In 2014, graduate students and teachers came together from the University of Michigan and the University of Puerto Rico to discuss current conversations in area studies and teaching methods. This successful event opened the door to the formal collaboration and symposia that have become the hallmark of this project.
This first conference was sponsored by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan, and the Facultad de Humanidades, Departamento de Historia at the University of Puerto Rico.
The participants’ biographies, the abstracts for the papers they presented, and a related resource for educators are available to the public here.
Participants
JENNIFER BOWLES, U-M Department of Anthropology
LARA CARIDE, UPR Departamento de Historia
MARTÍN CASTILLO COLLADO, U-M Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
La Cultura y Lengua Quechuas en los andes del Sudamérica
JOSÉ DAVID COLÓN, UPR Departamento de Historia
Historia, Derecho y Urbanismo en América Latina: El caso de Piura en el periodo colonial
JUAN R. HERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA, UPR Departamento de Historia
Curando la historia: violencia y memoria en el Museo de la Memoria de Chile
FERNANDO PICÓ, UPR Departamento de Historia
La Gran Sequía de 1847 en Puerto Rico: ¿Consecuencia de la deforestación local o fenómeno global?
MELISSA REYES, UPR Departamento de Historia
Recorriendo los caminos de la esclavitud
KIM RUSTEM, U-M Ford School of Public Policy
DIANA SIERRA BECERRA,U-M Joint Doctoral Program in History and Women’s Studies
La Reina Negra: Neoliberal Citizenship in the 2001 Election of the First Black Miss Colombia
HOWARD TSAI, U-M Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes
MARTIN VEGA, U-M Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
La enseñanza del náhuatl y sus vínculos con las comunidades náhuatl parlantes