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CLAH Events and AHA Latin America Sessions

CLAH Information Table Hours:Hyatt, America’s Cup Foyer

Thursday, Jan. 7, 2:30-6:00pmFriday, Jan. 8, 8:00-11:00am

Saturday, Jan. 9, 9:00-11:00am

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7

Thursday, 3-5pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom Salon C

Chair: Thomas M. Klubock, University of Virginia

Visualizing Nature, Empire, and Nation in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787–1821 Rick A. López, Amherst College

Charting Disease and Documenting Backwardness in Rural Brazil Okezi T. Otovo, University of Vermont

"Impossible for Me to Satisfy Your Desire": Provincial Cartographies and the FrustratedNational Vision of Colombia, 1820–30

Lina M. Del Castillo, Iowa State University

Jorge Bodanzky's Celluloid Jungle Sarah R. Sarzynski, Mount Holyoke College

Comment: Thomas M. Klubock, University of Virginia

Thursday, 3-5pm, Hyatt, Edward A

Chair: Charles Walker, University of California, Davis

Don Carlos Chimo of Peru and the Boundaries of the Spanish EmpireRachel Sarah O’Toole, University of California, Irvine

Black Brotherhoods and the Negotiation of Social Identity among Persons of African Descent in Colonial Minas Gerais, Brazil

Mariana Dantas, Ohio University

Associates and Acquaintances: Afro-Indigenous Relations in a Spanish Silver Mining Town, Zacatecas, Mexico

Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, Irvine

Comment: Yanna P. Yannakakis, Emory University

Session 1: Visualizing the Environmnet in Latin America (Joint with AHA 25)

Session 2: Making Race in the "Island" City: Freedom, Vassalage, and Trade in Colonial Latin America (Joint with AHA 26)

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Thursday, 3-5pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H

Chair: David Tavárez, Vassar College

A House Divided: Noble Tetzcocan Factionalism and the Audiencia of MexicoBradley Thomas Benton, University of California at Los Angeles

Barrios, Mayordomías and Cabildo: Ancient Traditions and Political Pragmatism in Late Colonial Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca

Alessia Frassani, CUNY Graduate Center

Guelaguetza, Loans and Payments: Zapotec Organization of Community AffairsXóchitl M. Flores-Marcial, UCLA

Comment: The Audience

Thursday, 3-5pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup C

Chair: Alex Borucki, Emory University

Large Profits and Small Returns: The Guaraní and the Transatlantic Trade in Cattle HidesJulia Sarreal, Harvard University

Seeking “Peace and Cordial Relations”: Bourbon Policies and the Buenos Aires Frontier in the Early 1740s

Maria Andrea Campetella, Washington University in St. Louis

Patriotismo Rioplatense: Newspapers and the Rise of a Regional Consciousness in Late Colonial Argentina

Gustavo L. Paz, University of Buenos Aires/Conicet

Comment: Susan M. Socolow, Emory University

Thursday, 3-5pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup B

Chair: Kirk R. Shaffer, Penn State University - Berks College 

Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University Steven J. Hirsch, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Greensburg Jose C. Moya, Barnard CollegeEvan Matthew Daniel, St. Francis College 

Session 3: Islands of Power in Colonial Mexico: Snapshots of Indigenous Politics and Community Life from the Mixtec, Nahua, and Zapotec People

(Joint with AHA 30)

Session 4: Imperial Rule and Colonial Agency in Bourbon Rio de la Plata

Session 5: Anarchism and Transnational History in Latin Americaand the Caribbean, 1880s-1930s: A Roundtable Discussion

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Thursday, 3-5pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup D

Chair: Rafael R. Ioris, University of Denver

Modernizing Daily Cooking: Food Provisioning and Domestic Technology in 1940s and 1950s Mexico

Sandra Aguilar, Lehigh University

Can't Afford It But We'll Buy It: The Foreign Business of Advertising Agricultural Machinery in Argentine Revistas, 1850-1940

Yovanna Pineda, St. Michael's College

Politics and Class Conflict in the Battle over Chile's 1924 Social LawsJ. Pablo Silva, Grinnell College

Development Promotion and Political Instability: ‘Fifty Years in Five’ and National Development in Post-World War II Latin America

Rafael Rosotto Ioris, University of Denver

Comment: The Audience 

Thursday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, Gibbons Room

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8

Friday, 9:30-11:30am, Hyatt, Cunningham A

Chair: Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland

Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, University of ArizonaJulia C. O'Hara, Xavier UniversityErica M. Windler, Michigan State University

Friday, 9:30-11:30am, Marriott, Point Loma Room

Chair: Marshall Eakin, Vanderbilt University

“Ao teatro! Pelos Cativos!”: Theater, Antislavery, and Nation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Celso T. Castilho, Vanderbilt University

