The Future of Mexican Past:

A Roundtable Discussion on Mexico’s Porfirian Histories and Historiographies

May 17, 2012    5:30 – 7:30pm

Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room

6476 NW Marine Drive, UBC

The Liu Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America and the Liu Institute for Global Issues are pleased to invite you to a roundtable discussion featuring:

Dr. Paul Garner

Professor of History and Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. At present, he is also a visiting research fellow at Mexico City’s Research Institute “Dr. José Ma. Luis Mora”. Dr. Garner is author of Porfirio Diaz: A Profile in Power, one of the most recent works on the historiography the Porfirian period, as well of five books and dozens of articles on the topic.

Dr. Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Dr. Hu-DeHart’s research focuses on Chinese diasporas and transpacific migrations to and from Mexico during the Porfirian era and the Mexican Revolution. She has written and edited over a dozen books related to these subject.

Dr. William French

Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. Dr. French specializes on the history of gender and sexuality in the Porfirian years, and has published several books and articles on the subject.

History is always a process in the making. This is especially true for the Porfiriato, the controversial period of Mexican history spanning between 1876 and 1911 named after President Porfirio Díaz. During the Mexican Revolution and the decades of single party ruling that followed the deposition of Porfirio Díaz, historians tended to portray his long presidency as a disruption to Mexico’s seemingly inevitable republican path – a path that, some argued, was being restored with a presidency headed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party beginning in 1929. But as the PRI lost the 2000-federal elections and the country started its so-called transition to democracy, the Porfirian period has become the subject of new and more multifaceted historical, political and social interpretations.

This roundtable discussion will explore some of the complex processes that go into the present and future making and remaking of Mexico’s histories and historiographies. Chaired by Dr. Paul Garner.

Download poster here.

Refreshments will be served.

This event is kindly sponsored by the Liu Institute for Global Issues.

Latin American Studies Graduate Student Workshop

Hosted by the UBC Latin American Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Liu Institute’s Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

May 31 and June 1, 2012

Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Schedule subject to change.

May 31, 2012

9:00am: Coffee and Introductions

9:30-10-30am: Tal Nitsan (Anthropology), “Guatemalan Feminists’ Anti Violence Performances”. Commenter: Hannah Wittman (Sociology, SFU)

10:45-11:45am: Ana Vivaldi (Anthropology), “Toba experience in Buenos Aires shantytowns”. Commenter: Alec Dawson (History, SFU)

12:00-1:00pm: Lunch

1:15-2:15pm: René Bautista (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies), “’Nuestra América’ de José Martí a la luz de ‘Nuestro ideal: la creación de la cultura americana’ de Andrés Bello”. Commenter: Alejandra Bronfman (History, UBC)

2:30-3:30pm: Jorge Izquierdo (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies), “Latin American Vanguard art and literature from 1920-1940″. Commenter: Serge Guilbaut (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, UBC)

June 1, 2012

10:00am: Coffee

10:30-11:30am: Barbara Fraser (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies), “Intimate Multitudes: Femininity and collective eros in Gioconda Belli’s Sobre la grama and Linea de fuego”. Commenter: Bill French (History, UBC)

11:45-12:45am: Lunch

1:00-2:00pm: Rafael Wainer (Anthropology), “’You can’t put yourself not even for a second on someone else’s shoes’: The end-of-life for children with hematological conditions”. Commenter: Jon Beasley-Murray (FHIS)

2:00-3:00pm: Sara Koopman (Geography), “Making Space for Peace: International Protective Accompaniment in Colombia”. Commenter: Onur Bakiner (SFU)

3:00-4:00pm: Wrap-up and general discussion

This workshop is sponsored by the Liu Institute for Global Issues.