LACS-SHA
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Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association. Join at https://tinyurl.com/ywkzx7f2 (Standard)/(Students) https://tinyurl.com/mrxfs23b
Calling all LACS-SHA Members - if you are attending the SHA this year, please consider joining us at the USC History Social, where LACS-SHA have been invited as guests. Fri, Nov. 6, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Skol Brewing Company 155 Carnegie Way, NW Atlanta. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/history-on...
History on Tap
Atlanta Alumni Happy Hour hosted by the Department of History and the Institute for Southern Studies
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We are thrilled to announce our 2026 LACS-SHA Luncheon Speaker, Yesenia Barragan. An Associate Professor of History at Rutgers and specialist in the transnational history of the Americas and the African Diaspora, Dr. Barragan’s talk will be held at 12:30pm on Saturday, 7th November.
🚨Call for members and renewals🚨 Join or renew your LACS-SHA membership at www.tnstate.edu/lacs/members... or email our Treasurer Dr. Erica Johnson ejohnson@fmarion.edu for more details.
Deadline Approaching - please share!
LACS-SHA@lacs-sha.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨Announcing the 2026 Contest for the Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize🚨We invite submissions from scholars who defended in 2025 and work on Latin America, the Atlantic World, the Borderlands, and the Caribbean; time frame of study is open.
Reminder that I would love to visit your class/college/university at some point next year to talk about Caribbean pirates in history and popular culture. DM me if you want to talk about it!
Juan José Ponce Vázquez@jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 7mo agoI have developed a presentation titled "The Real Pirates of the Caribbean, and Why We Think We Love Them." I do a very quick pass to the history of Caribbean piracy, and then I jumped on to talk about representations of pirates in British literature and Hollywood films.
🚨Announcing the 2026 Contest for the Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize. Submissions may include books published between Jan. 1 2025 and Dec. 31 2025 on any areas of Latin American, Atlantic, Borderlands, and Caribbean history; the time frame of study is open🚨
🚨Announcing the 2026 Contest for the Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize🚨We invite submissions from scholars who defended in 2025 and work on Latin America, the Atlantic World, the Borderlands, and the Caribbean; time frame of study is open.
🚨Announcing the 2026 Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize Contest for scholars working in Latin American, Caribbean, Atlantic, and Borderlands History🚨 Please share!
The latest dLOC Newsletter is finally here! Check the links below to read it in English, Spanish, or French! English: www.canva.com/design/DAHDe... Español: www.canva.com/design/DAHFK... Français: www.canva.com/design/DAGyZ...
You can read more of Prof. Mota's research on this topic in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
Other Geographies of Struggle: Afro-Brazilians and the American Civil War
Abstract. This article approaches Brazil as a forgotten Atlantic battleground of the American Civil War. I explore armed confrontations of Union and Confederate vessels along the Brazilian coast as we...
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Hispanic American Historical Review@hahr21.bsky.social · 7mo agoHAHR author Isadora Moura Mota discusses her research on Black abolitionism in 19th-century Brazil on the @jhideas.bsky.social podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/74tY...
Calling Historians of Latin America, the Caribbean, Atlantic World, and Borderlands- Deadline Extended to 27th Feb!
🚨CFP 2026 🚨: LACS–SHA invites individual paper and panel proposals for the SHA’s 92nd Annual Meeting, held November 5–8, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. Panels and papers welcome on all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, including borderlands and the Atlantic World. Deadline: 30th Jan. '26.
🚨CFP 2026 🚨: LACS–SHA invites individual paper and panel proposals for the SHA’s 92nd Annual Meeting, held November 5–8, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. Panels and papers welcome on all aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, including borderlands and the Atlantic World. Deadline: 30th Jan. '26.
Reflecting back on 2025, we’d like to thank everyone who helped make the LACS–SHA events at the SHA Annual Conference in St. Pete such a success.
Dear Followers - Check out this important CFP on Venezuela’s revolutionary movements from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social -
Age of Revolutions@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 9mo agoAge of Revolutions seeks contributions on Venezuela’s revolutionary movements, ideas, and global impact. 🔗 Submit here ageofrevolutions.com/2026/01/06/c... Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis but should be submitted by January 19, 2026. Bring your research to the conversation!
Congratulations to @lizagrandia.bsky.social, winner of the LACS-SHA 2025 Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize!
Calling PhD students in the humanities or interpretive social sciences! The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support projects that push the traditional approaches and forms of dissertation research in new directions. Apply by Oct. 29 9PM ET: www.acls.org/DIF
Congrats to Naomi Sussman, winner of the 2025 Robert F. Heizer Article Award for “‘Related Around the Mountain’” (in Ethnohistory). @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social More info: ethnohistory.org/awards-suppo...
Robert F. Heizer Article Award - American Society for Ethnohistory
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Congratulations to Amanda Summers (@amandajsummers.bsky.social), who has won the LACS-SHA 2025 Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize.
Congratulations to Kristen Block, winner of the 2025 Kimberly Hanger Article Prize from @lacs-sha.bsky.social
Extended deadline to apply for seats at our two NEW OI Coffeehouses, #VastEarlyAmerica AND a whole new year of the Digital Projects Coffeehouse and the "Just Write" table -- check it out! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST est paru *enfin* en français!!! Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹 www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...
Michel-Rolph Trouillot : « Faire taire le passé », une autre approche de l’Histoire
Trente ans après sa parution en anglais, Silencing the Past de Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) paraît enfin en français sous le titre Faire taire le passé – Pouvoir et production historique (Lux Éd...
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Una Semana Más!
Association of Caribbean Historians@achconference.bsky.social · last yr.El Comité Ejecutivo de la ACH anuncia la 57ª Conferencia Anual se celebrará en la University of the West Indies Jamaica, del 24 a 28 de mayo de 2026. (El viernes 29 de mayo está prevista una excursión opcional.) Convocatoria: associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/es/reunion-a...
