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
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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
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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
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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
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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, Iowa State University
Comment: James Sanders, Utah State University
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Session 13: Suffragettes, Mujeres Nuevas, and Beauty Contests: Political Women in Argentina, Peru, and Jamaica in the Early Twentieth-Century
Sat., 9:30-11:30am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chair: Mark Healey, University of California, Berkeley
Electing “Miss Sefaradí”: Sephardic Jewish Women, Zionism, and Ethnic and National Identities in Argentina, 1935-1960 Adriana Brodsky, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Mujeres Nuevas in Peru’s New Politics: Magda Portal Theorizes Women’s Political Participation in 1930’s Peru Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, Roanoke College
“We Want a Mrs. Pankhurst:” World War I and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Jamaica Reena N. Goldtree, Duke University
Comment: José Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University
Session 14: (Re)inventing Cuba: The Intersection of Race and Gender during the Twilight of the Colony and Advent of the Republic, 1870-1940
Sat., 9:30-11:30am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3
Chair: Lillian Guerra, Yale University
The Racial Politics of Seduction Narratives in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Cuba Jennifer Lambe, Yale University
The Politics of Respect: Gender, Race, and Religion in San Isidro (1890-1910) Mayra E. Beers, Florida International University
Black and Bronce: Nationhood, Manhood, and Race in Cuban Memory of Antonio Maceo, 1896-1936 Robert C. Nathan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
From the Battlefield to the Boxing Ring: Kid Chocolate and the Emergence of Athletics as a Site for Afro-Cuban Male Heroism, 1928-40 Enver M. Casimir, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Comment: Lillian Guerra, Yale University
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Session 15: Situating Brazil in the Atlantic World: Colonial, Imperial, National, and Transnational Perspectives (Joint with AHA 64)
Sat., 9:30-11:30am, Hilton New York, Murray Hill Suite A
Chair: Barbara Sommer, Gettysburg College
Alliances, Mestiçagem, and Slavery: Interethnic Relations in the Lusophone Atlantic, and Beyond John M. Monteiro, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Popular Ideas Across the Atlantic Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
Ideas and Places in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic: John Locke and Luso-Brazilian Political Culture Kirsten Schultz, Cooper Union
Adam Smith in Bahia (Brazil), 1790-1810 Richard Graham, University of Texas at Austin, Emeritus
Comment: Hal Langfur, SUNY-Buffalo
Session 16: Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Routes on the Colonial Periphery (Joint with AHA 74)
Sat., 9:30-11:30am, Sheraton New York, Riverside Ballroom
Chair: Bruce Castleman, San Diego State University, retired
Musical Chairs? Native Absenteeism in the Colonial Amazon Heather Flynn Roller, Stanford University
The Evolution of Panama’s Camino Real: A Geographic Necessity Ignacio Gallup-Díaz, Bryn Mawr College
Gone Platinum: Contraband and Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Colombia Kris Lane, College of William & Mary
Correo Clandestino: Breaking the Law along the Guatemalan Postal Routes Sylvia Sellers-García, University of California, Berkeley
Comment: Jordana Dym, Skidmore College
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CLAH Luncheon
Sat., 12:00-2:00pm, Yale Club of New York 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, Grand Ballroom, 20th Floor
Presentation of CLAH Prizes and Awards
Remarks by Distinguished Service Award Recipient Asunción Lavrin
Session 17: Colonial Caciques as Native Leaders and Go-Betweens in Mesoamerica and the Andes
Sat., 2:30-4:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: Caterina Pizzigoni, Columbia University
The Franciscan Assault on Native Polygyny Early Colonial Mexico León García, University of California at Los Angeles
Inca in Peru, Indian in Spain: Indian Travelers to the Spanish Court, 1532-1700 José Carlos de la Puente, Texas Christian University
Caciques in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of the Toluca Valley, Central Mexico Caterina Pizzigoni, Columbia University
Reclaiming Lordships: Caciques, Spanish Courts, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Eighteenth Century Mexico Peter B. Villella, University of California at Los Angeles
Caciques as Legal Benefactors: Cacical Legal Offensive in the Andes, 1552-1572 Renzo Honores, Western Washington University
