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 […]
Hondson Hall 305 The Johns Hopkins Portuguese Program and the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies welcomes Dr. Beatriz Rey, SNF Agora Visiting Fellow, to present: Brazilian Democracy After Bolsonaro In-person at Hodson Hall 305ZOOM:https//zoom.us/J/95916009912Meeting ID: 959 1600 9912
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 […]
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The Portuguese Program, and LACLxS PresentVORO'PI: ART AND EDUCATION IN BETWEEN WORLDS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pmGILMAN 479With NAINE TERENA, GUSTAVO CABOCO, AND JAMILLE PINHEIRO DIAS Voro’pi is an educational initiative that approaches the arts as a way to galvanize counter-histories, fight structural inequality, and learn about protagonists […]
Gilman 50 The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History, is pleased to welcome Professor Ada Ferrer, Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University, to present Writing Between Personal and International History: Cuba: An American History 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner in History […]
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 Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship are pleased to welcome Professor Roberto Saba (History, Wesleyan University) for a conversation about his recent book, American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation Following a brief presentation, Prof. Saba […]
PORTUGUESE PROGRAM AND PROGRAM IN LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN, AND LATINX STUDIES PresentXAVIER VATIN (Professor of Anthropology, Center for Arts, Humanities, and Languages. Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia) AFRO-ATLANTIC RELIGIONS: BRAZIL/U.S. CONNECTIONS Wednesday, March 15th - 12:00- 1:15PM Hodson 305 or https://zoom.us/j/99984675782 - Meeting ID: 999 8467 5782
Gilman Hall 308 The Johns Hopkins Latin America in a Globalizing World works in progress seminar welcomes Maximiliano Vejares, Political Science (JHU), to present: The Origins of State Authority: Evidence from Chile This paper examines the conditions under which national states successfully centralize political authority. Contrary to “bellicist” theories where centralization occurs in response to […]
Gilman Hall 308 The History Department Seminar is pleased to welcome Professor Yesenia Barragan, History, Rutgers University, to present Latin America in the Antebellum Black Press This paper reveals how Latin America figured prominently in the antebellum African American press. Through an exploration of twenty-four antebellum Black newspapers, it focuses on three core themes circulating […]
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 […]