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Welcome to H-LatAm, an international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History. It is a member of the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online initiative and affiliated with the Conference On Latin American History (CLAH).

Announcements and Discussions

ANN: Podcasts of interest to Latin Americanists, to 30 September 2023

Podcasts of interest to Latin Americanists, to 30 September 2023

New Books Network

Daniel R. Reichman--Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil

https://newbooksnetwork.com/progress-in-the-balance

Alba Griffin--Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence

https://newbooksnetwork.com/reading-the-walls-of-bogota

Kevin Funk--Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries

https://newbooksnetwork.com/rooted-globalism

Oscar Webber--Negotiating Relief and

ANN: FOLGER INSTITUTE LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2024-2025

https://www.folger.edu/research/the-folger-institute/fellowships/apply-for-a-fellowship/long-term-fellowships/

Each year the Folger Institute awards research fellowships to create a high-powered, multidisciplinary community of inquiry. This community of researchers may come from different fields, and their projects may find different kinds of expression. But our researchers share cognate interests in the history and literature, art and performance, philosophy, religion, and politics of the early modern world.

The Folger Institute offers five, long-term fellowships at $70,000 for the

ANN: Endangered Archives Programme webinars for applicants

Subject Fields

Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies

The Endangered Archives Programme is currently accepting funding applications, and welcomes applications for projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. This week are holding two webinars to help potential applicants on Wednesday 27 September. These one-hour webinars will give a brief overview of the application process, followed by a question and answer session. All are welcome to register for free for one of the two webinars using the following links:

ANN: Agricultural History Society Call for Award Nominations

Announcement Type

Prize

Subject Fields

African American History / Studies, Asian History / Studies, Business History / Studies, Environmental History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies

Agricultural History Society Call for Awards Nominations, 2023

Research Corner Blog

Research Corner

BLOG: Keeping up a Research Agenda when Life Gets in the Way by Gretchen Pierce

Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arizona Press, 2014) with Áurea Toxqui, and has also published (or will soon publish) two articles, three book chapters, one encyclopedia article, and thirteen academic blog posts on temperance, beer, and advertising in Mexico. In addition to serving as an editor on H-LatAm and founding this blog, she is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, “Altered States: Mexico’s

Research Corner

BLOG: Tallersol Cultural Centre: Memories of Resistance by Richard G. Smith

H-Latamist@s: I believe the system-upgrade bugs have been worked out and we are back to a regular publication schedule. While I have many blog posts in the queue, I am always looking for more. Now that many of us are back to school, we would love to know all about your summer research! Please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or at this Google Form if you would like to contribute for the good of the H-Latam community.

Richard Smith originally trained as a chemist before a career in consumer product innovation took him all over the world, including three fantastic years living in

Research Corner

BLOG: Locating, Ordering, and Purchasing Digitized Documents from the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú by William Cohoon

Neter@s: Research Corner has been on hiatus while H-Net underwent an update and bugs were being fixed. However, I am still learning the new system, so please bear with me as the technical team and I work through issues that may still arise (you may have noticed all of the images that were uploaded separately for this post--previously that activity would not have appeared in your feeds). While waiting, I have accumulated a huge pile of blog posts to upload. Even still, I am soliciting new posts about your summer research! Please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or at this Google

Research Corner

BLOG: The Biblioteca Nacional del Perú’s Digitized Holdings by William Cohoon

William Cohoon teaches upper school history at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, Texas, and earned his Ph.D. in colonial Latin American history at Texas Christian University. Recently, Historia y Cultura published his article “Intercambios predecibles: estandarización del servicio de correo real en el Perú borbónico,” which focuses the Bourbon monarchy’s desire to create a predictable and revenue generating postal service. For this article, he completed research at the Archivo General de la Nación del Perú and relied on digitized documents from the Biblioteca Nacional del