• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 18 January 2024

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

Thursday 25 January 2024

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

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 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

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

Thursday 15 February 2024

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

Thursday 22 February 2024

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

Thursday 29 February 2024

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

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 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

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

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 17:00 - El Salvador and the End of the Cold War
  Jeremy Adelman (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 17:00 - “Pasajero clandestino.” The Political Exile of the Catalan Leader Francesc Maciá in Buenos Aires, 1928
  Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 17:00 - From a “Man of Committees” to President of Argentina:The Political Leadership of Raúl Alfonsín
  Emilie Brickel-Curryova (OSGA)

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 17:00 - Geographic Knowledges, Cartographic Technologies, and the Early Cold War in Latin America
  Julie Gibbings (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: Rethinking Latin American Independence in the Twenty-First Century
  Marcela Echeverri, Anthony McFarlane, Kirsten Schultz, Francisco A Ortega, Cristina Soriano

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 17:00 - Latin America in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
  Daniel L McDonald (Oxford), Jaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame), Simon Unger (Fribourg)

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 17:00 - XIth Guerra Seminar: El rol y la participación de las mujeres en la esfera pública en Bolivia del final de la guerra del Chaco a la Revolución Nacional (1935-1952)
  Maria Elvira Alvarez-Gimenez (CY Cergy Paris University)

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 17:00 - New Culture for the New Man: Quimantú and the educational cartoon in Chile, 1970-1973
  Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 17:00 - Mexico's Napoleon? The Military and Political Career of President Alvaro Obregón 1880-1928
  Alan Knight (LAC, Oxford)

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It: A Hemispheric Perspective (Comparative American History Seminar organised jointly with the Rothermere American Institute)
  Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California)

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 17:00 - Discourses on Community in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
  Gabriel Entin (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Jorge Myers (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Inés de Torres (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), André Jockyman Roithmann (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 17:00 - A Peruvian History of the Old World: José Carlos Mariátegui and Europe
  Paulo Drinot (UCL)

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 17:00 - Performing the Revolution. Politics and Theatre in Post-independent Argentina. 1810-1837
  Klaus Gallo (Universidad di Tella, Argentina)

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia, 19th to 21st Centuries
  Lina Britto (Northwestern University, USA), Ricardo López Pedrero (Western Washington University, USA), Ana María Otero-Claves (University of York, UK)

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 17:00 - A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
  Melissa Texeira (University of Pennsylvania)

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 17:00 - Longing for Revolution: Women's Militancia and Post-Militancia in the Peruvian Revolutionary Left - 1960-2000
  Mercedes Crisóstomo (UCL)