Conference on Latin American History

Thursday, January 6

• 2:30–6:00 p.m. Convention Center, between the entrances to Rooms 212 and 213. Information table
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 208. General Committee meeting

Friday, January 7

• 8:00–11:00 a.m. Convention Center, between the entrances to Rooms 212 and 213. Information table
  
  
• 7:30–9:15 a.m. Convention Center, Room 205. Session 1. The Colombian Nation-State? The Role of Economistas, Higienistas, and Indigenistas in the Process of Forming a Nation-State and a National Identity in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Colombia
  
  
• 7:30–9:15 a.m. Convention Center, Room 206. Session 2. Commemorating the Bicentennial of Latin American Independence, 1810–2010
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 619. Session 3, joint with the AHA. Native American Autonomy in Colonial Mexico and New Granada: Individual Acts, Corporate Actions
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 611. Session 4, joint with the AHA. Sources for Urban Politics in Twentieth-Century Latin America
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 205. Session 5. Gender and Ethnicity in the Brazilian Countryside Before and After Abolition
  
  
• 12:00–2:00 p.m. Space Needle, 400 Broad Street. Luncheon
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 604. Session 6, joint with the AHA. Memories of Resistance: Biography, History, and the Brazilian Revolutionary Opposition, 1964–Present
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 203. Session 7, joint with the AHA. Spaces of Consumption in Modern Latin America, 1850–1968
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 205. Session 8. The City of Kings? Race, Space, and Identities in Colonial Lima
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 213. Andean Studies Committee meeting
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 214. Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies Committee meeting
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 212. Borderlands/Frontiers Studies Committee meeting
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee meeting
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 208. HAHR Board of Editors meeting
  
  
• 7:00–9:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 205. Mexican Studies Committee meeting
  
  
• 7:00–9:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 203. Caribbean Studies Committee meeting
  
  
• 7:00–9:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 211. Central American Studies Committee meeting

Saturday, January 8

• 9:00–11:00 a.m. Convention Center, between the entrances to Rooms 212 and 213. Information table
  
  
• 7:30–9:15 a.m. Convention Center, Room 213. Session 9. Governors and Regional History in the Mexican Revolution
  
  
• 7:30–9:15 a.m. Convention Center, Room 214. Session 10. Gender Across Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Drugs, Department Stores, Feminists, and Adoption in the Americas
  
  
• 7:30–9:15 a.m. Convention Center, Room 206. Session 11. Forgetting its Past and Creating a Modern Argentina: Historical Changes in Argentina, 1877–1945
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 615. Session 12, joint with the AHA. To Be In-Between: Cultural Brokers and Power in Latin American Society
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Session 13, joint with the AHA. Beyond Paternalism: Global Markets, Labor Relations, and Gender Politics in Company Towns of the Americas
  
  
• 9:30–11:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 213. Session 14. Gendered Perspectives on the History and Memory of Traumatic Times
  
  
• 12:00–2:00 p.m. Sheraton, Suite 424. Americas Board of Editors Luncheon
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 212. Session 15, joint session with the AHA. The Social Construction of the Brazilian “Povo”: Race, Illegitimacy, and Citizenship
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 213. Session 16. Rethinking Argentina: Change and Continuity, 1870–1940
  
  
• 2:30–4:30 p.m. Convention Center, Room 214. Session 17. Ecuador’s Archives: Exploring New Sources for Municipal, Regional, National History
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 212. Brazilian Studies Committee meeting
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 213. Colonial Studies Committee meeting
  
  
• 5:00–7:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 214. Gran-Colombian Studies Committee meeting
  
  
• 7:00–9:00 p.m. Sheraton, West Ballroom A. Cocktail party

Sunday, January 9

• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 210. Session 18, joint with the AHA. “Quítate Tú Para Ponerme Yo”: Corruption, Reputation, Political Culture, and the Exercise of State Power in Post-Colonial Venezuela
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Convention Center, Room 213. Session 19. Reading Identity: Overcoming Source Limitations in the Study of Syrian-Lebanese and Chinese Immigrants in Latin America
  
  
• 8:30–10:30 a.m. Sheraton, Madrona Room. Session 20, joint with the American Catholic Historical Association, the American Society of Church History, and the Academy of American Franciscan History. Franciscans in Colonial Latin America
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 307. Session 21, joint with the AHA. New Perspectives on State and Society in the Brazilian Empire, 1822–89
  
  
• 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Convention Center, Room 308. Session 22, joint with the AHA. Race, Caste, and Religion in Colonial Latin America: New Approaches to Identity Formation