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Research Symposium in Mexican and Mexican-American Studies 鈥 Pathways, Explorations, Approaches
4-5 June, 2014
Research Symposium in Mexican and Mexican-American Studies
Pathways, Explorations, Approaches
This symposium invited participation from scholars working both in the area traditionally constituted as Mexican Studies and also in the area of Mexican-American and/or Chicano Studies. Its focus was deliberately expansive and the Irish Centre for Mexican Studies welcomed panel proposals that illuminated approaches to, explorations of and pathways through these rich multidisciplinary fields that are underpinned by work in both the social sciences and humanities. The symposium aimed to showcase research into Mexican and Mexican-American Studies as conceptualised, studied and taught in the academy. The symposium provided the opportunity to debate and discuss scholarly research and inquiry on Mexico from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives. Interventions in the areas of cultural studies, literatures, art, theatre and performance, history, political science, anthropology, sociology and digital humanities were welcome. Papers that problematise area studies鈥 approaches or that chronicle the issues facing inter- or multi-disciplinary research will be particularly welcome.
Full Programme
深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork
Centre for Mexican Studies
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
CACSSS Seminar Room, G27
O鈥 Rahilly Building
4th and 5th June, 2014
Day 1 (4th June)
9:00-9:30 am
Registration and welcome
9:30-11:00 am
Panel 1: Contemporary Approaches to Culture, Violence, Power in Mexico
Chair: Ana Cruz Garcia
Jean-Philippe Imbert, Dublin City 深夜亚洲福利久久
Imagining Slaughter: Paul Owen Imaging Gender
Mar铆a de Los Angeles Lara-Jaen, Dublin City 深夜亚洲福利久久
Femicide in Ju谩rez: Killing the Silence Through the Arts
Emer Clifford, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork
Yamina del Real: Lost and Uninhabited Bodies
11:00-11:30 am
Coffee in Social Area, First Floor Block B, O鈥橰ahilly Building
11:30-1:00 pm
Panel 2: Aesthetics and Politics in Mexican and Mexican American Literature
Chair: Stephen Boyd
Donna Alexander, Centre for Mexican Studies, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork
鈥淟ong Poems as Big Poems鈥: Lorna Dee Cervantes鈥檚 Approaches to DocuPoetry
Mila L贸pez-Pel谩ez Casellas, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Coventry
鈥楻acial Identity and False Abolitionism in Early Chicana and Afro-American Narratives鈥
Sheldon Penn, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Leicester
The aesthetic of creative evolution in Alfonso Reyes鈥檚 Visi贸n de An谩huac [1519] (1917)
1:00-2:00 pm
Lunch Social Area, First Floor, Block B, O鈥橰ahilly Building
2:00-3:00 pm
Keynote address
Di谩logo con Yamina del Real
Moderator: Nuala Finnegan
3:15-5:15 pm
Panel 3: Video Conference Link with Department of History, Universidad de Guadalajara
Norma Aide Macias Moya, estudiante de la Maestr铆a en Investigaci贸n Educativa and Centre for Mexican Studies, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork
La casa de recogidas de Guadalajara (1747-1829). Instrucci贸n, disciplina y protecci贸n
Cristina Paloma Verea, Profesora e investigadora en el Departamento de Estudios en Educaci贸n,
Las mujeres recluidas en el Centro Penitenciario del Estado de Jalisco y los procesos de instrucci贸n
Luciano Oropeza Sandoval, Profesor e investigador en el Departamento de Estudios en Educaci贸n,
La segunda oleada de mujeres profesionistas en el Estado de Jalisco
Mar铆a Guadalupe Garc铆a Alcaraz, Profesora e investigadora en el Departamento de Estudios en Educaci贸n
La formaci贸n de profesoras en Guadalajara a finales del siglo XIX: el proyecto oficial y protestante
6:00 pm
Poetry Reading and Reception (sponsored by Corona)
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sue帽o (Wings Press)
Introduced by poet, Matthew Sweeney
Cork Vision Centre, North Main Street, Cork City.
Day 2 (5th June)
9:15-10:15 am
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Nuala Finnegan
Mark Millington, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Nottingham
The politics of self-representation in the autobiography of Jos茅 Vasconcelos
10:15-11:45 am
Panel 4: Chicano Narrative: Race, Identity, Performance
Chair: Cara Levey
Thea Pitman, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Leeds
鈥Mestiz@Cyborgs: The Performance of Latin(o) American-ness as (Critical) Radical Identity鈥
Niamh McNamara, Centre for Mexican Studies, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork
Exploring the senses in the novel Their Dogs Came With Them by Helena Mar铆a Viramontes
Eilidh A B Hall, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of East Anglia
鈥樷赌Honk, says the cars at home, here they say t谩n-t谩n-t谩n.鈥欌赌:&苍产蝉辫;The mestizaje of language and identity in Sandra Cisneros
11:45-12:00 pm
Coffee in Social Area, First Floor Block B, O鈥橰ahilly Building
12:00-1:30 pm
Panel 5: Race, Gender and Politics: Historical Approaches
Chair: Niamh MacNamara
Kristine Byron, Michigan State 深夜亚洲福利久久
New Perspectives on Gender and the Mexican Revolution
Cian Warfield, Centre for Mexican Studies, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork
The Zapatista movement: an impossible dream or a reality in the making?
Mar铆a de Lourdes Salazar Martinez, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Manchester
鈥楨n la jaula de oro.鈥 Are Mexican tobacco farm workers a structural necessity?
1:30-2:15 pm
Lunch in Social Area, First Floor Block B, O鈥橰ahilly Building
2:15-3:15 pm
Keynote Address
Chair: Helena Buffery
Lorna Dee Cervantes
It鈥檚 Not The Meat, It鈥檚 the Motion: On Race, Class, Culture and The Big G In The New World; From Conquest To The New Cognition
3:15-5:15 pm
Panel 6: Identities and Social Narratives in Mexican Cultural Production
Chair: Emer Clifford
Jennifer Wood, National 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Ireland, Galway
Hugo Salcedo鈥檚 Humanising Snapshots of Mexico鈥檚 Drug Wars
Dr. Yolanda Reyes, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Dublin
Under the Same Moon鈥欌: under the same Mexican Cinematic role of Motherhood?
Jennie Galvin, National 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Ireland Galway
鈥淓l Movimiento Alterado鈥: Representing and 鈥楶ackaging鈥 Female Sexuality?
Ivan Kenny, National 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Ireland Galway
Identity, Religion and Ritual in the Works of Juan Rulfo and Luis Bu帽uel
5:15-5:30 pm
Closing remarks with
His Excellency, Carlos Garc铆a de Alba, Ambassador of Mexico in Ireland
Nuala Finnegan, Director, Centre for Mexican Studies, UCC
Jean-Philippe Imbert, Chair Irish Association of Mexican Studies
6 pm Exhibition Opening, Cork Vision Centre
MEXICORK: Perspectives on/from MEXICO
Exhibition of Sculpture, Art and Photography by Artists: Esther Guinzberg, Yamina del Real, Brian Maguire, Cora Murphy, Daniel Weinstock, Urszula Navrot, Oweena Fogarty
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