Comment: Yanna Yannakakis, Montana State University
Session 18: Immigrants, Identity, and Popular Culture in Buenos Aires
Sat., 2:30-4:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chair: Mollie Lewis, University of South Alabama
“Raza Rioplatense:” Argentina and Uruguay, Race, and International Soccer Competitions, 1924-1930 Jeffrey Richey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Consuming Argentina: Jewish and Middle Class Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires Mollie Lewis, University of South Alabama
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Ethnic Play: Representing Europeans Immigrants and Afro-Argentines on the Stages of Buenos Aires, 1910-1920 Kristen McCleary, James Madison University
“On the Trail of Buenos Aires” Atlanta Soccer Club: Jewish Argentine Popular Culture Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University
Comment: Marcelo Borges, Dickinson College
Session 19: Mexico in the Cold War (Joint with AHA 86)
Sat., 2:30-4:30pm, Hilton New York, Gibson Suite
Chair: Gilbert Joseph, Yale University
Cardenismo and the Mexican Left in the 1950s and Early 1960s Elisa Servin, Dirección de Estudios Históricos-INAH, Mexico City
Mexico’s Participation in the 1966 Tricontinental Conference: Crosswords of a New Left Eric Zolov, Franklin & Marshall College
“The way to make a revolution will not be taught by Cuba”: The Making of a Poor Peoples Revolution in Guerrero, Mexico, 1967-1974 Alexander Avina, University of Southern California
Revisiting the Long 1968 in Mexico: Reviewing the Literature and Setting an Agenda for Future Research Barry Carr, La Trobe University
Comment: Seth Fein, Yale University
HAHR Board Meeting
Sat., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 6
Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting Roundtable Discussion: Underappreciated Books on the History of Brazil
Sat., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 4
Chair: Todd A. Diacon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Alida Metcalf, Trinity University Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico Zachary Morgan, Boston College Sarah Sarzynski, Mount Holyoke College
Comment: Audience
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Gran-Colombia Studies Committee Meeting Reclaiming Gran Colombia Studies: How We Can Integrate the Study of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Panama?
Sat., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3
Chair, Nicola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University
Pamela S. Murray, University of Alabama at Birmingham Marcela Echeverri, College of Staten Island (CUNY) Reuben Zahler, University of Oregon Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Erin O’Connor, Bridgewater State College Thomas L. Pearcy, Slippery Rock University Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick (UK)
Comment: Audience
Colonial Studies Committee Meeting New Work in Indigenous History
Sat., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chairs: Catherine Komisaruk, University of Iowa R. Jovita Baber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marketeers, Healers, and Farmers: Indigenous History of the Colonial Andes Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College
Finding ‘the Greek of the Land’: Indian Speech and Jesuit Translation Projects in Colonial Brazil and Amazonia M. Kittiya Lee, California State University, Los Angeles and Ohio State University
Everyday Life in the Nahua Communities of Toluca Valley, 18th Century Caterina Pizzigoni, Columbia University
Making Mexica Men: A History of Early Nahua Masculinity Pete Sigal, Duke University
Comment: Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Andean Studies Committee Meeting Roundtable Discussion: The Andes Across Oceans: The Impact of Transatlantic and Transnational Currents in Andean History
Sat., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: Jane Mangan, Davidson College
Karen Graubart, Notre Dame University Nancy van Deusen, Queen’s University, Canada Chad Black, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Monica Ricketts, Long Island University Mark Carey, Washington and Lee University
Comment: Audience
Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting Making the Most of Media in Teaching Latin America
Sat., 7:00-8:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3
Chair: Erin O’Connor, Bridgewater State College
Teaching with the Sources: Presenting a New Interactive Database in the History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean Julia Rodríguez, University of New Hampshire
Teaching Caribbean History Using GIS Laurence Brown, The University of Manchester
Just Use the Web?!?: Observations on Students’ (Un)Critical Readings of Internet Sources Kristina A. Boylan, SUNY Institute of Technology
Increasing Student Commitment by Making a Print-On-Demand Book as a Class Project Marc Becker, Truman State University
Mesolore: Using a CD-Rom-Internet Hybrid to Make the History of Mesoamerica Come to Life Elizabeth Bakewell, Brown University
Comment: Kirk Shaffer, Penn State University, Berks College
Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: Cultural History Of Modern Argentina: Reports from Works in Progress
Sat., 7:00-8:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: Oscar Chamosa, University of Georgia, Athens
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Borderlands Studies Committee Meeting Assessing the Sacred in the Colonial Borderlands: Jesuit and Indigenous Faith at the Margins of the Spanish Empire
Sat., 7:00-8:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chair: Susan Deeds, Northern Arizona University
Local Religion and Rebellion: The Emergence of Guaraní-Christian Faith in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Missions of Río de la Plata Kristin Huffine, Northern Illinois University
Moving with Mary: Jesuits and Catholic Refugees on the Frontiers of Peru and Canada, 1650-1750 Karin Vélez, Northeastern University
La Florida in Francisco de Florencia’s Patriotic Vision of New Spain Jason Dyck, University of Toronto
Spiritual Geographies and Imperial Borderlands in Spanish America Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Commentators: Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto Susan Deeds, Northern Arizona University
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4
Session 20: Roundtable: Paths and Problems in the Study of Youth, Culture, and Politics in Latin America, 1950s-1970s
Sun., 9:00-11:00am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chair: Eric Zolov, Franklin & Marshall College
Valeria Manzano, Indiana University at Bloomington Eric Zolov, Franklin & Marshall College Francisco Barbosa, University of Colorado - Boulder Patrick Barr-Melej, Ohio University
Comment: Audience
Session 21: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century: New Perspectives
Sun., 9:00-11:00am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: Friedrich E. Schuler, Portland State University
Manuel Márquez Sterling and the Mexican Revolution, 1912-1934 Dalia Antonia Muller, Loyola Marymount University
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Not Just a Victim: Discovering Mexico’s Aggressive Streak in Foreign Relations Friedrich E. Schuler, Portland State University
The Spanish Civil War and Mexican Relations with Latin America Amelia M. Kiddle, University of Arizona
“Providential” Partners: Mexican Diplomacy in Canada and Québécois Nationalists during the Second World War Maurice Demers, York University
Comment: Jürgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Session 22: Family Life in Urban Mexico: Women and Children, Problems, and Strategies, 19th - 20th Century
Sun., 9:00-11:00am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3
Chair: Tamara Spike, North Georgia College and State University
“Educar es Redimir”: Rehabilitating Child Criminals in Post-Revolutionary Mexico City Jonathan Weber, Florida State University
Persisting Households and Family Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Guadalajara Monica L. Hardin, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Comment: Barry Robinson, Samford University
Session 23: Connecting Religiosity and Sexuality in Colonial Mexico: Tension, Ambiguity, and Convergence in Archival Texts (Joint with AHA 120)
Sun., 9:00-11:00am, Sheraton New York, Empire Ballroom East
Chair: Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of Chicago
Melancholy, Demonism, Sex, and Doubt in Colonial Mexico Jacqueline Holler, University of Northern British Columbia
Eroticized Devotion, Feigned Religiosity, and “Unnatural” Sexuality Vis-á-Vis the Mexican Inquisition Zeb Tortorici, University of California at Los Angeles
Stamps, Drawings, and Other “Obscene” Materials: Erotica and the Mexican Inquisition during the Eighteenth Century Lee M. Penyak, University of Scranton
Comment: Pete Sigal, Duke University
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Session 24: Underworlds of Porfirian Mexico: Regulating Public Space in Panteones, Pulquerías, and Poor Colonias
Sun. 11:30-1:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chair: William French, University of British Columbia
“A Savage and Refined Cruelty,” Sexual Vagabondage, Domestic Violence, and Colonial Race Thinking in the Masculine Public Sphere of Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico City James A. Garza, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Order and Progress of the Dead: Mexico City’s Panteón de Dolores, 1879-1910 Amanda Lopez, University of Arizona
Porfirian Progress in Mexico City’s Pulquerías, 1890-1910 Áurea Toxqui, Bradley University
Comment: William French, University of British Columbia
Session 25: Revolutionary Lives: Biography and Representations of Militant Activists during and after the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964-1985)
Sun., 11:30-1:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: James Green, Brown University
Representing the Vanguard: The Evolution of Working-Class Imagery in the Liga Operária/Convêrgencia Socialista (1974-1980) Natan Zeichner, New York University
