Latin American Studies Association 2024 Annual Conference in Bogotá
XLII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, June 12 – 15, 2024, Hybrid Congress: Bogota, Colombia, and virtual
The Gerda Henkel Stiftung Project Team organised two sets of double panels at the annual conference of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) that took place at the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia, in June 2024. LASA is the main international professional association of researchers of Latin America. The 2024 conference attracted more than 5.400 participants from 63 countries. The panels focused on two themes of the ‘Latin America and the Global History of Democracy, 1810-1930’ Project: parliamentary cultures and the freedom of the press.
Parliamentary Cultures in Latin America: Origins and Developments, 1810-1930 - Part I and II.
This set of two panels examined the origins and development of parliamentary cultures in 19th century Latin America. Papers looked at various topics that related to ideas, attitudes, practices, and beliefs, which both informed and gave meaning to congressional procedures during the first hundred years of its independence. Despite the important role played by congresses during that period, the subject remains understudied. What were the common and distinctive features of constituent assemblies and regular legislatures in each country? What discussion and negotiation practices took shape during the different periods? How was parliamentary rhetoric transformed in those years? How did the relations of congressmen with each other and with the public change over time? The papers focused on the possibility of conceptualizing what was a parliamentary culture and how it was forged in Latin America through the cases of Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina.
Organisers: Eduardo Posada-Carbo and Laura Cucchi.
‘Democracy, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Latin America, 1780-1930, Part I and II
This double panel explored the ways in which communications, public opinion and the freedom of expression intersected with practices and ideas associated to ‘democracy’ from the late imperial period to the early 20th century. Recent literature has shown that public expressions of dissent, opposition and disagreement played an active role in the transformation from colony to nation-state in the former territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas. Through various media – speech, letters, broadsheets, handwritten libels, periodicals, pamphlets, satirical images, books, – public spaces were made into an arena of political contestation.
Organisers: Paula Alonso and Juan Neves-Sarriegui.
Parliamentary Cultures in Latin America: Origins and Developments, 1810-1930 - Part I
Session Organizers: Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford; Laura Cucchi, Gerda Henkel Stiftung- Freie Universität Berlin
Chair: Paula Alonso, George Washington University/Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Translating Liberalism in the Empire: Concepts and Practices of the 1812 Spanish Constitution Among the Colonized: Jorge Luengo Sánchez, Pompeu Fabra University
Parliamentary Culture in Early Independent Mexico: Silke Hensel, Universität zu Köln
Parlamentarización y derecho de petición (Imperio del Brasil, 1a mitad siglo XIX): Andrea Slemian, UNIFESP
Moderar, conservar o legislar en el gobierno popular: Teorías y normas sobre la función del Senado en Venezuela (1810–1857): Luis D. Perrone, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas "Hermann González Oropeza s.j.". Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Ideas, prácticas y tradiciones en el funcionamiento de los espacios legislativos del Río de la Plata/Argentina (1810s–1870s): Laura Cucchi, Gerda Henkel Stiftung- Freie Universität Berlin
Parliamentary Cultures in Latin America: Origins and Developments, 1810-1930 - Part II
Session Organizers: Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford; Laura Cucchi, Gerda Henkel Stiftung- Freie Universität Berlin
Chair: Juan I. Neves Sarriegui, University of Oxford
México: La oposición parlamentaria en 1869: Israel Arroyo, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)
Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos and José da Silva Lisboa: Two Contrasting Proponents of Parliamentary Culture in Brazil: Andre Jockyman Roithmann, University College London
The Origins and Developments of a Parliamentary Culture in Colombia (1821–
1885): Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford
El Congreso argentino y la cultura política parlamentaria. De la construcción del Estado a la política de masas: un balance: Martin Castro, CONICET-Instituto E. Ravignani/ UNTREF; Ana Leonor Romero, Universidad de Buenos Aires/Ravignani
June 12: Double Panel ‘Democracy, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Latin America, 1780-1930’
Co-organisers: Paula Alonso (The George Washington University and the Gerda Henkel Foundation) and Juan Neves-Sarriegui (Oxford History Faculty and the Gerda Henkel Foundation). Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 12 June.
June 13: Democracy, Print Culture and the Public Sphere, in Latin America 1780-1920 - PART I
Presenter(s):
Chair: Eduardo Posada-Carbo, eduardo.posada-carbo@lac.ox.ac.uk, University of Oxford
Session Organizer: Paula Alonso, palonso@gwu.edu, George Washington University
Session Organizer: Juan Neves Sarriegui, nevesjuanignacio@gmail.com, University of Oxford
"La transformación de la esfera pública en el espacio urbano hispanoamericano durante la era de las revoluciones"
Maria Cristina Soriano, cristina.soriano@austin.utexas.edu, University of Texas at Austin;
Jeremy Bentham and the Circulation of Constitutional Ideas in Early Spanish American Newspapers (1808-1824)
Juan Neves Sarriegui, nevesjuanignacio@gmail.com, University of Oxford;
New Granada's Lettered Public Sphere and the Birth of a Republican Habitus
Victor Uribe, uribev@fiu.edu, Florida International University;
Press Trials as Political Warfare in Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile
James Wood, woodj@ncat.edu, NC A/T State University;
The Chilean Press, the Catholic Church, and Democratic Government: An Analysis of Political Goals and Rhetorical Strategies in the Nineteenth Century
Lisa Edwards, lisa_edwards@uml.edu, Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell;
Democracy, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1780-1920 - PART II
Presenter(s):
Chair: Laura Cucchi, lcucchi@gmail.com, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Session Organizer: Paula Alonso, palonso@gwu.edu, George Washington University
Session Organizer: Juan Neves Sarriegui, nevesjuanignacio@gmail.com, University of Oxford
The progressive journalism of mid-nineteenth century in the Hispanic Atlantic
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, n.sobrevilla@kent.ac.uk, University of Kent;
Opinión pública y construcción de un republicanismo democrático en el Pacífico sudamericano en la década de 1860
Carlos Cifuentes, carlosfcifuentesr@gmail.com, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana;
The Press, Slavery, and Democracy: Reflections on their Entwined Pasts in Brazil, ca. 1850
Celso Castilho, celso.t.castilho@vanderbilt.edu, Vanderbilt University;
Expanding the Public Sphere. Globalizing Democracy through Print in the Hispanic World (1860-1880)
Paula Alonso, palonso@gwu.edu, George Washington University.
Enemies of the Revolution
José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, joseantonio.aguilar@cide.edu, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas.
