Latin American History Workshop (LAHW)

The Latin American History Workshop 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 2024-25: Sofía Ortiz Torres

Winter 2025 Program:

• January 30th - The Old Donkey Cooperative: Agrarian Reform in Antapampa, 1969-1980 - Rohan Chatterjee
• February 13th - The South Sea Company and the Making of a New Anglo-Spanish Atlantic, 1713-1729 - Claire Jones
• February 20th - Who Owns the Street? Revisiting Sao Paulo’s Gated Neighborhoods, 1920-1985 - Daniel Travassos Ferreira
• March 6th - Materializing Inka-Colla interaction in the Colonial Viceroyalty of Peru - Henry Bacha