Faculty Working Groups

As part of the New York City Consortium for Latin American Studies (NYCCLAS), ILAS sponsors Faculty Working Groups in which scholars from Columbia and NYU, as well as other area institutions, meet regularly to collaborate and dialogue on topics relevant to Latin America. Below is a list of Working Groups and meeting schedules.

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New York City Workshop in Latin American History

Faculty Organizers: Pablo Piccato, Department of History, Columbia University; Sinclair Thomson, Department of History, NYU

Graduate Student Coordinator: Julia del Palacio, Department of History, Columbia University

NYWLAH is a joint project of the graduate programs in Latin American History at Columbia, CUNY, NYU and SUNY Stony Brook. To join our email list and receive electronic papers, please contact Julia del Palacio.

NYCWLAH 2008-09 Calendar
All meetings take place the last Friday of the month at SUNY Stony Brook from 11am to 1pm, followed by lunch.

FALL 2008

• Sept 26th: Eric Zolov, Franklin & Marshall
  Mexico and the Trilateral Conference of the 1960s
• Oct. 31: Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago
  José Limantour, the Científicos, and the Mexican Revolution
• Nov 21: Marc Hertzman, Wesleyan College
  An 'Incitement to Discourse': Rethinking Repression and Resistance in Post-Abolition Brazil

SPRING 2009

• Feb 13: Marcela Echeverri, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Popular Royalists and Revolution in Colombia: Nationalism and Empire, 1808-1825
• March 13: James Dunkerley, St. Mary's, University of London
  Continuity and Rupture in Bolivian History
• April 17: Pilar Zazueta, Columbia
  Beyond Corn and Beans: The Development of Nutritional Sciences in Mexico 1930-1952

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Political Economy of Latin America Working Group

Faculty Organizers: Victoria Murillo and Pablo Pinto, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Graduate Student Coordinators: Martin Ardanaz and Israel Marques, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

FALL 2008

• September 24: Evelyn Huber, UNC, Chapel Hill; with discussant Milan Vaishnav
  The Politics of Effective and Sustainable Redistribution
• October 15: Edward Gibson, Northwestern University; with discussant Virginia Oliveros
  Subnational Authoritarianism and Territorial Politics    
• October 29: Juan Pablo Luna, Princeton University and la Universidad Catolica de Chile; with discussant Mark Schneider
  Party System Institutionalization: the case of Chile and Why We Need to Un-Pack The Concept and its Measurement

To download the paper, click here.    

SPRING 2009

• January 28: Steven Levitsky, Harvard University
• February 18: Jorge Dominguez, Harvard University

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Working Group on Latin American Migration

Faculty Organizers: Regina Cortina, Teachers College, Columbia University; Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Steinhardt School of Education, NYU

Graduate Student Coordinator: Carmina Makar, Teachers College, Columbia University

SPRING 2009

• February 26, 2009
  The Latino Educational Crisis
  Speaker: Patricia Gandara
  Location: Teachers College, Columbia University
• March 9th, 2009
  Pyschological implications for Latino Students
  Speaker: Carola Suarez - Orozco
  Location: GDH 179 Teachers College, Columbia University
  Time: 5:00 pm

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Other Activities of Interest:
Also of interest to Latin Americanists is The Atlantic World Workshop, a long-established group organized by the Department of History at NYU.  And NYU CLACS professors Rafael Sánchez and Carmen Medeiros have recently launched a speakers series called Modernity is from Iberia and Latin America.