Gendered Revolutions: Representations of Male and Female Students in 1968 Brazil Victoria Langland, University of California, Davis
From Revolutionary to Ruler: The Life Story of Paulo de Tarso Vannucchi in Contemporary Brazil Kenneth Serbin, University of San Diego
The Man Behind the ‘Viado Verde’ [Green Faggot]: Herbert Daniel and the Politics of Revolution James Green, Brown University
Comment: Bryan Pitts, Duke University
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Session 26: Pacific Colonial Links: Migration and Trade between New Spain and the Philippine Islands in the XVI and XVII Century (Joint with AHA 132)
Sun., 11:30-1:30pm, Hilton New York, Concourse B
Chair: Katharine S. Bjork, Hamline University
The Immigration of “Indios Chinos” (Orientals) to New Spain, 1565-1700 Dr. Deborah Oropeza, Morelos State University, Cuernavaca
European Migration to the Philippines in the XVII Century: A Demographic Evaluation of a Migratory Flow Agnieska Dilawerska de Lagarde, Morelos State University, Cuernavaca
The San Juan de Santa Cruz Family Business Empire and the Asian Frontier in 18th Century New Spain M. H. Catherine Tracy Goode, University of South-Sewanee
Comment: Murdo MacLeod, University of Florida
Session 27: Blood as Metaphor and Substance in the Transatlantic World (Joint with AHA 144)
Sun., 11:30-1:30pm, Hilton New York, Concourse E
Chair: Donald J. Cosentino, University of California at Los Angeles
Blood, Race, and Nativeness: Conjuring Identities in Colonial Eastern Cuba María Elena Díaz, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Blood of Mothers: Women, Money, and Markets in Black Atlantic Perspective Andrew Apter, University of California at Los Angeles
Abandoned Fetishes, Spectral Terrors, and the Historical Imagination in Cuba Kenneth Routon, Wesleyan University
Swallow the Leader: Cannibalism, Sorcery, and the Other on Hispaniola Lauren Derby, University of California at Los Angeles
Comment: Donald J. Cosentino, University of California at Los Angeles
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Session 28: The Public Sphere in 20th Century Latin American Politics (Joint with AHA 145)
Sun., 11:30-1:30pm, Sheraton New York, Central Park West
Chair: Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Seeing-In-Place: Visual Culture, Urban Design, and Political Conflict in 20th Century Chile Camilo Trumper, University of California, Berkeley
Debating Xica: The Role of the Mass Media in the Definition of Racial Relations in Brazil in the 1970s Paula Halperin, University of Maryland College Park
Rethinking Mexico City Politics through the Concept of the Public Sphere, 1940-1970 Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland, College Park
Comment: Pablo Piccato, Columbia University
Session 29: Franciscans and Nahuas in Colonial Mexico (Joint with AHA 140)
Sun., 11:30-1:30pm, Hilton New York, Rendezvous Trianon
Chair: Jeffrey M. Burns, Academy of American Franciscan History
Delegating Authority and Establishing Rank: Franciscans and the Nahua Church in Mexico Tenochtitlan, 1550-1700 Jonathan G. Truitt, Tulane University
“Que mi cuerpo sea sepultado en el hábito de San Francisco”: Franciscan Spiritual Economy in Spanish-Indigenous Cholula, 1529-1600 Veronica A. Gutierrez, University of California at Los Angeles
“The Salvation of All Souls”: Franciscan Popular Missions among the Catholics in New Spain, 1683-1828 David Rex Galindo, Southern Methodist University
Comment: John F. Schwaller, State University of New York at Potsdam
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Session 30: Domestic Space and Identity in Mexico City, 1700-1900
Sun., 2:30-4:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: Donald F. Stevens, Drexel University
The Architecture and Decoration of Two Aristocratic Houses in Mexico City in the Eighteenth Century Edith Couturier, National Coalition of Independent Scholars
Washing, Drying, and Ironing in Mexico City: Work, Culture, and Class Relations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Marie Eileen Francois, California State University, Channel Islands
The Gothic Mansion of Don Guillermo de Landa y Escandón: Notes on Elite Masculinity and Interior Decoration in 19th Century Mexico Victor M. Macías González, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Sepulcher of a Living Death? Space, Rituals, and Daily Life in Mexico’s Viceregal Palace Christoph Rosenmüller, Middle Tennessee State University
Comment: Donald F. Stevens, Drexel University
Session 31: Seeking Security in an Age of Turbulence: Gaining Appointments in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1750-1850
Sun., 2:30-4:30pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chair: Christon Archer, University of Calgary
Ladies-in-Waiting at the Court of Charles IV (1788-1808): Serving the Royal Family while in Search of Long-term Financial Stability Mark A. Burkholder, University of Missouri at St. Louis
Building a Bonfire: The Ramification of Spain’s Clerical Selection Process on the Michoacano Cathedral Chapter, 1720-1822 Elisabeth Kalé Haywood, Allegheny College
Imperial Affirmative Action: Royalist Emigres in Early Nineteenth-Century Cuba Sarah C. Chambers, University of Minnesota
