Carlos Aguirre Professor, Department of History Education Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1996. Current affiliation Professor, Department
of History, University of Oregon Previous Professional
Positions
2019 Donde se
amansan los guapos: las cárceles de Lima, 1850-1935 (Lima:
Universidad del Pacífico). [Reviewed
in Ideele] 2017 La ciudad y
los perros. Biografía de una novela, 2nd edition
(Sevilla: Renacimiento). [Reviewed by Xavi Ayén in La
Vanguardia (Barcelona); by Luis
Antonio de Villena; Revista de Libros] 2015 La ciudad y
los perros. Biografía de una novela (Lima: Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú). [Reviewed in Contemporánea, Apuntes, Histórica, Perú21, Exitosa, Review by Alejandro Susti, Interview with PuntoEdu, Interview by Luis
Rodríguez Pastor, Interview with El Comercio, Interview with Javier
Torres for “El Arriero”] 2008 Dénle duro que no siente. Poder y transgresión en el Perú
republicano (Lima: Fondo Editorial del Pedagógico San Marcos). [Reviewed in The Americas, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin
American Studies, Caravelle, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de
América Latina y el Caribe, Libros
& Artes, Revista de
Historia Iberoamericana] 2005a The
Criminals of Lima and their Worlds: The Prison Experience (1850-1935)
(Durham: Duke University Press).
[Reviewed in The
Americas; Journal of
Latin American Studies ; American Historical Review;
The Latin
Americanist, Punishment
and Society, Radical
History Review; International Criminal Justice
Review , Journal of
Social History, Hispanic
American Historical Review, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe,
Bulletin of Latin American Research] 2005b Breve
historia de la esclavitud en el Perú. Una herida que no deja de sangrar
(Lima: Fondo Editorial
del Congreso del Perú) [Reviewed in Hispanic American Historical Review; Revista
Andina; Caravelle-Cahiers du Monde Hispanique et Luso-Bresilien, Investigaciones Sociales,
Ethnohistory, Histórica] 1993 Agentes de
su propia libertad. Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la
esclavitud, 1821-1854 (Agents of their own
freedom. The Slaves
of Lima and the desintegration of slavery,
1821-1854). Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú. [Reviewed in Revista Andina,
Hispanic
American Historical Review, American
Historical Review, Journal of
Latin American Studies, Colonial
Latin American Review] b) Edited volumes 2019 Carlos
Aguirre y Charles Walker, eds. Bandoleros,
abigeos y montoneros. Criminalidad y violencia, siglos XVIII-XX, 2nd. edition (Lima: La Siniestra Ensayos). 2018 Carlos Aguirre y Paulo Drinot, eds. La
revolución peculiar. Repensando el gobierno militar de Velasco
(Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos). 2018 Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo
D. Salvatore, eds. Bibliotecas
y cultura letrada en América Latina. Siglos XIX y XX (Lima:
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). [Reviewed in Orbis Tertius] 2017 Carlos
Aguirre and Paulo Drinot, eds. The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking
the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule (Austin:
University of Texas Press). [Reviewed in European Review of Latin American
and Caribbean Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review,
English
Historical Review, Radical
Americas, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de
América Latina y el Caribe, Bulletin of
Latin American Research, Middle Atlantic Review
of Latin American Studies] 2017 Carlos
Aguirre and Charles Walker, eds. The Lima
Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke University
Press). [Reviewed in Latin
American Research Review, Journal of
Global South Studies, Bulletin of
Latin American Research, The Latin Americanist] 2015 Carlos Aguirre and Javier
Villa-Flores, eds. From the
Ashes of History. Loss and Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin
America (Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente). [Reviewed in A Contracorriente, Journal of Latin American Studies] 2013a
Carlos Aguirre and Aldo Panfichi, eds. Lima siglo
XX. Cultura, socialización y cambio (Lima: Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú). 2013b
Carlos Aguirre, ed. Militantes,
intelectuales y revolucionarios. Ensayos sobre marxismo e izquierda en
América Latina (Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2013). [Reviewed in Hispanic
American Historical Review, Revista Andina] 2010 Carlos Aguirre, Charles F. Walter and
Willie Hiatt, editors and translators, In
Search of an Inca. Identity and Utopia in the Andes, by Alberto Flores
Galindo (New York: Cambridge University Press, 21010). [Editors
Introduction, “Alberto Flores Galindo: Historian and Public Intellectual”] [Reviewed in The
Americas, Ethnohistory,
Hispanic American Historical Review,
American
Historical Review, Journal of
Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Latin
American Research Review, American
Journal of Sociology, Histoire Sociale/Social History] 2008
Carlos Aguirre and Carmen McEvoy, eds. Intelectuales
y poder. Ensayos en torno a la república de las letras en el Perú e hispanoamérica (ss. XVI-XX) (Lima: Instituto
Francés de Estudios Andinos – Instituto Riva Agüero). [Reviewed in The Americas, Mercurio Peruano, Hispanic American Historical Review,
Journal of
Latin American Studies, Libros &
Artes] 2001 Ricardo Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, and
Gilbert Joseph, eds. Crime and
Punishment in Latin America. Law
and Society Since Late Colonial Times (Durham: Duke University Press). [Reviewed in Journal of
Latin American Studies, American
Historical Review, Hispanic
American Historical Review, The
Americas, Journal of
Social History, Punishment
and Society, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de
América Latina y el Caribe] 2000 Carlos Aguirre and Robert Buffington,
eds. Reconstructing
Criminality in Latin America (Wilmington: Scholarly
Resources). [Reviewed in Journal of
Latin American Studies, Hispanic
American Historical Review, Quinto Sol,
H-Net,
Mexican
Studies/Estudios Mexicanos,
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe] 1996
Ricardo Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre, eds. The Birth
of the Penitentiary in Latin America, 1830-1940 (Austin: University of Texas Press). [Reviewed in Hispanic
American Historical Review, Journal of
Latin American Studies, Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana
Dr. Emilio Ravignani, International
Criminal Justice Review, Law and
History Review, Crime, Histoire et Sociétés] 1990 Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker, eds. Bandoleros, abigeos y montoneros. Criminalidad y violencia en el Perú, siglos
XVIII-XX (Lima: Instituto de Apoyo Agrario/Instituto Pasado
& Presente). [Full text available here] [Reviewed in Hispanic
American Historical Review, Ethnohistory,
Revista Andina, The
Americas, Histórica, IAHCCJ
Bulletin, Bulletin of
Latin American Research] c) Book chapters 2018
“Los intelectuales de izquierda y la revolución latinoamericana: sueños y
pesadillas (1959-1990),” in Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and Ferran Archilés, eds. Ideas
comprometidas. Los intelectuales y la política (Madrid: Akal). 2018
“Los intelectuales y sus bibliotecas en el Perú del siglo XX,” in Carlos Aguirre and
Ricardo D. Salvatore, eds. Bibliotecas
y cultura letrada en América Latina. Siglos XIX y XX (Lima:
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). 2018
“¿La segunda liberación? El nacionalismo militar y la conmemoración del
sesquicentenario de la independencia peruana,” in Carlos Aguirre y Paulo Drinot,
eds. La
revolución peculiar. Repensando el gobierno militar de Velasco
(Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos). 2017
“¿Colonias de población o lugares de destierro y tormento? Colonias penales en América Latina, c.
