Mexican Seminar Series
Mexican Seminar Series speaker and Tinker Visiting Professor (Fall 2008), Mexican journalist Alma Guillermoprieto
The Mexican Seminar Series invites visiting and U of C scholars to present their work in an informal atmosphere, providing Mexican studies faculty and students with the opportunity to debate and discuss scholarly research and inquiry on Mexico from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives.
Fall 2009
- Friedrich Katz, "The hacendados and the Mexican Revolution."
Tuesday, October 13, 12:00-1:30pm
The Katz Center for Mexican Studies was named in honor of Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Friedrich Katz, one of the world's leading scholars of Mexican history. Professor Katz's research and teaching focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Mexico and Latin America; diplomatic relations between Latin America, Europe and United States; and the Mexican Revolution. Professor Katz has published several books that have garnered great critical acclaim, including The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, and The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, in honor of which he was given the 1999 Albert J. Beveridge Award, sponsored by the American Historical Association.
- Margaret Chowning, "The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua: Gender, Piety, and Politics in Mexico, 1790-1920."
Tuesday, October 20, 12:00-1:30 pm
Margaret Chowning is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution (1999). In a review of Chowning’s 2006 book, Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent, 1752-1863, the American Historical Review wrote, "Chowning's work is a fine regional study of a broader phenomenon, convent rebellion, which illuminates larger trends. It will be required reading for those interested in women's convents, the economic history of the late colony and early nation, and the processes by which so-called Enlightenment thought penetrated even remote reaches of Mexican society."
- Ariel Rodríguez Kuri, "Temas y problemas de la historia contemporánea de México" (1950s-1980s)
Tuesday, October 27, 12:00-1:30pm
Ariel Rodríguez Kuri received his docorate from El Colegio de México in 1994. He currently serves as the director of the Centro de Estudios Históricos at El Colegio de México and specializes in twentieth-century Mexican history, urbanity, and cultural transitions of the twentieth century in Mexico. His most recent book, La experiencia olvidada. El ayuntamiento de México: política y gobierno, 1876-1912, was published by Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in 1996. This lecture will be given in Spanish.
- Jorge Durand and Patricia Arias, “Mexicans in Chicago: The Field Journal of Robert Redfield,1924-1925.”
Tuesday, November 10, 12:00-1:30 pm
Jorge Durand is professor in the Department for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Guadalajara and co-director of the Mexican Migration Project with Douglas S. Massey. He is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and the co-author of Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration.
All lectures for the Mexcian Seminar Series will be held on the second floor of the Social Sciences Building.
John Hope Franklin Room
Social Sciences 224
1126 E 59th Street
University of Chicago
Lunch will be provided for those who register in advance. For more information please contact us at 773-834-1987 or at mexicanstudies@uchicago.edu
Spring 2009
- Judith Boruchoff, "Mexican Migrant Politics in Chicago: Political Culture in Transnational Contexts"
Tuesday, April 28, 12:00-1:30pm
Judith Boruchoff is a research associate at the Katz Center for Mexican Studies. Drawing on ethnographic field work conducted in Guerrero, Mexico, and in Chicago since 1990, her research investigates cultural mechanisms through which transnational communities are formed and maintained, political implications of hometown organizations, Mexican government programs for its citizens in the United States, and consequences of such transnational phenomena for the nation-state.- John Tutino, "Forging Atlantic Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America"
Thursday, May 28, 12:00-1:30pm
John Tutino received his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a professor of History at Georgetown University. His research on Querétaro and the eastern Bajío, and is coming to fruition in Making a New World: Forging Atlantic Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America (forthcoming, Duke University Press).
Winter 2009
- Mauricio Tenorio Trillo, "On Rats, Lice, and Worse Things:
Typhus and Mexico City"
February 24, 2009
Mauricio Tenorio Trillo is a professor of modern Latin American History at the University of Chicago. He has published several books on urban culture and Mexican history, including El Urbanista (Mexico: El Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004) and Mexico at World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1996).
FALL 2008
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Luis Fernando Granados, "Independence without Insurgency: Paradoxes of the New Historiography on Latin American Independence"
October 16, 2008
Luis Fernando Granados received his Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University in 2008. His dissertation is a study on Mexico City's barrios de indios, based on a tribute roll prepared for the indigenous municipality of San Juan Tenochtitlan in 1800. He is also the author of Sueñan las piedras: Alzamiento occurrido en la ciudad de México, 14, 15 y 16 de septiembre, 1847 (Mexico: Ediciones Era, 2003), a monograph on the popular uprising against the U.S. occupation of Mexico City. Luis is currently a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago.
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Marco Antonio Calderón, "Educación indígena y experimentos sociales en México: Actopan, Hidalgo y Carapan, Michoacán (1927-1933)"
October 30, 2008
Marco Antonio Calderon is a professor in the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos at El Colegio de Michoacán in Mexico. - Alma Guillermoprieto, "A Conversation with Alma Guillermoprieto"
November 13, 2008
Mexican journalist and acclaimed memoirist Alma Guillermoprieto has been writing about Latin America for over thirty years. In 1995 she was the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship; she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. Ms. Guillermoprieto currently writes for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and was a Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in fall of 2008.
- John Tutino, "Forging Atlantic Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America"
