Hemispheric Institute on the Americas

The HIA 2024-25 Graduate Students Conference features the work of the recipients of the HIA 2024 Summer Fellowships. Each presentation will have a duration of 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

The Latin American Studies Conscortium of Northern California (LASC-NorCal), comprised of San José State University (SJSU), the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas (HIA) at the University

Latinx Belonging is an edited volume exploring the question: What does it mean to be Latinx?

Peopling for Profit provides a comprehensive history of migration to nineteenth-century imperial Brazil focusing on the orchestrated efforts of migrant recruitment, transport to, and settlement in post-independence Brazil.

Suzana Sawyer is a Professor of Anthropology at UC, Davis. Her new book, The Small Matter of Suing Chevron, takes on a legal trilogy. In 2011, an Ecuadorian court issued the world’s largest environmental contamination liability: a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron.

In this book talk, Dr. Quintana will explore the government-sponsored Bracero Program and the Caribbean guestworker programs of World War II, addressing these government-sponsored farm labor programs as the unexplored consequence of Japanese American incarceration and the New Deal.

The HIA 2023-24 Graduate Students Conference features the work of the recipients of the HIA 2022 Summer Fellowships. Each presentation will have a duration of 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

Please join us for a talk with Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro,
award-winning Puerto Rican writer and "artivist" and director
of the Department of Afro-Puerto Rican Studies, a creative
writing performance project hosted by the Cátedra de Mujeres

This book is a political history of the Bracero Program, the bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964.

Agrarian reform and agricultural revolution are crucial themes in the historiography of agricultural development and rural change.

Susy Zepeda is an associate professor in the Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis (Patwin land). Her research and teaching focus on: Xicana Indígena spirit work, decolonization, critical feminist of color collaborative methodologies, oral and visual storytelling, and intergenerational healing.

 Many countries in Latin America have recently elected governments that claim to represent a renewed left.

Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor is Professor of History and Philosophy at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa (México). His research focuses on agrarian history and the economic history of natural resources in México, especially water.