C.IAS Event: "The Centennial Stage: Mexico’s Old Regime and the Independence Celebrations of 1910"

Patrick J. McNamara

University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, USA

Vortrag in englischer Sprache!

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In "The Centennial Stage: Mexico’s Old Regime and the Independence Celebrations of 1910" McNamara offers a new interpretation of the importance of Mexico’s 1910 Centennial by connecting it to the outbreak of revolutionary fighting in that same year. He challenges the notion of "collective memory," focusing instead on commemorative practices as public performances of national identity. Based on archival sources from throughout Mexico, this study decenters Mexico City within the Centennial narrative and highlights local and regional histories throughout Mexico and within Mexican/Mexican-American communities in the United States.

Zum Vortragenden:
Patrick J. McNamara is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Minnesota and Gastprofesssor am Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. He is the author of Sons of the Sierra: Juárez, Díaz, and the People of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, 1855-1920 (2007), and other articles dealing with 19^th and 20^th century Mexico. His current research examines Memory Studies, aesthetic theory, and performance in Mexico. He also does research on the violence currently taking place in Mexico around the so-called war on drugs.