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Conference – Genealogies of Development: Approaches from Latin America
September 15, 2023 @ 9:30 am – September 16, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
Research workshop organized by Dr. Casey Lurtz, Department of History
A works-in-progress conference bringing together scholars working from the late colonial to contemporary period who address questions of what development (desarrollo, fomento, modernización, mejoramiento, etc) meant in particular moments over the last few hundred years and how Latin America helps us understand the practices and ideas of development globally.
Papers for the conference will be pre-circulated and it is expected that attendees will have read most of the papers in advance. Please email [email protected] for copies of the papers or register via Eventbrite.
Friday, September 15, Gilman Hall 308
9:30 Coffee
9:45 Welcome
10:00 Sophie Brockmann, “Economic Societies and Late-Colonial Social Betterment”
10:45 Oriol Regué Sendrós, “A New Political Economy of the Empire: Slavery and Agricultural Development in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and Spain”
11:30 Yovanna Pineda, “Aesthetics of Modernization in Argentina’s Agricultural Sector”
12:30 Lunch provided
1:30 Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos, “Applied History in Action: How Latin American History Informed Narratives and Policies for Economic Development and Industrialization in Colombia (1870-1909)”
2:15 Diana Montaño, “(Dis)Placing Necaxa: Power Networks and Erased Histories in Mexico (1890s-1914)”
3:30-5:00 Defining Development, a roundtable conversation, Gilman Hall 300
6:00 Dinner at La Cuchara for conference participants
September 16, 2023, Gilman Hall 308
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Lise Sedrez, “Urban Dreams: The Search for Beauty and Health in Early-20th Century Brazil”
10:15 Molly Ball, “Birth Weights and Brazil’s Gendered Development,”
11:00 Stefan Pohl Valero, “Assembling the Food and Nutrition Problem in Colombia, 1890-1950. A Local Genealogy of “Community Development””
12:00 Lunch provided
1:00 Josh Frens-String, “Minerals of Modernity: In Search of a ‘Green Revolution’ in Mid-Twentieth Century Chile”
1:45 Sarah Foss, “An “Attack on Rural Backwardness”: International Development meets Counterinsurgency in Cold War Guatemala”
2:30 Margarita Fajardo, “Whither Development? Colombia, the Andean Pact, and the End of an Era”
3:15 Carlos R. Hernandez, “Rethinking Tourism and Development in Mexico: Cancún, the Riviera Maya, and Beyond”
4:00 Wrap up conversation