1800-1940” (with Ricardo Salvatore) (Spanish translation of “Colonies of
settlement or places of banishment and torment? Penal colonies and convict labour in Latin America, c. 1800-1940”), in Lila Caimari and Máximo Souzo eds., Historia de
la cuestión criminal en América Latina (Rosario: Prohistoria, 2017). 2017 “The Second Liberation? Military
Nationalism and the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of Peruvian Independence,
1821–1971,” in Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot,
eds. The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian
Experiment Under Military Rule (Austin: University of Texas
Press). 2015
“Apogeo,
crisis y transformación del panóptico iberoamericano: Apuntes para la
historia de un modelo arquitectónico,” in Jorge A. Trujillo
Bretón, ed. Voces y
memorias del olvido. Historia, marginalidad y delito en América Latina
(Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara). 2015
“La cárcel y la ciudad
letrada: hacia una historia cultural de la prisión en el Perú del siglo
veinte,” in Daniel
Palma, ed. Delincuentes, policías y
justicias. América Latina, siglos XIX y XX (Santiago de Chile:
Universidad Alberto Hurtado). 2015 “Colonies of settlement or places of
banishment and torment? Penal colonies and convict labour
in Latin America, c. 1800-1940” (written with Ricardo Salvatore), in Christian
G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein, eds. Global Convict Labour (Leiden: Brill). 2015 “A Cultural Tragedy: The Destruction and
Reconstruction of the Peruvian National Library, 1943-1948,” in Carlos
Aguirre and Javier Villa-Flores, eds. From the Ashes of History. Loss and
Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin America
(Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente). 2013
“Perú
campeón: fiebre futbolística y nacionalismo en 1970”, in Carlos
Aguirre and Aldo Panfichi, eds. Lima siglo
XX. Cultura, socialización y cambio (Lima: Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013), pp. 383-416. 2013 “Punishment
and Extermination: The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Lima, Peru, June
1986,” in Eric A. Johnson, Ricardo Salvatore, and Pieter Spierenburg (eds.), Murder and
Violence in Modern Latin America (London: Wiley-Blackwell,
2013), pp. 193-216. 2012 “Tinterillos, Indians, and the State: Towards a History of Legal Intermediaries in
Post-Independence Peru,” in Stefan B. Kirmse, ed., One
Law for All? Western models and Local Practices in (Post-)
Imperial Contexts (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2012), pp. 119-151. 2009
“Cárcel y
sociedad en América Latina: 1800-1940," in Eduardo Kingman Garcés, ed. Historia social urbana. Espacios y
flujos (Quito: FLACSO). 2008a “El pensamiento entre rejas: intelectuales peruanos y la
experiencia de la prisión,” in Carlos Aguirre and Carmen McEvoy,
eds. Intelectuales
y poder. Ensayos en torno a la república de las letras en el Perú e hispanoamérica (ss. XVI-XX) (Lima:
Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos – Instituto Riva Agüero), pp. 413-456. 2008b “Los usos del fútbol en las prisiones de Lima (1900-1940)”, en
Aldo Panfichi, ed. Ese gol
existe. Una mirada al Perú a través del fútbol (Lima: Fondo
Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). 2007 “Prisons and Prisoners in Modernising Latin America, 1800-1940,” in Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, eds. Cultures of Confinement. A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press and London: Hurst). 2005 “Two Worlds Apart? Labour and Crime in Latin American
History,” in Workers in the Informal Sector. Studies in Labour history 1800-2000,
edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen (New Delhi:
SEPHIS/Macmillan). 2004 “’Los irrecusables datos de la estadística del crimen’: La
construcción social del delito en la Lima de mediados del siglo XIX," in
Carmen McEvoy, ed. La
experiencia burguesa en el Perú (1840-1940) (Madrid/Frankfurt:
Iberoamericana/Vervuert), pp. 309-330. (A sligthly different
version of this article was also published in Paula Alonso, ed. Construcciones
impresas. Panfletos, diarios y
revistas en la formación de los Estados nacionales en América Latina,
1820-1920 (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica,
2004). 2003 “Mujeres delincuentes, prácticas
penales, y servidumbre doméstica en Lima, 1862-1930,” in Scarlett O’Phelan, et. al. comps. Familia y Vida Cotidiana en América
Latina, Siglos XVIII-XX (Lima: IFEA/Instituto Riva
Agüero/Pontificia Universidad Católica). 2001 "Disputed Views of Incarceration in
Lima, 1890-1930: The Prisoners' Agenda for Prison Reform," in Salvatore,
Aguirre, and Joseph, eds. Crime and Punishment in Latin
America. 2019
“Mario Benedetti y el internacionalismo literario: Casa de las Américas,
el Centro de Investigaciones Literarias y la serie Valoración Múltiple
(1967-1976)” (with Augusto Wong Campos), Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional de
Uruguay, 16, 2019, pp. 81-111. 2017
“Revisitando
El nacimiento de la penitenciaría en
América Latina veinte años después” (with
Ricardo Salvatore), Revista de Historia
de las Prisiones, No. 4, 2017, pp. 7-42. 2017
“‘Vamos a
quitarle el frac al libro, vamos a ponerlo en mangas de camisa’. El proyecto
editorial Populibros peruanos (1963-1965)”,
Políticas de la memoria, No. 17,
verano 2017/2017, pp. 204-222. 2016
“Una
tragedia cultural: el incendio de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú,”
Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional: La
Biblioteca, No. 11-12, 2016, 107-139. 2014
“Hombres y
rejas. El APRA en prisión, 1932-1945,” Boletín del Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, 43, 1, pp.
