Latin American Studies Association 2025 Annual Conference in San Francisco
Look out for our three panels! To learn more about LASA 2025, visit LASA2025 / About LASA2025
Constructing Democracy in Heterogeneous Societies: Latin America, 1810-1930 (Part 1)
Session Organizer: Paula Alonso, George Washington University/Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Chair: Victor Uribe, Florida International University
Denying Difference: National Unity as an Element of Democracy
Lisa Edwards, Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell;
Religion and Republic: Catholics and Liberals Define Nineteenth-Century Argentine Democracy
Eduardo Zimmermann, Universidad de San Andrés;
Imago Dei: Religious Arguments on Equality and Democracy in Venezuela (1797-1857)
Luis Perrone, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas "Hermann González Oropeza s.j.". Universidad Católica Andrés Bello;
Religious Toleration and Freedom of Expression in 19th-century Latin America
Juan Neves Sarriegui, University of Oxford;
Women, Democracy and Religion: The Work of Juana Manso (1819-75)
Laura Cucchi, Gerda Henkel Stiftung- Freie Universität Berlin
Constructing Democracy in Heterogeneous Societies: Latin America, 1810-1930 (Part 2)
Session Organizer: Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford
Chair: Juan Neves Sarriegui, University of Oxford
Reflections on the Relationship between Race and Democracy
Nancy Appelbaum, Binghamton University;
Democracy, Race and Class in the construction of the electorate in Chile, Argentina and Peru, 1830s-1870s
Paula Alonso, George Washington University/Gerda Henkel Stiftung;
Emilio Rabasa y Andrés Molina Enríquez sobre la cuestión étnica y el gobierno
José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE);
Democracy, Republicanism and the Equality of Colors in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Panama
Marixa Lasso, CIHAC AIP;
Revisiting the Mestizo and ‘Racial Democracy’ in the Long Nineteenth-Century in Latin America
Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford
Origins and Development of ‘Legitimate Opposition’ in the History of Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1930 (Part 1)
Session Organizer: Laura Cucchi, Gerda Henkel Stiftung- Freie Universität Berlin
Chair: Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford
An Imperial Body Politic: The American Challenge to the Cortes de Cadiz
Jorge Luengo Sánchez, Pompeu Fabra University;
La voluntad general and Masonic lodges in early republican Mexico
Silke Hensel, Universität zu Köln;
La minoría parlamentaria del voto directo: el constituyente mexicano de 1856
Israel Arroyo, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP);
Former liberals and aspiring democrats: changing notions of opposition in monarchical Brazil
André Jockyman Roithmann, University College London;
Democratizing Brazil: opposition or intra-elite conflicts? (1889 - 1932)
Paolo Ricci, Universidade de São Paulo;
Origins and Development of ‘Legitimate Opposition’ in the History of Democracy in Latin America, 1810-1930 (Part 2)
Session Organizer: Juan Neves Sarriegui, University of Oxford
Chair: Paula Alonso, George Washington University/Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Crisis, Reconciliation, and Realignment: Chile’s Path to Establishing a ‘Legitimate’ Opposition
James Wood, NC A/T State University;
El origen de la oposición conservadora a mediados del siglo XIX peruano
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent;
Oposición, debate público y reforma: una reflexión sobre la democracia y sus tensiones
Ana Leonor Romero, Universidad de Buenos Aires/Ravignani;
Partidos políticos, representación y oposición parlamentaria en Argentina, 1910-1930
Martin Castro, CONICET-Instituto E. Ravignani/ UNTREF;
Manin Goes to the New World: The Principle of Distinction and its Effects on Party Competition (1800-2000)
Sebastian Cortesi, Johns Hopkins
