Latin American History Workshop (LAHW)

The Latin American History Workshop at the University of Chicago is a forum for the 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.

Alternate Thursdays, 4:30–6 pm
Center for Latin American Studies, 5828 S University Ave, Pick Hall for International Studies, Room 118
Workshop coordinator for 2023-24: Benjamin Montano

 

Spring 2024 Events:

 

“Integral Association”: Recovering the Plebeian Internationalism of Antônio Pedro de Figueiredo

Niklas Plaetzer, PhD Candidate, Political Science, University of Chicago

March 21, 2024: Pick Hall 118, 4:30-6:00pm

 

Comuneros and Comunidades: The Expansion of Smallholding in Antapampa, 1908-1968

Rohan Chatterjee, PhD Student, History, University of Chicago

April 4, 2024: Pick Hall 118, 4:30-6:00pm

 

Property and Selfhood beyond the Chattel Principle: Sex, Violence, and the Laws of Slavery in Cuba at the Turn of the Nineteenth-Century

Adriana Chira, Associate Professor of Atlantic World History, Emory University

April 11, 2024: Pick Hall 118, 4:30-6:00pm

 

The Wheel of Social Mobility: The Promised (National) Land of the Middle Class. Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in the 1960s

Pablo Pryluka, PhD Candidate, History, Princeton University

April 25, 2024: Pick Hall 118, 4:30-6:00pm

 

Emancipation in Slavery’s City

Brodwyn Fischer, Professor of Latin American History and the College, University of Chicago

May 9, 2024: Pick Hall 118, 4:30-6:00pm

 

History Dissertation Proposal Roundtable

May 23, 2024: Pick Hall 118, 4:30-6:00pm