7-30. 2013
“Nicomedes
Santa Cruz: la formación de un intelectual público afroperuano,” Histórica, XXVII, 2. 2011 “Terruco de m… Insulto y estigma en la guerra sucia peruana,”
Histórica (Lima), XXXV, 1 (2011),
pp. 103-139. 2007 “Cultura
política de izquierda y cultura impresa en el Perú contemporáneo (1968-1990):
Alberto Flores Galindo y la formación de un intelectual público,” Historica
(Lima), XXXI, 1, pp. 171-205. 2002 “La historia social del Perú republicano (1821-1930),” Histórica (Lima), XXVI, 1-2, pp.
445-501. 2000 "Delito,
raza y cultura: el desarrollo de la criminología en el Perú (1890-1930),"
in Diálogos en Historia (Lima), 2, 2000, pp. 179-206. [Spanish translation of Aguirre 1998]. e) Book reviews
(selection) 2013 Juan E. De Castro. Mario Vargas
Llosa. Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
2011. (Transmodernity,
3, 1, 2013, 184-190). 2010
Nelson Manrique,¡Usted
fue aprista!: bases para una historia crítica del APRA. Lima: Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú, Centro Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales,
2009. (Histórica, 33, 2, 2009). 2008 Herbert
Klein and Ben Vinson III, La esclavitud
africana en América Latina y el Caribe. Lima: Instituto de Estudios
Peruanos, 2008. (Histórica, 32, 2,
2008). 2005a
José Ramón Jouvé Martín, Esclavos de la ciudad
letrada. Esclavitud, escritura y colonialismo en Lima (1650-1700). Lima:
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2005. (Histórica,
29, 1, 2005). 2005b
Osvaldo Barreneche, Dentro de la ley, todo. La
justicia criminal de Buenos Aires en la etapa formativa del sistema penal
moderno de la Argentina. La Plata: Ediciones Al Margen, 2001. (The Americas,
61, 3, 2005). 2004
Carmen McEvoy, ed. La huella republicana liberal
en el Perú. Manuel Pardo. Escritos fundamentales. Lima, Fondo Editorial
del Congreso del Perú, 2004. (Libros
& Artes, 8, 2004). 2003 Pablo Piccato, City
of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City 1900–1931.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. (Punishment & Society, 5, 4, 2003). 2001
Robert M. Buffington, Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000 (Bulletin of Latin American Research, 20, 4, 2001).
2013
“Entre la censura y el fuego. La ciudad y los perros,” Libros & Artes, 60-61, April 2013. 2011
“La experiencia de la prisión,” Libros
& Artes, 46-47, April 2011, Special Issue on “The
Fiction of José María
Arguedas.” 2009
“Entrevista
a Carlos Aguirre,” Urvio. Revista
Latinoamericana de Seguridad Ciudadana, Quito, No. 7, May 2009, pp.
