Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 4, 2024

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Fugitive Work: Utility, Discipline, and Deviance at the Edges of the Spanish Empire
AHA Session 10

Mixed Marriages, Family Formation, and the Dynamics of Gender and Race in the Portuguese Atlantic World
AHA Session 16

Race, Violence, and Resistance in Afro-Latin America
AHA Session 19

Reimagining Rural Landscapes, Building Modern(ist) States: Experts, Nature, and Nation in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 20

Social and Environmental Histories of Waste in Latin America
AHA Session 24

Race, Class, Mobility, and Law: The Struggle for Justice and Freedoms in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History

Race, Power, and Religion in the Early Modern Iberian World
Conference on Latin American History 6

Constructing National Hegemony in Mexico, 19th and 20th Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 7

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Changing Catholic Perspectives on Sexuality and Family in 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 37

The American Historical Review and Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 9

Shaping Racial and Gender Ideologies and Identities through Transnational Processes
Conference on Latin American History 10

Counting, Naming, and Chronicling the Other/s in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 11

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

Friday, January 5, 2024

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Degrees of Enslaved Precarity: Escape, Freedom, and Disease in the Colonial Caribbean and Pacific
AHA Session 60

New Battlegrounds in Central America’s Cold War
AHA Session 70

Children, Conscripts, and Cannibals: Gender and Citizenship-Making in Liberal Argentina, 1880–1910
Conference on Latin American History 14

Community and Identity in the Circum-Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 15

Modern Endangered Archive Program and Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 16

8:30 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


New Histories of Health in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 97

Reimagining the Origins of the Slave Trade in the Spanish Empire
AHA Session 100

Solidarity sin Fronteras: From Cold War to the Present Day
AHA Session 103

What Can the History of Consumption Tell Us about the History of Capitalism? Perspectives from Latin America
AHA Session 106

Histories from Latin American Frontier Zones and Borderlands
Conference on Latin American History 21

Tourism Histories of the Caribbean and Latin America, Part 1: Visualizing Race and Heritage—Travelers and Tourism in the Caribbean and Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 22

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Domestic Regimes of Gender and Labor in Latin America
AHA Session 115

Under Duress: Indigenous Coercive Labor and Enslavement in Colonial Yucatán, Mexico
AHA Session 130

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Afro-Indigenous History in the Andes: Sources and Methods to Explain Mulata Cacicas, Quechua-Speaking Afro-Andean Parishioners, African–Indigenous Marriages, and Africans in Indigenous Villages in the Andean Highlands
AHA Session 142

Divergent Futures: Queer and Indigenous Activism in Mexico, 1970s–90s
AHA Session 147

Secrets and Lives: A Roundtable Discussion of Biography and History in the Cold War Americas
AHA Session 156

Urban Informality as Historical Concept in Latin America
AHA Session 159

What’s Special about Maps (2.0): Unique and Underutilized
AHA Session 162

Weaving Together Material Frontiers in Colonial Spanish America and the Pacific
Conference on Latin American History 30

¿Qué Significó Nuestra Independencia? O Que Significou a Nossa Independência? The Politics of Memory in Latin American Centennial Celebrations of Independence
Conference on Latin American History 31

5:30 PM-7:00 PM


Andean Studies Section: New Trends in Andean History—Indigeneity, Settlement, Environment, and Infrastructure
Conference on Latin American History 32

Brazilian Studies Section: January 8 in Historical Perspective—Past, Present, and Bolsonarismo in 2024
Conference on Latin American History 33

Borderlands/Frontiers Section: New Perspectives on Frontier and Borderland Studies
Conference on Latin American History 34

Central American Studies Section: Family, Gender, Community, and Migration
Conference on Latin American History 35

Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:15 PM-8:45 PM


Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: From Scratch—Syllabus Development in the Latin American History Classroom
Conference on Latin American History 36

Atlantic World Studies Section: Empires and Emancipation—Freedom, Community, and Mobility in the Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 37

Colonial Studies Section: Ways of Knowing—Colonial Knowledge and Digital Histories of Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 38

