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Ward Stavig Memorial Lecture
This is a lecture sees inaugurated in 2008 to honor the memory of our former colleague Ward Stavig, who was a beloved social historian of colonial Peruvian and Bolivian peasant culture. Every year, the History Department will select a prominent scholar to deliver a public lecture on a topic of interest to the department, the university, and the community at large.
2025 - TBA.
2024 - Dr. (Florida International University), "How Florida Helped Shape the Nation鈥檚 'Culture Wars': A History of the 1950s and 60s". The event, co-sponsored by the Department of Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexuality Studies and, the USF Humanities Institute, and the History Department Graduate Student Organization, provided much needed historical context to the current debates around gender and sexuality happening in our state.
2017 - Dr. (Notre Dame University), "Containing Law Within the Walls". In 1568 the governor of the viceroyalty of Lima ordered a walled neighborhood built
to house the large number of indigenous immigrants to the city. Although it is easy
to see this act of enclosing indigenous men and women as a form of racial
segregation, it was inadequate for separating or protecting Indian residents.
Professor Graubart shows that this was a legal act, intended to differentiate the
laws
that ordered both Spanish and indigenous communities in the city, and to create
indigenous leadership that could be molded to the use of Spanish authorities. She
argues that indigenous self-governance did not result from the desire to racially
differentiate. Rather, racial differentiation flowed from the recognition of indigenous
self-governance.
2014 - Dr. (Davidson College), "Even Though She was Indian in Her Dress鈥�: Spanish Outsiders within Indigenous Family Networks in 16th Century Peru鈥�.&苍产蝉辫;
2011 - Dr. (Barnard College), "Defining Latin America within a Global Perspective".
2007 - (Harvard University), 鈥�Searching for the Subaltern: Ward Stavig鈥檚 contribution to the historiography of Latin America鈥�.