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Research Symposium in Mexican and Mexican-American Studies – 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’ approaches or that chronicle the issues facing inter- or multi-disciplinary research will be particularly welcome.
Full Programme
University College Cork
Centre for Mexican Studies
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
CACSSS Seminar Room, G27
O’ 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 University
Imagining Slaughter: Paul Owen Imaging Gender
María de Los Angeles Lara-Jaen, Dublin City University
Femicide in Juárez: Killing the Silence Through the Arts
Emer Clifford, University College Cork
Yamina del Real: Lost and Uninhabited Bodies
11:00-11:30 am
Coffee in Social Area, First Floor Block B, O’Rahilly 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, University College Cork
“Long Poems as Big Poems”: Lorna Dee Cervantes’s Approaches to DocuPoetry
Mila López-Peláez Casellas, University of Coventry
‘Racial Identity and False Abolitionism in Early Chicana and Afro-American Narratives’
Sheldon Penn, University of Leicester
The aesthetic of creative evolution in Alfonso Reyes’s Visión de Anáhuac [1519] (1917)
1:00-2:00 pm
Lunch Social Area, First Floor, Block B, O’Rahilly Building
2:00-3:00 pm
Keynote address
Diálogo 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 Maestría en Investigación Educativa and Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork
La casa de recogidas de Guadalajara (1747-1829). Instrucción, disciplina y protección
Cristina Paloma Verea, Profesora e investigadora en el Departamento de Estudios en Educación,
Las mujeres recluidas en el Centro Penitenciario del Estado de Jalisco y los procesos de instrucción
Luciano Oropeza Sandoval, Profesor e investigador en el Departamento de Estudios en Educación,
La segunda oleada de mujeres profesionistas en el Estado de Jalisco
María Guadalupe García Alcaraz, Profesora e investigadora en el Departamento de Estudios en Educación
La formación 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, Sueño (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, University of Nottingham
The politics of self-representation in the autobiography of José Vasconcelos
10:15-11:45 am
Panel 4: Chicano Narrative: Race, Identity, Performance
Chair: Cara Levey
Thea Pitman, University of Leeds
‘Mestiz@Cyborgs: The Performance of Latin(o) American-ness as (Critical) Radical Identity’
Niamh McNamara, Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork
Exploring the senses in the novel Their Dogs Came With Them by Helena María Viramontes
Eilidh A B Hall, University of East Anglia
‘’Honk, says the cars at home, here they say tán-tán-tán.’’: The mestizaje of language and identity in Sandra Cisneros
11:45-12:00 pm
Coffee in Social Area, First Floor Block B, O’Rahilly Building
12:00-1:30 pm
Panel 5: Race, Gender and Politics: Historical Approaches
Chair: Niamh MacNamara
Kristine Byron, Michigan State University
New Perspectives on Gender and the Mexican Revolution
Cian Warfield, Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork
The Zapatista movement: an impossible dream or a reality in the making?
María de Lourdes Salazar Martinez, University of Manchester
‘En la jaula de oro.’ Are Mexican tobacco farm workers a structural necessity?
1:30-2:15 pm
Lunch in Social Area, First Floor Block B, O’Rahilly Building
2:15-3:15 pm
Keynote Address
Chair: Helena Buffery
Lorna Dee Cervantes
It’s Not The Meat, It’s 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 University of Ireland, Galway
Hugo Salcedo’s Humanising Snapshots of Mexico’s Drug Wars
Dr. Yolanda Reyes, University College Dublin
Under the Same Moon’’: under the same Mexican Cinematic role of Motherhood?
Jennie Galvin, National University of Ireland Galway
“El Movimiento Alterado”: Representing and ‘Packaging’ Female Sexuality?
Ivan Kenny, National University of Ireland Galway
Identity, Religion and Ritual in the Works of Juan Rulfo and Luis Buñuel
5:15-5:30 pm
Closing remarks with
His Excellency, Carlos García 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
More details can be found on our website: http://mexicanstudies2013.wordpress.com/