Session 6: Working, Producing and Buying in Modern Latin America

CLAH General Committee Meeting

Session 7: Presidential Roundtable: Turning Your Dissertation into a Book

Session 8: Performing the Nation, Recreating Identities: Theater and Modern Latin American History (Joint with AHA 48)

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Criollismo as Parody: Visual Constructions of a Hybrid National Identity in Argentina's Popular Theatre

Sirena Pellarolo, California State University, Northridge

Chin-Chun-Chan and Vale Coyote: Performers and Puppets act out MexicanWilliam Beezley, University of Arizona

Playing the Provinces: Argentine Cultural Production and the Construction of National Identity, 1920-1930

Kristen L. McCleary, James Madison University

Comment: E. Gabrielle Kuenzli, Univ. of South Carolina

Friday, 9:30-11:30am, Hyatt, Edward C

Chair: Kevin Terraciano, UCLA

Desacralized Peyote Use in Sixteenth Century MexicoMartin Nesvig, University of Miami

Peyote and the Indian in the Colonial ImaginationAlexander S. Dawson, Simon Fraser University

A Small, Powerful “Being:” Peyote and Cultural Continuity among the HuicholsMichele M. Stephens, University of Oklahoma

Comment: Kevin Terraciano, UCLA

Friday, 9:30-11:30am, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom C

Chair: Alex Saragoza, University of California, Berkeley

The Pan American Union Visual Arts Section and the Campaign Against Social RealismClaire F. Fox, University of Iowa

Mexico's 1956 Student ProtestJaime Pensado, University of Notre Dame

Mexico City, Capital of the 20th Century Cultural Congresses: Soviet and U.S. interests in Latin America's Cultural Cold War

Patrick Iber, University of Chicago

Frank Tannenbaum, Mexico and the Cuban RevolutionElisa Servín, Dirección de Estúdios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e História, México

Comment: Eric Zolov, Franklin & Marshall College

Session 9: Peyote: Cultural Uses and Political Responses in Mexico, Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Joint with AHA 48)

Session 10: Culture and Society in Cold War Mexico (Joint with AHA 63)

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Friday, 9:30-11:30am, Hyatt, America’s Cup D

Chair: Marcela Echeverri, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

Royalism, Freedom, and Black Communities in Popayán, 1811-1820Marcela Echeverri, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

Independence and the Campaign against Vagrancy in the Province of Caracas, 1809Olga Gonzalez-Silen, Harvard University

Military Relations on Chile's Southern Frontier (Araucanía) in the Early Nineteenth Century

Pilar M. Herr, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg

Political Armies, Revolutionary Warfare: The Army of the Andes after Rio de la Plata State's Collapse, 1810-1824

Alejandro Rabinovich, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Comment: Allan Kuethe, Texas Tech University

Friday, 9:30-11:30am, Hyatt, America’s Cup C

Chair: Harvey Neptune, Temple University

“Calumny that would enslave us”: Spanish Caribbean Slavery and the Dominican Guerra de Restauración 

Anne Eller, New York University “Hayti – Home of the Black Race”: The Haytian Bureau of Emigration and the Knitting of a Transatlantic Network in the Early 19th Century 

Nora Kreuzenbeck, Erfurt University  Whither Loyalty?: The Strategies of Slaves and Morenos Libres during the British Siege and Occupation of Havana, 1762-1763 

Elena Andrea Schneider, Princeton University “Mr. Black Man, watch your step! Ethiopia's queens will reign again […]”: Amy Jacques Garvey's Black Atlantic 

Patricia Wiegmann, Erfurt University

Comment: The Audience

Session 11: Spanish American Armies, Independence, and Society: The Transition from Empire to Republics

Session 12: People on the Move: Migration, Emancipation and the Formation of A Black Atlantic

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Friday, 12-2pm, Hyatt, Randle Ballroom A

Presentation of CLAH Prizes and Awards

Remarks by Distinguished Service Award Recipient Friedrich Katz

Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Hyatt, Gregory B

Chair: Joshua M. Rosenthal, Western Connecticut State University

Thomas Holloway, UC Davis T.J. Desch-Obi, Baruch CollegeAna Lucia Araujo, Howard UniversityMaya Talmon Chvaicer, Independent Scholar Matthias Röhrig Assunção, University of Essex

Comment: The Audience

Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Marriott, Solana Room

Chair: Christine M. Skwiot, Georgia State University

Anti-Colonial Women's Activism in Belize, 1910s-1950sAnne S. Macpherson, The College at Brockport (SUNY)

Domesticating Women and Nationalism in Postwar Southeast AsiaVina A. Lanzona, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

"La Patria es Valor y Sacrificio," (The Fatherland is Courage and Sacrifice): Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Women and Resistance to U.S. Colonialism

Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

"Empire Is in Itself the Basic Violence": Ruth Reynolds, Radical Pacifism, and the Fight for Puerto Rican Independence, 1943-1960

