Latin American History Workshop
Faculty Sponsor:Dain Borges (dborges@uchicago.edu) and Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo (tenoriom@uchicago.edu)
Student Coordinator: Ben Johnson (bdj@uchicago.edu) and Gregory Malandrucco (malandru@uchicago.edu)
Website: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/lah
Time: Thursdays, 4:30-6:00pm, Center for Latin American Studies, Kelly Hall 114

The workshop is a forum for discussion of novel approaches to Latin American history. It aims to develop wide comparative historical perspectives and to examine methods and techniques from a variety of disciplines. Presentations cover a broad temporal, geographical, and disciplinary range from early colonial to contemporary times throughout Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

Fall 2006 Schedule:

• Oct. 5: Patrick Iber, History, UC: "¿Comprometido con qué?: The Congress for
  Cultural Freedom in Latin America, 1953-1972."
• Oct. 12: Mauricio Tenorio, Professor of History, UC: “Mexico City: The Brown Atlantis”
• Oct. 19: Carlos Bravo Regidor, History, UC: "Voting Without Democracy: Electoral Practices in Porfirian Mexico"
• Oct. 26: João Reis, Professor of History, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil): “The Life of Abucare, an African Muslim in 19th-C Brazil"
• Nov. 2: Kittiya Lee, Post-doctoral fellow, UC: TBA
• Nov. 9: Zachary Chase, History, UC: “Coca and Space in Seventeenth century Lima.”
• Nov. 16: Mikael Wolfe, History, UC: "Water Regime Change" in La Laguna, Mexico, 1936-1960: The Modernization of a "Feudal" Irrigation Method (Aniego)

For more information or to join the LAHW mailing list, please contact Ben Johnson ( bdj@uchicago.edu) or Gregory Malandrucco ( malandru@uchicago.edu)