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 Lucas Azambuja, Sociology, JHU, to present: Can Latin American capitalist classes take part in progressive projects against neoliberal austerity? Through the case of the Brazilian local bourgeoisie, this paper builds on dependency theory to develop an understanding of […]

Gilman Hall 308 The Johns Hopkins Latin America in a Globalizing World works in progress seminar welcomes Professor Alexa Rodríguez, Education, University of Virginia, to present: Crafting Dominicanidad: Citizenship and Education During the US Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924 In 1919, a father in Santiago, Dominican Republic wrote to the regional superintendent declaring, “A […]

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 […]