Meetings and Activities of AHA Affiliated Societies

Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 8

2:30–6:00 p.m. Marriott, Mezzanine Level Lobby.
CLAH Information Table

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Taft Room.
CLAH General Committee/Business Meeting

Friday, January 9

8:00–11:00 a.m. Marriott, Mezzanine Level Lobby.
CLAH Information Table

7:30–9:15 a.m. Marriott, Johnson Room.
Session 1. Racialized Discourses on the Holy and Unholy in Colonial Latin America

7:30–9:15 a.m. Marriott, Truman Room.
Session 2. Exporting “Progress”: American Science and Technology in Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1870–1960

7:30–9:15 a.m. Marriott, Eisenhower Room.
Session 3. Interrogating Ethnicity: The Jewish Experience in Argentina

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Virginia Suite A.
Session 4, joint with the AHA. Epidemics and Demographic Disaster in Colonial Latin America: A Reassessment

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Hoover Room.
Session 5, joint with the AHA. The Spanish Backcountry: War and Settler Identity in the Floridas, 1783–1814

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Johnson Room.
Session 6. Ideas of the Middle Class in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin America: 1850–1950

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Truman Room.
Session 7. Missionary Encounters on the Periphery of Spain’s New World Empire

12:00–2:00 p.m. University Club of Washington, D.C., 1135 16th Street N.W.
CLAH Luncheon

Advance ticket purchase required—contact CLAH, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616; clah@ucdavis.edu

2:30–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Virginia Suite B.
Session 8, joint with the AHA. Frontier Expeditions and Indigenous Responses: Rethinking Bandeirismo in Colonial Brazil

2:30–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Embassy Room.
Session 9, joint with the AHA. Land Policy, Migration, and Identity: Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico, 1770–1850

2:30–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Johnson Room.
Session 10. Bodies and Their Representations in Colombian History between the Seventeenth and the Twentieth Centuries

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Lanai 156.
HAHR Board of Editors Meeting

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Lanai 144.
Brazilian Studies Committee

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Lanai 148.
Mexican Studies Committee

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Lanai 152.
Central American Studies Committee

7:00–9:00 p.m. Marriott, Johnson Room.
Caribbean Studies Committee

7:00–9:00 p.m. Marriott, Lanai 148.
Colonial Studies Committee

7:00–9:00 p.m. Marriott, Lanai 152.
Gran Colombian Studies Committee

Saturday, January 10

8:00–11:00 a.m. Marriott, Mezzanine Level Lobby.
CLAH Information Table

7:30–9:15 a.m. Marriott, Johnson Room.
Session 11. Piedad, Patria, and Progreso: Catholic Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

7:30–9:15 a.m. Marriott, Truman Room.
Session12. Reassessing a Revolutionary Icon: New Insights on the Life and Legacy of Simón Bolívar

7:30–9:15 a.m. Marriott, Eisenhower Room.
Session 13. Foreigners, National Culture, and the International Division of Labor: Themes in the Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Mexico

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Virginia Suite A.
Session 14, joint with the AHA. Power, Politics, and Colonial Ritual: Fresh Perspectives from New Spain

9:30–11:30 a.m. TBA
Session. Totalitarianism Reconsidered: Discussion of a Highly Politicized Concept

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Johnson Room.
Session 15. New Approaches to Bolivian Historiography

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Truman Room.
Session 16. Rio de Janeiro: Society and Politics after Independence

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Eisenhower Room.
Session 17. Elites and Political Cultures in Modern Latin America, 1880–1980

12:00–2:00 p.m. Marriott, Eisenhower Room.
The Americas Editors’ Luncheon

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Calvert Room.
Session 18, joint with the AHA. Piety, Polity, and Praxis in Modern Mexico: New Approaches to Popular Religion

2:30–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Johnson Room.
Session 19. The Mexican Aristocracy at War and Peace: The Nineteenth-Century Experience

2:30–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Truman Room.
Session 20. Pressing the Boundaries of Gender and Race, Freedom and Bondage, in Comparative Colonial and Postcolonial Settings of Latin America

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Johnson Room.
Andean Studies Committee

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Truman Room.
Chile-Río de la Plata Studies Committee

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Eisenhower Room.
Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Roosevelt Room.
Borderlands/Frontiers Committee

7:00–9:00 p.m. Marriott, Maryland Suite A.
CLAH cocktail party

Sunday, January 11