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Ward Stavig Memorial Lecture 

This lecture series was 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. His books and essays, including the World of Tupac Amaru:  Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru, exhibited sensitivity for his subjects while exploring then novel topics of marital life, sexual values, violence, and identity.

 

2025 - TBA.

2024 - Dr. Julio  Capó (Florida International University), "How Florida Helped Shape the Nation’s 'Culture Wars': A History of the 1950s and 60s". The event, co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, 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. Karen B. Graubart (Notre Dame University), "Containing Law Within the Walls". Dr. Graubart’s talk focused on a 1568 order from the governor of the viceroyalty of Lima to construct a walled neighborhood to house indigenous immigrants. Dr. 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 by Spanish authorities. She argues racial differentiation flowed from the recognition of indigenous self-governance.

2014 - Dr. Jane Mangan (Davidson College), "Even Though She was Indian in Her Dress”: Spanish Outsiders within Indigenous Family Networks in 16th Century Peru”. 

2011 - Dr. Jose Moya (Barnard College), "Defining Latin America within a Global Perspective".

2007 - Alejandro de la Fuente (Harvard University), “Searching for the Subaltern: Ward Stavig’s contribution to the historiography of Latin America”.