137-142. 2009
“Archivos,
Poder e Historia en América Latina,” Special
Issue of Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas (Köln, Germany), Vol. 46, edited
by Carlos Aguirre and Javier Villa-Flores. 2009
“Hegemonía,”
in Diccionario de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos, ed. by Mónica Szurmuk and Robert McKee Irwin (Mexico City: Siglo XXI Editores). 2008
“Marxismo e Izquierda en la Historia de América Latina” (Carlos Aguirre, Guest editor), A Contracorriente. A Journal on Social
History and Literature in Latin America,
Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2008. 2008 “Prisons and Punishment: Prison Colonies
and Islands” and “Prisons and Punishment: Latin America,” entries for The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern
World, Peter Stearns, ed. (Oxford University Press,
2008). 2007
Carlos Aguirre and Pedro Guibovich, eds. “Libro,
lectura y cultura impresa en el Perú siglos XVII-XX,” Histórica (Lima), XXXI, 1. [Click here to read
the presentation to this dossier]. 2007
“Hobsbawm
encara el tercer milenio,” Primera
Revista Latinoamericana de Libros, No. 2, December
2007. 2005a
“Aristocracia
y plebe,” Libros & Artes
(Lima), No. 11. 2005b
“Hacia una historia del discurso racista en el Perú” (Prologue to Marcel Velázquez, Las máscaras de la
representación. El sujeto esclavista y las rutas del racismo en el Perú,
1775-1895, Lima, UNMSM, 2005). Reproduced
in Ciberayllu, January 9, 2006 (http://www.andes.missouri.edu/andes/Comentario/CAg_Mascaras.html) 2004
“Duelo de caballeros. Lima a comienzos del siglo XX,” Libros & Artes (Lima), No. 9. Lectures and Papers at Conferences 2018 “Censorship,
Politics, and the Making of a Literary Classic: The Biography of
Vargas Llosa’s La ciudad y los perros,” Colloquium
on Latin American and Caribbean History, University of California at
Santa Barbara, October 5. “Una vida entre libros. Intelectuales peruanos y sus bibliotecas,”
Casa de la Literatura Peruana, August 28. “Repensando
el 68 en América Latina: Revolución y autoritarismo en Cuba y Perú,”
Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Buenos Aires), August 22. “Cuba’s 1968,” Latin American Studies
Association Congress, Round table on “1968: 50 Years After,” Barcelona, May
23-26. 2017 “Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution:
Revisiting the Padilla Affair,” lecture at the Federico Villarreal
University, Lima, August 29. “New Perspectives on the Velasco Regime (almost)
Fifty Years After the Military Coup," lecture at the Catholic University
of Peru, Lima, August 24. “The History of Prisons in Republican Peru:
Contributions and Perspectives,” Lecture at the University of San Marcos,
Lima, August 18. “The 1943 Fire at the National Library: Debates
and Lessons,” Lecture at the Peruvian National Library, Lima, August 8. “Una experiencia académica interdisciplinaria en Latinoamérica. El
Seminario de Historia Rural Andina, Perú 1966-2016,” Roundtable,
LASA Congress, Lima, April 30. 2016 “Archives and Human Rights: Whose Voices Do We Hear?,” presented at the Latin American Studies
Association congress, New York, May 27-30, 2016. “¿La segunda independencia? Velasquismo y la reinterpretación de la
historia en la celebración del sesquicentenario de 1971,” presented
at the Colloquium on “Nuevas miradas sobre el régimen militar de Velasco
Alvarado,” Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Lima, June 14-16, 2016. “Archives, Power, and Memory in Latin American
History”, Norbert Lechner Keynote Address, Universidad Diego Portales,
Santiago de Chile, August 18, 2016. “Archivos, memoria y poder en la historia latinoamericana,” lecture delivered at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, August
23, 2016. “La ciudad y los perros. Biografía de una novela”, presented
at the Seminar on Intellectual History, Instituto Emilio Ravignani,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, August 26, 2016. 2015 “Abolition in Spanish America: Rethinking Slave
Agency,” presented at the Conference on “Antislavery
Republics: The Politics of Abolition in the Spanish Atlantic,”
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition,
Yale University, October 30-31, 2015. “Michel
Foucault y la historia de las prisiones en América Latina,” presented at the 3rd. Congress of Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences (FLACSO,
Quito, August 26-28, 2015). “Archives, Memory, and Human Rights in Latin
America,” presented at the symposium on “Collective Memory and Human Rights
in Guatemala: Lessons from the Past and Present-Day Challenges,” Guatemala
City, June 25, 2015. “Bringing the Book to the Masses: The Experience
of Populibros in Peru, 1963-1965,” presented at the
LASA Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico (May 26-30, 2015). “Revisiting The Birth of the Penitentiary in
Latin America (almost) Twenty Years Later” (with Ricardo Salvatore),
presented at the Conference on “A History
of Penal Regimes in Global Perspective, 1800-2014” (Harvard
University, March 5-7, 2015). 2014 “Slavery and Abolition in Nineteenth-Century
Peru,” presented at the 10th “Coloquio
de “Africanías” (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, September 26,
