Schedule
Friday, September 15, Gilman Hall 308
9:30 Coffee9:45 Welcome
10:00 Sophie Brockmann, “Economic Societies and Late-Colonial Social Betterment”
10:45 Oriol Regué Sendrós, “A New Political Economy of the Empire: Slavery and Agricultural Development in Nineteenth Century Cuba and Spain”
11:30 Yovanna Pineda, “Aesthetics of Modernization in Argentina’s Agricultural Sector”
12:30 Lunch provided
1:30 Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos, “Applied History in Action: How Latin American History Informed Narratives and Policies for Economic Development and Industrialization in Colombia (1870-1909)”
2:15 Diana Montaño, TBA
3:30-5:00 Gilman Hall 300Defining Development, a roundtable conversation
September 16, 2023, Gilman Hall 308
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Lise Sedrez, “Urban Dreams: The Search for Beauty and Health in Early-20th Century Brazil”
10:15 Molly Ball, “Birth Weights and Brazil's Gendered Development,”
11:00 Stefan Pohl Valero, “Assembling the Food and Nutrition Problem in Colombia, 1890-1950. A Local Genealogy of “Community Development””
12:00 Lunch provided
1:00 Josh Frens-String, “Hybrid Development: In Search of a ‘Green Revolution’ in Mid-Century Chile”
1:45 Sarah Foss, “An “Attack on Rural Backwardness”: International Development meets Counterinsurgency in Cold War Guatemala”
2:30 Margarita Fajardo, “Whither Development? Colombia, the Andean Pact, and the End of an Era”
3:15 Carlos R. Hernandez, “Rethinking Tourism and Development in Mexico: Cancún, the Riviera Maya, and Beyond”
4:00-5:00 Wrap up conversation