License to Practice: Validating Medical Studies of Foreign Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Guatemala, and Cuba Marianne Samayoa, University of Minnesota
Comment: Gabriel Paquette, Trinity College at University of Cambridge
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Session 32: Process and Personality: Latin American History and the New Biography (Joint with AHA 176)
Sun., 2:30-4:30pm, Sheraton New York, Empire Ballroom West
Chair: Samuel Brunk, University of Texas, El Paso
Silhouetting Malinche: Glimpsing a Life from the Contexts Around Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University
Vincent Ogé Jeune (1757-1791): History, Biography, and the Haitian Revolution John Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington
Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: Robert Southey and the Problem of Literary Biography Karen Racine, University of Guelph, Canada
A Historian Reads Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy Andy Kirkendall, Texas A & M University
Chair: Samuel Brunk, University of Texas, El Paso
Mexican Studies Committee Meeting Roundtable Discussion: What Shapes the Questions We Ask? From Academic Debate to Civically Engaged Scholarship
Sun., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3
Chair: Susie Porter, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Florencia E. Mallon, University of Wisconsin, Madison María Elena Martínez, University of Southern California Everard Meade, University of California, San Diego Elliot Young, Lewis and Clark University
Comment: Audience
Central American Studies Committee Meeting Roundtable Discussion: Unexplored Histories: Gender and Sexuality in Central America Sun., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: Robinson A. Herrera, Florida State University
Dario Euraque, Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia Leonardo Hernandez, State University of New York at Oswego Catherine Komisaruk, University of Iowa Justin Wolfe, Tulane University
Comment: Audience
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Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting Revolutions, Rebellions, and Uprisings: 300 Years of Caribbean History
Sun., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chair: Sarah L. Franklin, University of Southern Mississippi
The Coming Storm: The Events of History and the St. John Revolt of 1733 James Dator, University of Michigan
‘The Bourbon’s Most Loyal and Humblest Servants’: French Royalists in the Lesser Antilles and the Hispanic Caribbean in Times of Revolution, 1790-1795 Alejandro E. Gómez, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Toussaint Louverture and the Failure of the 1799 French Plans for a Slave Uprising in Jamaica Philippe R. Girard, McNeese State University
“Their Coats Were Tied Up Like Men”: Women in Antigua’s 1858 Uprising Natasha J. Lightfoot, Columbia University
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and the 1950 Uprising Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Comment: Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh
Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Sun., 5:00-7:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 6
CLAH Cocktail Party
Sun., 7:00-9:00pm, Sheraton New York, New York Ballroom East
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Session 33: Urban Indians in Early Latin America
Mon., 8:30-10:30am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: Susan Schroeder, Tulane University
Divergent Ethnogenesis: Three Etnias of the City Parishes of Colonial Cuzco David Cahill, University of New South Wales
Urbanization and Ethnicity in Colonial Mexico’s Near North: Zacatecas, 1640-1740 Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, Los Angeles
Urban Families: Natives in Late-Colonial Mexico City, 1692-1829 Margarita R. Ochoa, University of New Mexico
Vecinos y Naturales: Shared Social and Political Space in the Barrio de Santiago, Mérida, Yucatan, 1750-1821 Mark Lentz, Tulane University
Comment: John K. Chance, Arizona State University
Session 34: Modernizing Landscapes of Urban Poverty: Housing, Citizenship, and Popular Mobilization in the Latin American City
Mon., 8:30-10:30am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 2
Chair: Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland, College Park
‘A Key to Present’: Urban Renewal and the Modernization of Housing in Buenos Aires, 1964-1973 Leandro Benmergui, University of Maryland, College Park
The Community Movement of Slums in Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s: From the Fight for the Urban Ground to the Negotiation for the Urbanization of the Slum Quarters Mario Brum, Universidade Federal Fluminense
“A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote”: Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978-1983 Alejandro Velasco, New York University
Comment: Bryan McCann, Georgetown University
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Session 35: Formal and Informal Credit Networks of Urban Middling Groups in Colonial Mexico
