Historias Podcast

La historiadora Rossana Barragan discute con nosotros su mas reciente trabajo sobre el rol de las mujeres en las minas de Potosi en el periodo colonial como trabajadoras pero tambien como dueñas de trapiches. Una charla fascinante que nos ayuda a entender cómo ha cambiado la investigación sobre la historia colonial Andina de las ultimas tres décadas Rossana Barragán Romano, "Women in the Silver Mi...

La historiadora venezolana Cristina Soriano autora del libro Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela nos habla de los medios formales e informales de circulación de información, y en particular de ideas revolucionarias, durante el periodo de la independencia. Una fascinante y exhaustiva exploración de fuentes escritas: libros, panfletos, pasquin...

In this episode we report on the state of the SECOLAS journal, The Latin Americanist. Steven chatted with editor Greg Weeks, and annals issue co-editors Gregory Crider and Jürgen Buchenau. Together they explored the world of journal publishing, endorsed good citizenship to the academe, and tried their best to convince us that the Mexican Revolution explains absolutely everything! Take a listen.

Dr. Fernanda Bretones Lane spoke with Steven about her article “The Congress of Vienna and the Making of Second Slavery,” which won the 2020 Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article. Bretones Lane, who co-authored the article with Guilherme de Paula Costa Santos and Alain El Youssef, also discussed her current book project examining Spanish religious sanctuary laws that enslaved Africans in the Atla...

Esta semana en Historias en español tuvimos el grato placer de tener en el programa al historiador argentino Ernesto Semán para dialogar sobre su libro Ambassadors of the Working Class. Este libro, concentrado en la historia de los agregados obreros durante el gobierno de Perón, constituye un invaluable aporte a la historial social, política, y trasnacional. https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Martin. E...

Dr. Natalia Milanesio joined Steven to discuss her new book ¡Destape!: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina. For Milanesio, the Destape was "the biggest and most explosive sociocultural phenomenon after the fall of the military dictatorship... that made sexual culture into a powerful metaphor for democracy and the reconstruction of Argentine society.” ¡Destape! earned Honorable...

Xun Betan poeta y activista Tzotzil nos habla de su carrera como miembro y estudioso de las comunidades tzotziles en la frontera México-Guatemala. https://www.galeriamuy.org/esp/xun-betan-2/ Camino a San Cristobal (Intro) - https://youtu.be/wDk05gNL1CI La Maruchita (Outro) - https://youtu.be/OfUAkpia7Wk https://www.gob.mx/inpi/es/articulos/etnografia-de-los-pueblos-tzotzil-batsil-winik-otik-y-tzel...

Renata and Dustin spoke with Dr. Patrick Iber about his academic roots, and the origins of his book, Neither Peace Nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America. But our hosts were especially interested in Iber’s extensive record of publishing for popular audiences. They explore the question: what is a public intellectual, anyway?

El historiador uruguayo Aldo Marchesi analiza los procesos guerrilleros de los años 60 en Sudamerica. Aunque cada uno de estos procesos ha recibido algún grado de atención por parte de los historiadores en sus respectivos países, Marchesi rescata el carácter trasnacional de estos movimientos y la emergencia de una identidad colectiva que se fue forjando no solo a partir de la circulación de ideas...

Three historians of epidemic disease - Nicole Pacino, Glen Kuecker, and Carlos Dimas - joined Steven to talk about the history of pandemics in Latin America and the Caribbean and how it can help us understand this particular moment we are living in. For further information: Carlos - https://www.unlv.edu/people/carlos-dimas Glen - https://www.depauw.edu/academics/college-of-liberal-arts/history/fac...

En historias 82, la historiadora Jennifer Adair nos presenta su libro *In Search of the Lost Decade: Everyday Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina* publicado en enero del 2020. El libro retrata las luchas cotidianas de los ciudadanos argentinos en el periodo de la postdictadura. Adair subraya que las demandas por democracia, además de una dimensión política, albergaban una profunda demanda económ...

Dustin chatted with Dr. Christoph Rosenmüller about his book, Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, winner of this year's Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize. In addition to diving into colonial Mexican jurisprudence, the two talked about the insights that book offers for the classroom.

Dr. Alvis Dunn, SECOLAS' incoming president, joined Steven to talk about his intellectual journey mixed with twenty-five years of bartending. They also discussed his road trip to Guatemala in the 1980s and his vision for the organization.

This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Brenda Elsey onto the program. Dr. Elsey is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University, and most recently the author of Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America (University of Texas Press, 2019), with Joshua Nadel. Steven spoke with Dr. Elsey about the importance of the history of sport, and especially its intersection with women’s...

Dr. Erika Edwards joined Steven to discuss her new book *Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic.* They also discussed the challenges of "life happens" and Dr. Edwards' role as Executive Secretary of the Conference on Latin American History.

Dr. Amy Offner sat down with Lily for an insightful conversation centering on her book, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. The two discussed Colombia’s importance as a site of mid-twentieth century capitalist development, and the impact that varieties of capitalism had on a wide range of people – from public and private elites to c...

In a Historias episode featuring two Texans, David McKenzie joined Steven for a wide-ranging conversation about working in public history, his research on U.S. citizens in Mexico during the mid-nineteenth century, commercial power, and balancing the demands of writing a doctoral dissertation with those of a day job. Originally aired January 22, 2020

Award-winning educator, novelist, and historian Suzanne Litrel joined Steven to discuss her research on Dutch Brazil and its place in the Portuguese Atlantic and World History. They also discuss her high school teaching career, her decision to write historical fiction, and the challenges of returning to graduate school as a non-traditional student. Happy listening. Check out Suzanne’s historical n...

Dr. Marysol Quevedo and Dr. Elizabeth Schwall joined Steven to discuss the cultural projects of the Cuban Revolution, arguably its most successful initiative. In this wide ranging discussion, Marysol and Elizabeth detail the evolution of these art forms from the 1930s through first decades of revolutionary Cuba, highlighting the efforts of Alicia Alonso, Fernando Alonso, Juan Blanco, Leo Bouwer, a...

Dr. Jennifer Lambe and Dr. Michael Bustamante joined Renata Keller to discuss the Cuban Revolution, an increasing appreciation for the plural experiences of revolution, and the continued politicization of writing on it. In this lively conversation, Jenny and Mike also talk about archives and methods and why the Cuban Revolution and its continued study still matter.

Amelia Frank-Vitale and John Doering-White joined Lily Pearl Balloffet to discuss their research and public engagement on Central American migration. Originally aired December 4, 2019

In the third installment in our occasional series on the Maya, Steven Hyland talked with Dr. Sarah West and Sarah Williams. In their wide-ranging conversation, our guests highlighted the importance of the local, and of socio-cultural constructions, when analyzing anything related to the Maya. From the politics of birthing to Apocalypto, this episode has it all! Originally aired November 29, 2019

The recent social unrest in Chile, the estallido social, has provided a reckoning for the political order that the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship brought into being. Dr. Marian Schlotterbeck joined Lily Balloffet to talk about the current crisis and her own work on everyday social revolutionaries in Chile. Check out her book, Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende’s Chile (Univers...

Drs. Thomas Field and Carmen Soliz walk Steven Hyland and Dustin Walcher through the unfolding political crisis in Bolivia. Originally aired November 13, 2019

Dr. Khristin Landry Montes, assistant professor of Art History at Cornell College, and Paula Karger, doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Toronto, join Steven Hyland for the first of two deep dives on the Maya. The discussion centers on Mayan cultural forms, including cosmology and origin stories, and sociopolitical organization and trade prior to the arrival of the Sp...