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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 2d

📢Next week! IHR Latin American History Seminar
with Andrés Bustamante, talking about "Revolution at the Ruins: Archaeology and Mexico's 1917 Constitution". 14 Oct 2025, 5:30pm.
More info 👉 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Revolution at the Ruins: Archaeology and Mexico’s 1917 Constitution

This session will explore how post-revolutionary Mexico redefined subsoil sovereignty, tracing debates over artifacts, law, and identity in the 1932 Monte Albán case.

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Hispanic American Historical Review @hahr21.bsky.social · Jul 1

You can read more of @amoterocleves.bsky.social's research on this topic in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Mar 17

I will be presenting my new book, "Plebeian Consumers" (CUP, 2025) on April 15th, at Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies. If you are around, please join us!
For more info 👇
shorturl.at/N12FG

Ana María Otero Cleves | Plebeian Consumers Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

On this book talk Ana María Otero-Cleves will present her most recent book Plebeian Consumers. Plebeian Consumers is both a global and local study. It tells the story of how peasants, day workers, for...

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Mar 7

So happy to have Dr. Thomas Rath (UCL) at the History Research Seminar atYork on 🗓️March 19th, 2025. He will be sharing his research on "A Sterile Internationalism? “Atomic War on Insects” at the United Nations, 1960s-70." All welcome! www.york.ac.uk/history/abou...

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Mar 4

Join us tomorrow for our History Dept. Research Seminar! Dr. Purba Hossain @YorkHistoryDept will present on "Pandit, Dubash, Assistant: Language Mediation in the Linguistic Survey of India (1898-1928)." Wed 5th March, 13:00-15:00, V/N/123.
More info: www.york.ac.uk/history/abou...

Pandit, Dubash, Assistant: Language Mediation in the Linguistic Survey of India (1898-1928)

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Mar 3

Delighted to share a new episode of The On History Podcast recorded with the amazing history students at York. Thoroughly enjoyed discussing my research and recent book with them! 📘 #HistoryPodcast
open.spotify.com/episode/28k5...

On… The History of 19th Century Colombian Consumers

On History · Episode

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · Feb 26

Really enjoyed this tonight! Olivia's research is fantastic and I'm looking forward to seeing her take academia by storm 🔥

Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · Feb 18

I’m very excited to present my paper — “Black is Beautiful”: The politics of pigmentation within the Black Women’s Movement, 1970-1990 — at the School of History research seminars of the University of York!
📅 Wednesday 26th February
⏰ 17:30-19:00
📍 V/N/123

www.york.ac.uk/history/abou...

Olive Morris at her modelling course, c.1969

Poster for the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Feb 25

To join online, please register in advance:

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: LAC History Seminar Series HT25. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Feb 25

📢 History Seminar: "Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia, 19th to 21st centuries"
📅 Thursday, February 27th
🕔 5:00 PM GMT
🗣️ Speakers: Lina Britto, Ricardo López Pedreros, Ana María Otero-Cleves
📍 If you're in Oxford, join us!
More info: www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · Jan 27

US (and Puerto Rico) graduate students: Would you like to participate in a 8-9 week paid summer internship working in archives in Puerto Rico? This program is for you. Organized by Aldo Lauria Santiago, from Rutgers. More information here: prac.rutgers.edu/archival-int...

Archival Internship – The Rutgers Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC)

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Jan 23

Necesito ayuda. Me recomiendan ejemplos de archivos colectivos —no estatales— en América Latina que sirven para contrarrestar narrativas. Gracias estatales/nacionales. #archivosdesdeabajo

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Jan 5

@juancobo.bsky.social viste tu libro? 🙂

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Jan 4

Thanks Will!

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Jan 4

So happy to see my book at
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
booth at the #AHA25 and in such good company!

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Dec 14

¡Gracias Edd!

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Dec 13

What more could I wish for to wrap up the term! My very own new book on the shelf and cookies lovingly baked by my students. 🎄🍪📘

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · Dec 6

Colombia Asks U.S. to Declassify Records on 1985 Palace of Justice Case
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Colombia Asks U.S. to Declassify Records on 1985 Palace of Justice Case

Washington, D.C., December 6, 2024 - Yesterday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that he has asked the United States to expedite the declassification of archival records on the 1985 Palace ...

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Vanesa Miseres @vanesamiseres.bsky.social · Dec 2

Gender Studies 2 year post doc position at Notre Dame. Deadline December 10! 👉 genderstudies.nd.edu/people/postd...

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Gender Studies Program develops, promotes, and supports scholarship, creative work, pedagogy, service, and activism that expand knowledge, respect human dignity, foster solidarity, and build towar...

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Nov 28

Join us next week for the History Research Seminar at the University of York. @claudiajsoares.bsky.social will present her paper: ‘You are not prisoners, nor is this a prison’: empire, emotions, and welfare, 1860-1900'’. 4 Dec, 5:30 -7:00 PM. All welcome!
More info 👇

‘You are not prisoners, nor is this a prison’: empire, emotions, and welfare, 1860-1900

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Nov 25

*Colombia

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Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social · Oct 18

Please circulate this great opportunity to do a PhD at Kew Gardens and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York! The student will look at the history of marginalised individuals who made knowledge about fungi in the early 20th century.

LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting

Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950

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Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · Nov 14

Looking forward to giving a paper at University of York next Wednesday - please join us!

Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Nov 14

Join us next week for the History Research Seminar at the University of York. @bethrwilson.bsky.social, will be sharing her research on ‘Slavery, Emotions and Gender in the US South’.
20 November 2024, 5:30 -7:00 PM. All welcome!
👉For more details: www.york.ac.uk/history/abou...

Slavery, Emotions and Gender in the Antebellum US South

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Nov 14

Join us next week for the History Research Seminar at the University of York. @bethrwilson.bsky.social, will be sharing her research on ‘Slavery, Emotions and Gender in the US South’.
20 November 2024, 5:30 -7:00 PM. All welcome!
👉For more details: www.york.ac.uk/history/abou...

Slavery, Emotions and Gender in the Antebellum US South

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · Nov 13

🌟🌟🌟 Incredibly excited to announce that my book 📘, 'Plebeian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia' is coming soon! It's now available for pre-order. 20% discount by using the code PCS2024.
Check it out here: cambridge.org/9781009435598

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