The 16th Rio de la Plata Workshop is an annual academic meeting on the history of the colonial and nineteenth-century Rio de la Plata region, held most often at the College of William & Mary, and also at Roosevelt University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Brigham Young University. For nearly two decades, this workshop has fostered research collaboration and scholarly exchange among scholars in the United States, the Río de la Plata, and Brazil. This meeting serves as a workshop on forthcoming publications about the history of this region. For instance, participants have created this edited volume: The Rio de la Plata from Colony to Nations: Commerce, Society, and Politics
Friday, Aug.14, 9:30AM-12:30pm
The Notary in the Middle: Dutch Merchants and Credit in Buenos Aires, David Freeman, University of Missouri-Kansas City
The Expulsion of the Jesuits and the Imposition of a New Secular Administration. The Guarani in Charge of the Local Government. 1768-1800, Santiago Conti, Princeton University
José de Gálvez and the establishment of free trade in Málaga and the Río de la Plata, Viviana Grieco, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Chair: Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine
Friday, Aug. 14, 2pm-3:40pm
The British Invasions of Río de la Plata, 1806-1807, Miceala Miralles, College of William & Mary
Unaccountable Trade: Atlantic Commerce, Slavery, and Plunder in the Making of Independent South America and the United States, Fabricio Prado, College of William & Mary
Chair: Julia Sarreal, Arizona State University
Friday, Aug. 14, 4pm-5:40pm
La identidad federal en la década de 1830 y su papel en la conformación de la Argentina, Gabriel Di Meglio, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Identidades territoriales, representaciones cartográficas y enseñanza de la geografía en Uruguay en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, Ana Frega, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
Chair: Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine
Saturday, Aug. 15, 9:30am-12:30pm
The Rural Foundations of the Coffee Boom: Mules and Agriculture in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil, Christian Robles, Stanford University
Tales of Two Crossings: Mythologizing Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Argentina and the United States, Brian Bockelman, Ripon College
The (Un)Likely Story of Rosario Calquin: Poison, Prison, and the Presence of Indigenous Children in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires, Hannah Greenwald, Gettysburg College
Chair: Julia Sarreal, Arizona State University.
Header Image: "USS Delaware outside the Bay of Montevideo, 1839," Alden, Charles Henry, Alice Burrington Wight Alden, and George Edmund Badger. 1841. Journal of Charles Henry Alden, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.