Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 7, 2027

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Providence and Providencia in World History: Karen Kupperman’s Providence Island Three Decades On
AHA Session 10

Memory and Right-Wing Politics: Mexico, Brazil, and the United States
AHA Session 16

New Questions and Approaches to the Age of Revolutions in Latin America
AHA Session 17

South American Pacific Worlds of Labor and Community
AHA Session 18

Borderlands/Frontiers Studies Section: Beyond Territory—New Directions in Borderland Studies in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 5

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Segregated Mexican Schools and Their Impact on Borderland Communities
AHA Session 27

The Labor of Sovereignty Across the 19th-Century Americas
AHA Session 34

Mobile Lives, Plural Identities: Afro-Descendant and Indigenous Communities in Iberian–American Worlds
AHA Session 44

Neoliberalism: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis? Views from Latin America
AHA Session 45

Dubious Freedoms: Status, Race, and Nationality in the 19th-Century Americas’ Carceral Systems
AHA Session 46

Laboratories of Exclusion and Citizenship: Immigration in the Americas from the Spanish–American War Through Today
AHA Session 47

Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: Experimental and Innovative Approaches for Latin American History Classrooms
Conference on Latin American History 12

Gran Colombia Studies Section: Writing Histories of Gran Colombia—A Roundtable Discussion About Methods, Process, and Craft
Conference on Latin American History 13

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 8, 2027

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Objects of Empire: Status, Marginalization, and Materiality in the Spanish Imperial World
AHA Session 69

Working Class Communities and Extractive Landscapes in the Americas
AHA Session 70

Coups d’État in Latin America: Continuities and Ruptures from the Cold War to Yesterday
AHA Session 71

Colonial Studies Section: Behind Closed Doors and Across Oceans—Households and Dependency
Conference on Latin American History 17

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


250 Years of the American Revolution in Brazilian Historiography
AHA Session 83

Gendering Revolution in Palestine, Zimbabwe, El Salvador, and Bolivia
AHA Session 85

Beyond Exports: Commodities, Society, and Environmental Change in Latin America
AHA Session 95

Unpacking Narratives of Conquest in the Colonial Americas
AHA Session 96

Rethinking Capitalism from Below: Mexico’s Long 19th Century
AHA Session 97

Domesticating Topographies: Mountains, Materiality, and the Metis of Andean Development
AHA Session 98

From Cold War to Today: Patterns of US Intervention in Latin American Politics
Conference on Latin American History 24

CLAH Presidential Panel: What's the Next Turn?
Conference on Latin American History 25

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Histories of Social Welfare, Gender, and Spatial Politics in Mexico
AHA Session 121

Latin America in the World War II Era: Transnational Perspectives
AHA Session 122

Imagining Indigenous Pasts in Latin American History
AHA Session 123

When Movement Reshapes Authority: Migration, Race, and State Formation in the 20th-Century Greater Caribbean
AHA Session 124

The New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America, Part 1: Labor History and the New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 30

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Deep Roots, Shifting Ground: Extraction and Resilience in Colonial Latin America
AHA Session 144

Radio, Archives, and Memory in Latin America
AHA Session 145

From Mountain Peaks to Sugar-Factory Towns: Repurposing Landscapes for Leisure, Livelihood, and Industry in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 146

Hierarchy and Agency: Hegemonic Continuums in the Global Cold War
AHA Session 147

Central American Studies Section: Black Women’s Worlds in Central America and Its Diasporas
Conference on Latin American History 35

Southern Cone Studies Section: Global Ruptures and Continuities from the Southern Cone
Conference on Latin American History 36

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 9, 2027

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Beyond the Ratlines: German–Southern Cone Connections in the 20th Century
AHA Session 166

Driving Growth: Roadways and Automobiles in Mid-20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 174

Island Circuits in the Early Modern Atlantic, Part 1: The Political Economy of Atlantic Islands
AHA Session 177

Caribbean Studies Section: Looking to the Future—Caribbean Studies as Digital Humanities
Conference on Latin American History 40

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


(Re)Shaping the Family During the Inter-American Cold War
AHA Session 192

What the Special Period Exposed: Cuban Fault Lines, 1960s–80s
AHA Session 197

Indigenous Production of Power: Environmental Jurisprudence in Colonial Mexico and the Spanish Imperial Sphere
AHA Session 198

Amazonian History: Challenges and Possibilities
AHA Session 199

Island Circuits in the Early Modern Atlantic, Part 2: Transatlantic Island Perspectives and the Reassessment of Imperial Narratives
AHA Session 202

Paper Technologies: Empire and State Making in the Spanish Empire and Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 46

CLAH Book Awardees Panel
Conference on Latin American History 47

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Explorations and Expeditions on the 18th-Century Mosquito Coast
AHA Session 211

Land and Property in Latin America During the Long 19th Century
AHA Session 224

The New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America, Part 1: Business and Finance in the New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America
AHA Session 229

Imagining Brazil: Global Narratives, Cultural Projection, and the Politics of Representation
Conference on Latin American History 51

Mexican Studies Section: Beyond (and from) the Nation, Part 2—Politics, Religion, Migration, and the Cristero War
Conference on Latin American History 52

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Local Histories, Local Politics: New Perspectives on the Yucatán Peninsula
AHA Session 249

Lessons from the Living Past: Teaching Empathy and Radicalism from Latin America
AHA Session 250

The New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America, Part 2: Environmental History and Commodity Chains in the New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America
AHA Session 254

Governing Everyday Life: State Power and Social Regulation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 56

Colonization, Revolution, and Repression Across Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 57

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CLAH Awards Ceremony and Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 10, 2027

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Bringing the Economy Back In: Business, Taxes, Credit, and the State in Mexico and Brazil
AHA Session 276

Complex Connections: Families in Latin America from the 16th to 19th Centuries
AHA Session 277

Brazil Studies Section: Who Cares? Histories of Care and Caring in Brazil
Conference on Latin American History 60

Extraction and Its Afterlives: Mining Across the Americas Since the 16th Century
Conference on Latin American History 61

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Abolition Abroad in a Hemispheric Age of Abolition, 1812–80
AHA Session 283

Lessons and Legacies of Dictatorship in the Dominican Republic
AHA Session 285

Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Latin American Exile Politics During and After the Cold War
AHA Session 300

Rethinking Borderlands in an Age of Intensified Territorialization and Contested Sovereignty, 1850–1950
AHA Session 301

Global Practices of Governance and Royal Authority in the Spanish Empire
AHA Session 302

Atlantic Studies Section: Archives of Surveillance in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 67

Andean Studies Section: At the Crossroads of Disciplines—Collaboration, Tension, and Possibility in Andean Ethnohistory
Conference on Latin American History 68