LAHW Schedule 2015-2016
LAHW Schedule 2015-2016
Fall 2015
Oct. 8:
“From Cochineal to Coffee: The Making of a New Rural Society in Miahuatlán, Oaxaca, 1780-1880.”
Chris Gatto
PhD Student, History, University of Chicago
Commentator: Keegan Boyar
Oct 22:
“Urbanization throughcoloniasproletariasin Mid-century Mexico City: Colonia Gabriel Ramos Millán.”
Emilio de Antuñano
PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago
Commentator: Chris Gatto
Nov. 19:
“Global History of Modern Latin America from the Perspective of Musical Practices and Networks.”
Pablo Palomino
CLAS Postdoctoral Lecturer, University of Chicago
Commentator:Emilio de Antuñano
Dec. 3:
“Revolution Retail: U.S. Arms Markets and the Independence of Haiti and Spanish America.”
Brian DeLay
Associate Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley
Commentator: Daniel Webb
Winter 2016
January 14:
“Multicultural Inclusion through Afro-Creole Indigeneity: State Ritual and Afro-Creole Performative Culture in Post-Colonial Guyana, 1964–1970s.”
Ramaesh J. Bhagirat
Fellow and Visiting Instructor, History, Kenyon College
Commentator: KeilaGrinberg
January 28:
“Illegal Enslavement and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire”
KeilaGrinberg
Tinker Visiting Professor, CLAS/Associate Professor, History, UNIRIO
Commentator: Erin McCullugh
February 11:
“Territory, Indianidad, and the State in the Papaloapan, Mexico”
Diana Schwartz
PhD candidate, History, University of Chicago
Commentator: Chris Dunlap
February 25:
“ABACC and the Evolution of Nuclear Verification between Argentina and Brazil, 1978–1992”
Chris Dunlap
PhD candidate, History, University of Chicago
Commentator: Diana Schwartz
March 3:
“Theaters and the Creation of an Urban Public in São Paulo, Brazil”
Aiala Levy
PhD candidate, History, University of Chicago
Commentator: Pablo Palomino
March 10:
“U.S. Imperialism and Mexican Drug Policy, 1912–1927: A Reassessment”
Isaac Campos
Associate Professor, History, University of Cincinnati/ Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Commentator: Mariana Flores
Spring 2016
April 7:
“Journalism, Satire and Censorship in Mexico, c.1945-c.1965.”
Paul Gillingham
Associate Professor, History, Northwestern University
Commentator: Christian Rocha
April 14:
“Empire, Language Policy, and the Early Black Atlantic: The Black Tongues of Seventeenth-Century New Granada and Peru.”
Larissa Brewer-García
Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Commentator: Tessa Murphy
April 21:
“The Revolution of Ayutla and the Scramble for Customhouses: Caudillos, Maritime Traffic, and Pacific Markets in Mid-Century Mexico, 1853–1855.”
Marcel Anduiza
PhD candidate, History, University of Chicago
Commentator: Keegan Boyar
May 5:
“Heavy Shadows: The Americas and the World after 1492.”
Jeremy Adelman
Professor, History/Director, Global History Lab, Princeton University
Commentator: Valeria LópezFadul
May 12:
“Petitioning Redevelopment: The JFMM and Tijuana’s Civil Society, 1968–1982.”
Christian Rocha
PhD student, History, University of Chicago
Commentator: Marcel Anduiza
May 19:
“The Cradle of Words: Languages, Knowledge-Gathering, and Imperial Governance in the Early Modern Hispanic World.”
Valeria LópezFadul
Postdoctoral Scholar, History, University of Chicago
Commentator: Larissa Brewer-García
June 2:
“Market Openings and the Geopolitical Crisis of Slavery in the Americas: A World Systems View, 1842–1860.”
Tâmis Parron
Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Commentator: Felipe Azevedo de Souza