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European Studies
July 3, 2020
Collision of Worlds
A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain
David M. Carballo
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés joined forces with tens …
Latino Studies
June 17, 2020
Marriage after Migration
An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico
Nora Haenn
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2019) tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky …
American Studies
June 21, 2019
Liminal Sovereignty
Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture
Rebecca Janzen
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (SUNY Press, 2018) examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites …
Latin American Studies
February 21, 2019
The Crossroads of Globalization
A Latin American View
Alfredo Toro Hardy
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
The Crossroads of Globalization: A Latin American View (World Scientific Publishing Co., 2019) explores the complex interaction of several forces shaping the current world economic situation. Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes …
European Studies
February 1, 2019
Sins Against Nature
Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
Zeb Tortorici
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
In Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (Duke University Press, 2018), Zeb Tortorici analyzes a vast corpus of documents in order to understand how sex acts …
Latin American Studies
January 10, 2019
Strength through Peace
How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World Can Learn from a Tiny Tropical Nation
Judith Eve Lipton and David P. Barash
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys to the armory handed to the Department …
Latin American Studies
June 19, 2018
The Darkening Nation
Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina
Ignacio Aguiló
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
In The Darkening Nation: Race, Neoliberalism, and Crisis in Argentina (University of Wales Press, 2018), Ignacio Aguiló studies the sociocultural impact caused by the failure of the IMF economic measures …
Latin American Studies
June 7, 2018
Profit and Passion
Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico
Nicole Von Germeten
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
In Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico (University of California Press, 2018), Nicole Von Germeten explains the most important changes, in both ideas and practices, over three centuries …
Literary Studies
April 27, 2018
A History of Infamy
Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
Pablo Piccato
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico (University of California Press, 2017) explores the definitive changes that the justice system as well as criminal ideas and practices …
Literary Studies
March 9, 2018
Mexico's Nobodies
The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women
Christine Arce
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
In Mexico's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women (SUNY Press, 2017), Christine Arce rightfully stresses that these two figures have greatly influenced Mexico's national identity, arts …
Latino Studies
January 22, 2018
Death in the City
Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico
Kathryn A. Sloan
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
In her recent book Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017), Kathryn A. Sloan explores ideas and discourses surrounding the …
Literary Studies
January 10, 2018
The National Body in Mexican Literature
Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control
Rebecca Janzen
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
In The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), Rebecca Janzen explores the complex interaction between the national body created by the rhetoric of …