2014). “Intellectuals and their Libraries in
Twentieth-Century Peru,” presented at the Colloquium on “Libraries of the
Americas. Power, Cultural Capital, and the Circulation of Knowledge,
1800-2000” (Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, August 19-20, 2014). “Between Fiction and Reality: Soccer in the
Writings of Mario Vargas Llosa,” presented at the
Conference on “Soccer as the Beautiful
Game: Football's Artistry, Identity and Politics” (Hofstra University, April
10-13, 2014). “Documentaries as Vehicles of Memory,” presented
at the Conference on “What is Documentary?” (University of Oregon, School of
Journalism and Communication, Portland, April 24-26, 2014). 2013 “Latin American Peasants and Revolutions in the
Writings of Eric Hobsbawm,” presented at the North American Conference on
British Studies (Portland, November 8-10, 2013). “‘Hay que inducir el genocidio’: la masacre de presos
de Sendero Luminoso en 1986,” Keynote address,
North Carolina State University,
October 17, 2013. “The
Second Liberation? Military Nationalism and the Sesquicentennial
Commemoration of Peruvian Independence, 1821–1971,” presented at the 127th
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, January
3-6, 2013 and at the Conference on “Rethinking
Military Nationalism: New Perspectives on the Revolutionary Government of the
Armed Forces, Peru, 1968-1975,” University College London, October 4,
2013. “Una tragedia cultural: el incendio de la
Biblioteca Nacional del Perú en 1943,” delivered at
the Conference on “La cultura del libro: aproximaciones desde la
historia y el arte,” Peruvian National Library,
August 22-23, 2013. “La cárcel y la ciudad letrada: Apuntes para una
historia cultural de la prisión en el Perú del siglo veinte.” Keynote address, Conference on “Crime,
Police, and Justice in Latin America,” Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago
de Chile, April 8-10, 2013; also delivered as a guest lecture at the
Instituto Riva Agüero, Lima, September 12, 2013. 2012 “Tortura
y violencia en las cárceles peruanas: una aproximación histórica,” presented at the Seminar on “Dinámicas del espacio
penitenciario en el Perú,” Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Lima, September 6, 2012. “Colonies of Settlement or Places of Torment?
Penal Colonies and Convict Labor in Latin America, c. 1800-1940” (with
Ricardo D. Salvatore), presented at the conference on “Global Convict Labor,”
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, June 13-14, 2012. “‘Perú Campeón’: Fiebre futbolística y nacionalismo en 1970,”
presented at the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association (San Francisco, May 23-26, 2012) and at the Facultad
de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú (September 12, 2012). “Archivos, derechos humanos y la
preservación de la memoria histórica,” Lecture at the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN),
Guatemala, March 21, 2012. 2011 “The Curious History of the Latin American
Panopticon, 1830-1930: Adoption, Transformation, and Collapse of a Penal and
Architectural Model,” Paper presented at the International Workshop
“Traveling Penologies: Towards an Entangled History
of the Prison and Technologies of Punishment,” ETH Zurich, Institute of
History, 2-3 December, 2011. “Black in Latin America: Mexico and Peru,”
Portland Community College, November 29, 2011. “Printing, Reading, and Writing: Inside the
Prison: Notes Towards a Cultural History of Incarceration in 19th-
and 20th-Century Spanish America,” presented at the Colloquium on
“Crime and Punishment in Latin America. Practices and Representations,”
University of Colorado,
Boulder, October 7-8, 2011. “Libros,
lectura y cárcel: Apuntes para una historia cultural de la prisión,” Lecture delivered at the Instituto de Investigaciones Humanísticas,
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima), June 27, 2011. “Apogeo,
crisis y transformación del panóptico iberoamericano: Apuntes para la
historia de un modelo arquitectónico,” Keynote Address,
International Colloquium on
“History, Marginality,
and Crime in Latin America,” Universidad de Guadalajara, May 17-19, 2011. “Nicomedes Santa Cruz:
The Making of a Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru,” presented
at the Conference on “Black in
Latin America” (W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute, Harvard University, January 27-29, 2011). 2010 “Insult, Stigma, and Torture in Peru’s Dirty War
and Beyond,” University of Washington (Seattle), February 26, 2010 (Presented
as part of the series “Dangerous Subjects: Contention, Violence, and Control
in Latin America,” Simpson Center for the Humanities). A Spanish-language
version of this paper was presented at CSIC (Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas),
Madrid, October 25, 2010. [More info here]. “(Party) Discipline and Punishment: APRA in
Prison, 1932-1945,” presented at the American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, San Diego, 7-10 January 2010. “Cultural Approaches to Legal History: The Case
of Prisons and Punishment in Latin America,” presented at the Workshop “One
Law for All? Law and ‘Modernization’ in Comparative Global Perspective.
