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Mexican Studies Research Collective
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a space for academic dialogue, exchange, and collaboration in the fields of Mexican literary and cultural studies | mexicanists.org
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VI Congreso Internacional de Investigaciones Literarias, "Teoría y crítica latinoamericanas: tradición y nuevas perspectivas", Universidad Veracruzana
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Coloquio Centenario de la revista Amauta (1926-2026), Recepción de resúmenes de ponencias: Hasta el 22 de julio de 2026 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Q: You shot this on massive sets and used a lot of practical effects instead of CGI. Why did you make that decision? A: It’s extremely important for me to keep the reality of film craft alive. I want real sets. I don’t want digital. I don’t want AI. I don’t want simulation. I want old fashioned craftsmanship. I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering. I go in and paint props myself. I supervise the construction of the sets. There is an operatic beauty when you build everything by hand. You feel that you being swept along by the work of hundreds of people.
August 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Marx for beginners
cover of "Marx para principiantes," by Rius
August 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Congreso Internacional "La solidaridad transnacional en América Latina durante el siglo XX: viajes de ida y vuelta" Congreso Internacional "La solidaridad transnacional en América Latina durante el siglo XX: viajes de ida y vuelta" Congreso Internacional "La solidaridad transnacional en América Latina durante el siglo XX: viajes de ida y vuelta"
March 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Congreso - La Solidaridad Trasnacional en América Latina durante el siglo XX. Viajes de ida y vuelta
Congreso Internacional "La solidaridad transnacional en América Latina durante el siglo XX: viajes de ida y vuelta" Congreso Internacional "La solidaridad transnacional en América Latina durante el siglo XX: viajes de ida y vuelta" Congreso Internacional "La solidaridad transnacional en América Latina durante el siglo XX: viajes de ida y vuelta" Congreso Internacional "La solidaridad transnacional en América Latina durante el siglo XX: viajes de ida y vuelta"
March 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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curso en línea: sueño y pienso que vivo #UNAM iifilologicas.unam.mx/index.php?pa...
February 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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to cap 2024 we hosted our second job market workshop with the help of Ale Vela Martínez, @sergiocarlos.bsky.social and @c4noff.bsky.social
event poster: job market workshop, Alejandra Vela Martínez, Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, Carolyn Fornoff, September 27, 2024, mexicanists.org
January 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? @sierramatute.bsky.social shared work on Sor Juana's challenge to patriarchal narratives that labeled her as a monster due to her perceived exceptionalism. Víctor's essay is currently in press with Latin American Research Review. #LiftTheCurse
event poster: was sor juana a sphinx? Monstrosity and the poetics of dedication in her transoceanic Enigmas. Víctor Sierra Matute, Baruch College, CUNY. February 1, 2024, mexicanists.org
January 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Julia Brown shared work in progress on rurality in 20th-century Mexican cinema. Julia is co-editor of the recent volume Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity: Framing the Twentieth Century, check it out! www.routledge.com/Women-Photog...
event poster: the rural mexican landscape: industry, identity, and late 20th century cinema, Julia Brown, Florida Atlantic University, November 16, 2023, mexicanists.org
January 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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we discussed the meanings of life and death in contemporary Mexico with Omar Espinosa Cisneros, the intro to Omar's book is available to download here: ricaxcan.uaz.edu.mx/jspui/handle...
event poster: filosofía e inscripción: vida y muerte en tiempos de excepción. Omar Espinosa Cisneros, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, September 25, 2023, mexicanists.org
January 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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fall 23 started with a bang! @erickabeckman.bsky.social stopped by to talk anti-epics of rural immiseration and her book-in-progress Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism

📑 read more of her work on the epics of expropriation: hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferic...
event poster: how long can the peasantry last? Anti-epics of rural immiseration. Ericka Beckman, University of Pennsylvaniam september 6, 2023, 4pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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We talked about violence, memory, and loss in contemporary Mexican literature with Ema Llorente

📚 La patria en fuga: violencia, memoria y desaparecidos en la literatura mexicana actual. Free download: riaa.uaem.mx:8080/xmlui/handle...
event poster. La patria en fuga, a conversation with Ema Llorente (UAEM), respondent: Roberto Cruz Arzabal, April 26, 2023. mexicanists.org
January 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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we had a conversation with @jorgeqn.bsky.social on his Biocosmism: Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico

