Latin America: Workshops and Colloquia
Latin American History Workshop (LAHW) The Latin American History Workshop is a forum designed to stimulate discussion of primary questions in and novel approaches to Latin American History. The general intellectual aim of the workshop is to encourage the development of wide comparative historical perspectives and the incorporation of methodologies from a variety of scholarly disciplines in the research of advanced University of Chicago graduate students in Latin American History. Presentations have a broad temporal and geographical range, covering topics from early colonial to contemporary Mexico, Central and South America, Spain, and the United States.
Caribbean Studies Workshop (CSW) This multidisciplinary workshop will examine new and recurring issues in the study of the Caribbean. Historical and anthropological debates over race, class, and identity will be central concerns. Specific issues which will be raised include the impact of the African diaspora, the formation of creole and plural societies, the continued importance of labor migration, the role of post-colonial theory, and economic and political development in emerging nations. The workshop will also address a wide range of topics concerning Caribbean history and society, including new perspectives on literary, visual and musical cultures. The primary purpose of the workshop will be to facilitate and disseminate research by graduate students in the social sciences and humanities, to be supplemented with presentations by University faculty and visiting scholars.
Workshop on the Anthropology of Latin America (WALA) This workshop provides a forum for the presentation, discussion, and critical engagement of anthropological research on Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. We seek to complement a traditional anthropological focus on indigenous populations in the region with a broader focus that includes: (1) the (dis)integration of indigenous peoples within (neo)colonial political economies spanning the local and the global; (2) the lifeways of other groups also subjected to social stratification etched along historically and culturally specific lines of difference/power; and (3) the production of transnational flows involving laborers, popular cultures, commodities, and projects such as "development" or "democracy." Through presentations and discussions on these and other topics, we hope to bring together students and faculty from various disciplinary and (inter)disciplinary perspectives concerned with "Latin America" in order to encourage creative research endeavors in and on the region.