How We Adapt: Colonial Latin American History for the Climate Crisis

Description

This roundtable discussion centers the role of climate, ecology, healing, disease, and disaster in colonial Latin American history. It asks how Latin America’s experience of environmental volatility in the colonial period can inform our understanding of the current climate crisis. Conversely, it asks how emphasis on environments, broadly conceived, revises and enriches our understanding of the colonial period.
PeriodJan 9 2026
Held atAmerican Historical Association
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Climate Change
  • Latin America
  • Colonial Period
  • Environmental History
  • Environmental Humanities
  • History of Science
  • History of Medicine
  • History of Technology

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