Saturday, January 6, 2024

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Centering Women in Mexican History
AHA Session 175

Mobilities, Advertising, and Smog: Planning and Consuming Andean Capital Cities
AHA Session 179

The Issue of Marriage and Family in the Colonial Iberian World: Representation, Consumerism, and Survival
AHA Session 186

The Roots and Routes of 20th-Century Black Internationalism
Conference on Latin American History 42

Creating and Fighting Enemies during Latin America’s Cold War
Conference on Latin American History 43

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Afro-Diasporic Intersections on the Island of Hispaniola in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
AHA Session 197

Mystics, Miracles, and Mimesis: Female Piety and the Burden of Proof in the Spanish American Archive
AHA Session 204

Rethinking Social Movements and Political Struggles in Latin America’s Late Cold War
AHA Session 207

Histories of Archaeology and Collecting in Latin America, Part 1: Land, Labor, and Law in Latin American Archaeology
AHA Session 216

Mexican Women, Children, and Families: The Long Arc of Slavery, Displacement, and Family Separation, 1539–1920
Conference on Latin American History 48

Memory, Performance, and Activism in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 49

Presidential Panel: Latinx Diasporas, the Job Market, and the Need to Talk Fields—A Conversation on Research, Teaching, and Training across Latin American and Latino Histories
Conference on Latin American History 50

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Can We Call It White Supremacy? Rethinking Racial Systems in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 223

Geographies of Slavery: Emancipation and Abolition in the 19th-Century Atlantic World
AHA Session 227

The Body in Latin American History
AHA Session 238

Histories of Archaeology and Collecting in Latin America, Part 2: Identity, Tourism, and Collecting the Past
AHA Session 242

The 60th Anniversary of the Brazilian Coup, Part 1: Histories of Gender and Sexuality
AHA Session 243

Alternative World Order–Building in the Americas
Conference on Latin American History 56

Liberalism and Nationalism in Early 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 57

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Podcasting and the Art of Audio Documentaries
AHA Session 260

Routes of Enslavement in the Americas
AHA Session 263

Translating Land Possession in Colonial Indigenous Lands
AHA Session 265

Two Decades since the Declassification of Mexico’s Secret Police Archive: Legacies and New Possibilities
AHA Session 266

Which Silences Should Historians Break and How? Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas around Sexual Abuse and Coercive Violence
AHA Session 267

The 60th Anniversary of the Brazilian Coup, Part 2: Policy, Movements, and Memory
AHA Session 269

Tourism Histories of the Caribbean and Latin America, Part 2: Promising Developments in the History of Latin American and Caribbean Tourism
Conference on Latin American History 64

Cold War Guerrilla Movements and Social Activism in Cuba, Guatemala, and Argentina
Conference on Latin American History 65

6:00 PM-7:30 PM


Chile and Río de la Plata Section: Rethinking the Geography of the Southern Cone
Conference on Latin American History 66

Caribbean Studies Section: Documenting 20th-Century Women’s History
Conference on Latin American History 67

Mexico Section: New Voices in Mexican Historical Studies
Conference on Latin American History 68

Gran Colombia Section: Gender, Environment, and Public and Global History in the Region
Conference on Latin American History 69

The Americas Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


CLAH Reception
Conference on Latin American History

Sunday, January 7, 2024

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


Comparing Solidarity and Anticolonialism across the US Empire in the Caribbean and Pacific
AHA Session 277

New Perspectives on Religion, Identity, and the Social Order in Preconquest and Early Colonial Mexico
AHA Session 285

Brazilian Environmental Histories in a Comparative Framework
Conference on Latin American History 72

Teaching Labor History in Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 73

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Converging Racializations in the Expansive Viceroyalty of New Spain, 1565–1625: New Perspectives and Chronologies
AHA Session 302

New Collaborative Research on the Florentine Codex
AHA Session 310

Rethinking Political Violence in Latin America from the Margins
AHA Session 317

Technology, Education, and Power in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 319

Indigenous and Missionary Voices in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 78

Amazon History
Conference on Latin American History 79