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IAP-UAM Annual Lecture

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The IAP-UAM Annual Visiting Lecture in Latin American History The Latin American History Group at Harvard University is pleased to announce the IAP-UAM (International Academic Programs--Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Annual Visiting Lecture in Latin...

HIST 97K: "What is Social History?"

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Professor Sidney Chalhoub. For a long time, the writing of history focused mainly on kings, politicians, landlords, slave owners, capitalists –that is, on those with the means to write letters, autobiographies, official documents. In the past decades...

HIST 1032: A History of Brazil, from Independence to the Present

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Professor Sidney Chalhoub. This course will analyze major themes in the social and political history of Brazil from Independence (1822) to the present. Themes to be addressed are the following: Independence, colonial legacies and national identity; state...

HIST 1931: Slavery, Disease and Race: A View from Brazil

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Professor Sidney Chalhoub. Slavery and emancipation were major issues in nineteenth-century Brazilian history. In the 1870’s and 1880’s, with the drama of emancipation unfolding, yellow fever meant death to European immigrants and a major obstacle to...

Vitus Huber

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Vitus Huber is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Janggen-Poehn Foundation. He received his PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 2017. In his dissertation he analyzed the political economy of the conquest of New Spain (Mexico and...

Louise C. de Mello

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Louise C. de Mello is a PhD candidate in History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, in Seville under joint supervision at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Rio de Janeiro. Her PhD research looks at cross-frontier relations in the southwest of...

Adriana Zenteno Hopp

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Adriana is a PhD candidate at Harvard’s History department, where she studies colonial Latin America. Her dissertation asks how the colonial situation influenced the way 17th century indigenous Andeans recalled the pre-columbian and early colonial past...

Elisa Frühauf Garcia

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Elisa Frühauf Garcia is professor of Latin American Colonial History at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 2009, having completed post-doctoral research at the University of Campinas (2007-2009) and the Spanish...

HIST 1920 - Colonial Latin America

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Prof. Tamar Herzog - This course examines some of the main debates in Colonial Latin American History. Among other things, we will discuss issues such as conquest and resistance, the construction and administration of differences (such as race, ethnicity...