Global History Seminar: "Tropical Deforestation and Indigenous Resistance in South America since 1500"

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM FEBRUARY 23RD

"Tropical Deforestation and Indigenous Resistance in South America since 1500"
Freg Stokes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History; Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology.

Commentators: 
Bruno Rodrigues de Lima, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

Siân Davies, Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH. PhD in Economic and Social History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh.

Indigenous Guaraní-speaking societies in the Atlantic Forest of South America have influenced both regional environmental history and the global history of capitalism. This seminar paper evaluates how Guaraní labor in the coastal, ‘Portuguese’ section of the forest, and Guaraní resistance in the inland, ‘Spanish’ section of the forest, have shaped regional deforestation patterns from 1500 until the present day.

This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950A/B Approaches to Global History and includes both reading sessions designed for graduate students and research sessions open to the interested public during which students and faculty participants will present current research. Faculty participants will be drawn from several schools, and, most especially, from the group of fellows in global history who are spending the academic year 2025-2026 at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Discussions will be moderated by Professor Sven Beckert.

Register here- you will receive the paper approximately one week in advance.