Gilman Hall 308 The Johns Hopkins Latin America in a Globalizing World works in progress seminar welcomes Professor Jessica Marie Johnson, History (JHU), to present: Catherine's Value: Freedom, Excess, and Slavery on the Spanish Littoral This essay excerpt explores the ways African women and women of African descent, living in slaveholding societies and in the […]

Gilman Hall 308 The Johns Hopkins Latin America in a Globalizing World works in progress seminar welcomes Professor Consuelo Amat, Political Science (JHU), to present: The Power of Protectors: Accounting for High-Risk Mobilization in Pinochet's Chile How can activists overcome the collective action problem under extreme repression? I argue that protest in these conditions is […]

Gilman Hall 308 The Johns Hopkins Latin America in a Globalizing World works in progress seminar welcomes Professor Gema Kloppe-Santamaria, History, George Washington University, to present: Contentious Secularism: The Politics of Religious Violence in 20th-Century Mexico The aim of this paper is to examine the multifaceted drivers behind Catholics’ recourse to violence against Protestants in […]

Gilman Hall 308 The Johns Hopkins Latin America in a Globalizing World works in progress seminar welcomes Professor Karin Rosemblatt, History, University of Maryland, to present: Digging the Nation: Archaeology, Anthropology, and History in Twentieth-Century Mexico Professor Rosemblatt will discuss her book project which examines three controversies in mid-twentieth century Mexican anthropology and archaeology to […]

Gilman Hall 308 The Johns Hopkins Latin America in a Globalizing World works in progress seminar welcomes Professor Zophia Edwards, Sociology, JHU, to present: How the Weak Still Win: Middle Class Maneuvers for the Post-Colonial State Scholars seeking to explain post-colonial state-building across the formerly colonized world typically turn to Antonio Gramsci’s concept of the […]

Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Professor Consuelo Amat, SNF Agora Institute, Political Science, JHU, to present: "Power in Autonomy: The Political Strategy of Constructive Resistance," and Alex Sanchez, Ph.D. Student, History, JHU, to present: "Los tiempos de cuarentena: Disease and Vaccination in Post-emancipation Puerto Rico" […]

Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Rachel Williams, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, to present "Sor Juana’s Assemblages: Writing Subjects in 'Los empeños de una casa'", and Alfredo Walls, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures: "Queerness in […]

Mason Hall Alumni Board Room 102 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Javier Pérez Osorio, PhD Candidate, Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge: "Locuras del sur: La Loca as a Latin American Model of Queerness," and Bruno Franco, PhD Student, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures: […]

Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Julieta Casas, PhD Candidate, Political Science, JHU, to present: Convergence or Divergence? Toward a New Frame of American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective, and Óscar Aponte, PhD Candidate, Latin America History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, to present: From Dispossession to Reservation: […]

Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Jessica Marie Johnson, Associate Professor, History, JHU, to present: Disaster. Tabitha Laurent & Francisco Pérez Marsilla, Alumn & PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, JHU, to present: Karayib. The second in a two-semester graduate sequence, this […]

Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Mariangela Ugarelli, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, JHU: "Revenge of the Condor: Fear and Gothic in the Andes," and Rhiannon Clarke, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, to present: "La palma […]