Mexican Studies Seminar

 The Mexican Studies Seminar invites visiting and U of C-based 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.
 

Winter 2013

More information: mexicanstudies@uchicago.edu
773-834-1987

  • Guillermo Trejo, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
    "Indigenous Collective Action and Democratization in Mexico"
    January 15, 2013
  • Paul Gillingham, Lecturer in History, University of Pennsylvania
    "Democracy in Mexico: 1945-1965"
    January 29, 2013
  • Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
    "Art as Evidence? Interpreting Cacaxtla's Battle Mural"
    February 19, 2013
  • Robin Greeley, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Connecticut
    "Between Campesino and State: Photography, Rurality, and Modernity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico"
    February 26, 2013
  • Julene Iriarte, Revista NEXOS en línea
    "Mexican Cyberspace: Exploring the Networked Public Sphere"
    March 5, 2013

Fall 2012

  • José Antonio Aguilar, Professor of Political Science, CIDE, Mexico Mauricio Tenorio, Professor of History, University of Chicago
    "Carlos Fuentes: El Intelectual Público"
    October 23, 2012
  • Marta Lilia Tenorio, Research Professor, El Colegio de México Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
    "Sor Juana: Mujer y Poeta"
    October 30, 2012
  • Paul Gillingham, Lecturer in History, University of Pennsylvania
    "Democracy in Mexico: 1945-1965"
    *POSTPONED*
  • Emilio Kourí, Professor of History, University of Chicago
    "Making the Ejido: Community and History in Mexico's Land Reform"
    November 27, 2012

Spring 2012

  • Benjamin Smith, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
    "La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968"
    April 3rd, 2012
  • Edgar Mendoza García, Researcher, CIESAS
    "La Pequeña Propiedad entre la Desamortización y la Reforma Agraria:
    El Caso de Teotihuacán, 1856-1940"
    April 17th, 2012
  • Carlos Illades Aguiar, Research Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
    "La Izquiera en el Campo Intelectual Mexicano, 1968-1989"
    May 1st, 2012
  • Marco Estrada Saavedra
    "Ascenso y Caída del Zapatismo en Chiapas"
    May 8th, 2012

     

Winter 2012

  • Sarah López, Provost Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
    "Remittance Space: A Built Environment Perspective on US-Mexico Migration"
    January 10th, 2012
  • Gladys McCormick, Assistant Professor of History, Syracuse University
    "The Rural Beginnings of Mexico's "Dirty War:" The Case of Morelos and Puebla during the 1950s"
    January 31st, 2012
  • Terry Rugeley, Presidential Professor of Latin American History, University of Oklahoma
    "Five Myths of the Caste War of Yucatan"
    February 21st, 2012
  • Matthew Butler, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
    "Making Catholicism "Mexican:" Revolutionary Religion in the Countryside, 1925-1940"
    February 28th, 2012
     

Fall 2011

  • Mauricio Tenorio, Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago
    "Mestizaje and Miscegenation: Two Stories of the Same Sin"
    October 4, 2011
  • Rossana Reguillo, Profesora Investigadora, Departamento de Estudios Socioculturales, ITESO (Guadalajara)
    "Cuando morir no es suficiente: narco y violencias expresivas en el Mexico contemporaneo"
    October 18, 2011 (Cancelled)
  • Roberto G. Gonzales, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
    "Learning to be Illegal: Undocumented Mexican Youth and the Confusing and Contradictory Routes to Adulthood"
    November 15, 2011
  • Rihan Yeh, Research Professor, Centro de Estudios Antropologicos, El Colegio de Michoacan.
    "Mimicry at the Border"
    November 29, 2011

Spring 2011

  • Jorge Volpi, Writer and Essayist
    “El insomnio de Bolívar”
    April 7, 2011
  • Graciela Márquez, El Colegio de México Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
    “Fiscal Reform in Mexico: An Historical Perspective”
    April 12, 2011
  • Robert Curley, Professor Investigador, Universidad de Guadalajara, Visiting Assistant Professor, UIC
    “Revolution and the Social Location of Religion in Mexico, or How Jesus Became Disenfranchised and Property of the Nation”
    April 19, 2011
  • John Womack, Jr., Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University
    “Where to Start to Explain the Mexican Revolution--and the revolution(s) that did not happen”
    April 28, 2011
  • Seth Fein, Visiting Professor, History & Latin American Studies, Columbia University
    “Mexico Between the Widescreen and Small Screen, Polychrome and Monochrome Cold Wars”
    May 3, 2011
  • María E. Cotera, Associate Professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
    “¡Que vivan las mujeres! A Cultural Feminist Archive of the 21st Century"
    May 24, 2011

Winter 2011

  • Gerardo Esquivel, Tinker Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
    “Why isn’t Mexico Rich? Why should it be?”
    January 11, 2011
  • Fernando Vizcaíno, Investigador, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM (Visiting Scholar, CLAS)
    “Octavio Paz y la rebelión Zapatista de 1994"
    February 1, 2011
  • Dina Berger, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago
    “Raising Pan Americans: Women Activists of the Round Table Movement in Texas and Mexico, 1916-1944”
    February 8, 2011
  • Christina Bueno, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern Illinois University
    “The Making of a Nationalist Archaeology in Porfirian Mexico”
    March 1, 2011

