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Anteater Historical Reflections on Latin America: A Gathering in Honor of Steven Topik

Anteater Historical Reflections on Latin America: A Gathering in Honor of  Steven Topik

9:30: Coffee, Tea, Pastries
10:15 Welcome from Professor Alex Borucki, Director of Latin American Studies
10:30 Panel 1: Latin America's legendary wealth and the law
Dr. Richard Weiner, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, "The Rise and Fall of Mexico's Legendary Wealth: A Cultural Interpretation."
Dr. Elbra David, independent scholar, “Recasting American Credit: Merchants , Constitutionalism and Spanish Law in the Lower Mississippi Valley."
Comments by Dr. Rachel O'Toole, UCI
General Discussion.

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Welcome by Professor Jeff Wasserstrom, Chair, UCI Department of History
1:15 Panel 2: The Domestic World: Marriage, Families, and Nutrition
Dr. Paulo Simoes, CSU Fullerton, "Marriage Equality, Christian Polemics, and the Fall of the American Empire."
Dr. Nichole Sanders, University of Lynchburg, Lynchburg VA, "Restoring the Mexican Family: Women, Sex, and Catholicism in 1940s Mexico."
Dr. Corinne Pernet, University of Geneva, Switzerland,"Made in Guatemala? The Institute of Nutrition of Central America (INCAP) and the Development of Global Nutrition Expertise, 1950-1980."
Comments by Dr. Heidi Tinsman, UCI
General Discussion

Coffee Break 3:00-3:30

3:30-6:00   Panel 3: A Strange Brew: Travelers, Heavy Metal, and Coca Cola
Dr. Dennis Kortheuer, CSU Long Beach, Chair
Dr. Robert Duncan, UCI, “'Beneath a Rich Blaze of Golden Sunlight': The Travels of Archduke Maximilian through Brazil, 1860."
Dr. Giovanni Hortua, CSU Los Angeles and Golden West College, "Keep on Rockin' in the Neo-Liberal World: Colombia in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries."
Dr. Julio Moreno, University of San Francisco, "Coca-Cola, Latin America, and Global Capitalism."
Comment by Dr. Alex Borucki
General Discussion

Final Words and Gratitude, Steve Topik, UCI