Cliff Welch, Ph.D.

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Papers Presented

“Area Studies No More: The West Michigan Conference On The Americas .” XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Dallas . 27-29 March 2003.

"The Organization of Rural Life: The Long-Term Influence of Vargas-Era Policies in Brazil." Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association. Chicago. 4 January 2003. 

"New Visions of Peasant Struggle in Brazil: The Grass War of 1959" Sixth International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. 4 April 2002.

"Peasants and Globalization in Latin America: A Survey of Recent Literature." XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Washington, D.C. 7 September 2001. 

"Fighting for a Livelihood: the Fidel of the Backlands on Video." X World Congress of the International Rural Sociology Association. Rio de Janeiro. 31 July 2000.

"Marking Time with the CLOC: International Rural Labor Solidarity in the Americas from World War II to the Third Millennium." XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Miami, Florida. 18 March 2000.

"Giving Voice: Brazilian Rural Labor Militants, U.S. Oral Historians, Memories and History." Oral History Association Annual Meeting. Anchorage, AL. 6-10 October 1999.

"Memory, Event and Documentary Videos: Shooting Jofre Correa Netto." Word & Image Conference, Grand Valley State University. 15 September 1999.

"Keeping Communism Down on the Farm: The Brazilian Rural Labor Movement During the Cold War." Twenty-fifth Annual Southwest Labor Studies Conference. San Francisco, CA. 29 April-1 May, 1999.

"Peasant and Rural Labor Organizations at Odds: An Old Tension Resurfaces in Brazil," XXI International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Chicago, IL 24-26 September 1998.

"The Shooting of Jofre Corrêa Neto: Peasant Struggle Remembered in São Paulo, Brazil." American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. 8-11 January 1998.

"The Latest Stage of Struggle: Mercosur and the Agrarian Question in Historical Perspective." XX International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Guadalajara, MX. 17-19 April 1997.

"Jofre and the Brazilian Revolution: Peasant Mobilization, Land Reform, and History in São Paulo, Brazil." 13th Annual Latin American Labor History Conference. Duke University. 19-20 April 1996.

"Fair Trade for Free Trade: A Brazilian Labor Perspective on Mercosur." The Western Hemisphere and Regionalism: A Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block? Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University. 11-13 April 1996.

"Jofre and the Brazilian Revolution: A Preliminary Historiography of Rural Social Movements in Brazil." 19th International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Washington, DC. 28 September 1995.

"Rent From the Earth: Resisting the Introduction of the Wage System on São Paulo Plantations, 1930 to 1963." 1994 Great Lakes History Conference. 30 September 1994.

"Peasants and Populists: São Paulo Farm Workers and the Vargas Administration." 1992 American Historical Association Conference. Washington, D.C.

"The Role of Labor in the Formation of Agricultural Development Policy in Brazil, 1930-1953." Society for International Development Luncheon Seminar, Michigan State University. 4 December 1992.

"Rural Populism and the Coffee Economy in São Paulo, 1948-1958." 16th International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Washington, DC. 3-6 April 1991.

"Putting Forward the American Point of View: The Origins of U.S. Involvement in Brazilian Unions." 16th International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Washington, DC. 3-6 April 1991

"The Origins of Social Unrest in Brazil: Rural Labor Mobilization and the Law in São Paulo, Brazil." Annual Meeting, North Central Council of Latin Americanists. St. Cloud State University. 11-13 April 1990.

"Notes on the Transition From Colonos to Boias Frias. Rural Workers and the Law in the State of São Paulo, 1940-1970." 7th Annual Latin American Labor History Conference. Yale University. 20-21 April 1990.

"Rural Workers and the Law in Brazil. A Study of the Mobilization of Rural Labor and the Institution of Rural Labor Law in São Paulo, 1945-1964. 15th International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Miami, Florida. 4-6 December 1989.

Panel Chair, Organizer, or Commentator

Organizer and Chair. "Peasants and Globalization in the Americas." XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Washington, D.C. 7 September 2001. 

Comment on Whoever Said I was a Good Girl? presented at the Arts and Humanities Conference on Violence. Grand Valley State University. 17 November 2000.

Commentator, "Struggle for Land" panel. Fifth Conference On the Americas. Grand Rapids. 14 October 2000. 

Chair and organizer, "Social Justice and Free Trade in the Sugar Industries of the Americas." XXI International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Chicago, IL. 24-26 September 1998.

Commentator, "Issues in Third World History" panel. Great Lakes History Conference. Grand Rapids. 2 October 1996.

Comment on Avi Chomsky, "Race, Class, and Resistance: Haitian Migrant Workers in Cuba, 1912-1930" and Marc C. McLeod, "Undesirable Aliens: Race, Nationalism and Culture in the Deportation of Haitians from Cuba in the 1930s." 19th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Washington, DC. 28 September 1995.

Chair and Organizer. "From North to South: Agricultural Workers and Neoliberal Reform in the Americas."18th International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Atlanta. 12 March 1994.

Commentator on the Proceedings of the Conference on Labor and Economic Integration in the Americas, University of North Carolina-Duke University Latin American Studies Consortium. 25 August 1994.

Comment on Barry Carr, "Sugar and Soviets: The Mobilization of Sugar Workers in Cuba, 1933" and Cindy Forster, "'The Time of Freedom': Organizing Among San Marcos Coffee Workers During Guatemala's National Revolution." Tenth Annual Latin American Labor History Conference. Duke University. 23-24 April 1993.

Commentator on "Domestics, Trolleymen, Artisans and Their Labor Organizations in Latin America." Seventeenth International Latin American Studies Association Congress. Los Angeles, CA. 24-27 September 1992.

Commentator on "Labor and Textiles During the Great Depression: A Cross-National Comparison." 1991 Southern Labor Studies Conference. Georgia State University, Atlanta. 10-13 October 1991.

Commentator on "American Labor History." 1991 Great Lakes History Conference. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 25 April 1991.

Comment on Gilbert Joseph and Allen Wells, "The Possibilities for and Limitations of Resistance on Yucatan's Henequen Estates (1880-1915)." Eighth Latin American Labor History Conference. Princeton University. 19-20 April 1991.

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