📚Also available form Vanderbilt UP www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650651...
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January 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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convo with @rebeccacsjanzen.bsky.social on Unlawful Violence a book that examines how Mexican literature grapples with the country's splintered reality through non-linear stories from multiple perspectives

📚Available from Vanderbilt UP: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650444...
event poster: mexican studies research collective. unlawful violence: mexican law and cultural production. a conversation with rebecca janzen, u of south carolina. respondent: ever osorio ruiz (yale u), january 25, 2023, 4pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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A work-in-progress workshop with Regina Pieck (vibrations and debris in post-acpocalyptic Mexico City) and Ever Osorio Ruiz (feminist writing against state violence), with responses from @sergiocarlos.bsky.social & Dierdra Reber.
event poster: Mexican Studies Research Collective. Work in progress. Regina Pieck (Brown U), "Built on Water: Vibration and Debris in (Post)-Apocalyptic Mexico City." Respondent: Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Oberlin C). Ever Osorio Ruiz (Yale U), "If They Kill Me: Feminist Writing against State Violence." Respondent: Dierdra Reber (U of Kentucky). November 8, 2022, 4pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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we had a conversation with Irmgard Emmelhainz on Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures, a book that considers what is the task of thought and form in contemporary feminist-situated knowledge, also available from Vanderbilt UP www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650244...
Mexican Studies Research Collective: Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Living as Resistance. A conversation with Irmgard Emmelhainz, Independent Scholar. October 19, 2022, 4pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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book-in-progress workshop with @c4noff.bsky.social, Subjunctive Aesthetics is now part of Vanderbilt UP's Critical Mexican Studies series, a study of how contemporary Mexican writers, filmmakers, and visual artists grapple with climate change and extractivist policies
event poster: Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change. Carolyn Fornoff, Cornell University, Sept. 14, 2022, 4pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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our first ever job market workshop took place in Aug. 2022, with @cruzarzabal.bsky.social, Tammy Mitchell, @isanchezprado.bsky.social and @pavelandrade.bsky.social, we compiled a list of job market resources across academies, available here: mexicanists.org/jobmarket/
event poster: Mexican Studies Research Collective, Job Market Workshop, Mexican Studies across Academies. Roberto Cruz Arzabal, U Veracruzana, Tamara L. Mitchell, U of British Columbia, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Washintong U in St. Louis, Pavel andrade, U of Cincinnati. August 31, 2022, 4:30pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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we "went" to LASA to talk about crisis and the environmental imagination of Mexican literature
January 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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book project workshop with Gaëlle Le Calvez House on Writing Antagonism: Exploring the Fissures of Hegemony in Mexico 1994-2020. Learn more about Gaëlle's work here: gaellelecalvezhouse.com
event poster: Mexican Studies Research Collective: Writing Antagonism: Exploring the Fissures of Hegemony in Mexico 1994-2020. Gaëlle Le Calvez House, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, 21 Apr. 2022, 4pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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we had a conversation with Carolyn Wolfenzon on spectrality in contemporary Mexican literature

📚 Nuevos fantasmas recorren México www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/FichaLibro.a...
January 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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in Feb. 2022 @emilyceleste.bsky.social stopped by to talk border biomes, her then book manuscript-in-progress, soon to be published with Vanderbilt UP!
event poster: Mexican Studies Research Collective, Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails. Emily C. Vázquez Enríquez, University of California, Davis. 24 Feb. 2022, 4pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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a spectre is haunting Mexico — the spectre of neoliberalism. The final session of the fall 2021 semester was a book presentation and conversation with @rafaellemus.bsky.social on power and culture in Mexico

📚 Breve historia de nuestro neoliberalismo www.penguinlibros.com/us/tematicas...
event poster: Mexican Studies Research Collective. A virtual reading group on Breve historia de nuestro neoliberalismo, by Rafael Lemus. Followed by a conversation with the author. December 1, 2021, 3pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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our virtual reading group read and discussed María Luisa Puga's El diario del dolor, 100 fragments that reflect on pain, writing, and the body, available from UNAM's Vindictas collection www.vindictas.unam.mx/sitio/diario...
event poster: Mexican Studies Research Collective. Diario del dolor, María Luisa Puga. A virtual reading group, November 17, 2021, 3pm ET, mexicanists.org
January 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM