The New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW) is coming to Baruch! The workshop is a community of emerging and distinguished Latin American scholars across NYC-area universities who share and discuss their works-in-progress. Most recently, the workshop was hosted at NYU; in previous years it has had residencies at Columbia, SUNY-Stony Brook, and at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Baruch Weissman is honored to have been chosen to host this prestigious annual series of scholarly presentations. Securing the event for Baruch was a collaborative effort of the WSAS Dean’s Office, the Black and Latino Studies Department, the History Department, and ISLA – the Initiative for the Study of Latin America.
“BLS and ISLA are thrilled to support this opportunity to help position Baruch within this important community,” said Professor Shelly Eversley, Interim Chairperson of the Black and Latino Studies Department. “We agree that this opportunity not only provides critical space for professional development and intellectual community, but it will also support our goals to retain faculty who are so eager to know that they can build scholarly careers here at Baruch. It is the perfect fit for Baruch–especially as the College is poised to become an HSI (Hispanic-Serving Institution), as we recruit new faculty, build community across departments, and as we celebrate the arts and sciences. The presenters and schedule for the academic year 2021-22 are already set; Baruch faculty will serve as moderators for each meeting. ”
To pre-register for any of the events, email History Professor Mark Rice, [email protected].
Here’s the schedule for the New York City Latin American History Workshops at Baruch:
FALL
October 1, 11 am-1 pm: Jesse Zarley (St. Joseph’s College), “Redefining Puelmapu: The Borogano Mapuche and Juan Manuel de Rosas, 1825-1835”
November 5, 11 am-1 pm: Isadora Mouro Motta (Princeton), “Looking South for Freedom: Brazil and African-American Abolitionists”
December 3, 11 am-1 pm: Renzo Aroni Sulca (Columbia Society of Fellows), “Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Peru’s Shining Path”
SPRING
Feb 4: Daniel Mendiola (Vassar), “Sovereignty, Asylum, and the Irony of ‘Strong’ Borders: How Protecting Free Migration Strengthened Central American Borders in the 19th Century, and How 21st-Century Securitization Efforts Are Now Weakening Them”
March 4: Isabella Cosse (CONICET; Columbia), “Revolutionary Love and Political Struggles in the Cold War in Argentina”
April 29: Daniela Traldi (Lehman College), “‘Real’ Feminisms: Gender, Race, and the Far Right in Twentieth-Century Brazil (1920-1985)”
