Amilcar Challu
@aechallu
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(Mostly on Bluesky now) Historian of Latin America, Mexico; economic, environmental, social and public history.
Joined June 2013
Last year Matt Emberg developed a board game about the conquest of Tenochtitlan with @bgsuCURS funding. Today we got to play the finalized version. Impressive design and research behind it. #ILoveHistory
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Check also the other essays in the spring issue. I haven't read all of them yet; however, some are very good, such as the one from @aechallu and John Coatsworth and the one from @MGF91! 👇 https://t.co/ePUtf9umu9
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So happy to share the byline with John Coatsworth. #econhist #latinamerica
revista.drclas.harvard.edu
For the last few decades, a strong consensus has held that Latin America is not only the most economically unequal region in the world, but also one where inequality has become structurally entrenc...
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A fantastic experience for our history majors to meet @WoodardColin . “Desperately we need people who can bring everything together. That’s the historian.” Thanks @bgsu for this opportunity!
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Amazing public lecture by Modupe Labode, @smithsonian National Museum of American History. Discussed the design and creation process behind Emmett Till’s exhibit
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Terrific Hess lecture wrapping up with Francis Gavin (@JohnsHopkins). I particularly like Gavin’s point that history’s use is less about lessons, more about understanding complexity. Historical thinking through problems, not the past per-se, is the true power of history.
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Thursday 10/10 at 4pm EST I'll be on Falcon Radio to listen to Argentine music from the 1970s, 1980s and beyond. Host Tate Baughman will throw stuff and me and I react with historical commentary. If you want to tune in, it's on
bgfalconmedia.com
Falcon Radio is BG Falcon Media’s streaming-only radio station, broadcasting 24/7 out of the Falcon Radio Studio in the Michael & Sara Kuhlin Center. You can listen by clicking on the player at the...
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Panel 4 of https://t.co/EjniWTC0FB is about North American 19th-century History by Gabriel Rodriguez, @BGSU_History MA student, and Charles Beatty-Medina (Prof of Hist @UToledo). The connectivity of the North American experience never stops to surprise me.
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Se me fue mi alma pater académico. Roberto Cortés Conde fue el fundador de la Historia Económica Argentina moderna. Bajo su dirección, escribí mi primer artículo académico publicado. Roberto, te agradezco todo.
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Gran tristeza por la muerte de Roberto Cortés Conde, gran historiador y economista. Sus investigaciones iluminaron aspectos claves de nuestra historia económica. Fue un lujo tenerlo como maestro y amigo. QEPD. Acá dejo la entrevista que le hizo JC de Pablo en 2007
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At the Climate in context event representing our work bridging environmental science and the public through storytelling.
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Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review @TheIFS The whole evidence volume of the Review, with clickable links to the remarkable set of commissioned articles across the many dimensions of inequality, now published open access by OUP, follow the link at https://t.co/8yn3Hq3Fmf
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NOW OPEN ✨ What’s the future of Ohio in the face of a changing climate? . Colors of Climate Change, a Data Arts Installation by Midstory 📈 . On display at the Main branch of the @toledolibrary now through 7/27 (325 N Michigan St, Toledo, OH 43604).
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New bonus episode! The children's eclipse. We went to @BGSchools' Astroexpo and asked the kids about the Eclipse & we compared their answers to historic reports in @ChronAmLOC. With bonus sound fx (added by the kids). In https://t.co/EFl27xDjmk & all other platforms!
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We are proud sponsors of the Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, which will be held in @BGSU on October 3-4, 2024. We are still accepting paper and panels proposals. Learn more at
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“Workers with undergraduate degrees in history have the highest median earnings in the humanities ($77,932) and the highest upper quartile of earnings (starting at $127,429). Graduates with degrees in general humanities/liberal arts had the lowest range” https://t.co/B8SqeWsREU
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Dr. Stephanie Gearhart, @bgsuenglish prof, immerses us in the language of eclipses in Shakespeare's times, when new & unsettling scientific paradigms changed the way people think about the universe. Check out this new bonus episode of Eclipsing History at
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