Latin American History

Venue: Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & N301, IHR
Time: Tuesdays 17:30 London
Convenors: Paulo Drinot (UCL), James Dunkerley (QMU), Alejandra Irigoin (LSE), Christine Mathias (King’s College London), Nicola Miller (UCL), Thomas Rath (UCL), Natalia Sobrevilla (Kent), William Booth (UCL) and Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway).

Please note that all seminars will begin at 5:30pm London time.

Term 1 - Autumn 2022

04 oct 2022

The Colonial Treasure of la Négresse Gautiche: A Microhistory of a Monied Black Woman in the Haitian Revolution

Johnhenry Gonzalez (University of Cambridge)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

01 nov 2022

Cherished Consumers: Global Connections, Local Consumption, and Foreign Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Ana María Otero-Cleves (Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia))

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

15 nov 2022

Building the ‘Heroin Highway’: Crisis, Corruption and Visions of Modernity in the Making of the Mexican Drug Trade, 1920-80

Nathaniel Morris (UCL)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Term 2- Winter 2023

17 jan 2023

The Chilean Middle Class and the Military Dictatorship

Marcelo Casals (Universidad Finis Terrae)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

31 jan 2023

Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation

Julia Sarreal (Arizona State University)

Online- via Zoom

28 feb 2023

Holy Wars on Top of the Andes: Army Veterans and Religious Conversion in Puno, 1910-1930

Yael Mabat (Tel Aviv University)

Online- via Zoom

14 mar 2023

Indigenous Freedom Suits and Epistemological Possibilities

Nancy E. van Deusen (Queen’s University)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2023

02 may 2023

More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

Sabine Cadeau (SOAS)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Pollard Seminar Room, N301, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

05 jun 2023

The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance

Mackenzie Cooley ()

Hybrid | Online & IAS Common Ground, UCL, G11 Ground Floor

Latin American History

Term 1 - Autumn 2022

The Colonial Treasure of la Négresse Gautiche: A Microhistory of a Monied Black Woman in the Haitian Revolution

Cherished Consumers: Global Connections, Local Consumption, and Foreign Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Building the ‘Heroin Highway’: Crisis, Corruption and Visions of Modernity in the Making of the Mexican Drug Trade, 1920-80

Term 2- Winter 2023

The Chilean Middle Class and the Military Dictatorship

Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation

Holy Wars on Top of the Andes: Army Veterans and Religious Conversion in Puno, 1910-1930

Indigenous Freedom Suits and Epistemological Possibilities

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2023

More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance

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