Andrea Friedman, Washington University

Comment: Christine M. Skwiot, Georgia State University

CLAH Luncheon

Session 13: Teaching and Talking in Public about the African Historyof Capoeira in Brazil (Joint with AHA 78)

Session 14: Women, Nationalism and Resistance to Colonialism in the Caribbean and Pacific (Joint with AHA 80)

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Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom E

Chair: Suyapa Portillo, Pomona College

A Solas (Alone): Adolescence and Gender Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1942-1947

Ana Elizabeth Rosas, University of California at Irvine

War and Gender: A Woman's Place Is in the ?Lisa Ramos, Texas A&M University

Mujeres Trabajadoras: Gender, Migration, and Labor in Northern Mexico, 1940–52Veronica Castillo-Munoz, University of California, San Diego

Comment: Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon

Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Marriott, Torrey 3

Chair: Herbert S. Klein, Stanford University

Salamanca and the Formation of the Mexican Inquisition in the Sixteenth CenturyMartin Nesvig, University of Miami

Immigrant Spiritualities: Spanish Peasants and Religious Devotion in the Rio de la PlataAllyson M. Poska, University of Mary Washington

From “Indian” to “Spaniard”: Resolving Identities in Eighteenth-Century ChileArturo Grubessich, Universidad de Los Lagos

Racial Democracy Revisited: Afro-Brazilians and the Silencing of Race in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil

J. Celso Castro Alves, Amherst College

There's no Hiding an Elephant: Notes on the last Africans and Memories of Africa in the Paraiba Valley

Ana Lugao Rios, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Comment: The Audience

Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Hyatt, Edward A

Chair: Javier Villa-Flores, University of Illinois, Chicago

Session 15: Familia e Emigración: Rethinking Gender, Migration, and Social Networks in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1940–64 (Joint with AHA 89)

Session 16: Racial and Religious Discourses in Colonial and Post-Colonial Latin America (Joint with AHA 96)

A Tribute to Stuart B. Schwartz (Part 1)

Session 17: Space and Place in Spanish America: Experiences, Practices, and Narratives (Joint with AHA 102)

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The Lienzo of Analco: Conquest Pictorial, Cartographic History, and Frontier NarrativeYanna P. Yannakakis, Emory University

Space, Society, and the Colonial State: Cusco under Charles IIDavid T. Garrett, Reed College

Sacred Geographies in Mexico from Colony to RepublicMatthew D. O'Hara, University of California, Santa Cruz

Comment: Javier Villa-Flores, University of Illinois, Chicago

Friday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup B

Chair: Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

Alejandra M. Bronfman, University of British ColumbiaDeborah Thomas, University of PennsylvaniaKevin A. Yelvington, University of South Florida

Friday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, Cunningham B

Chair: Jordana Dym, Skidmore College

Timothy P. Hawkins, Indiana State UniversityStacey Schwartzkopf, Arizona State UniversitySylvia Sellers-Garcia, University of CincinnatiDouglass C. Sullivan-Gonzalez, University of MississippiJustin Wolfe, Tulane University

Friday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup B

Chair: Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University

Elaine K. Carey, St. John's UniversityGilbert M. Joseph, Yale UniversityPete Sigal, Duke UniversityStephanie J. Smith, Ohio State University

Comment: Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland

Caribbean Studies CommitteeWhy We Know What We Know About the Caribbean: Race, Culture, and the Roots of Disciplinary Knowlege

Central American Studies CommitteeIndependence in Central America: Trends and Transitions in Scholarship

Mexican Studies CommitteeMexican Necropolitics? Roundtable on Thinking, Writing and Teaching about Violence

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Friday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, Gibbons Room

Friday, 7:00-8:30pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup A

Chair: Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico

The Hitherto Distracted Province: The Cabanagem and the Political Crisis of the Brazilian Regency

Sarah Kernan, University of Florida at Gainesville

Aperfeiçoar ou Criar: Dilemmas of Modernization in Imperial BrazilTeresa Cribelli, Johns Hopkins University

Degenerates and Chimeras: The Discourse of Mestiçagem in the República VelhaJustin D. Barber, University of New Mexico

From Ganhadores to Ambulantes: Slave Legacies, Modernity, and Street Commerce in Rio de Janeiro, 1880-1920

Patricia Acerbi, University of Maryland

Friday, 7:00-8:30pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup D

Co-Chairs: R. Jovita Baber, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignKaren B. Graubart, University of Notre Dame

Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillJane E. Mangan, Davidson CollegeHal L. Langfur, University at Buffalo (SUNY)Felipe Fernández-Armesto, University of Notre DameJorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Robert DuPlessis, Swarthmore College

Friday, 7:00-8:30pm, Hyatt, Cunningham A

Chair: Lina M. Del Castillo, Iowa State University

The Americas Editorial Board

Brazilian Studies CommitteeNew Perspectives on Race, State and Modernity in Imperial and First Republic Brazil

Colonial Studies CommitteeRoundtable: Atlantic World, Entangled Empires and Hemispheric Histories:

