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Please join us March 1st and 2nd for the Fourth Annual Rio de la Plata Seminar,  sponsored by ,  and .  The event is cosponsored by , and the Program in

Opening Lecture – March 1st 11am, Blow Memorial Hall, 201

• Decentering the Nineteenth-Century History of the Rio de la Plata.
• Prof. Erik Langer, Georgetown University

Workshop Sessions – James Blair Hall 206, History Library

Session I – March 1st -1:45pm,

• Jacinto Ventura de Molina (1766-1841): a Black Quixote of Montevideo- Alex Borucki, UC - Irvine
• Faithfully Serving, Patiently Waiting: Manumission Strategies in Córdoba, Argentina 1776-1853- Erika Edwards, UNC – Charlotte
• Commentator: Viviana Grieco, University of Missouri at Kansas City

Session II – March 1st- 3:30pm

• "From peasants to slave owners: race and class in the Rio de la Plata"- Allison Poska, University of Mary Washington
• São Paulo e o Rio da Prata: um circuito mercantil em expansão no período tardo-colonial (1796-1822)- Denise Moura UNESP – Franca, SP, Brazil
• Commentator: Susan Socolow, Emory University

Session III – March 2nd - 9:15am

• Where Mapmakers and Nomads Meet: Rethinking Borderlands from the Rio de la Plata, 1749-1805- Jeff Erbig, UNC
• Down with the Palms of the Great Plaza!”:  Replanting the Seeds of Cultural Discord in Modern Buenos Aires, c. 1883-Brian Bockelman, Ripon College
• Commentator: Fabrício Prado, The College of William and Mary

Session IV – March 2nd-11am

• Facundo in the United States: Mary Peabody Mann's translation of Domingo Sarmiento's Civilization and Barbarism-Carolina Zumaglini, University of Florida International
• On the Origins of Civilization and Barbarism: Revisiting Sarmiento's Facundo-Ariel de la Fuente, Purdue University
• Commentator: William Acree Jr, Washignton University

For pre-circulated papers and further questions please contact Fabricio Prado (fpprado@wm.edu)