Latin American History Workshop (LAHW)

The Latin American History Workshop is a forum for the discussion of novel approaches to Latin American history.  It aims to develop wide comparative historical perspectives and to examine methods and techniques from a variety of disciplines. Presentations cover a broad temporal, geographical, and disciplinary range from early colonial to contemporary times throughout Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

Alternate Thursdays, 4:30–6 pm
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 5828 S University Ave, Pick Hall for International Studies, Room 118
Workshop coordinator for 2025-26: Gabriel Azevedo Duarte Franco

Winter 2026 Program:

• Jan 15: Eduardo Terra Romero, History PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, Title TBA
• Jan 22: Amy Chazkel, Bernard Hirschhorn Associate Professor of Urban Studies, Columbia University Title TBA (excerpt from the book-in-progress Rio de Janeiro and the Politics of Nightfall)
• Feb 5: Sofía Ortiz Torres, History PhD Candidate, University of Chicago "Learning to Serve the Nation: Gender, Labor, and Education in the Public Beneficence"
• Feb 19: Brodwyn Fischer, Professor of Latin American History and the College, University of Chicago
  "Abolition's Tangled Histories (Recife, 1870-1888)"
• Mar 5: Benjamin Montaño, History PhD Candidate, University of Chicago "A riot on Lake Texcoco's shores: debt, property and pueblo, 1856-1873"