In Conversation: PhD researchers at Warwick

For this special session, three Warwick PhD students will talk about their research and we'll think about how it sheds new light on many of the "themes and problems" we have studied throughout this course.

Before the session, please have a look at a couple of the short pieces below and come along with a couple of questions to ask them - these can be about any aspects of their work, or more general ones about their recent lived experiences in their countries of origin, for example.

Ricardo Aguilar Gonzalez researches pre-Hispanic and early colonial Mexico and Central America, including the history of the indigenous nobility and the history of food and drink. He'll talk about his work and how it fits with the "New Conquest History". His chosen reading is: Matthew Restall, "The New Conquest History" (History Compass 2012).

Camilo Uribe Botta will talk about his research on the role of Colombian orchids in global connections of exploration, science, and commerce. He'll also talk about how his work connects Latin American history and global history. His readings are:

Global History and Latin America: A Historiography Under Development

and Orchids of the Greatest Rarity of Colombia: Collecting Orchids in the Northern Andes in the 1840s

Nicolas Gomez Baeza studies the vast sheep-farms - run by British managers using indigenous and local labour - transformed the landscape of Latin America's southernmost regions, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. His readings are: "British Management of Labour in the Sheep-Farming Industry of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego"

and: "Managers from the British World: A Global Approach to Sheep-Farming Industry Labour Disciplines in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, 1837-1956"

and, on the role of Scots in particular: "Scottish Settlers in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego: Sheep-Farming Capitalisms in a South American Frontier"