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Ana María Otero-Cleves

@amoterocleves.bsky.social
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Historian of Latin America at the University of York || Global History || Nineteenth-Century Colombia & Latin America || Consumption & Material Culture || Legal Culture || #Runner. 📕 New Book! Plebeian Consumers (CUP) cambridge.org/97810094355c

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.
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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY IN NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CAPITALISM: ACTORS, CONCEPTS, AND PROBLEMS OF SCALE
10.04.2026
08.05.2026
05.06.2026
04.09.2026
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04.12.2026
Sven Beckert (Harvard University): A Conversation with Sven Beckert: Capitalism in Latin American History
Roy Hora (Universidad de San Andrés - Buenos Aires): Capitalism and Society in Argentina in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Rossana Barragán (CIDES - UMSA - La Paz): The Empire of Work: History of the Social Production of Silver from Potosí for the World
Pablo Pryluka (CUNY - New York): Markets, Consumers, and the Making of Developmental Capitalism in Postwar Latin America
Constanza Castro (Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá): "En este puerto está el mundo". A Microhistory of Global Tobacco: Honda,
Columbia, 1846 — 1880
Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania): "Tem que dar certo": Inflation and the Remaking of Brazilian Democracy
John Tutino (Georgetown University): The Revolution that Remade Global
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Thrilled to be back in the Andes to launch my new book, the result of 10 years of research as an associate professor in the Departamento de Historia y Geografía! So happy to celebrate with colleagues, friends, family and students —thank you for the incredible welcome and generosity!
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🗣📢El próximo 30 de octubre estaré en Bogotá presentando mi libro en el Coloquio de Historia de la Universidad de los Andes. ¡Muy emocionada y feliz de regresar y compartir con colegas y estudiantes! 🗓 30 de octubre de 2025 🕑 2:00 p.m. a 4:00 p.m. rb.gy/05onhz
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Consumidores Populares, Conexiones Globales: Nuevas miradas a la historia del consumo y la cultura política en el siglo XIX colombiano. | Uniandes
El coloquio presenta el nuevo libro de la profesora Ana María Otero-Cleves, Plebeian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Cambridge University P...
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
📢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/...
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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 · 01/07/2025
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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Foreign Machetes and Cheap Cotton Cloth: Popular Consumers and Imported Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Abstract. This article examines the consumption of foreign machetes and, to a lesser extent, imported textiles by peasants, smallholders, and artisans in nineteenth-century Colombia to show that the p...
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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
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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 · 07/03/2025
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 · 04/03/2025
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...
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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.
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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...
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On… The History of 19th Century Colombian Consumers
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Really enjoyed this tonight! Olivia's research is fantastic and I'm looking forward to seeing her take academia by storm 🔥
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
📢 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 · 27/01/2025
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...
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Archival Internship – The Rutgers Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC)
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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 · 04/01/2025
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 · 13/12/2024
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 · 06/12/2024
Colombia Asks U.S. to Declassify Records on 1985 Palace of Justice Case nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/colombi...
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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 · 02/12/2024
Gender Studies 2 year post doc position at Notre Dame. Deadline December 10! 👉 genderstudies.nd.edu/people/postd...
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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 · 28/11/2024
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 👇
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‘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.
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Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
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.
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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 · 14/11/2024
Looking forward to giving a paper at University of York next Wednesday - please join us!
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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...
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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.
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Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🌟🌟🌟 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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