Georgetown Americas Institute

The Americas Forum event series at Georgetown University aims to bring innovative perspectives to understanding the United States and the diversity within its borders, to engaging the diverse peoples, nations, and communities across the Americas, and to exploring the accelerating movement of peoples and visions across borders—and across the hemisphere. In this spirit, the Americas Forum, coordinated by John Tutino, Professor of History, appointed in the College of Arts & Sciences and in the School of Foreign Service,  is pleased to collaborate with the Georgetown Americas Institute and the Center for Latin American Studies to host the following events.

Some of these events will be streamed to the GAI YouTube channel.

Fall 2024 Program

October 8, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m., ICC 662

The Weak and the Powerful: How Panama Took the Canal and Changed the World

In this session, Jonathan Brown will engage in a conversation with David Painter of Georgetown University, John Tutino of the Georgetown University Americas Forum, and audience members on the prevalent themes in his research and writing. The Americas Forum is pleased to host these two distinguished academics. Brown is professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas, Austin and author of A Socioeconomic History of Argentina, 1776-1860 (Cambridge 1979), Oil and Revolution in Mexico (California 1993), and Cuba's Revolutionary World (Harvard 2017), before writing The Weak and the Powerful (Pittsburg 2024). Painter is associate professor emeritus of history and international affairs and is author of Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of the U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954 (Johns Hopkins 1986), The Cold War (Routledge 1999), and with Geegory Brew, The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954 (North Carolina 2023).