Universal Claims, Local Implementations,” Humboldt University, Berlin,
October 29-30, 2010. 2009 “Independencia
y nacionalismo en la historiografía peruana contemporánea (1970-2009),” presented at the Taller de
Reflexión sobre América Latina (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento,
Argentina, October 15-16, 2009). “El
boom de la memoria histórica: verdad, subjetividad y política”, Delivered at the Universidad
Nacional Federico Villarreal (Lima), September 8,
2009. “De
quién son estas memorias? El acervo documental de la CVR,” delivered at the Symposium on “Historia, memoria,
archivos y verdad: experiencias de reconstrucción de una realidad”
(Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, September
1, 2009). “De la
esclavitud a la libertad. Los afro-descendientes en América hispana,
1800-1900” (A lecture series offered at the Centro de
Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, Mexico City, August 19-21,
2009). “Independencia,
clases populares, e historia desde abajo,” paper presented at the Conference on “Independencia y
Democracia en el Perú” (Centro de
Estudios del Bicentenario and Instituto Riva-Agüero), Lima, August
12-14, 2009) “El
Apra en Prisión, 1932-1945,” paper
presented at symposium on “Formación y desarrollo del Apra:
entre lo nacional y lo indoamericano, 1920-1948,” 53rd.
International Congress of
Americanists (Mexico
City, July 19-24, 2009). Also
presented at the panel on “Memoria,
mito y política: el Apra en la historia del Perú”
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, August 26, 2009). 2008 “Fútbol, sociedad y política en América Latina,” Casa Mariátegui
(Lima, September 16 2008). “Political Violence and Political Prisoners in
Contemporary Peru,” University of Oregon and Central Oregon Community College
Distinguished Lecture Series (Bend, OR, April 25, 2008). “‘Hay que inducir al genocidio’: The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Peru,
June 1986,” Presented at the Conference on “Violence and Reconciliation in
Latin America. Human Rights, Memory and Democracy (University of Oregon, Jan.
31-Feb 2, 2008) 2007 “De
quién son estas memorias? El Archivo de la Comisión de la Verdad y
Reconciliación del Peru,” Presented
at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, Montreal, September
5-8, 2007. “Punishment and Extermination: The Massacre of
Political Prisoners in Peru, June 1986,” Presented at the Conference on
“Violence and Genocide in Latin American History,” Central Michigan
University, August 23-25, 2007. “Los
estudios latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos: debates y desafíos,” Presented at the Coloquium “Cartografía(s) de América Latina: Cultura,
Economía y Geopolítica del siglo XVI al XXI,” Universidad Antonio Ruiz de
Montoya, Lima, August 7-9, 2007. 2006 “De Paz Soldán a Lay Fun: Apuntes para una
historia social del castigo en el Perú,” Universidad Nacional Federico
Villarreal (Lima), September 14, 2006. “Authoritarian Democracy: State and Political
Prisoners in Twentieth-Century Peru,” Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton
University, May 5, 2006. “The Latin American Prison Crisis in Historical
Perspective,” delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Congress
(San Juan, PR), March 15-18, 2006. 2005 “State, Society, and the Prison in Modern Latin
America,” presented at the workshop on “Cultures of Confinement” (SOAS,
University of London, 23-24 June, 2005) “Political Prisoners in Twentieth-Century Peru:
From APRA to Shining Path” (UC Davis, April 18, 2005; University of
Washington, April 29, 2005; Carleton College, May 27, 2005) 2004 “Los afro-descendientes
en la historia andina” (co-authored with Prof. Kris Lane, William and
Mary College), presented at the Symposium “América Andina: espacio, actores, y representaciones” (Cuenca, Ecuador, July 6-10, 2004). “1804, 1854, 2004: Silencios y ecos en la historia y el legado de la
abolición de la esclavitud en Haití y Perú.” Keynote address
delivered at the Coloquium on “La abolición de
la esclavitud y sus procesos de manumisión en el Perú, América Latina y el
Caribe” (Lima, August 17-20, 2004). “El pensamiento entre rejas: Los intelectuales en prisión”, presented at the Colloquium “Intelectuales y Poder en la Historia del