Mon., 8:30-10:30am, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3
Chair: Marie Eileen Francois, California State University, Channel Islands
Informal Credit Networks and the Protection of Plebeian Wealth in Colonial Oaxaca Louise Gammons, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Pre-Industrial Middle and Lower Groups” within the Ecclesiastical Credit market of Eighteenth Century Oaxaca Elizabeth Polak, York University, Toronto
Chino Credit Networks in New Spain Tatiana Seijas, Yale University
Comment: Jeremy Baskes, Ohio Wesleyan University
Session 36: The Cuban Revolution 50 Years Later: A Roundtable Discussion (Joint with AHA 183)
Mon., 8:30-10:30am, Hilton New York, Mercury Ballroom
Chair: Louis A. Pérez, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jorge I. Domínguez, Harvard University Lillian Guerra, Yale University Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham Luis Martínez-Fernández, University of Central Florida, Orlando
Comment: Lupe García, University of Central Florida, Orlando
Session 37: Women, War, and the Politics of Nation-Building in Nineteenth Century Spanish America (Joint with AHA 204)
Mon., 8:30-10:30am, Hilton New York, Regent Parlor
Chair: Mark Wasserman, Rutgers University
Popular Royalists and Revolution in Colombia: Nationalism and Empire, 1808-1840 Marcela Echverri, New York University
Women, War, and Body Politic in Nineteenth Century Southern Mexico Francie Chassen-López, University of Kentucky
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Women, State Violence, and the Politics of Restitution in Argentina, 1829-1862 Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Women, War, and Partisan Politics in Colombia: The Case of Tomás C. Mosquera’s Female Supporters and Clients, c. 1859-1862 Pamela Murray, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Comment: Mark Wasserman, Rutgers University
Session 38: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Brazil, from Colony to Nation
Mon., 11:00-1:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 1
Chair: Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Language and National Identity Mariangela Pecciolo Galli Joanilho, Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Fraternal Embraces: Getulio Vargas and the Portuguese Community in Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1945 Jacqueline Zahn, University of Texas, Austin
Race, Crime, and Punishment in Colonial Brazil: The Case of “A Conspiracão dos Alfaiates,” Bahia, 1798 Greg Livingston Childs, New York University
The National Identity for the Middle Class: Forms to Build a Nation André Luiz Joanilho, Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Rethinking Drought Migration from Northeastern Brazil: Historical Trends from World War II Seth Garfield, University of Texas at Austin
Comment: Jerry Dávila, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Session 39: The Seduction of Revolution: Popular Anticlericalism, Predatory Priests, and Reformed Piety in Modern Mexico
Mon., 11:00-1:00pm, Sheraton New York, Park Suite 3
Chair: Ben W. Fallaw, Colby College
The Marriage Factor: Anticlericalism and Social Repugnance in Revolutionary Mexico Kristin Harper, Morehouse College
Flood Time: Reform, Piety, and Popular Uprising in Nineteenth-Century Tabasco Terry Rugeley, University of Oklahoma
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The Case of the Wayward Priest: Gender, the State, and the Catholic Church during the Mexican Revolution Stephanie J. Smith, Ohio State University
“A Dangerous Social Cancer, No Other Medicine Exists”: Depravity, Disease, and Dirt in Revolutionary Depictions of Catholicism (1914-1935) Ben W. Fallaw, Colby College
Las Cristeras de Jalisco: Rethinking Gender, Catholicism, and the Revolutionary Process in Mexico, 1926-1929 Julian F. Dodson, University of New Mexico
Comment: Katherine E. Bliss, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Session 40: Roundtable Discussion: The Cuban Revolution at 50: Is the Latin American Historiographical Revolution Catalyzed by Cuba Dead or Alive and Well? (Joint with AHA 209)
Mon., 11:00-1:00pm, Hilton New York, Murray Hill Suite B
Chair: Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina
Louis A. Pérez, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan Alejandro de la Fuente, University of Pittsburgh
Comment: Audience
Session 41: Global Perspectives and Local Understandings in Historical Narratives about the Conquest of Mexico (Joint with AHA 217)
Mon., 11:00-1:00pm, Sheraton New York, New York Ballroom West
Chair: Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California at Los Angeles
Imagined Conquests: Indigenous Allies of the Spaniards in the War on Mexico Tenochtitlán Kevin Terraciano, University of California at Los Angeles
Indigenous Historiographies and the Reappropriation of Conquest Narratives in Mexico David Tavárez, Vassar College
Chimalpahin Rewrites the Conquest: Yet Another Epic History Susan Schroeder, Tulane University
Comment: Matthew B. Restall, Pennsylvania State University
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