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Mexican Migrant Transnational Organizations in Chicago
In recent years the dynamic organizational development and political and civic participation of Mexican migrants in the United States has drawn ample scholarly attention. The city of Chicago, however, has received inadequate recognition within this scholarship, which has focused disproportionately on Los Angeles.
Memorial conference for Katz, Berlin 2011
On December 12th, 2011 in Berlin, the Latin American Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin organized a memorial conference for Friedrich Katz.
Among the scholars who participated in the conference were Walther Bernecker, Marianne Braig, John Coatsworth, Claudio Lomnitz, Leo Katz, Hans-Jürgen Puhle, Stefan Rinke, Enrique Semo, Stephanie Schütze, Hans Werner Tobler, and Emilio Kourí.
Click here to watch the videos of the presentations.
Katz Center will host 2014 International History Conference
The Katz Center has been selected to host the XIV Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México. To learn more about the conference, click here to visit the 2010 conference website.
Katz Center Publications on the Work of Friedrich Katz
The Katz Center and El Colegio de México recently co-published Revolución y exilio en la historia de México: Del amor de un historiador a su patria adoptiva, an homage to the life and work of Professor Katz. The Katz Center and the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio have co-produced a compact disk featuring recordings of a series of interviews of Professor Friedrich Katz, by Columbia University anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz. Click here to learn more.