Perú” (Lima, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, December
14-16, 2004). 2003 “Disgraced Gentlemen: Political Prisoners in
Lima, 1890-1935,” presented at the LASA XXIV International Congress (Dallas,
26-29 March, 2003), Northern Illinois University (April 2003), and the Latin
American History Workshop (University of Chicago, October 2003). “Speaking for the Subaltern? The role of legal
intermediaries in the shaping of legal and political cultures in nineteenth-
and early twentieth-century Peru,” presented at the Workshop “Slavery,
Emancipation, Claims-Making, and the Law,” University of Pittsburgh, April
25-26, 2003. “Batallas por la memoria: The Left, the Shining Path, and the Truth
Commission in Peru,” presented at the Conference on “Democracy and Human
Rights in Latin America” (University of Oregon, November 5-7, 2003). 2002 "State, Political Violence, and the Debates
about the Death Penalty in Peru," presented at the Conference "The
Law and Politics of the Death Penalty," Wayne Morse Center for Law and
Politics, University of Oregon, March 1-2, 2002. "Los irrecusables datos de la estadística del crimen": La
construcción social del delito en la Lima de mediados del siglo XIX," presented at the Conference on
"Construcciones Impresas. Diarios, periódicos y revistas en la formación
de los estados nacionales en América Latina y Estados Unidos,"
Universidad San Andrés (Buenos Aires), May, 16th-17th, 2002. “Race, Masculinity, and the Forging of Criminal
and Prison Sub-Cultures in Lima (1860-1930),” presented at the Conference
“From Purity of Blood to Indigenous Social Movements: Cultural Race, Racism, and the Meanings of Mestizaje in the Andes and Central America”
(University of Iowa). 2001 "Two Worlds Apart? Labor and Crime in Latin
American History," Paper presented at the workshop "The Return of
the Marginal" (El Colegio de Mexico/Sephis,
Mexico City, June 27-28, 2001). 2000 "Tinterillos y leguleyos: Legal Intermediaries and Subaltern Subjects in
Modern Peru," Paper presented at the LASA Congress, Miami, March 16-18,
2000. 1999 "From Slavery to Freedom: The Peoples of
African Origin in Peru," Lecture delivered at the Colloquium on "Lo
africano en la cultura criolla," Congreso
de la Republica, Peru, November 1999. "From Prison to Convent: Female Prisoners
in Lima, 1860-1930," Presented at the Conference on "Familia y Vida
Cotidiana en Latinoamerica, siglos XVIII-XX" (Instituto
Riva-Aguero, Universidad Catolica del Peru) 1998 "Mapping Lima's Morals: The Political and Cultural
Construction of the Criminal Classes in Late Nineteenth-Century Peru,"
paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting (Chicago,
September 24-27, 1998) 1997 "Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima,
1890-1930: The Prisoners' Agenda for Prison Reform." Paper presented at
the Conference "The Contested Terrains of Law, Justice, and Repression
in Latin American History," Yale University, April 24-27. 1996 "Changing Images of Crime and Criminals in
Modern Peru, 1890-1930," Conference on Latin American History, AHA
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (January 4-7, 1996). 1995 (with Ricardo Salvatore) "The Birth of the
Penitentiary in Latin America," 18th International Congress of
Historical Sciences, Montreal (August 27-September 3). 1994 “Introducción
a los debates y problemas de la historia social norteamericana”, SUR, Casa de
Estudios del Socialismo (Lima), May 18, 1994. “Delito
y modernización en Lima, 1860-1930”, SUR, Casa de Estudios del Socialismo
(Lima), February 1994. 1993 “A Tribute to Edward P. Thompson”, round
table, SUR, Casa de Estudios del Socialismo (Lima), November
11-13, 1993. "Patrones,
esclavos, y sirvientes domésticos en Lima, 1800-1860," Conference on "Family and Private Life in Latin America", Mexico City, El
Colegio de México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (May 3-5). 1992 Roundtable, "Punishment and Social Control
in Latin America," Department of History and Latin American Studies,
University of Arizona, Tucson (September 10). 1991 "The penitentiary of Lima and the
modernization of criminal justice in Nineteenth-Century Peru," American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago (December 26-30). Work in Progress Intelectuales y cultura impresa en
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