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CLAH Events and AHA Latin America Sessions CLAH Events and AHA Latin America Sessions CLAH Information Table Hours: Sheraton New York, 5th Floor Elevator Lobby Friday, Jan. 2, 12:30-6:30pm Saturday, Jan. 3, 8:00-11:00am Sunday, Jan. 4, 9:00-11:00am FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 Session 1: A New History of Labor?: Debates, Strategies and Exchanges in Latin America Fri., 1:00-3:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2 Chair: Claudio H. M. Batalha, State University of Campinas, Brazil Neighborhood Associations and Citizenship: New Challenges for Labor History in Latin America Adriano Luiz Duarte, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Labor Organization and Protest: Challenges for Labor History in Latin America Claudio H. M. Batalha, State University of Campinas, Brazil Ways of Thinking about Labor History in Latin America: Debates and Frontiers between Gender and Work Mirta Zaida Lobato, Universidad de Buenos Aires Free Time Labor Cultures in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay in the First Half of the 20th Century: Methodological Challenges and Historiographical Debates Rodolfo Porrini, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Comment: Barbara Weinstein, New York University Session 2: Transnational Vice and Contraband in North America Fri., 1:00-3:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1 Chair: Elaine Carey, St. John’s University Transnational Chinese Immigrant Smuggling via Mexico and Cuba, 1882-1916 Robert Chao Romero, University of California Los Angeles Portes Gil’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign in Ciudad Juarez, 1929-1934 Andrae M. Marak, California University of Pennsylvania Transitioning toward Drug Criminalization in Mexico: Inflation, Violence, and Protection in Baja California, 1900-1950 Eric Schantz, California State University – Los Angeles 1 The Extradition of Ignacia Jasso la viuda de González Elaine Carey, St. John’s University Comment: Paul Gootenberg, State University of New York at Stony Brook Session 3: Cuba, Independence, Revolution, and the Effects of the Struggle for Change, 1898-1962 Fri., 1:00-3:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3 Chair: William Van Norman, James Madison University Clara Barton’s 1898 Battles in Cuba Against Hunger, Disease, War Wounds, Gender Constraints, and the US Army Command Staff Christine Ardalan, Florida International University The Church in Cuba: 1952-1958, Ambivalence between Regime and Revolution Joseph W. Holbrook, Florida International University Racing the Revolution: The Role of Racial Politics in the Radicalization of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961 Devyn Spence Benson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Joining the Movement”: Race, Republicanism, Revolution, and Black Club Activism Melina Pappademos, University of Connecticut Comment: William Van Norman, James Madison University Session 4: Racial Perception and Representative Government: Politics and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Joint with AHA 21) Fri., 1:00-3:00pm, Hilton New York, Nassau Suite B Chair: Roderick Barman, University of British Columbia From the Chamber to the Sertão: Racial Ideology and Practice in the Life of Teófilo Benedito Otoni Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico Caught in the Middle: Race and Republicanism in the Writings of Apulco de Castro, Journalist and ‘Man of Color,’ 1880-1883 Thomas H. Holloway, University of California at Davis Racial Perceptions in the Era of Brazilian Abolitionism (1870-1888) Jeffrey Needell, University of Florida Comment: Hendrik Kraay, University of Calgary 2 3 2 Session 5: Between National Modernism and Internal Colonialism: Indigenous Intellectuals and Alternative Public Spheres in Latin America, 1920-1973 (Joint with AHA 18) Fri., 1:00-3:00pm, Sheraton New York, New York Ballroom East Chair: Steve J. Stern, University of Wisconsin, Madison Qullasuyu Nationalism, Alternative Modernity, and Multi-focal Public Audiences: Bolivia’s AMP Indigenous Intellectuals Gregorio Titiriku and Rosa Ramos, 1921-1964 Waskar T. Ari, University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Looking to the Government”: Politics, Citizenship, and Indigeneity in the Peasant Struggle in Ayacucho, Peru, 1940-1960 Ponciano del Pino Huamán, University of Wisconsin, Madison Rethinking the Decade of Agrarian Reform in Chile: Community Mobilization, Territorial Restitution, and the Transformation of the Mapuche Public Sphere, 1960-1973 Florencia E. Mallon, University of Wisconsin, Madison Comment: Brooke Larson, State University of New York at Stony Brook Session 6: Religion, Loyalty and Nature in the Construction of Identity and Belonging in Early Modern Spanish America (Joint with AHA 24) Fri., 1:00-3:00pm, Sheraton New York, Central Park West Chair: Jorge Cañizares Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin Brave New Spain: ‘Entangled’ Creole and Colonial Histories in an Irishman’s Plot for Mexican Independence, 1642 Ryan Crewe, Yale University Rightful Inheritance: Defining “Nativeness” and Belonging in New Spain, 1590-1620 Heather Peterson, University of Texas at Austin “Moro de Linaje y Nación”: Religious Identity and Lineage in an Encomienda Dispute in Sixteenth-Century New Granada Karoline Cook, Princeton University Spanish Caribbean Frontiers and Trans-Atlantic Alliances Kristen Block, Florida Atlantic University Comment: Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto 3 4 3 Session 7: Images of the Indian in Spanish America (Joint with AHA 13) Fri., 1:00-3:00pm, Sheraton New York, Empire Ballroom West Chair: Joanna Crow, University of Bristol “The Rome of the Incas”: Elite Nationalism, Amerindian History, and the Classical World in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick Creating the “Model Indian”: Representations of Amazonian and Highland Indians in Ecuadorian Nationalist Discourse, 1900-1950 Nicola C. Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University The Indigenous in the Modern Nicola Miller, University College London Comment: Marc Becker, Truman State University Session 8: Colombia: Re-Making a Nation in Spite of Itself: Development and Reform during the Frente Nacional Fri., 3:30-5:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1 Chair: Jane Rausch, University of Massachusetts at Amherst From DIA to ICA: National Reform and International Philanthropy in Colombia, 1953-1962 Rebecca Tally, Cornell University The Limits of Rehabilitation: Politics, Clientelism, and Violence in Colombia, 1958-1960 Robert Karl, Harvard University The Political Interests Behind Reformism: Officers, Diplomats, Entrepreneurs, and Workers in Colombia, 1958-1961 Susana Romero-Sánchez, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá Culture in the Service of Country: Modernization and the Arts during the Frente Nacional in Colombia Mary Roldán, Cornell University Comment: Jane Rausch, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 4 5 4 Session 9: Indigenous Intellectuals Fri., 3:30-5:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2 Chair: Cecilia Méndez, University of California, Santa Barbara Indigenous Intellectuals in Colonial Andean Cities Gabriela Ramos, University of Cambridge Indigenous Interpreters: Intellectuals and Cultural Creators in Colonial Oaxaca Yanna Yannakakis, Montana State University Bordering on Legal: Self-Representation and Peyote Cults in the US and Mexico During the Early Twentieth Century Alexander Dawson, Simon Fraser University A Sign of New Times: Indigenous Feminist Intellectuals in Peru Patricia Oliart, Newcastle University Comment: Juan Carlos Estenssoro, Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3 Session 10: Distilling the (Historical) Influence of Alcohol Fri., 3:30-5:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3 Chair: David Carey, Jr., University of Southern Maine Costumbre, Criminalization, and Control: Ethnohistoric Considerations in the Study of Aguardiente in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala Stacey Schwartzkopf, Arizona State University Alcohol and Women in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala: Economic Importance and Political Implications René Reeves, Fitchburg State College “Rough and Thorny Terrain”: Moonshine, State Power, and Subaltern Strategies in Guatemala 1898-1944 David Carey, Jr., University of Southern Maine Urban Alcohol Sales and Consumption, Mid-1700s, Antigua, Guatemala Alvis Dunn, Guilford College Comment: Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas at Austin 5 6 5 Session 11: International Histories of the Country of the Future: Brazil and the Twentieth-Century World (Joint with AHA 38) Fri., 3:30-5:30pm, Sheraton New York, Central Park West Chair: Victoria Langland, University of California, Davis Les Rois du Football: Forging Brazilian Nationalism on European Playing Fields Gregg P. Bocketti, Transylvania University A Tale of Two Cities: Transatlantic Radicalism and the British Maritime Roots of Brazil’s Revolt of the Lash Zachary R. Morgan, Boston College Empire by Emulation: Local Business Elites, U.S. Consumer Culture, and Brazil’s Short American Century James P. Woodard, Montclair State University Comment: Kirsten Schultz, Cooper Union CLAH General Committee Meeting Fri., 6:00-8:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 6 SATURDAY, JANUARY 3 Session 12: Narratives of Nation, Family, Privilege and Society in Nueva Granada Sat., 9:30-11:30am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1 Chair: Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick Civil Wars: Sovereignty in Colombia and the United States in the Mid-1800s Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Writing the Nation: Colombian Student Writing Samples, 1820-1850 Meri Clark, Western New England College Familial Appeals for Clemency after the Rebellion of 1854 Joshua Rosenthal, Western Connecticut State University Salty Prostitutes or Angry Men? Accusations of Immoral Conduct Within the Salt Mines of Zipaquirá, New Granada (Colombia), 1856 Lina M. Del Castillo,
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