference on Latin American History 22

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Enslaved Histories: Reckoning with the Archive from Latin America
AHA Session 127

Latin America in the 1980s, Part 2
Conference on Latin American History 24

Central America Studies Section: Black and Indigenous Resistance Histories of Central America
Conference on Latin American History 25

Southern Cone Studies Section: Community-Engaged Research and Southern Cone Studies
Conference on Latin American History 26

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Saturday, January 10, 2026

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long 19th Century
AHA Session 168

Revisiting Indigenous Identities in Colonial Spanish America: Agency and Accommodation
AHA Session 169

Gran Colombia Studies Section: Beyond Borders—New Ways of Thinking of Northern South America in the Early Modern World
Conference on Latin American History 29

Caribbean Studies Section: The Intimacies of Extractivism—New Works on Resource Extraction, Energy, and Disruption
Conference on Latin American History 30

Environment, Infrastructure, and Contestation
Conference on Latin American History 31

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Digital Afro-Mexico: New Digital Tools for Afrodescendiente History, Movement, and Memory, 1550–2025
AHA Session 189

Revisiting Francisco de Miranda’s Transatlantic Life in Revolutionary Times
AHA Session 192

Histories of Utopias in 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 34

Centennial Panel: CLAH’s Institutional Past
Conference on Latin American History 35

Royalists, Revolutionaries, and Reactionaries
Conference on Latin American History 36

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Making Archival Violence Visible: Film Screening of Stolen Photo and Conversation with Filmmaker Kevin P. Coleman
AHA Session 208

Beyond Imperial Paradigms: The Local Construction of Spanish Colonialism in South America and Asia
AHA Session 216

Conceptualizing Sovereignty: Gendered Narratives of Governance and Rule in the Black Atlantic
AHA Session 218

Mary Kay Vaughan (1942–2024): A Celebration of Contributions to Mexican Historical Studies
AHA Session 225

Between Factory and Frame: Daniel James, Latin American History, and Paisajes del Pasado
Conference on Latin American History 41

Centennial Panel: CLAH’s Institutional Future
Conference on Latin American History 42

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


New Directions in the History of Inter-American Relations
AHA Session 241

Mary Kay Vaughan (1942–2024): A Celebration of Contributions to Mexican Historical Studies, Part 2
Conference on Latin American History 44

How to Get Published in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 45

Bodies, Beliefs, and Belonging: Exploring Agency and Resistance in 20th-Century Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 46

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CLAH Awards Ceremony and Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 11, 2026

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Women on the Edge: Poverty and “Miserability” in the Iberian Colonial World
AHA Session 267

Urban History in the Americas: Global Itineraries, Local Dynamics
AHA Session 268

Infrastructure and the Environment in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 270

Piracy, Privateering, Freedom, and Coercion, Part 1: New Currents in Caribbean and Atlantic History Through Maritime Predation
AHA Session 274

Geospatial Analysis and the Politics of Exile and Expulsion
Conference on Latin American History 51

Brazil Studies Section: Current Trends in Brazilian History—Place, People, and the Environment
Conference on Latin American History 52

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Mesoamerican Experts and Materials in a Settler Colony
AHA Session 291

Credit, Debt, and Economic Sovereignty in Iberia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, 1650s–1930s: Subaltern Perspectives
AHA Session 292

Infrastructure and Politics in 20th-Century Latin America: Urban and Rural Perspectives
AHA Session 294

Piracy, Privateering, Freedom, and Coercion, Part 2: Teaching the “Ordinary” Pirate, Colonialism, and the African Diaspora
AHA Session 297

Atlantic Studies Section: Experiments in Empire—Slavery, Slave Trading, and Colonization in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 57

Andean Studies Section: Andean Histories in the Age of Revolutions
Conference on Latin American History 58