The Latin American Studies Program hosted the Inaugural Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "The Paradoxes of Truth: Reckoning with Pinochet and the Memory Question in Chile and World Culture, 1989-2006" delivered by Steve J. Stern, on Thursday, March 4th, 2010, from 3:30 - 5 pm, in 1117 University Capitol Centre.

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

Steve J. Stern is Vice-Provost for Faculty and Staff and Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Stern’s work spans the Andes, Mexico, and Chile, from colonial times to the present. His most recent books are: Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London, 1998 (2004), which received an honorable mention for the Bryce Wood Award of the Latin American Studies Association; and Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973-1988 (2006), which was awarded the 2007 Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American History. The books are the first two volumes of a trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet’s Chile. Volume Three, Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006, will be published by Duke in May 2010.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), International Programs, and the Department of History.

The Latin American Studies Program hosted the second annual Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "Nota Roja: Justice in the Golden Age of Mexican Police News" delivered by Pablo Piccato, on Thursday, May 5th, 2011, at 4 pm, in 1117 University Capitol Centre.

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

The lecture examines crime and police newspapers and magazines in Mexico between the 1930s and 1960s, when the roles of reporters as detectives and criminals as public figures shaped social views of justice and the truth behind crime.

Piccato is a professor of history and the director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University in New York City.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), International Programs, and the Department of History.

The Latin American Studies Program hosted the third annual Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "Race, Gender, and Brazilian Regional Conflict: the War of São Paulo, 1932” presented by Barbara Weinstein, on Thursday, April 26th, 2012, from 3:30 - 5:30pm, in 1117 University Capitol Centre.

A workshop followed the lecture on Friday, April 27, 2012 from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Phillips Hall.

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), International Programs, and the Department of History.

The Latin American Studies Program hosted the fourth annual Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "Public Festivals and Performative Feasts: Aztecs and Allegory in Baroque Mexico” presented by Rolena Adorno, on Thursday, October 3rd, 2013, in 1117 University Capitol Centre.

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), International Programs, and the Department of History.

The Latin American Studies Program hosted the annual Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "The Iberian Pre- and Post-Colonial Roots of the Latin American Television Regional Market: The Case of Brazil” presented by Joseph D. Straubhaar, on Thursday, October 16th, 2014, from 4:00 - 5:30pm, in 1117 University Capitol Centre.

Straubhaar is the Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communications in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. His talk examines the contributions of pre-Colombian and Colonial era cultural and political geography to the shaping of contemporary television program flows, genre development, and format flows.

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP) in International Programs. Other sponsors include the Department of History, the Department of Communication Studies, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, all in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The Latin American Studies Program hosted the annual Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "Linked In, Left Out, Uplifted, Downloaded: The Ecology of Language in a Globalizing World” presented by Mary Louise Pratt, on Thursday, October 29th, 2015, from 3:30 - 5:00pm, in 1117 University Capitol Centre.

Pratt is Professor Emerita of Social and Cultural Analysis, Comparative Literature, and Spanish and Portuguese at NYU, where she held the Silver Chair until her recent retirement. Author of the influential book, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (2nd ed, 2007), among numerous publications, Pratt is recognized for her distinguished scholarship in literary and cultural studies of the Americas. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and former President of the MLA (2003).

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), International Programs, and the Department of History.

The Latin American Studies Program hosted the annual Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "Pardos, Mulattos, and the Purchase of Whiteness in the Spanish Indies” presented by Ann Twinam, on Thursday, October 12th, 2017, from 3:30 - 5:00pm, in 1117 University Capitol Centre.

The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Yet members of mixed races could free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar—a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness. This presentation asks a key question: what historic variables made it possible for pardos and mulattos—unlike their counterparts in Anglo-America—to move from slavery to freedom, to mix with Natives and Whites and to be transformed into vassals worthy of such royal favor?

Professor Ann Twinam is the Walter Webb Prescott chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent publication, Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford University Press, 2015) won the Latin American Studies Bryce Wood Best Book Award, The Conference on Latin American History Bolton-Johnson Prize, the American Historical Association Beveridge Award (best publication in U.S., Canadian, and Latin American history, 1492 to the Present) and the RMCLAS Bandelier-Lavrin and Ligia Parra Jahn Awards.

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), International Programs, and the Department of History.

The Latin American Studies Program hosted the annual Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "History's Autobiography” presented by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, on Thursday, September 18th, 2018, from 3:00 - 4:30pm, in the Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber.

The meaning of “Latin America,” as an idea, has always existed in relation to a complex set of historical phenomena – racial, linguistic, political, economic. Tenorio-Trillo’s presentation locates the emergence of this concept in a way that illuminates just how freighted it is and why it has endured.

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is a Samuel N. Harper professor of history at the University of Chicago, where he is also the acting director for the Katz Center for Mexican Studies. His publications include “Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea” (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and “I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Having been the recipient of many honors and awards, he received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award in 2018.

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), International Programs, and the Department of History.

The Latin American Studies Program hosted the annual Charles A. Hale Lecture, entitled "Blending Puerto Rico into Latin American History" presented by Francisco A. Scarano, on Tuesday, September 24th, 2019, from 3:30 - 5 pm, in 1117 University Capitol Centre.

Francisco A. Scarano is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published important studies on a variety of topics from all periods of Caribbean and particularly Puerto Rican history, including slavery and the plantation economy, reconstituted peasantries, and race and racialization processes.

For much of the twentieth century, Latin American historiography marginalized Puerto Rico as an American possession not adequately encompassed by Latin American studies. Specialists regarded Puerto Rico as somehow “not part of” Latin America, although it belonged to the Spanish empire longer than any other country in the region. This exclusion reflected core tensions in the field of Latin American history and of Latin Americanism in general, as they were elaborated and institutionalized in the United States in the first decades of the 20th century. Scarano's talk will discuss the origins of this tension and its eventual--if perhaps only partial--resolution. It will also discuss how, without much fanfare, Puerto Rico has provided important points of comparison for Latin American history, anthropology, and literature. 

The Charles A. Hale Lecture honors the memory of Professor Charles A. Hale (1930-2008), a specialist in Latin American liberalism and intellectual history. He was a distinguished scholar and faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966-1997.

This event is sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), International Programs, and the Department of History.

POPULAR COSMOPOLITANISM: CINEMA, GENRE AND MEDIATION IN MID-CENTURY MEXICO

September 23, 2021 | 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (CDT)

Ignacio (Nacho) Sánchez Prado

This virtual zoom webinar is free and open to the public.

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