• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Thursdays at 17:00
• Web Address: https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/events
• Organising department: Latin American Centre

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - After 10 Years of the Latin American History Seminar: A Conversation about Latin American Historiography
  Alan Knight (Oxford), Eduardo Posada-Carbó (Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Crisis, Revolution, Reform and Continuity: The Chilean Constitutional Tradition and the Current Constituent Process
  Juan Luis Ossa (Centro de Estudios Públicos, Santiago)

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Stealing to Stave Off Hunger. Environmental Calamities, the Poor, and the Law in Post-Independence Colombia
  Angela Pérez-Villa (Western Michigan University and LAC)

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "A Church with Open Doors": Base Communities, Liberation Theology, and the Catholic Church in Urban Brazil
  Daniel McDonald (LAC and History Faculty)

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Giving Shape to Silences in Mexican History: Anti-Japanese Racism, Persecution and the Second World War Concentration System
  Jessica A Fernández de Lara Harada (LAC and History Faculty)

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Lessons from the Argentine Destape: Sex and Culture in the Transition to Democracy
  Natalia Milanesio (UCL and University of Houston)

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Guerra Seminar: Construcción nacional y construcción de las representaciones del “indio” en el Perú, 1821-1879
  Maud Yvinec (Universidad París 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Villas as Urban Change: Contesting Narratives of Modernity in Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires
  Adriana Massidda (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Mexico and the Spanish Civil War
  Alan Knight (Latin American Centre, Oxford)

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Populism: A History of the Word in Latin America
  Nicolás Prados (UCL)

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Armed Citizen and Citizens in Arms: The Military and the Creation of the State in Peru (1800-1860)
  Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent)

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Carreño’s Manual: Manners, Society, History, from 1853 to the Present
  Patience Schell (University of Aberdeen)

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Development assistance and state planning in the emergence of Colombia’s technocracy, 1948-1974
  Andrés Guiot-Isaac (LSE)

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - American Social Order and Empire: Slavery and Taxation in Eighteenth-Century Brazil
  Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall University, New Jersey)

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Inaugural Interdisciplinary Dialogues - Seeing Berlin from the Periphery: Latin American Reactions to European Imperial Expansion in the late Nineteenth Century
  Tom Long (Warwick/Cambridge), Carsten-Andreas Schulz (Cambridge)

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Maya Archaeology and the (Banana) Landscape: Environment, Agriculture, and the Making of National Heritage in Guatemala, c. 1920-1944
  Sophie Brockmann (UCL)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Between aesthetics and politics: Translation in Mexican cultural magazines of the early twentieth century
  Marina Popea (Trinity College, Oxford)

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Consuming Idealized Domesticity: The Modern Housewife on Brazilian Daytime Television, 1950-1970
  Thamirys Almeida (Swarthmore College, and LAC)

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: The Press and the Global History of Democracy in Nineteenth Century Latin America
  Paula Alonso (George Washington University), Laura Cucchi (LAC), Juan Neves (History Faculty, Oxford), Eduardo Posada-Carbó (LAC and History Faculty, Oxford)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Malcolm Deas Annual Seminar - title tba
  Marco Palacios (El Colegio de México)