Latin American History Workshop (LAHW)

The Latin American History Workshop is a forum for the discussion of novel approaches to Latin American history.  It aims to develop wide comparative historical perspectives and to examine methods and techniques from a variety of disciplines. Presentations cover a broad temporal, geographical, and disciplinary range from early colonial to contemporary times throughout Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

Alternate Thursdays, 4:30–6 pm
Center for Latin American Studies, 5828 S University Ave, Pick Hall for International Studies, Room 118
Workshop coordinator for 2025-26: Gabriel Azevedo Duarte Franco

Autumn 2025 Program:

• Oct 23: Arthur Schott Lopes, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Chicago, “Recognizably Tense and Almost Pre-Revolutionary”: The Border’s Land Reform, 1961-1963”
• Nov 6: Camilo Ruiz Tassinari, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Chicago, “From Bretton Woods to Ixtapantongo: A Marshall Plan for the Developing World?”
• Nov 20: Edisson Aguilar Torres, Post-Doctoral Scholar in History at Northwestern University, “A state within the state’: The National Federation of Coffee Growers and the early origins of community-managed water supply in Colombia, 1942-1958”
• Dec 4: Henry Bacha, PhD Student in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, “The colonial afterlives of Inka resettlement in the Pampas River basin (Ayacucho, Peru, 1400-1700 A.D.)”