A Critical Assessment of Our Current Historical Perspectives

Gran Colombia Studies CommitteeIndependence: A Bicentennial Retrospective

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Olga Gonzalez-Silen, Harvard UniversityMarixa A. Lasso, Case Western Reserve UniversityMarcela Echeverri, College of Staten Island, City University of New YorkErnesto B. Capello, Macalester CollegeLina M. Del Castillo, Iowa State University

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9

Saturday, 9-11am, Hyatt, Molly A

Chair: Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick

Embattled Identities: The Chilean Araucanian versus the Peruvian IncaJoanna Crow, University of Bristol

Claiming Atahualpa: The Nationalization of the Inca Past in Post-Colonial EcuadorNicola C. Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University

From Aymaras to Incas: The “Regeneration” of the Bolivian Nation in the Early Twentieth Century

E. Gabrielle Kuenzli, University of South Carolina

Comment: Charles F. Walker, University of California at Davis

Saturday, 9-11am, Mariott, Marina Ballroom, Salon F

Chair: Sueann Caulfield, University of Michigan

“Hijos y Ajenos: Filiation in Nineteenth-Century Chilean Legal and Social Practice”Nara Milanich, Barnard College

“Illegitimacy and Self-Government: Family, Poverty, and Moral Reform before West Indies Royal Commission, 1938-1940”

Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

“Paternity Suits, Child Support, and the Dynamics of Relationships between Fathers and Natural Children in Brazil before the Era of DNA Testing (1920s-1970s)”

Sueann Caulfield, University of Michigan

“When Technology, Law and Family Converge: Rethinking Questions Of Filiation, Gender and Generation in Connection with DNA Paternity Tests”

Claudia Fonseca, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Comment: William E. French, University of British Columbia

Session 18: Negotiating the Inca Heritage: Constructing Alternative Legacies for Community and Nation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Andes

(Joint with AHA 130)

Session 19: Fathers of Illegitimate Children in Public Policy and the Courts: Chile, Brazil, and the Anglophone Caribbean from the Late-Nineteenth

to the Early-Twenty-First Centuries (Joint with AHA 133)

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Saturday, 9-11am, Hyatt, America’s Cup B

Chair: Margaret Chowning, UC Berkeley  Deviant Spirits, the Unconscious, and Gender in Mexican Spiritism

Lia T. Schraeder , CSU Bakersfield  Sacramental Power and Sacramental Intimacy: Solicited Women and their Confessors in Colonial Mexico

Jessica L. Delgado, Smith College  Pious Accounts: Laywomen, Capellanías, and the Gendered Pursuit of Salvation in Guatemala City, 1750-1860

Brianna N. Leavitt-Alcantara, UC Berkeley  The Laywomen of the Vela Perpetua: Gender, Religion, and Political Culture in Mexico, 1750-1930

Margaret Chowning, UC Berkeley

Comment: Edward Wright-Rios, Vanderbilt University 

Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom C

Chair: Paul Gillingham, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

End of an era? The last months of the “last revolutionary president”Alan Knight, University of Oxford

The Politics of Frustration in Rural Mexico, 1938-1952Gladys I. McCormick, Syracuse University

“We Don't Have Arms, But We Do Have Balls”: Fraud, violence and agency in postrevolutionary elections

Paul Gillingham, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

A Second Time of Caudillos: Strongmen and state weakness in the post revolutionary period

Rogelio Hernández, El Colegio de México

Comment: Pablo Piccato, Columbia University

Session 20: Ethereal Bodies: Gender and Religion in Mexico and Guatemala

Session 21: Islands of Stateness? Authoritarianism and Resistance in Mexico, 1938–68 (Joint with 152)

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Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom G

Chair: Julie M. Greene, University of Maryland

Ángeles Ramos Baquero, Museo del Canal Interoceánico de PanamáAlfredo Castillero Calvo, Universidad de PanamáRanald Woodaman, Smithsonian Latino CenterAims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom I

Chair: Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico

Political Militancy as Ethnic Identity in Brazil, 1960-80Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University

A Brazilian Exiled in Angola: Maria do Carmo Brito, 1976-1977Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The International Dimension of Ação Libertadora NacionalKenneth P. Serbin, University of San Diego

Um Estágio na Fábrica: Understanding a Carioca Student’s Path to Revolution, 1974-70Natan Zeichner, New York University

Comment: Bryan McCann, Georgetown University

Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Marriott, San Diego Ballroom A

Chair: Robert L. Smale, University of Missouri, Columbia

The Chinchilla Incident: Wildlife Regulations in Early Twentieth-Century BoliviaRobert L. Smale, University of Missouri, Columbia

The Consequences of Suffrage for ArgentinaGregory S. Hammond, Colgate University

In Search of Tinterillos in EcuadorMarc Becker, Truman State University

Session 22: Global History in the Museum: Representing Panama’s Past in Panama and the United States (Joint with AHA 157)

