Teacher Training Workshops

The Teachers' Workshop is an ongoing outreach series offered by the Joint Center for Latin American Studies of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with support from the United States Department of Education and other center programs, such as the Hewlett Mexican Studies Program. Workshops are designed by university faculty, graduate students, and Joint Center staff to enhance the classroom curriculum of educators from local public and private high schools and community colleges. Workshops introduce pedagogic methods and materials that facilitate the study of Latin America in the classroom and address subjects not traditionally taught in United States school system.

 

Academic Year 2011-2012 Workshops
 

Envisioning the Colonial Metropolis in the Early Modern Latin America

Cecile Fromont, University of Chicago
February 6, 2012

This seminar explored the central role played by urbanism and its representations in the Latin American colonial enterprises of Spain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Focusing on Mexico City, Mexico, and Cuzco, Peru, we analyzed the policies through which the Iberian crown aimed to transform the Aztec and Inca capitals into centers of its colonial Empire, and we brought to light how the indigenous populations managed these changes and contributed to the distinctively local texture of both urban fabrics. Bringing together texts and images, we considered how urbanism on the one hand, and its social uses on the other hand, participated in the political and religious enterprise of colonialism and in the molding of colonial identities.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and The Newberry Library.
 

History and Memory: A View From Mexico

Mauricio Tenorio, University of Chicago
January 31, 2012

For the last three decades, as a result of the tragedies of the twentieth century, scholars, intellectuals, opinion and decision makers have contributed to the idea that history –the past as a written story– is full of problems; among them ideology, power, gender biases, and racism. Memory, on the other hand, has been crowned as the queen of truth and justice. Using Mexico’s Bicentennial celebration as a case study, participants considered if —as citizens, educators and researchers— we really do win something with this new moral order. Is history actually such a liar? Is memory such a reliable source of historical and civic truth?
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and The Newberry Library.

 

Past Teacher Training Workshops: 

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  • The Newberry Library and the Center for Latin American Studies:
    Culture and Politics in the Latin American "Long Sixties."
    Valeria Manzano, The University of Chicago.
    April 6th, 2011
  • Revolutions, Insurgency, and Democratization in Latin America:
    Mariela Szwarcberg, The University of Chicago
    February 15-16, 2011
  • The Newberry Library and the Center for Latin American Studies: Languages of Empire and Community in Instan by Cecilia Vicuña.
    Kelly Austin, The University of Chicago.
    February 4th, 2011
  • The Newberry Library and the Center for Latin American Studies:
    ¿Cómo se forman los espacios, los colores, y los folios, los sentidos poéticos en Blanco de Octavio Paz?
    Kelly Austin, The University of Chicago
    December 3rd, 2010
  • Classics in Context: Laughter, Mauricio Tenorio, Department of History. January 23rd, 2010
  • The Newberry Library and the Center for Latin American Studies: Freedom and Slavery in Brazil, Nov 20-21 2008
  • The Newberry Library and the Center for Latin American Studies: The History of Latinos in the United States, Oct 9-10, 2008
  • The Field Museum of Chicago and the Center for Latin American Studies: The Aztec World, Oct 4, 2008
  • The Art Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies:
    José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside, November 11, 2006
  • Epidemics Then & Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World, Jun 26-29, 2006
  • Viewing the World Through Media and Popular Culture, Jun 20-23, 2005
  • Social Change and Latin American Cinema, Oct 2, Nov 20, Jan 22, Mar 5,
    Apr 16, May 21 2005
  • Regional Perspectives on Globalization and Human Rights, June 28 - July 1, 2004
  • Indigenous Communities in Latin America, March 13, 2004
  • The African Diaspora in Latin America, October 25, 2003
  • The Racialization of Latino Identity in the United States, May 3, 2003
  • Like Water for Chocolate
  • Teaching Spanish in a Cultural Context May 4 & 11, 2002
  • Maps, Identity, and World Studies, June 18-29, 2001
  • Environmental Studies and Cultural Issues: Latin America, July 24, 1999
  • Environment and Sustainable Development, November 18, 1995