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Historias 65 – Khristin Landry Montes and Paula Karger on the Maya

Dr. Khristin Landry Montes, assistant professor of Art History at Cornell College,  and Paula Karger, doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Toronto, join Steven Hyland for the first of two deep dives on the Maya. The discussion centers on Mayan cultural forms, including cosmology and origin stories, and Read more…

By LAstudies, 1 month1 month ago
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Bianca Premo talks with Carlos [summer repeat]

Carlos spoke with Dr. Bianca Premo, Professor in the Department of History at Florida International University, to discuss her past and current research and time in the archives. Dr. Premo is scholar with a wide range of research interests in Latin American history, including childhood and youth, the law, intellectual history, gender, Read more…

By LAstudies, 5 months5 months ago
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Historias 49 – Matt Childs, Elena Schneider, and Alex Wisnoski on Slavery in Latin America

In this state of the field episode, Matt Childs, Elena Schneider, and Alex Wisnoski joined Steven to discuss the history of slavery in Latin American and Caribbean societies.

By Steven, 7 months7 months ago
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Historias 41 – Jane Mangan on 3-D printing and material culture in colonial Peru

Dr. Jane Mangan, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Davidson College, spoke with Steven about her research on non-elite women in Potosí and her work on how ideas of familial obligations crisscrossed the Atlantic in the colonial era. They also discuss her use of Read more…

By LAstudies, 9 months9 months ago
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Historias 34 – Lyman Johnson. Luminaries series. Part 2.

Enjoy the second half of Steven’s conversation with Dr. Lyman Johnson, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Among many other intellectual activities, Lyman is the founding editor of the Diálogos series from the University of New Mexico Press and author of Workshop Read more…

By LAstudies, 11 months11 months ago
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Historias 33 – Lyman Johnson. Luminaries series.

In the inaugural episode of our Luminaries series, Steven spoke with Dr. Lyman Johnson, professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Lyman’s impact on Latin American history is broad and deep. Along with Mark Burkholder, he is author of Colonial Latin America and is the Read more…

By LAstudies, 11 months11 months ago
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Historias 22 – Martin Nesvig on the daily making and unmaking of empire in the Americas

Card sharks. Bigamists. Kidnappers. Brawlers. Drunks. Imposters. Assassins for hire. These are the people that played critical roles in the establishment of imperial Spanish rule in the 16th century Americas.
 
Dr. Martin Nesvig of the Univers…

By Steven, 1 year1 year ago
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Historias 10 – Eva Mehl on the Spanish Pacific World

What can convicts and sailors in the far off Philippines teach us about Spanish imperial history?   Dr. Eva Mehl discusses her book Forced Migration in the Spanish Pacific World: From Mexico to the Philippines, 1765-1811 that examines the importance of convicts and sailors in the development of a Spanish Read more…

By Steven, 2 years2 years ago
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Hotel Indigo will be the conference hotel. The group code for phone reservations is SEC and the online booking link is SECOLAS.

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