Session 23: Brazilian Revolutionaries and Transoceanic Experiences (Joint with AHA 159)

Session 24: The Law and Its Uses? A View from South America (Joint with AHA 160)

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Workers and Labor Laws in Modern Chile (1931-1973)Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles

Comment: Carlos A. Aguirre, University of Oregon

Saturday 11:30am-1:30pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom D

Chair: Susan Schroeder, Tulane University

“So That the Indians Would Forget Their Superstitions:” The Desecration of a Sacred Site in Malinalco in 1635

Lisa Sousa, Occidental College

Tlaezzotia: The Persistence of Ritual Blood-Offerings in Post-Conquest MexicoLeon Garcia Garagarza, UCLA

Idolatry, Punitive Projects, and Incipient Modernity in New SpainDavid Tavárez, Vassar College

Comment: Kevin Terraciano, UCLA

Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom C

Chair: Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University

Crossing Empire: Inter-Colonial Elite Politics in Puerto Rico and the Philippines during U.S. Rule

Julian Go, Boston University

Migration, Protest, and Resistance: Transnational Sources of Class Formation on the Isthmus of Panama, 1904–25

Julie M. Greene, University of Maryland

Class and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century São PauloBarbara Weinstein, New York University

“We Only Want a Middle Class Society”: The Transnational Formation of the Middle Class in Bogotá, Colombia, 1959–64

Abel Ricardo Lopez, Western Washington University

Comment: Heidi Tinsman, University of California at Irvine

Session 25: Revisiting the "Spiritual Conquest": Religious Persecution and Native Resistance in Colonial Mexico (Joint with 165)

Session 26: Struggling with Class: Toward a Transnational Frame (Joint with AHA 188)

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Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Hyatt, Edward D

Chair: Eric Van Young, University of California San Diego

(Party) Discipline and Punishment: APRA in prison, 1932-1945Carlos A. Aguirre, University of Oregon

Degrees of Bondage: Children's Tutelary Servitude in Modern Latin AmericaNara Milanich, Barnard College

The Prison in Luanda, European Convict Labor, and Portuguese Efforts at "Effective Colonization" of the Angolan Colony

Timothy J. Coates, College of Charleston

Enlightening the Plantation System: Bureaucratic Proposals for Agricultural Modernisation, Diversification, and Free Labour in Puerto Rico, c.1846-1852

Jorge Chinea, Wayne State University

Magisterial Malcontents and Errant Envoys: Asian Connections to Portugal's Overseas Council, 1642-1833

Erik Lars Myrup, University of Kentucky

Comment: The Audience

Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom D

Chair: Alexander S. Dawson, Simon Fraser University

Each One Teach One: Education and Literacy in Mexico during World War IIMonica Rankin, Univ. of Texas, Dallas

Fortunate Sons of the Revolution: Miguel Alemán and Civilian Rule in Mexico, 1946-52Ryan Alexander, University of Arizona

The Tragedy of Success: Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) in highland ChiapasStephen E. Lewis, California State University, Chico

Rural Peace through American Agriculture? The Bracero Program and Mexican Emigration Policy in Comparative Perspective

Michael Snodgrass, Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis

Comment: Myrna I. Santiago, Saint Mary's College of California

Session 27: The Long History of Servitude, Labor Control and Imprisonment in the Ibero-American World (Joint with AHA 193)

A Tribute to Stuart B. Schwartz (Part 1)

Session 28: Moving Beyond 1910: Policy and Propaganda in a Truly Postrevolutionary Mexico (Joint with AHA 197)

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Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom H

Chair: Marie E. Francois, California State University, Channel Islands

Comparative Elegance: Three Aristocratic Families and Two Houses in Eighteenth Century Mexico

Edith B. Couturier, Independent Scholar

Laundering Identities in the Americas: The Production of Individuals and Class in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Marie E. Francois, California State University, Channel Islands

Domestic Masculinity: Home Design, Masculinity, Class, and Architecture in Porfirian Mexico, 1890-1911

Víctor M. Macias-Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

The Hafla and the Zajjal: Sociability, Masculinity, and Modernity among Arabic-speaking Immigrants in early Twentieth Century Argentina

Steven L. Hyland Jr., Ohio State University

Comment: Donna J. Guy, Ohio State University

Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup C

Chair: Cathy Marie Ouellette, Muhlenberg College

Beyond the Silent Ocean: Crafting Modernity in Twentieth-Century BrazilCristina M. Mehrtens, Univ. of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

The Debate over Street Vendors' Clothes: Baianas of Acarajé, Authenticity, Afro-Brazilian Culture and Tourism During the 1950s - 1960s Salvador, Bahia

Meredith Glueck, University of Texas

Marriage at the Heart of the Nation in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1891-1930Cathy Marie Ouellette, Muhlenberg College

