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Spring 2021 Mexican Studies Seminar schedule is out. Full program available here. Email us to receive ZOOM link prior to seminar.
Winter 2021 Mexican Studies Seminar schedule is out. Full program available here. Email us to receive ZOOM link prior to seminar.
Fall 2020 Mexican Studies Seminar schedule is out. Full program available here. Email us to receive ZOOM link ahead of time.
Due to COVID-19 safety precautions, the Katz office will remain closed indefinitely. However, we are still carrying out programming as usual. Please visit our Facebook page here, website, or email us at mexicanstudies@uchicago.edu for more information.
Friedrich Katz Memorial Conference to take place at Columbia University from February 20th-21st. Full program here.
Winter 2020 Mexican Studies Seminar schedule is out. Full program available here.
Join us in a series of short, interdisciplinary seminars featuring scholars and their unique research on Mexican culture, history, arts and politics. Lunch provided.
La revista NEXOS ha publicado una versión editada del debate sobre el desempeño del presidente López Obrador en su primer año de gobierno. Acceso a la transcripción aquí.
Columbia University will host the next Cátedra Katz from February 20th-21st, 2020. More information here.
Katz Center’s Fulbright Visiting Professor, José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, offers a brief interview. Access video here.
Emilio Kourí en Nexos: Un ejido dividido
“La apresurada sepultura de las razones municipalistas del movimiento zapatista tras su derrota en los campos de batalla fue no sólo una operación política, sino también el resultado de dos grandes prejuicios
analíticos.” Escribe más aquí.
Fall 2019 Mexican Studies Seminar schedule is out. Full program available here.
Join us in a series of short, interdisciplinary seminars featuring scholars and their unique research on Mexican culture, history, arts and politics. Lunch provided during each seminar. Full program here.
Emilio Kourí en Nexos sobre la raíz y razón de Zapata.
“El 3 de octubre se cumplen 30 años del fallecimiento de Jesús Sotelo Inclán, a quien México le debe mucho” el escribe más aquí.
Emilio Kourí en Nexos acerca de la Revolución mexicana
El 10 de abril se cumplieron 100 años del asesinato de Zapata, y el Gobierno federal ha decretado al 2019 como “Año del Caudillo del Sur, Emiliano Zapata”. En contrapunteo a los ánimos celebratorios y mitográficos que seguramente han de prevalecer, nuestro director Emilio Kourí publica en la Revista Nexos una serie de textos mensuales que recuerdan otras historias que reflejan las aspiraciones y el devenir de aquel movimiento popular, sepultadas por el tiempo y por nuestra recurrente ansia de redención.
Full Video! A Laboratory for the Drug Wars: The Invention of the “Juárez Cartel” in the Era of National Security
In this Mexican Studies Seminar, Oswaldo Zavala discusses the construction of the “narco” imaginary that transformed the sociopolitical landscape in Mexico and ultimately justified the militarization of the country.
Mexican Studies Seminar | Spring 2019
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