NYC Latin American History Workshop

2009-2010 New York City Latin American History Workshop Series

We invite you to join us for this year's upcoming workshops on Latin American affairs. Each session is from 11 am to 1 pm at New York University's Juan Carlos Center, Room 607, 53 Washington Square South.  The paper under discussion is circulated to the NYCLAHW mailing list one week in advance of the session. We look forward to seeing you there.

Sept 25  Herman Bennett (CUNY), "Slave Insurgents and the Political Impact of Free Blacks in a Revolutionary Age: The Revolt of 1795 in Coro"

Nov 6  Mary Roldan (CUNY), "Radio as a 'Public Forum' in Colombia, 1930-1950s"

Dec 4  Yuko Miki (NYU), "Beneath the Black Wave:  Slave Conspiracies and Popular Abolitionism in Brazil"

Jan 29  Jocelyn Olcott (Duke), "Pulled from the Closet:  Marimachos, Visiting Lesbians, and the Politics of Sexuality at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City."

Feb 26  Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia), TBD.

Mar 26  Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (Univ. of Pennsylvania), "A Visual
Argument: Liliana Angulo's Photography and Afro-Colombian Cultural History"

Apr 23  Ricardo Salvatore (Universidad Torcuato di Tella), "Worldly Sociology: Edward A. Ross and the Societies South of Panama (1913-1950)."

Coordinators:  Amy Chazkel (CUNY), Paul Gootenberg (SUNY-Stony Brook), Pablo Piccato (Columbia), Sinclair Thomson (NYU)

To join the NYCLAHW mailing list or for more information, contact Julia del Palacio at