Comment: The Audience

Session 29: Gender and Space in Mexico and Argentina 1700–1950: Identity, Sociability, and Modernity (Joint with 198)

Session 30: Race and Nation in Brazil

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee: Scheduled for Sunday, 11-1, Hyatt, Edward B

See page 22 of the program

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Saturday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, Cunningham A

Co-Chairs: Kimberly Gauderman, University of New MexicoRachel Sarah O'Toole, Univ. of California, Irvine

Chad T. Black, University of TennesseeJeremy Ravi Mumford, University of MississippiChristine Hunefeldt, University of California, San DiegoErick D. Langer, Georgetown University

Saturday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, Cunningham B

Chair: José Refúgio de la Torre Curiel, Universidad de Guadalajara

Mario Alberto Magana Mancillas, Universidad Autonoma de Baja CaliforniaJulia Sarreal, Harvard UniversityCarla Gerona, Georgia Institute of TechnologyHeidi V. Scott, Aberystwyth UniversitySean F. McEnroe, Reed CollegeSteven Hackel, University of California, RiversideJosé Refúgio de la Torre Curiel, Universidad de Guadalajara

Saturday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, Cunningham C

Co-Chairs: Joann C. Pavilack, University of MontanaAdriana M. Brodsky, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Mark A. Healey, University of California at BerkeleyPeter Klepeis, Colgate UniversityJohn Soluri, Carnegie Mellon UniversityKristin A. Wintersteen, Duke UniversityAndrew Gerhart, Stanford University

Saturday, 5-7pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup B

Andean Studies CommitteeRoundtable: The Future of the Andean Past

Borderlands/Frontiers CommitteeFrontier Societies and Borderlands as Contested Concepts: A Debate on the Understanding of Temporalities, Spaces, Peoples and Patterns of Interaction

Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies CommitteeEnvironmental History: The State of the Field and Future Prospects

HAHR Editorial Board

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Saturday, 7-9pm, Hyatt, Randle Ballroom B

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10

Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom A

Chair: Frank D. McCann, University of New Hampshire

Doctors, Nurses and Mothers: The Brazilian State and Nursing Education during WWIIMelissa E. Gormley, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Brazil's World War II Veterans and their Social Reintegration ExperiencesFrancisco César Alves Ferraz, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

An Alliance for Rubber: Legacies of the “Battle for Rubber” of World War IIXenia V. Wilkinson, Georgetown University

Drawing Brazilians and Other People: The Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Post World War II Comics

Uri Rosenheck, Emory University

Comment: Frank D. McCann, University of New Hampshire

Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Hyatt, Gregory A

Chair: Barbara A. Sommer, Gettysburg College

Black and Indigenous Histories of Postcolonial Brazil: the Bahia-Espírito Santo Borderlands in the Nineteenth Century

Yuko Miki, New York University

"Negro," "Indio," Neither or Both?: Negotiating Race and Ethnicity on a Twentieth-Century Agricultural Frontier

Mary Ann Mahony, Central Connecticut State University

Labor, Indigenous Peoples, and the Amazon Rubber Campaign During World War IISeth W. Garfield, University of Texas

Comment: Barbara Weinstein, New York University

CLAH Cocktail Party

Session 31: Across the Atlantic and into the Rain Forest: Brazil's Nurses, Tappers, and GI’s in World War II and Aftermath (Joint with AHA 211)

Session 32: Frontiers of Identity in Postcolonial Brazil (Joint with AHA 213)

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Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom G

Chair: Karin Wulf, College of William and Mary

Litigation Masters in the Colonial Andes: Procurators and Lawsuits in Lima and Potosí, 1550-1670

Renzo R. Honores, High Point University

Beneath the Words: Women, Lawsuits, and Agency in The Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire

Bianca Premo, Florida International University

Whose judgment? Local legal cultures, judicial process, and state building in early modern France

Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Amalia Kessler, Stanford University

Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Marriott, Solana Room

Chair: Gilbert M. Joseph, Yale University

Vicente Lombardo Toledano at the Crossroad of International Labor PoliticsDaniela Spenser, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

Railroaded: The Railway Strikes of 1959 and the Red Baiting of Demetrio VallejoRobert Alegre, University of New England     

"Terroristas" and Torch Carriers: Televising the Cold War in Mexico, 1968Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante, University of Arizona

Journeys to Self and Lessons of Other: Carlos Castaneda and the Depoliticization of Indigenous Identity During a Contested Cold War

Ageeth Sluis, Butler University

Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Marriott, Columbia 3

Chair: Myrna I. Santiago, Saint Mary's College of California

Session 33: An Archeology of Agency in the Civil Law Tradition: Early ModernSpain, France, and Colonial Spanish America (Joint with AHA 222)

Session 34: Cold War Mexico: Local Interpretations of a Global Narrative(Joint with AHA 224)

Session 35: Public Works, State Formation, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Joint with AHA 227)

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The lands with which we struggle: Land Reclamation and Revolution in the Lake Texcoco Basin, 1900-1950

