Day 1 - From Colony to Republic: The Social History of Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
To join online please register in advance at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpceitpzgqE9RWah3q-yOXp9z2A6RY5hiq
Friday, 21 October 2022
10:30-11:00 Latin American Centre Main Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Introduction and Mingling
11:00-13:00 Latin American Centre Main Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Session 1: Indigenous People and Republican Law
Chair: tba
Helga Baitenmann (University of London, UK), Land Disentailment Through the Eyes of Indigenous Litigants (Michoacán, 1869-1909)
Daniela Marino (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historía, Mexico), Changes in Indigenous Property Rights in Post-Colonial Mexico
Cecilia Méndez (University of California Santa Barbara, USA), The Emergence of an ‘Indigenous-Rights’ Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Peru
Tristan Platt (University of St. Andrews, UK), Republican Law and Indigenous Revindication (Potosí 1825-1900)
15:00-17:00 History Faculty Lecture Theatre, 41-47 George Street
Session 2: From Colony to Republic
Chair: tba
Bianca Premo (Florida International University, USA), Civil Lawsuits in the Late Colony
Sarah Chambers (University of Minnesota, USA), Civil Law and Property Confiscation during the Wars of Independence
Tomás Straka (Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela), The Meaning of Race in Venezuela between Colony and Republic
Reuben Zahler (University of Oregon, USA), Women and the Law in Colonial and Republican Venezuela
Date:
21 October 2022, 10:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue:
1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details:
Latin American Centre and online via Zoom
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
Latin American Centre
Part of:
CONFERENCE: From Colony to Republic: The Social History of Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-colony-to-republic-the-social-history-of-law-in-19th-century-la-tickets-404503780697
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
