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Remembering Mexico 1968
with a screening of the video Rojo amanecer and readings on
1968 from the works of Rosario Castellanos, Octavio Paz, Elena
Poniatowska, and José Revueltas
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Friday, October 2, 7:30pm
Location: bowl 5, Robertson Hall (WWS)
1968 is still today a turning point in Mexican politics. Between July and October, thousands of students took to the streets to protest police abuses and to demand democracy and respect for civil liberties. As the student movement spread and its political content intensified, the authoritarian Mexican regime resorted to increasingly repressive measures. On October 2, 1968 a student meeting held in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, in teh Tlatelolco neighborhood of Mexico city, was brutally crushed by the government. Hundreds died, jails were filled.
Written by two '68 participants and directed by Jorge Fons, Rojo amanecer (Mexico, 1989, 97 min, in Spanish - no subtitles) shows the dramatic impact of the movement and the massacre itself on the personal life and the political views of a middle-class family in Tlatelolco. Readings (in Spanish, with written translations to English) of key texts on 1968 by leading Mexican writers accompany the screening.
Hosted by Prof. Lucía Melgar-Palacios of teh Department of romance Languages and Literatures.
Free and open to the Princeton University Community
Pedro Palazuelos, photographer: Vistas
de Cuba, 1997
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Tuesday, October 6, 4:30pm
Location: 121 E. Pyne
(Co-sponsored with Romance Languages and Literatures)
Enrique M. Santi: Towards an Intellectual Biography of Octavio Paz
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Thursday, October 15, 4:30pm
Location: McCosh 66
Enrique M. Santi, Georgetown University.
The remarkable career of Octavio Paz, Mexico's only Nobel Laureate,
who passed away last April, will be addressed in a brief lecture
followed by an open discussion forum. Professor Sant will address
aspects of Paz's poetry and essays, his impact on Mexican and Latin
American society, and his polemical relationship with Mexican elites.
Sant is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at
Georgetown University. Born and raised in Cuba, he received his Ph.D. in
1976 from Yale University. He is the author of numerous books of
literary criticism and has edited numerous works by Octavio Paz, about
whom he is completing a biography titled Rights of Poetry: An
Intellectual Biography of Octavio Paz (forthcoming, Harvard University
Press).
Matthew
Gutmann: For Whom the Taco Bells Toll: Popular Response to NAFTA
south of the
Border.
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Monday, October 19, 4:30pm
Location: TBA
Matthew Gutmann is the author of the well-received ethnography THE MEANINGS OF MACHO: BEING A MAN IN MEXICO CITY (U. California Press, 1996) and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. He will visit Patricia Fernandez-Kelly's gender class to discuss his work on machismo, then offer the above-mentioned public lecture.
Manuel Camacho: Party Politics in Mexico:
forming a New Political Movement
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Tuesday, October 20, 4:30pm
- The Return of The Guatemalan Refugees
- Message from Manuel Camacho Solis to EZLN (Chiapas News 1/25/94)
Location: Dodds Auditorium, Woodrow Wilson School
Manuel Camacho Solis's longstanding political career includes having served as Chiapas Peace Commissioner, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mayor of Mexico City, and the PRI's Secretary General. (Source: Americas Program Mexico Project)
For background, please see the following documents:
Douglas Massey: International Migration and Infrastructure Development in Mexico, Inaugural lecture in the Center for Migration and Development colloquium series
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Thursday, October 22, 4:30pm
Location: Bowl 6, Robertson Hall (WWS)
Douglas Massey is Dorothy S. Thomas Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Susan Eckstein: Cuba: Power to the People? How Cubans Are and Are Not Transoforming Socialism
- Thursday, December 3, 4:30pm
Location: TBA
Susan Eckstein is Professor of Sociology at Boston University and is associated with the Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She currently is the President of the Latin American Studies Association, the main international association of scholars concerned about Latin America. Along with her continued interest in Latin America in particular and problems of developing countries in general, she is currently engaged in research on suburban ethnicity in the United States.