Matthew Vitz, New York University

Dam(m/n)ing the Agrarian Reform: The Politics of Irrigation, Public Works and State Formation in La Laguna, México, 1936-1946

Mikael Dov Wolfe, Notre Dame University

Connecting is Civilizing: Road Construction, Modernity, and the State in Mexico, 1925-1960

Ben C. Fulwider, Georgetown University

Dammed and Flooded: The Papaloapan River Project and the Morality of Nativist Environmentalism in Oaxaca

Patrick H. Cosby, University of Florida

Comment: Chris Boyer, University of Illinois-Chicago

Sunday, 8:30-10:30, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom E

Chair: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology

Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Sovereign Debt Repayment in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont

Everyday Costs of Warmaking: The Juntas Patrioticas and the War with the United StatesRichard Salvucci, Trinity University

Creditors and the State: Social Origins of the Public Debt in Imperial BrazilWilliam Summerhill, UCLA

Comment: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology

Sunday, 8:30-10:30, Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom H

Chair: Sherry Johnson, Florida International University

Mapping the Masterless Caribbean: Maroons, Pirates, and Indians in the Seventeenth Century

Isaac Curtis, University of Pittsburgh

Cromwell's "Western Design:" Redefining Caribbean Empire and IdentityAmanda Joyce Snyder

Florida International University

Session 36: The Politics of Financing Postcolonial State Building in Latin American (Joint with AHA 229)

Session 37: Caribbean Empire and Identity before 1800 (Joint with AHA 237)

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The Upstart and the Empire: The West Indian Entrepreneur in the English Cultural Imagination, 1697-1815

Amie Filkow, University of California, San Diego

Comment: The Audience

Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Hyatt, America’s Cup B

Chair: Luis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida

The Mexican Revolution at the Movies: The “Real” Revolution on Film in theUnited States

Mark Wasserman, Rutgers University

The Public Revolution in Cuba: Myth and Memory in the Cuban RevolutionGuadalupe Garcia, Tulane University

Images of Revolution: Illustrating a Revisionist History of the Cuban RevolutionLuis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida

Comment: The Audience

Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Hyatt, America’s Cup C

Chair: Alcira Dueñas, Ohio State University

What Race War Looks Like: The Political Uses of Armed Insurgency and Blackness in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Jason Peter McGraw, Indiana University

Making Modernity at a Cuban Madhouse, 1828-1865Rachel Hynson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Andean Escribanos of El Cercado: The ‘Indian Republic’ Seeking Judicial Power in Mid-Colonial Lima

Alcira Dueñas, Ohio State University

Comment: The Audience

Sunday, 11am-1pm, Marriott, Solana Room

Chair: Cecilia Méndez, University of California at Santa Barbara

Session 38: Images of Revolution in Latin America: Mexico and Cuba

Session 39: Rebels, Madmen, and Notaries in the Late- and Post-Colonial Period

Session 40: New Perspectives on Peru's Shining Path: Past, Present, Future(Joint with AHA 247)

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Broken Paths: Elites, Ethnicity, and Modernization in Ayacucho, Peru, 1924-1969José Luis Igue, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Se perdió el respeto”: Agrarian Reform, Politics, and Morality in Ayacucho Communities, 1969-1983

Ponciano Del Pino H., Instituto de Estudios Peruanos

“Now Peru is Mine!”: The Revolutionary Life of Ayacucho's Manuel Llamocca Mitma Jaymie Patricia Heilman, Dalhousie University

Thank God for the Violence: Church-Peasant Relations on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency, 1940-1980

Miguel La Serna, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Comment: Cecilia Méndez, University of California at Santa Barbara

Sunday, 11am-1pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H

Chair: Lyman L. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Rise and Fall—and Rise and Fall Again—of Port Royal, JamaicaMatthew B. Mulcahy, Loyola College of Maryland

The Twin Disasters in Santiago de Cuba (1766) and San Cristobal (1880), Cuba: Comparing and Contrasting Bourbon Reform to Laissez-Faire Disaster Mitigation

Sherry Johnson, Florida International University

Bitter Wine: The Mendoza Earthquake of 1861 and the Formation of the Argentine StateQuinn P. Dauer, Florida International University

Comment: Lyman L. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Sunday, 11am-1pm, Hyatt, Edward B

Chair: Marc Becker, Truman State University

Collaborative Web-Based Curricular Units and Latin American HistorySeth Meisel, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Promising Cocaine, Delivering Sugar: Commodity History and Thematic Approaches to Latin American History

Joshua M. Rosenthal, Western Connecticut State University

Teaching the Modern Latin American Survey: Lessons from the Liberal Arts InstitutionSharon Bailey Glasco, Linfield College

Session 41: Disasters as Catalysts and Critical Junctures: Case Studies from Jamaica (1692–1722), Cuba (1766 & 1880) and Argentina (1861) (Joint with AHA 249)

