Talk by Professor José Curto

6275 Bunche Hall

"Population movements in the South Atlantic - the case of Benguela and Rio de Janeiro, c. 1700-1850" José Curto is a Professor in the Department of History at York University.  His research Interests include Modern Africa, Social and Economic History. This events is co-sponsored by the Brazilian history seminar and the Atlantic history cluster.

History of Science Colloquium

5288 Bunche Hall

Jean Pierre Beaud  (CIRST, Université de Québec à Montréal) “What is a population? Reflections on two Statistical Descriptions of Canada”

Pamela Fuentes – “Madams, Pimps, and the End of Regulated Prostitution in Mexico City, 1940-1952”

6275 Bunche Hall

Pamela J. Fuentes is a postdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de Mexico. She received a PhD from York University (Toronto, Canada) in 2015, an MA in Mexican History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2008) and BA from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on modern Mexican history, with […]

Casey Lurtz – “From the Grounds Up: Community, Exchange, and the Building of a Coffee Economy in Southern Mexico, 1867-1920”

6275 Bunche Hall

Casey Marina Lurtz is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She was previously the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and spent a year as a predoctoral fellow at the UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. She has articles forthcoming in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Business History Review, […]

María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni – “Concepts in Action: Sovereignty and Republican Political Culture in Post-Independent Mexico, 1821-1828”

6275 Bunche Hall

María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni served as Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2014. She received a PhD (2008) and an MA (2005) in History from El Colegio de Michoacán and a BA in Culture Science from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on the political culture, […]

Fernando Peréz-Montesinos – “The Liberal State and Purépecha Communities: Remaking Life on the Land”

6275 Bunche Hall

Fernando Peréz-Montesinos received his M.A. in 2009 and his Ph.D. in 2015 at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Fernando writes, “My heart… remained with the history of indigenous people in modern Latin America. I thus embarked on a study of the Purépecha people of Michoacán (central-west Mexico) and examined how they coped with and contributed to shape a century-long process (1800-1914) of major land […]

Futures of History Conference

Palisades Room, Carnesale Commons

This is a conference aimed at empowering the next generation of historians. Futures of History will be held on February 25–26, 2015 in the Palisades room on the third floor of Carnesale Commons. Breakout sessions will take place in Malibu, Venice, and Hermosa rooms on the second floor. More information about this event...

#StandWithJNU: A Forum on Nationalism and Dissent

11372 Bunche Hall

CISA and the South Asia Graduate Association Present: #StandWithJNU: A Forum on Nationalism and Dissent. Featuring talks by: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History) , Vinay Lal (History), and Aparna Sharma (World Arts and Cultures). Light refreshments.

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