Fall 2010

  • Diana Kennedy, Culinary Expert and Author
    “The Food Ways of Oaxaca”
    October 5, 2010
  • Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist, Tinker Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
    “A Conversation with Alma Guillermoprieto”
    October 12, 2010
  • Anthony Mora, Assistant Professor of History and American Culture, University of Michigan
    “The United States Which is Not the United States: Shifting Geography and Mexican Identity on the Nineteenth-Century Border”
    November 2, 2010
  • David Gutierrez, Professor of History, University of California-San Diego
    “Scylla, Charybdis, and the “Path to Citizenship:’ Reflections on the Historical Evolution of the Non-Citizens’ Rights Movement”
    November 16, 2010

Spring 2010

  • Javier Garciadiego, President, El Colegio de México
    “Las conmemoraciones históricas de México”
    March 20, 2010
  • Juan Mora-Torres, Associate Professor of History, DePaul University
    “Los de afuera no vienen, los de casa se van: The Origins of Mexican Migration to the U.S., 1848-1890”
    April 13, 2010
  • Tomás Jiménez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
    “Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, immigration, and Identity”
    April 20, 2010
  • Peter Guardino, Professor of History, Indiana University
    “A Gold God and a Silver Jesus: Religion and the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848”
    May 11, 2010
  • Clara Bargellini, Professor of Art History, UNAM, and Tinker Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
    “Learning from an Exhibition (Art of the Missions of Northern New Spain)”
    May 11, 2010
  • Mario Vázquez Olivera, Research Scholar, CIALC, UNAM
    “El imperio Mexicano y el Reino de Guatemala: Campa­ña política y proyecto militar, 1821-1823”
    May 25, 2010

Winter 2010

  • Fernando Escalante, Research Professor, El Colegio de México
    “Homicides in Mexico, 1990-2007”
    January 19, 2010
  • Christopher Boyer, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
    “Utopian Ecologies: Native Peoples, Forests, and the INI in the Sierra Tarahumara, 1940-1960”
    February 2, 2010
  • Joshua Hoyt, Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
    “Immigration Reform: Will the Democrats Deliver?”
    February 9, 2010
  • Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Research Professor at El Colegio de México, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples, 2001-2008
    “Recent Developments in Indigenous Human Rights in Mexico”
    February 11, 2010
  • J. Michelle Molina, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
    “Circulations: Heart and Science in the 18th-Century Catholic Atlantic”
    February 16, 2010
  • Ana de la O, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University, Visiting Professor at the Harris School for Public Policy, University of Chicago
    “Social Policy in Mexico: The Evolution of Progresa/Oportunidades”
    February 23, 2010
  • Justus Fenner, Research Scholar at PROIMMSE, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM
    “Los deslindes de terrenos baldíos en Chiapas, México, en el contexto internacional y nacional, 1881-1917”
    March 2, 2010

Fall 2009

  • Friedrich Katz, Professor of History, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
    “The Hacendados and the Mexican Revolution”
    October 13, 2009
  • Margaret Chowning, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
    “The Catholic Church and the Ladies of the Vela Perpetua: Gender, Piety, and Politics in Mexico, 1790-1920”
    October 20, 2009
  • Ariel Rodríguez Kuri, Director of the Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México
    “Temas y problemas de la historia contemporánea de México, 1950s-1980s”
    October 27, 2009
  • Jorge Durand, Professor in the Department for the Study of Social Movements, University of Guadalajara, Co-Director of the Mexican Migration Project
    “Mexicans in Chicago: The Field Journal of Robert Redfield, 1924-1925"
    November 10, 2009

Spring 2009

  • Marianne Braig, Professor, Latin American Institute, Free University of Berlin
    “EntreMundos: Transnational Approaches to the Formation and Transformation of Space and Spatial Orders Learning from Mexican Experiences”
    April 28, 2009
  • Judith Boruchoff, Research Associate at the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, University of Chicago
    “Mexican Migrant Politics in Chicago: Political Culture in Transnational Contexts”
    May 5, 2009
  • Stephanie Schütze, Assistant Professor, Latin American Institute, Free University of Berlin
    “Chicago-Michoacán: Transnational Participation of Mexican Migrants in Their Home Communities”
    May 19, 2009
  • John Tutino, Professor of History, Georgetown University
    “Forging Atlantic Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America”
    May 28, 2009

Winter 2009

  • Mauricio Tenorio Trillo, Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago
    “On Rats, Lice and Worse Things: Typhus and Mexico City”
    February 24, 2009

Fall 2008

  • Luis Fernando Granados, MA Lecturer, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago
    “Independence without Insurgency: Paradoxes of the New Historiography on Latin American Independence”
    October 16, 2008
  • Marc Antonio Calderón, Professor in the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos, El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico
    “Educación indígena y experimentos sociales en México: Actopan, Hidalgo y Carapan, Michoacán (1927-1933)”
    October 30, 2008
  • Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist, Tinker Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
    “A Conversation with Alma Guillermoprieto”
    November 13, 2008