12th Rio de la Plata Workshop
February 26, 2021, 3:00 pm - February 27, 2021, 3:00 pm UTC-4
A Book Slam Celebrating Six New Books with Their Authors
Watch the videos of each day’s conversation here:
Friday, February 26, 2021
3:00 pm EST
- Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay– Shawn Austin
- A Silver River in a Silver World Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648–1678 –David Freeman
- Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America– Jeffrey Erbig Jr.
Interviewer: Viviana Grieco
Host: Fabrício Prado
Saturday, February 27, 2021
12:00 noon EST
- Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic –Erika Edwards
- A Woman, a Man, a Nation: Mariquita Sánchez, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the Beginnings of Argentina –Jeffrey Shumway
- Staging Frontiers: The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay –William Acree Jr.
Interviewer: Alex Borucki
Host: Fabrício Prado
For questions email Fabrício Prado (fpprado@wm.edu)