Environmental Histories of Latin America Faculty Workshop

Friday April 24th

8:30 – 9:00 am — Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 am — Opening Remarks by Rodolfo Dirzo

9:15 – 10:45 am — Climate and Social Change

• Sherry Johnson, “The Impact of Hurricanes on Colonial Cuban Development”
• Mikael Wolfe, “The Drought of 1908-1910 in Northern Mexico and the Outbreak of the Mexican Revolution”
• Eve Buckley, “Drought and Social Engineering in Northeastern Brazil in the Mid-Twentieth Century”
• Mark Carey, Discussant

10:45 – 11:00 am — Coffee break

11:00 am – 12:30 pm — Transnational Conservation

• Frederico Freitas, “Conserving the Iguazu Falls between Brazil and Argentina, 1950-1980”
• Emily Wakild, “Constellations of Nature: Parks in Patagonia 1920s-1940s.”
• Christopher Boyer, “Community Forestry and Transnational Development in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1940-2000”
• Sterling Evans, discussant

12:30 – 1:30 pm — Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 pm — The Urban Environment

• Vera Candiani, “The Postconquest Drainage of Mexico City’s Lakes”
• Matthew Vitz, “Historical Urban Ecology and the Latin American Metropolis: A View from Mexico City”
• Lise Sedrez, “The Bay of All Beauties: The Transformation of Rio’s Guanabara Bay during the Twentieth Century”
• Zephyr Frank, discussant

3:00 – 3:15 pm — Coffee break

3:15 – 4:45 pm — Labor and the Environment

• Thomas D. Rogers, “Labor and Environment in the Sugar Cane Fields of Brazil in the mid-Twentieth century”
• Myrna Santiago, “The Effect of Extractive Industries on Labor and the Environment across Latin America in the Nineteenth Century”
• Claudia Leal, “Forests and Freedom in Post-emancipation Colombia”
• John Soluri, discussant