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee New Approaches, New Texts: The Latin American History Surveys

A Roundtable Discussion (Joint with AHA 251)

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Documenting Latin America: Bringing Scholarship and Sources on Race, Gender, and Politics into Survey Courses

Erin E. O'Connor, Bridgewater State College

Latin America and Its People: Everyday Life as a Text to Study Latin American HistoryMark Wasserman, Rutgers University

“Integrating the Afro Latin American Experience Before 1800 through Original Sources”Leo Garofalo, Connecticut College

Comment: The Audience

Sunday, 11am-1pm, Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom F

Chair: Jerry W. Cooney, University of Louisville

“Lo empezó a conocer en su tierra.” Africans and their descendants in the marriage files of Montevideo, 1768-1804

Alex Borucki, Emory University

Corridors of Trade and Halls of Justice: Law, Coercion and Loyalty in the Río de la Plata Borderlands

Joseph P. Younger, Princeton University

Divine Republic: Faith, Nation, and War in Nineteenth-Century ParaguayMichael Huner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Trade, Credit, and Royal Revenues: The Case of Francisco Ximenez de Mesa, Merchant and Director of the Aduana of Buenos Aires

Viviana L. Grieco, University of Missouri at Kansas City

Comment: Mark D. Szuchman, Florida International University

Sunday, 11am-1pm, Marriott, Columbia 3

Chair: Mary Ann Mahony, Central Connecticut State University

Anne G. Hanley, Northern Illinois UniversityRoger Kittleson, Williams CollegeMaureen O'Dougherty, University of MinnesotaBert J. Barickman, University of ArizonaGail D. Triner, Rutgers University

Session 42: A Region in the Atlantic: The Rio De La Plata in the Middle Period (Joint with AHA 260)

Session 43: Living with Uncertainty: Daily Life in Brazil in the Context of the Economic Crisis of the 1980s and Early 1990s (Joint with AHA 261)

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Sunday, 11am-1pm, Marriott, Torrey 3

Chair: Erika Lee, University of Minnesota

Stuck at the Border: The Mexican Revolution, Chinese Refugees, and the Exclusion Era United States

Julian Lim, Cornell University

"El Destierro de los Chinos": Popular Perspectives of Chinese-Mexican Interracial Marriage as Reflected in Poetry, Cartoon, Comedy, and Corridos

Robert Chao Romero, UCLA

Becoming Mexican Across the Pacific: The Expulsion of Mexican Chinese Families from Mexico to China and Diasporic Imaginings of a Mexican Homeland, 1930s–60s

Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho, University of Texas at El Paso

Comment: Grace Delgado, Pennsylvania State University

Sunday, 11am-1pm, Hyatt, Edward C

Chair: Marie E. Francois, California State University, Channel Islands

“Corporatism and Social Conflict: Mexico City's Market Vendors' Quest for Progress, 1946-1958”

Ingrid Bleynat, Harvard University

“The Weaver, the Baker, and the Candelabra Maker: Profit, Purity and Visibility in late colonial Mexico City, 1765-1810”

Anita Bravo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

“Authorities, Ambulantes, and Consumers in Puebla, Mexico, 1930 to 1970”Sandra Mendiola, University of Alabama

“Gachupines and Tlalchicholes: Bread, Unions, and the Emergence of the Formal Market in Mexico City, 1915-1940”Robert G. Weis

University of Northern Colorado

Comment: Marie E. Francois, California State University, Channel Islands

Session 44: Mexico’s Chinese: Disputed Identities and Claims of Belonging(Joint with AHA 263)

Session 45: Goods and “Evils”: The Varied Uses of Markets in Mexico, 1765–1960 (Joint with AHA 266)

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Sunday, 11am-1pm, Hyatt, America’s Cup B

Chair: Justin Wolfe, Tulane University

‘The Government is the Delinquent:’ Terror and Counterinsurgency in Guerrero, Mexico, 1960-1980”

Alex Aviña, University of Southern California The Godmother of Miami Griselda Blanco: A Body of Terror

Elaine Carey, St. John's University

Navigating the Meanings of Terror in Modern BrazilFelipe Cruz, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Robinson A. Herrera, Florida State University

Sunday, 11-1, Hyatt, America’s Cup C

Chair: Douglas W. Richmond, University of Texas at Arlington 

From Allies to Litigants: Natives and Labor in TlaxcalaAlejandra Jaramillo, University of Houston 

Place-Names and Power: José de Escandón, Indians and the Naming of Nuevo Santander

Gene Rhea Tucker, University of Texas at Arlington 

Comment: Kimberly Henke Breuer, University of Texas at Arlington 

Session 47: Bridging Cultural Oceans to Create a New Continental Society: Indian and Spanish Cultural Exchange in Colonial Mexico

Session 46: A Continent of Monsters: Historicizing Terror in Modern Latin America